Recently I got asked several times about how I approach my teaching and if that has changed over the years. So, I felt like looking at my own process of how I prepare workshops, and how my attitude and my values might have shifted. Maybe one thought beforehand, that I discovered pretty early in my […]
A highlight and red thread of a workshop in Warsaw became a very simple hands-on exercise, kind of the most simple version of it: One person is moving, the other one follows with the hands on the movers body without giving any directions. That’s in a way it. What is the work? The work is […]
Lately I got my calf and knee problems under control and now I can run again. I love it! After not being able to run for 7 years and not really practicing for another 15 years this feels amazing. A very basic sense of aliveness rises up in these runnings with a flavour of freedom […]
I never really liked the Round Robin structure and wasn’t sad that it seemed to almost disappear in the last 25 years. Many fresh practitioners might not even know what it is, though … The Round Robin is the core format to practice and perform Contact Improvisation in the very early days of the form, […]
Am 24.2.2016 war ich zu Gast bei Katja Münker zum Somatischen Salon zum Thema ‘Lernen in und durch Bewegung – Kooperation und Skepsis zwischen Körper und Geist’. Mit voller Begeisterung dozierte ich über den fruchtbaren Dialog von Geist und Körper in meinem Lernen. Diese irgendwie mittelalterliche Trennung von Körper und Geist, die wir in der […]
Thoughts before and after a lecture on the Axis Syllabus Dance Festival ‘Sensing In’ in Berlin with the general theme of ‘Rhythm and Timing’ November 27th 2015 With 15 years I went through the obligatory dance school trauma. A main reason why I never wanted to get in touch with dance again was the Rhythm. […]
In this Jam yesterday, in my perfectionist and very alive flow I was also the one who created the most ‘bumps’, landing with ungraceful noise. Interesting moments.
For an outside eye watching contact improvisation is usually very irritating. How can people touch each other in this way without sexual intentions?
CI workshops for advanced contacters. Intensives on a CI festival – level: intermediate/ advanced. To follow this workshop a basic knowledge of Contact improvisation is required … How open are we in this heartfelt and open Contact Community? Is it ok to have those exclusive events, dividing the practitioners into beginners, intermediate and advanced contacters? […]
For many years I was struggling with warm ups for jams, more under cover than really consciously or even outspoken. To understand myself I find it helpful to remind me about the experiences with Jams I grew up with.
