Intensives:
Kira Kirsch – Axis Syllybus – Breathing Body
Joerg Hassmann – CI Technique and Impro / Lightness and Fullness

Classes: Vega Luukkonen, Daniel Werner, Iiris Raipala, Barbara Berti, Lena Peled, Nadja El Eid, Bernd Knappe, Dino Spiri, Marielle Gerke, Helena Eflerova, Katja-Bahini Mangold, Zuzanna Bukowski, Samuli Lehesaari, Julia Melnik and more

And of course with Florian Betz & Team for the Music!
Singing Circle: Janne Hanoun
Chill out lounge: Nadja El Eid
Delicious organic vegan/vegetarian food by Inga Striezel.
Incl. AquaticMotion and EcstaticContact Party

Registration is open…
See you there!

Berlin Contact Improvisation Festival 9.- 13. May 2018

We warmly welcome you to the 7th edition of Berlin Contact Improvisation Festival!

Working with experiential somatic disciplines and Contact Improvisation in warm water and on the dance floor. The teachers offer skill building intensives, classes & labs. Discovering where movement arises, bringing it into different aspects of dance, improvisation and celebration. Nightly Contact Impro jams inspired by eclectic live musicians. On Saturday May 12 there will be an EcstaticContact Party into a Jam Celebration – open to the public.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/390922308012219/

Registration open: http://in-touch.es/en/in-touch-happenings/berlin.html

***deutsche Ausschreibung weiter unten***

Qualities of Touch 2018
Well-being through Touch and Movement
Workshops on 5 Sundays with wonderful people / March-July

Inspired by two workshops that I taught together with Susanne Feld in 2017, I want to create more opportunities to continue working with smaller groups in more intimate settings. Each day of this series is co-led by one dear friend and colleague from this Dream-Team below and myself. We all work in different fields related to touch and movement.

Whether it be Shiatsu, Osteopathy, Klein Technique, Feldenkrais, Body Mind Centering or The Alexander-Technique – all involve the body/mind and touch as one of our common mediums to communicate. I am incredibly intrigued by and interested in sharing, combining and questioning the differences and similarities between these approaches. How do the various techniques direct your own attention, awareness and presence? How do they expand into touch and movement? Especially the fragile overlaps and disharmonies between the approaches hold a potential for learning.

Each Sunday of this series provides an opportunity to meet, play, communicate, and learn through movement and touch. We will take time to ground ourselves in our own bodies and there will be clear suggestions that guide us into touch and movement alone, with a partner and in a group.

For whom
Anybody who would like to explore touch and small movement in an intimate setting and under qualified guidance.
Professional bodyworkers who are interested in new ideas and inspiration for their own practice.

DEUTSCH
Shiatsu, Osteopathie, Klein Technik, Feldenkrais, Body Mind Centering und Alexander-Technik – jede dieser Disziplinen erforscht das psycho-physische Selbst in Bewegung und Kommunikation durch und in Berührung. Ich finde es seit vielen Jahren bereichernd mich mit Kolleg*innen über Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten auszutauschen. Wie laden die unterschiedlichen Techniken dazu ein deine Aufmerksamkeit auszurichten und welchen Einfluß hat das auf deine Bewußtheit? Wie wird mit Bewegung und Berührung umgegangen? Besonders das Feld der fragilen (scheinbaren) Disharmonien und unterschiedlichen Ansichtsweisen birgt Lernpotential.

Jeder Sonntag dieser Serie bietet eine Gelegenheit zum Spielen, sich Treffen und Kommunizieren – zum gemeinsamen Lernen durch Bewegung und in Berührung. Wir werden uns Zeit nehmen uns mit unserem eigenen Körper zu verbinden und es wird klare Vorschläge geben, die uns in Berührung und Bewegung führen (alleine, in Partnerarbeit und mit der Gruppe).

Für wen
Die Workshops sind offen für jede*n die/der sich mit Berührung und Bewegung in einer kleineren Gruppe und unter qualifizierter Leitung öffnen möchte.

Professionelle Bodyworker*innen, die ihre eigene Praxis mit neuen Impulsen bereichern möchten.

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The Qualities of Touch-Team 2018

Dino Spiri
is a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique and since eight years deeply involved in practising and teaching various disciplines of movement and touch. His work is strongly rooted in practices like Klein Technique, BMC, AT and Vipassana meditation and aims to create a bedding for meeting oneself and each other.

Christine Mauch
Christine’s background includes various forms of dance improvisation, as well as being a trained Zen Shiatsu practitioner. Her teaching and practise draws on her intense research and interest in the field of body awareness, and a firm belief and joy in improvisation on all levels of life. www.shiatsu-mitte.de

Nina Spiri
Nina studied Innovation Management and her work at the moment involves facilitating ideation processes by means of empathy, creativity and communication. Different body and awareness practices have been part of Nina’s life since many years – BMC being her most recent passion/focus. In 2018 she will be certified as Somatic Movement Educator (BMC) and anticipates to integrate these new impulses in her daily work.

Alicia Grant
Alicia Grant is a choreographer and dancer based in Berlin. She received a BFA in Dance from York University in Toronto, Canada and has studied Osteopathy in both Canada and Europe. Her work in performance, video and installation has been presented from stages to swimming pools to abandoned factories to galleries. She shares why-am-i-alive dance practices at Studio 303 in Montreal, Love-In in Toronto, Ponderosa in Stolzenhagen and TanzFabrik in Berlin. She is interested in power dynamics, transformation, fear and intimacy and investigates these topics through osteopathic raves, negotiation of touch and hypnosis.

Hanna Hegenscheidt
Hanna is a certified teacher of Klein Technique and a Certified Laban-Bartenieff Movement Analyst (CMA). She has taught Klein Technique to dancers and non-dancers for many years. She is intrigued by the concept of connectivity in its broadest sense and has witnessed it being embodied and changing lives many times. In addition to teaching Hanna works as a choreographer as well as a facilitator for contemporary dance in schools. She recently received her MA in Choreography from the Amsterdamse Hoogescholen for de Kunsten.

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Dates & place

March 18 with Christine Mauch & Dino
April 15 with Nina Spiri & Dino
Mai 13 with Alicia Grant & Dino
June 17 with Hanna Hegenscheidt & Dino
July 8 with tba & Dino

Each Sunday from 11am – 5pm (incl. lunch break)
Zentrum für Alexander-Technik, Auguststraße 65, 10117 Berlin

Price
One day 100-65 € We think 100 Euro is an appropriate price knowing that some people can’t afford it. Pay as you can – no questions asked.
Five days 500-300 €

We take a maximum of 8 participants per event

Registration
[email protected]

***english description below***

Touch moves!
8x Hands On Practice & Contact Improvisation / 6 February – 27 March 2018
mit Dino Spiri

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Ich liebe es einen sich bewegenden Körper mit meinen Händen zu begleiten. Die Hände sind präzise Instrumente, die sowohl Information geben als auch erspüren können. Für diese Workshopserie interessiert mich besonders wie wir Qualitäten, die wir in erster Linie über Berührung mit unseren Händen vermitteln in Contact Situationen nutzen können und wie dies unseren Tanz beeinflusst. Die wunderbar nährenden Begleiterscheinungen der Hands On arbeit gibt’s gratis dazu.

Ein spezieller Fokus soll auf dem berühmt berüchtigten Non-Doing-Touch der Alexander-Technik liegen. Die Qualität dieser Berührung kann sehr ‘simpel’ mit Dasein in Berührung durch Dasein mit sich selbst beschrieben werden. Es ist ein Ausgangspunkt, der ein besonderes Fundament für Kommunikation durch Berührung legt – wie ein Gespräch mit Zuhören zu beginnen anstatt mit Sprechen, ein sich Einlassen darauf, was im Kontakt geschehen möchte.

Wir werden verschiedenste Berührungs- und Bewegungsqualitäten durch Bodywork und Hands On Szenarien ausprobieren – und diese natürlich in unseren Contact Tanz einfließen lassen. Contact Technik ist selbstverständlicher Teil des Unterrichts.

Vorerfahrung in CI ist hilfreich, Beginner*innen sind sehr herzlich willkommen.
Unterrichtssprachen sind Deutsch und Englisch.

English:
I really love accompanying a moving body with my hands. There’s so much to sense, communicate and wonder about. The hands are very precise instruments that can read and give a lot of information. For this series I’m particularly interested in how we can translate qualities of touch that we can induce and communicate through our hands into Contact situations and how this will influence the dance. A nice side effect of course is that receiving Hands On has a very nourishing effect.

A particular focus will be on the infamous Alexander- or Non-Doing Touch. This quality of touch can be described as ‚just’ being there, being present with my partner through being present with myself. An amazing place to start from – a gateway for communication is being established that can now be fed with ideas and directions. It is like beginning a conversation with actually listening rather than talking, it is softening into what’s there between you and your partner.

We will dive into exploring different qualities of touch and movement through body work and hands on scenarios – subsequently bringing them into Contact situations. Contact technique will be part of the classes.

Some experience in CI is suggested to attend this course but beginners are very welcome!
Teaching language German and English, as needed.

When & where
6 February – 27 March 2018
8 classes every Tuesday from 8-10pm

Studio 58, Karl-Marx-Str. 58, Berlin-Neukölln

Price
110-75 Euro for the whole series, as you can
15 Euro for single class, drop in

Ich empfehle den kompletten Kurs zu buchen, da die einzelnen Klassen aufeinander aufbauen.
I strongly recommend to book the whole series as the classes build on each other.

Registration
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