- Contact Improvisation
DE + EN | 1x week | series in closed group
Together we will learn, research, and gradually discover the subtleties which allow us to dive into a deeply fulfilling experience – moving in solo and in contact.
Contact Improvisation Intermediate | Thursday | 8:00-10:00pm
Series in spring | Mar 27 - Jun 26, 2025* | closed group, no drop-in
The spring series offers insight into core principles, movement skills and qualities essential for dancing Contact Improvisation. We will redefine touch and its social implication by experiencing the skin as a sense organ in its ability to listen and read our moving weight. In a dance which explores and plays with sharing weight, we are refining the awareness of our bodies and its relationship toward gravity.
Among many other aspects, we will explore the subtleties of leaning, the lightness of giving and supporting weight, states of of being relaxed and ready, techniques of falling, landing and rising, and the playfulness and joy of moving together in Contact.
Together we will learn, research, and gradually discover the subtleties which allow us to dive into a deeply fulfilling experience – moving in solo and in contact.
12-week Contact Improvisation Class Series in a continuous group with no Drop In. Classes will build up successively, are for people with previous experience in CI, and can be booked as a continuation of the Fall and Winter Series to invite continuous practice.
* the class pauses on May 01st and May 29th, 2025
photo credit: Patrick Beelaert
Ausführliche Seminarinformationen
How does practicing Contact Impro look like?
In preparation to dance we develop our relationship to the floor, finding effortless, fluid, organic ways to organize our bodies. Communicating through touch, we learn a subtle precise somatic language that expands the quality and possibilities of our movement and experiencing itself. From slow to dynamic typical practice ranges from rolling, falling, sliding, spiraling, following a physical point of contact to supporting or giving weight.
Seminarleiter*innen
Elske Seidel
www.elskedance.de
based in Berlin, is a passionate CI dancer & teacher, deeply committed to CI and its community internationally. She has been teaching dance full time and wholeheartedly for three decades, CI since 2004.
Her boundless fascination and joy exploring and researching Contact Improvisation in all its depth and subtleties, inspires her workshops, privates, ongoing classes, and each of the projects she creates. Her work recognizes nature, improvisation and teaching itself as core sources for knowledge and understanding. Meeting the moment, she offers organic support for the individual and the instant community as it emerges, allowing each to feel, find and follow what they need to learn and dance. She is the artistic director of the Annual Contact Festival & Camp Fuerteventura/ Spain, Contact Jahresgruppe Berlin, Nature as Teacher Workshops co-creates Contact Year Hamburg and Dance Your Question: CI Research Week for Experienced Contact Dancers.
Anmeldeinformationen
BerlinSomatische Akademie Berlin
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30
10999 Berlin | side building
1st backyard
4th floor
- Earlybird: 190.00 EUR
- Full Price: 220.00 EUR
What does participation cost?
220€ | full price for the whole series
190€ | early bird until Feb 20, 2025
Please pay directly to the facilitator. For more information and registration please contact Elske Seidel directly.
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