Contact Improvisation Basics Series
with Heike Kuhlmann & Elske Seidel
The Fall Series BASICS allows space and time to experience, explore and deepen the fundamentals of Contact Improvisation in a continuous, familiar group. 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.
Contact Improvisation Basics | Thursday | 6:00pm-07:40pm
Fall series Basics | Sep 3 - Nov 19, 2026 | closed group, no drop-in
In the fall series, Heike Kuhlmann and Elske Seidel will combine their expertise in teaching CI. Heike's teaching is enriched by her background in Body-Mind Centering® and will shed light on how it can support our experience as we learn and dance Contact Improvisation. Each will teach over the course of six evenings. The series consists of twelve evenings, with each session building on the previous one.
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.
Who is this series for?
The series is aimed at beginners without previous experience in CI as well as people who want to deepen their basics.
About the facilitators
Elske and Heike share a long-standing friendship and countless delightful dances. For over 10 years, they have organized the annual format “Dance your Questions—a research week for experienced CI dancers” together with Gesine Daniels, and have co-taught CI & BMC workshops in Berlin. With this fall series, they are building on that experience.
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photo credit: Patrick Beelaert
Ausführliche Seminarinformationen
Costs
12 sessionsRegular Fee 225€
Early Bird 195€ (with bank transfer until August 6)
*monthly instalments are an option
Dates
Sep 3 - Nov 19, 2026 | Thursday 6:00pm-7:40pm
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
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
What does participation cost?
12 sessions
Regular Fee 225€
Early Bird 195€ (with bank transfer until August 6)
*monthly instalments are an option
Please pay directly to the facilitators. For more information and registration please contact the facilitators directly.Anmeldeinformationen
Nov. 19 2026
BerlinSAB Studio 1
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30
10999 Berlin | side building
1st backyard
4th floor
Lehrer
Heike KuhlmannElske Seidel
Daten
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30
10999 Berlin | side building
1st backyard
4th floor