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- Improvising Contact, Queering Intimacy - Keith Hennessy
Dancing with bodies while dancing with questions of improvisation, intimacy, social habits (hegemony), and liberation. Is it true that no one is free unless we’re all free? In this workshop, Queer is a perspective not an identity, an action verb not a static noun, a process not a utopia. Queering intimacy is an invitation to …
Continue Reading… - Going into details, different directions and extremes – Dieter Heitkamp and Norbert Pape
Communication through touch is a fundamental element in Contact Improvisation (CI). Letting oneself be touched can be a playful, adventurous journey into risky territory – not necessarily breathtaking acrobatics, but who knows?
Not knowing as an option. When do you say “NO”, set a boundary?
Multi-directionality – How direct can you be?
Going into details, different directions and extremes: …
Continue Reading… - From Pawlow to wow wow - Alice Godfroy
transforming sensations into emotions
I am interested in highlighting the emotional face of CI, which usually remains hidden beyond our attention for the physicality of our dance. Motion and Emotion are etymologically and intrinsically connected, and all kinds of dance – especially improvisation – rely more or less explicitly on emotional flow. Acknowledging this allows us …
Continue Reading… - Re discovering relationships deep within civilization - Angela Doniy
Training research of contact improvisation
(For experienced participants)
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The basic material for these classes will be working with deep bodywork and developmental movement patterns focusing on the hips and shoulders with a partner.Observing my dance I discover my endless curiosity for spirals in movement, and my aspiration to be light, to fly. I have recovered my childhood …
Continue Reading… - Undefining ‘Contact Improvisation’ – Daniel Hayes
In the 70’s when CI was created it was named but never copyrighted or defined. This for me is paradoxically one of Contacts most defining characteristics. Its non existence gives space for all our 10.000 manifestations which in turn come together to create The One. Without a goal is there anywhere to be except here? …
Continue Reading… - Sensual Politics - Daniel Mang
The workshop will start with a sensory warmup, move into contact improvisation, followed by a discussion of specific questions in small groups, then, if there is time, a mix of moving and talking, followed by a final round for exchanging impressions.
These are the basic ideas that will be up for reflection and discussion:
* The boundary between sexuality and …
Continue Reading… - Resistance Play - Felix Ruckert
A controlled loss of control
In any physical contact with another human being it is important to master clear communication. It is crucial to read, accept and show your feelings, be aware of your and your partner’s possibilities, to respect your fears and limits.
This workshop provides a safe playground for the practice of saying NO, …
Continue Reading… - The Art of Submission - Julie Mona Hunger
(german version below)
The moment of submission to a situation which I have helped shape, is the moment where I become aware, I get involved, I do not flee. Out of this arises devotedness and tenderness. In“The Art of Submission” we will learn to overcome situations where we are insecure, anxious or frightened by our own …
Continue Reading… - Inner Journey - Gregor Weber and delta RA'i
CI and an inner voyage type Butoh workshop
Without perception there is no communication, the contact arises at the edge, though we can find the expression of the moment by the dialog with another body. By dancing we turn into story-tellers whose bodies create an affair of the between, clasped by moments of spirituality.
Gregor Weber …
Continue Reading… - Playing with Yoga – Flor Gama & Federico Finamore
Our lives are so busy and stressful that we forget to take time out to simply relax. Quality time with your lover is often the first thing that is neglected. Like anything else in life, your relationship needs care and attention to grow.
Yoga is an incredibly rewarding way to spend time with your loved one. …
Continue Reading… - Pain Processing - Felix Ruckert
Pain can warn and protect you, but it can also guide and advise you, it may bring your attention to places that crave for it. Pain can be a teacher.
Above all, Pain is relative, is primarily a question of context. If you feel warm, relaxed, safe and loved, your body can take a tremendous amount …
Continue Reading… - Relational Awareness Practice - Lindsay Sworski & Kim Nelson
EXPLORING THE SUBJECTIVITY OF RELATIONSHIP
Move and be moved along the continuum of creative impulse between self and other, inner to outer awareness. This laboratory/workshop draws from the essence of Authentic Movement to practice and strengthen subjectivity. Subjectivity is explored in Authentic Movement through deep inner listening and cultivating patience in waiting to follow an impulse …
Continue Reading… - Deepening the Dance - Lindsay Sworski & Kim Nelson
INFUSING CONTACT IMPROVISATION WITH AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT
Please join us as we explore the magic chemistry of Contact Improvisation and Authentic Movement. In this workshop we will track between inner and outer, self and other, body and soul – as we open to the dance that dances us! Here we will explore making love with impermanence, physically …
Continue Reading… - Experiencing Symbiosis as a Creative Source - Irmela Kästner
Lecture & Movement Experiment by Irmela Kästner
To explore creativity in symbiotic relationships we will investigate the development of creativity from the perspective of psychoanalytic theory and movement analysis.
The Structures in rhythms and flow of shapes within our touching bodies build the bridge between the state of symbiosis (where everything is one) and object relation (the relation …
Continue Reading… - Authentic Eros - Jorgos Fokianos
Authentic Eros
We invite you to come and play in a group of erotic explorers. Open up the amazing potential that lives within your erotic self. Identify and cultivate the spark that stirs within you, trusting it to lead you to your erotic fire. Interrupt the patterns of habit, judgment, or comparison that block your …
Continue Reading… - Rituals of Intimacy - Felix Ruckert
Sex and Sensuality. Relating our intimacy to Improvisation? Improvising our intimate relationships? Do we have tools and techniques here just as we have in the dance? Do we have rules and regulations? Do we want them? Can we let fears and desires enter the dance as we do when we love. Do we love …
Continue Reading… - Oilaction – Michael Hartenfels and Maren Emde
(german version below)
warm-cosy-slippery
Do you fancy a collective experience of sensuality? We offer an oilaction in a protected, intimate space. How does it feel to be a body between bodies, with closed eyes, free from our head and its judgments? Where does your body want to go?
An oilaction is a very feminine way of getting in …
Continue Reading… - Deep Contact - Mo Herzinger
The pressure-points of the human body can be used in different kinds of body-work. They can help you explore the limits of your partner or to make them move in a very specific way. An individual’s reaction to activation of a pressure-point tells a lot about that person and can lead to …
Continue Reading… - Playfight - Mo Herzinger
Playfight
means scuffling, tussling, romping, to move, it means sweat and body contact.
To feel and be aware of your own body and the body of your partner.
To experience physical and mental borders.
It’s an erotic game using physical strength.
As in every game, there are rules to follow this workshop will thus have a practical and a theoretical …
Continue Reading… - Tantric Contact - Sabine Sonnenschein
(German version below)
Sexual energy can nourish our dance in a very specific way. In this workshop I will introduce energetic breathing and reaching a climax through practicing the “big draw.”
Belly breathing and its observation are the basis for all meditations, dances, and movements. I find a very deep connection to my dance partner by concentrating …
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