Daniel und Elske
sind beide global vernetzte und international engagierte Contact Tänzer, Performer und Lehrer. Sie verbindet eine jahrelange Freundschaft, unzählige Jams und gemeinsame Tänze und die unablässige Forschungslust an der Contact Improvisation. 2003 co-gründeten sie die ContAct Dance Company, die sich mit Contact Improvisation als Ausgangspunkt für Performancearbeit auseinandersetzte.

Daniels Lehrtätigkeit ist geprägt von seiner Leidenschaft, diese Tanzform und ihre grundlegenden Prinzipien systematisch zu begreifen (siehe CI Fortbildung Berlin). Für Elske bedeutet Contact Improvisation zu unterrichten, „den Boden dafür zu legen, dass dieser Tanz geschehen kann.“

Sie teilen ein besonderes Interesse für die Entwicklung von Formaten (Festivals, Workshops, Jams), in denen CI in seiner Tiefe erforscht, vielschichtig entwickelt und gelebt werden kann, z.B. Contact Festival Fuerteventura, Nordsee CI Camp St Peter Ording.

Attention: there has been a change of dates, see below!

In our CI Training Program we wish to take the intensive experience of a workshop into a longer process, opening a field of continuous learning, relating and dancing with each other in an on-going group. We want to offer a space to develop our moving body, deepen our understanding and personal journey into this dance through a longer period of time.

This CI Training Program creates the opportunity to study Contact Improvisation systematically and continuously with a group of people we come to trust. It offers precise technique and support for the individual learning process.

In the technical part of our investigation, we will work in smaller groups in order to offer ‚tools’ and material for people with different levels of experience. We seek to create space for individual interests and needs.

In our work it is important to us to maintain the balance between a technical exploration as a development of a mutual language and the freedom of speaking this language – dancing – communicating, improvising, playing freely in dance.

We are interested in how awareness, trust and feeling within the group will change, develop and grow – how is our communication, our interaction and our actual way of being together influenced by our dance practice and our time together?This year we are excited to offer an ‘open continuation’ which will build on the experience and material of the previous CI Workshop Series in Hamburg. We want to create the opportunity to learn and play with a group of people sharing a common knowledge of CI. Nonetheless we would like to invite people who are interested in this kind of learning environment. We would like to offer inspiration and new material for dancers with more experience as well as opening an easy and welcoming entry for those who come in freshly.

All participants will receive a certificate including the content of the workshop series.

WE 1: (Introduction Weekend): October 3-5 2014 (single booking possible)
WE 2:December 12-14 2014(still possible to join)
WE 3: January 23-25 2015 (Laboratory:Participants will research on their own. Bringing their personally relevant topics and questions to the dance.)
WE 4: March 20-22 2015
WE 5: Intensive: May 8-10, 2015 (incl Aquatic Contact)
(In special cases it is possible to miss one module)

Fri 7-9:30 pm, Sat 11-6 pm, Sun 11-5 pm (Sat+Sun incl. 1.5 h lunch break)
April Intensive: Fr 11-5 pm possibly longer Aquatic Contact (in hot pool/ approx. € 12 for entry), Sat 11-6 pm, Sun 11-5 pm (incl. 1.5 h lunch break)

Price: 
€ 620-520 (till Aug 25, 2014), later € 670-570
Introduction weekend only € 140-110 (till Aug. 25, 2014), later € 160-130
Sleeping in the studio for € 9/night possible!

Place:
TRIADE – Zentrum für Tanz und Performance
Bernstorffstrasse 117 (1st story), Hamburg St Pauli

Info & Registration:
Daniel Werner This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

For more Info check also:
www.improtanz.de

Daniel and Elske share many years of friendship, uncountable jams and dances. Their mutual fascination for Contact Improvisation provides the center in both their lives. In 2003 they co-founded the ContAct Dance Company, investigating CI as a source for performance work, with a special interest in site-specific art. Both work as independent artists, somatic movement researchers and dancers; both have extensive experience in teaching CI internationally, as well as organizing and facilitating large CI events. They are co-organizers of both the Contact Festival Fuerteventura, since 2009, and the North Sea CI Camp. http://canarian.contactfestival.info/

In cooperating for the workshop series in Hamburg they wish to combine their creative energy and interests, support and inspire each other and every single one coming.