Contact Improvisation Intermediate

Contact Improvisation Intermediate

DE+EN | 1x week

Sep. 4 2025 – Nov. 20 2025

The fall series offers insight into core principles, movement skills and qualities essential for dancing Contact Improvisation. We will redefine touch and its social implication by experiencing the skin as a sense organ in its ability to listen and read our moving weight. In a dance which explores and plays with sharing weight, we are refining the awareness of our bodies and its relationship toward gravity.

Among many other aspects, we will explore the subtleties of leaning, the lightness of giving and supporting weight, states of of being relaxed and ready, techniques of falling, landing and rising, and the playfulness and joy of moving together in Contact.

Together we will learn, research, and gradually discover the subtleties which allow us to dive into a deeply fulfilling experience – moving in solo and in contact.

Classes will build up successively, are for people with previous CI experience, and can be booked as continuation of the Spring and Summer Series to invite continuous practice.


Contact Impro Intermediate | Thursday | 08:00-10:00pm

Series in fall with Elske Seidel | Sep 04 - Nov 20, 2025 | series in a closed group | no drop-in

REGISTRATION & INFO: https://www.elskedance.de/events/685035952b20c9000898923a

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

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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.

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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

Costs

12 sessions 210 € / 190 € (with bank transfer until August 7)*monthly instalments are an option

Anmeldeinformationen

Zeiten
Sep. 4 2025 –
Nov. 20 2025
Veranstaltungsort
Berlin
SAB Studio 1
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30
10999 Berlin | side building
1st backyard
4th floor

Lehrer

Elske Seidel
Gesine Daniels

Daten

KursspracheEN + DE
VeranstaltungsortBerlin
SAB Studio 1
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30
10999 Berlin | side building
1st backyard
4th floor