- Somatic choreography & performance project with Body-Mind Centering®, Contact Improvisation & Authentic Movement

This performance project 3x3 is about co-creation. The open as well as complex question: How do people create together, is, besides the decision of the participants to get involved in a common creation and group process for three times three days (weekends), the starting point. The Commonground arises from the promise of the individual to contribute with who they are and the dedication to what the group can create together. To give a commitment to stay for these 3x3 days, even if there are frictions, differences, diversity, a commitment to a hierarchy-sensitive and power-critical space of togetherness (To be in consensus about this, a small collection of texts will be sent with the registration). Commitment is clearly related to a yield, a possible feeling of one's own connection with the ground that supports and allows one to experience oneself. From the I-experience the others can be experienced and allowed to be as they are. From the difference we enter into contact and design.

What does the Co-Creation Perfomance project involve?

For the living ground, the Common Ground, somatic impulses and dance technical inputs are given into it. With improvisation tasks, the seeds given into the ground can begin to grow, shape and blossom in performance.

Somatic impulses are based on the somatic approaches Body-Mind Centering® and Authentic Movement. Contact Improvisation and Release Technique populate the dance technical inputs. Ensemble Thinking, Tuning Scores and elements from the Movement Choir mark the field of the improvisational framework.

The performance develops out of the movement experiences and improvisations emerging co-creation process. Joint creation becomes possible when individuals can get involved, be seen, and contribute ideas. When, after the exchange about design wishes, joint decisions can be made that do not overlook anyone.

The task of Heike Kuhlmann can best be understood in the analogy of the gardener. The gardener prepares the ground at the beginning and sows the seeds; the content inputs and the design of the framework for the project. Heike has the ability to share her knowledge and to initiate and then also to give space for the joint work that she then supports more from the background, the gardener, who then still waters and fertilizes her plants and flowers where it is needed, otherwise gives the flowers the space to flourish as they have decided.

This performance project is recommended for people

• who work artistically and are looking for new inspiration
• who want to learn more about how somatic work can support artistic processes
• who are looking for a somatic, i.e. embodied connection for their artistic work
• who are interested in engaging with the somatic experience in the performative process and thereby transforming it
• who would like to use their basic knowledge of Contact Improvisation to go deeper into artistic creation.
• who want to experience their body in expression
• who would like to get involved in an artistic-creative group process