- Contact Improvisation und Body-Mind Centering®
Summer Basic Course
In this introductory summer course, you’ll learn the fundamental principles of Contact Improvisation and Body-Mind Centering®.
Under the guidance of experienced instructors who have been working together for many years, you’ll have the opportunity to learn the basics of Contact Improvisation and rediscover your body in motion. Body-Mind Centering® creates a space where you can not only rediscover yourself but also learn to develop functional movement organization. This supports you in organizing your body in motion while in contact with another person.
Starting from the experience of your own physicality in motion, you’ll discover various ways to enter into shared dance through physical contact with another person. The classes include both solo and partner elements. We learn basic contact principles and use them to improvise, focusing in particular on sharing and distributing weight, shifting weight, and changing planes together in dance.
Over the course of the nine classes, this creates a solid foundation upon which safe and joyful dance experiences can flourish during jams.
Registration and payment directly via kuhlmann@somatische-akademie.de
Ausführliche Seminarinformationen
Seminarleiter*innen
Heike Kuhlmann
MSME, BMC®-Practitioner, dancer, -educator, choreographer, MA Performance Studies/Choreography, Learner of the Discipline of Authentic Movement
Her somatic dance practice focuses on Body-Mind Centering®, Authentic Movement, and Contact Improvisation. In all these methods, Heike is interested in the process of human development. Taking structural conditions into account, Heike aims to support individuals through her work and thereby contribute to creating an environment where people can meet on equal footing. She facilitates somatic processes in individual sessions, courses, workshops, and training programs. Co-founder of the Working Group on Critical Somatics (AKS). Her artistic interests combine dance, activism, and somatics.
More information on: www.heikekuhlmann.net
Gesine Daniels
gesine.daniels@somebodyelse.de
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.
Kosten
9 dates
Early bird until June 6, 2026: 145€
Regular price: 158€
Initial payment at registration 60€
Anmeldung und Zahlung direkt über kuhlmann@somatische-akademie.de
Anmeldeinformationen
BerlinSAB Studio 1
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30
10999 Berlin | side building
1st backyard
4th floor
- Earlybird: 145.00 EUR
- Full Price: 158.00 EUR