5. Shahar Dor:

Hunch - Characters and landscapes

A movement, voice, music, performance lab
(on 3 days)

with Shahar Dor

This lab invites participants from all field and techniques whose wishes and interest resonates with the un-logical path of creativity.

We will explore the resonance of movement, voice and music in relation to image creating in spontaneous performance. Participants are invited to listen and compose with all Medias, techniques, forms and all other immediate creative possibilities.

The work in the lab will develop continuously from day to day; participants are invited for all three days or to drop-in once and taste the work.

Sessions will progress from set warm-up and exercises to open creative work and will include facilitated discussions. We’ll approach the work with a porous structure, exploring the relations of character, landscape and story in spontaneous composition. As we’ll go deeper we’ll consider issues and realizations rose from the work.

There are two main thoughts behind this lab. One is to openly meet the challenges involved in showing spontaneous work; the other is to establish a simple language which we can lean-on as we enter the stage empty.

As part of this practice, participants will be encouraged to share their work at the evening performances. There is no need in previous experience, only a will to ask questions with out a need to get all the answers.

Shahar Dor (Israel)

performer and teacher

In the last 10 years Shahar has been deeply involved with improvisation, exploring it through Dance, Theatre, Music and Video, and through various collaborations with artists from all over the world.  His work as a performer, teacher and producer in Israel has opened up opportunities for other people to explore and discover the uniqueness of the art of

improvisation. Currently he is forming the experiential Art of the Moment school, in Israel.

6. Gesine Daniels: 

Bodytalks – ContactImpro for Beginners

with Gesine Daniels

Our first dancepartner is the floor. Consciously meeting with the floor we learn effortless and playfull, to move rolling, sliding, jumping, flying and falling, to communicate through movement and to improvise dancing. From here we open up for the space around us, meet other dancers and let  duetts, trios and groupcompositions happen and disolve.
Inside these dances we explore different qualities of touch, experience a variety of dynamics and play with giving, taking, sharing and transporting weight;.... we dance encounters and stories.
This class is open for people who want to experience what CI is about and for those who are curious about jamming but do not yet feel confident enough to join the crowd; I also invite more experienced contactors to join us and dive deeper into the possibilities of "listening and talking through the body"

Gesine Daniels

is a choreographer, a dance teacher and a performer living in Germany.
She has been dancing since her childhood and practicing many forms of dance and movement from Ballet and Gymnastics to Contactimprovisation. Since 20 years, CI together with improvisation is her passion; which influences her teaching and artistic work as well as in her daily life. Her style of dancing and teaching Contactimprovisation is energetic, playful and sensitive. Exploring the physics of the human body in movement fascinates her and the question of “how do we communicate in and through dance?“ is a  big issue for her.

7. Christof Linhuber: 

Sound happens (on 2 days) – not only for musicians

with Christof Linhuber

Give your sounds to the universe…

everybody has got his own sound - with or without musik-instrument.

There is sound and the listener – how do they come together?

We will work on our own sound, we will explore the space between sound and listener and experiment with how to create this space.

All Instruments are wellcome (especially your own voice and bodypercussion sounds).

Christof Linhuber

born and grown up in a bavarian soundscape, he likes to celebrate the meditativ kind of bavarian Jodler. As a musician, musictherapist and instrument-builder, he creates and makes monochords and gongs - sounds of the universe, sounds of being and to work with them.

8. Katia Velichko: 

Body and Voice in Contact Improvisation

Vocal dance – New colours of the sound to contact dance

with Katia Velichko

The central point of the class is to feel the physical aspect of the voice, its flesh, thickness and  materiality. Filling the contact dance with sounds, we will express emotions and feelings through breathing and speaking. Moving, shaking and touching the body we will observe and explore the voice as the part of it.
As well our attention will be focused on the center, spine, facial muscles and support.
With the voice we will open the space inside the body and extend the volume of the dance, so we can add new colours of the sound to our contact dance.

Katia Velichko

actress, dancer and performer. I've danced from my early childhood. After graduating from the acting school, where Andjela Doni taught Contact Improvisation, I fell in love with improvisation and followed its path in the last 7 years in Europe. So last summer I was part of the CI-performance-group at the international authentic dance and music festival in Moscow.
As an independent artist I perform, teach and organize regular contact jams in Moscow.

In my teaching I combine acting improvisation, voice techniques, contact improvisation, authentic movement and release.
I find it interesting to open for myself and for others the joy of movement, play and communication in a spontaneous dance. In my creation work I am interested in people, their unique and diverse nature. The idea that drives me is brightness, openness and courage to be myself!

9. Sebastian Garcia Ferro: 

From different body states into improvisation

with Sebastian Garcia Ferro

Improvisation Elements
We research different states into the improvisation, developing our observation, perception, fluidity, sintesis, commitment, risk, repetition and continuity of movement, recognizing acquired skills and opening ourselves to new possibilities.

Sebastian Garcia Ferro (Spain)

Nowadays he teaches Contact Improvisation and Physical Training in different dance studios and educational institutions in Argentina, Spain, Portugal and Belgium.
He is also a musician and writer. He has created the original score of his works and has collaborated with many others Dance and Theaters companies.

10. Britta Rodenkirchen:

Dancing with colours (on 2 days) –

Colour is sound – dancing is painting through movement

with Britta Rodenkirchen

How do inner pictures and colours change or have an influence on our movement, the inner and the outer space? We will explore this theme.
We experiment  with the combination of dance and colour – colour as projection in space, on the body and simply painting while moving. Please bring light-coloured clothing that can take some spots.

Britta Rodenkirchen

After education and practice as a farmer, sheperd and horse-riding therapist, my artistic heart came through. In dancing (with Keriac), painting (Thomas Egelkamp) and object-art I try
– between playful- and earnestness – to find my way in getting closer to the essence of life.
In this time I would like to share my enthusiasm for the beautiful enrichment and  livelyness which maybe developed through the penetration of colour, sound and movement

11. Ingo Rosenkranz :

Body – Resonances

from sound and bodywork into movement

with Ingo Rosenkranz

Considering that my most honest dance starts deep inside of me, out of this silent place of freedom, my very own feelings and my view to the world, than a travel into my body is a good starting point to develop my personal dance.

From this inner travel we will find different ways into dancing through the flow of bodywork and soundvibration travelling on the body, both resonating through movement.

Simple exercises of bodywork, sounding and speaking from the heart give the consciousness to feel the body-mind-voice-soul integration as part of myself and my dance.

Ingo Rosenkranz

Dancer, actor, performer and teacher for the art of improvisation through movement, soundexperience, bodywork, communication and meditation. For more than 10 years he explores this art in collaboration with many artist around the world. His main interest is the fusion of different artforms and its influence on the art of movement in each moment, a constant awareness practice. The different bodyexperiences and the communication are as important for him as the pure joy of moving, playing and  silence.

12. Mary Pearson & Britt Jürgensen:

Fool's Proof Theatre
It is about the joy of playing

with Mary Pearson & Britt Jürgensen

"It is a great pleasure for us to give to others what fascinates us about theatre. We approach theatre techniques through games and exercises that give participants the space to experience with their own body how things "work".

The most important thing for us is to awake the joy of playing and to create an atmosphere where it is possible to quiet the critic in our minds and release our own very personal craziness."

No matter Try again Fail again Fail better!

(Beckett)

Mary Pearson

From Bethlehem, Pennsylvania(no joke): spent most of her childhood in Tutus, studying literature, fine arts and dance at Obelin College; then her feet hurt and she decided to change her shoes for theatre. After many years of improvisation training and performance (Keith Johnston, Action Theatre), she made the step over the wide ocean to study movement theatre in Padova, Italy after the education of Jacques Leqoc. There she met:

Britt Jürgensen (Germany)

from Stubben, Schleswig Holstein: after always having had a tendency for the theatrical, she finally decided to make it her profession. So she studied physical theatre und theatre management in Liverpool, worked with diverse Theatre companies and as she had enough of fish'n chips, she took the jump over the north sea to go to Padova, Italy, to, guess what?

And there she met…

And that was the beginning of a productive and explosive team work!

13. Manuela Hofer

Awakening your animal spirit 

with Jungle Gym, breath, sound & imagery

Moving from your vital animal nature and through biologically based
fluid and playful movements - inner strength, recuperation and vitality can be accessed.  We use these resources to broaden and inspire our body awareness, movement quality and range of motion.

Manuela Hofer

Somatic Movement Therapist, Rhythm- and Percussionteacher, Artist

I am inspired about movement in nature and in humans. In this work I follow the road from inner and energetic perception to authentic movement expression and dance-development.

14. Lior Ophir & Kabiro Scheller: 

City performance – Awareness Theatre in Public Places

with Lior Ophir & Kabiro Scheller

Is being in the middle of all-day life environments and situations with the awareness of being not completely IN the situation BUT part of it.
So I know that I am playing with the environment and the situation but others not... or they feel something going on... or they find it slightly unusual... or they recognize you as a playful artist...
In this workshop we explore few aspects of group improvisation in different public places such as street corners, train stations, department stores, cafes... never predictable and always unique!
We shall explore the special awareness of the performer, and the contact among the performers in the group. Welcome to play!

Lior Ophir

lives in Tel-Aviv, Israel, and is in a constant search for balance between his profession as an engineer and his passion for dance, body-work, and meditation.
Lior practices, studies and teaches, in various locations (Israel, Europe, US, Japan) different forms of movement, awareness and therapy, including: Improvisation, Contact Improvisation, Shiatsu Therapy, Yoga, Vipassana Meditation, Tai-Qi, and Buto.

Kabiro Scheller

My dancing, moving , breathing nature dedicates her presents always into the opening of the moment...in Dance, Bodywork, Yoga and different other HeARTs.
Contact&danceImpro since 1994, over the last 5 yaers Teaching and learning different combinations of contact, danceImpro, theatre and Healing Rituell Hawaiin Massage .

15. Jörg Hassmann & Daniel Werner:  

Contactimprovisation - Momentum & Slowmotion

mit Jörg Hassmann & Daniel Werner

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Daniel Werner

I work as a dancer, performer and teacher for dance, Qigong and Tai Chi, and organizer in this field. Since my early youth I studied and trained martials arts. Later I became interested in Qigong/ Tai Chi, and tried out all sorts of “bodystuff”. I started dancing CI and New Dance with different international teachers in `95, and teaching in `99. I love to deeply explore and experience the connections of Body and Mind, taking what the moment brings up, being inspired by eastern and western experiences/methods. I studied Body Mind Centering and CI with Ka Rustler and others, and am currently doing the Somatic Movement Art Training (based on BMC) in Berlin. In 2005 I worked with Horst Viral in the dance production “Biomatrix” in Berlin.

Jörg Hassmann

... dances CI since 1991 and entered from there the stage and
contemporary techniques. He performed in various Companies e.g. in
France, Egypt, Japan und the USA. Since 2005 he is based in Berlin.
He loves making pieces and to explore his body and its movement
possibilities on his own.
His work is based on Release Techniques, Contact Improvisation,
Contemporary Dance, Action Theater, Capoeira, Games and a huge amount of curiousity.

16. Vitaly Boldinov:

Architecture and body structure

with Vitaly Boldinov

My body is my instrument in performance. How do I improvise with this instrument, what kind of constructions do I build with my body? My interaction with the space and other bodies creates a unique composition. 

We will play and improvise with the following questions:

How does the stage space look before we enter?

What happens, what changes in space when we enter? How do we enter the space?

What architecture does the body have a moment before we start to move and then when we improvise?

We will explore how to be visible in the group, how to become a solo in the group improvisation. And the opposite – how to fall back into the shadow, become invisible.

The questions of bodysize, position on the stage, speed, tempo – will also be the focus of attention during the class.

Vitaly Boldinov, Russia, Moscow, originally from Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia.

I’m a dancer, performer and dance teacher. And also I am an architect, interior designer and I make films about contact improvisation and performance. My biggest project in performance was an international laboratory «CI in performance» with performances in the theatres and outside in the framework of the international authentic dance and music festival«Moscovscoe Deistvo -2005».

I studied and collaborated in performances with Andjela Doni, Andrea Keiz, Dany Lepkov, Martin Keogh.

I studied psychology at Moscow Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in 1996-1997, and also gestalt and group psychology at International Institute of Integral Psychology in 2003-2004.

17. Pen Dale:

Contact improvisation - Putting the Improvisation back into Contact!

with Pen Dale

Sometimes we can get so involved with learning the physical form of Contact that we can lose our sense of improvisation within the dance.  Sometimes we can lose the sense of play that we so loved in the first place.  In this session we will find different ways we can invite it back.  By using a variety of different scores, embodied states and patterns of interaction, we will explore our own aesthetic and approach to improvising in general, and how it can find expression through the form of Contact.  The aim of this work is to chart the territory where the physical discipline of the form meets the discipline of our imagination!

Pen Dale (Australien)

is an Australian contacter, dancer, singer, improviser, who has traveled the world to follow her passion for music and dance.  Currently based in Berlin she draws on many disciplines in her teaching, including BMC, release technique, authentic movement, contact improvisation and tai chi.

18. Jagat:

Chi Dance - An invitation to forget all you know

with Jagat Frenzel

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