- Contact Improvisation

This course is an opportunity - again or for the first time - to deal with some essential topics of Contactimprovisation (CI) and thus to enhance, develop, and consolidate your CI- vocabulary.

Wie will concern ourselves with:
orienting and communicating through touch;
connectedness, permeability and autonomy within one’s own body;
staying physically and mentally present, receptive and active in any given moment of the dance;
releasing your own weight while making use of gravity, momentum, and centrifugal force; falling and landing safely;
receiving the weight of your partner in movement, supporting and transporting it; becoming familiar and feeling safe with disorientation.

Working solo as well as together with one or more partners you will sense and explore your own current situation, recognise its physical and creative possibilities and limitations and play with that. You will be practicing tried and tested movement-pathways and -principles, as well as cultivating your interest in not-knowing, observing and allowing movement to happen and evolve.
Doing so, everyone in class has the change to practice and learn based on their own actual level, state and questions; and by this means actively experience, apply, and increasingly internalise the principles of CI.

The continuous practice together with a familiar group of people opens possibilities to deal with individual themes and issues, which are popping up in the course of practicing and dancing, in a more personal and intensive way. You will gain more confidence in your own impulses and movement possibilities, presence and clarity as you’re sharing the dance. This will give you a sound basis for an increasingly natural, playful and engaged flow of communication with your dance-partners; ... and bring even more joy to your dancing.