Contact Improvisation Basics
DE+EN | 1x week
The fall series BASICS allows space and time to experience, explore and deepen the fundamentals of Contact Improvisation. We will look at essential movement principles and specific techniques that support us in finding ease and flow in our movement in solo and with a partner.
When dancing Contact Improvisation we are communicating through the skin – listening into a shared point of contact – together following gravity. Understanding the language more clearly, allows us to gradually discover the depth and subtleties, opening up a field of possibilities and inspiration. As we meet in a conversation with gravity, we notice and honor what we need to feel safe and comfortable in our practice of CI.
In this series we will lay the ground, prepare our bodies, research effortlessness in movement, build skills, learn about touch, be in body-time, and enter the fascination of improvisation and play.
Contact Impro Basics | Thursday | 06:00 - 07:30pm
Series with Elske Seidel | series in a closed group
REGISTRATION & INFO: https://www.elskedance.de/events/68503b3db2ca8800086d6be5
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.
Kosten
Costs
12 sessions 210 € / 190 € (with bank transfer until August 7) *monthly instalments are an option
REGISTRATION & INFO: https://www.elskedance.de/events/68503b3db2ca8800086d6be5
Anmeldeinformationen
Nov. 20 2025
BerlinSAB Studio 1
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30
10999 Berlin | side building
1st backyard
4th floor
Lehrer
Elske SeidelDaten
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30
10999 Berlin | side building
1st backyard
4th floor