Photo by Christian Glaus
I was born in Perth, Australia, and now live in Berlin, Germany, though I'm often somewhere else entirely. I trained as a contemporary dancer at WAAPA (Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts), graduating in 2015, and have worked in the field ever since, performing across Australia and Europe. I go by both Dominik Wagner and Dominik Mall, so don't be thrown if you see either name around this page.
Around 2022 I stepped back from professional dance for a while, took a minor career pivot into data engineering, an unlikely detour, but one more thread in what's turned out to be a fairly multi-faceted path. Around the same time, I found my way to psychedelic festival dance floors and the freedom of ecstatic dance. Yoga ran quietly beneath all of it, slowly becoming a very consistent practice over time. Then in 2026, I finally completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training. Teaching itself is nothing new to me: whether it's soccer to children, data to adults, or the multitude of other things I've found myself teaching over the years.
Coming back to dance after some distance clarified something: dance means more to me experienced than watched. These days I'm far more interested in helping the people unlock their bodies through inspiration, rather than performing for them (though I'll still collaborate on dance work and perform if it feels right). This shift shapes the focus of my offerings now, all parts of one practice rather than separate jobs. My Primal Dance workshops are a direct result, built with festivals specifically in mind, a way to leave people more embodied and freer by the time they reach the dance floor themselves.
As I practice surrendering to the flow of life, curiosities for new disciplines, new collaborators, and new places keep arising. Lately, that pull has been leading quietly toward music...
Primal Dance
All levels60 minAccess the raw, primal energy already inside you, nothing to learn, only to uncover. I dance every cue alongside you.
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Movement from somewhere deeperThis workshop taps into the impulse every body carries before anyone taught it how to behave: opening by tuning into the body's quiet signals, before instructions begin to layer, until movement turns instinctive rather than managed. Breath and rhythm take the lead as momentum builds: deep basslines pull the room into a shared, heightened state. Then the instructions loosen, structure gives way to pure freedom, the ecstatic peak. From there it eases as the session settles into collective rest.
I dance every instruction myself, in real time, not just to guide, but to offer something you can move toward as you find your own way into the practice.
Drawn from over ten years of experience as a contemporary dancer, I blend concepts from ecstatic dance with guided improvisation into a structure that builds, peaks, and resolves. A version with a dedicated DJ, is possible for events wanting a bigger sonic push.
Vinyasa Yoga
Intermediate/Advanced60–90 minDemanding vinyasa flows that ask for continuous effort and steady breath. My dance background weaves the practice through seamless sequences.
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Flows that demand presenceThese vinyasa classes ask a lot of the body, on purpose: flows built to find stillness in the mind through pushing stamina, strength, and control.
That intensity does something else too. When a flow asks this much of the body, there isn't much room left for the mind to wander. Nothing here is forced, but presence tends to arrive on its own once the physical demand takes over.
A background in dance shapes how one asana moves into the next, so transitions become an integral part of the flow itself. A subtle sense of choreography shapes each class into a real arc, so you leave feeling satisfied, not just worked.
Hatha Yoga
All levels60–90 minA sun-moon rhythm of alternation: work followed by rest, intensity followed by recovery. Gentler than my vinyasa flows, by design.
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Work, then restEvery class holds to that sun-moon rhythm, even as the specific focus and its peak pose shift from session to session.
These classes move slower and ask less than my vinyasa flows, though they still build toward more technical asana.
I choose a pranayama technique to match whatever each class is building toward: nadi shodhana for a session centered on balance, kapalbhati for one built around strength, for example. That kind of attentiveness is what keeps a class feeling alive, every time.
FLAM.ME.UM
Guest dancer at Anhaltisches Theater Dessau, creation and performance of FLAM.ME.UM. Choreography by Nunzio Impellizzeri.
WAY OUT
Dancer at Nunzio Impellizzeri Dance Company, performing in a remount of WAY OUT. Choreography by Nunzio Impellizzeri.
CORPO BAROCCO
Dancer at Nunzio Impellizzeri Dance Company, creation and performance of CORPO BAROCCO. Choreography by Nunzio Impellizzeri.