Contact Improvisation

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.

movement practitioner with a very strong base in CI and a focus on somatic movement and improvisation as performance art, bodyworker, dancer/performer, mediator, coach, queer parent, grandparent and family-manager

practice of CI started in the mid 80’s in Germany, the US and in Amsterdam. She is working internationally and mostly as a freelancer I’m teaching CI since the end of the 80’s. My teaching of CI takes place in contexts that span from CI festivals and local workshops and classes to schools, universities and interdisciplinary approaches in the training of social workers, physiotherapists, school teachers and more. People I’ve been working with, come from a wide range of ages, social, educational and local backgrounds. I’m looking forward to sharing my own ongoing research of CI, my joy and fascination with the form and its practice, my knowledge and experience as well as my questions and explorations with you.