(english below)
Es ist uns eine große Freude, euch zum 2. Contact Improvisation Festival am Lebensort Windberg einzuladen!
Contact Improvisation ist eine Tanzform, die durch improvisierte Bewegung und den physischen Kontakt zwischen den Tanzenden geprägt ist. Es geht darum, im Moment zu sein, aufeinander zu reagieren, einander zu lauschen und gemeinsam eine einzigartige Tanzsprache zu entwickeln.
Tauche ein in sechs unvergessliche Tage:
Intensives am Vormittag, Workshops & Focus Jams am Nachmittag und Jams mit Livemusik am Abend.
Dieses Festival bietet dir viel Raum, deine CI Fähigkeiten zu vertiefen und neue Impulse von einem internationalen Lehrer*innen Team zu erhalten.
Lasst uns gemeinsam die Magie der Improvisation erleben, unsere Neugier entfalten und in einem achtsamen und aufgeschlossenem Miteinander tänzerisch sein.
Die Atmosphäre am Windberg bietet einen wunderbaren Nährboden, auf dem sich der Tanz entfalten kann!
Breathing skin - moving spine - swimming in spirals
“Just the pleasure of moving and the pleasure of using your body is, I think, maybe the main point. And the pleasure of dancing with somebody in an unplanned and spontaneous way, when you're free to invent and they're free to invent and you're neither one hampering the other - that's a very pleasant social form.” Steve Paxton
INTENSIVE TEACHER
Kaisa Kukkonen(F)
Jules Beckman(US)
Alessandro Rivellino(BR)
WORKSHOP TEACHER
Paweł Kubiak(P)
Yuval Finkelshtein(IL)
Florian Busch(D)
Ben Julian(UK)
Lotte Jirka(D)
Mona Ring(D)
MUSICIANS
Pan(CZ)
Sakari Savola(F)
Lu Sarmiento(D)
INTENSIVES
Wir haben 3 wundervolle Intensive Teacher.
In einer festen Gruppe treffen wir uns jeden Vormittag.
Du kannst dich vor Ort entscheiden an welchem Intensive du teilnehmen möchtest.
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An intensive on my favourite and juiciest basic techniques of Contact Improvisation! Join me if you are at the beginning of your CI exploration or you want to get back to the basics. This intensive is suitable for everybody.
I aim to include the aspects of the CI technique listed below. There is no final set of CI techniques, but these are essential for me to make a dance safe, enjoyable, flowing and fun. We will explore them through precise exercises as well as working more freely with the principles.Leaning - working with weight, and with different amounts of weight, shared axis, and directions
Finding own movement and movement with the other/sMoving with weight
Moving through levels, moving at different levels
Rolling and sliding on the floor and with a partner
Managing weight through tone and relaxation
Grounding to one's own body and movement, going towards others and the space from there
Practising boundaries, saying yes and no, leaving dances, joining dances, and being clear with your own intentions and the ability to listen to others.
Taking care that the bodymind is open and warm for dance
Noticing and recognising one’s own wishes, hopes, interests, intentions
These are seeds for research and exploration. Each body and each dance is different, and even from the beginning, we are figuring out, learning by doing and sharing the practice. -
(when contradictions accumulate)
Perception & Presence, Play & Performance in CI
Through solo, duet and group exercises, we refine our presence and perception. We explore the constantly evolving relationship between our physical body, our subtle energetic body and our tactile environment, which includes other moving bodies. (Re) discover your natural ability to perceive and respond to inner and outer stimuli with precision and agility.
We cultivate a kind, supportive and non-judgmental inner outlook: the starting point for free-flowing improvisation. Being seen is essential to our evolution, our fulfillment, our sense of belonging and our deep human need to share. We will face the fear of being fully seen in all our vulnerability, monstrosity, hunger, strength and beauty. -
If time happens through the body, space are the bodies in the space, and body is such a mistery, I dare to say that they are same phenomena of presence only happening right now...
Our practice is about meeting, listening, falling and flying; in the bottom, and at the process: is about dancing. Or shall we say, about being danced?
How to play with the entangled forces that make us alive?
To be aware of what happens beyond words?
I understand that our dance is a practice. And our practice is to get closer to the place of being the dance itself...
I see that is not about doing that, exactly, but feeling it, with our wholeness...
How to teach that?
[ I once heard with my eyes what Kazuo Ohno said:
If you want to ask the spirit, your open hand is not enough, do that with your whole body, and let the spirit enter through your eyes, that are everywhere, by the way. ]
We invite our senses to be available, and maybe to have less hierarchy in between them, regarding our attention and availability to receive.
We invite our identities, or ego, to step out of the way...
We invite to radically trust in our bodies, guts, antennas, and in the subtleties of the present moment, as something bigger than our current standing-social-body, a present, that includes the invention of a dance based on shared principles.
Do we need a dosis of surrendering, and trust, in the dance itself, as a teacher, too?
We will open up time and hold the space, suggesting paths, mainly for our attention to take as material, and let grow what is happening from inside out and outside in.
Body, Space and Time, same thing.
It is a C.I. workshop.
[ Can we enjoy the "depth of the sky" and the "being high of earth", as if it is the easiest thing that we can do?
Over and over again for only the joy of it? ]
Questions are to be lived, danced, you are welcome, as you are.
With love,
Ale.
Teilnahmebeitrag
250€ - 450€ Frühbucher bis 15. Mai
300€ - 450€ ab 16. Mai
(Sliding Scale//je nach Einkommen und eigenen Möglichkeiten)
zuzüglich
Übernachtung und Verpflegung
220€ im eigenen Zelt/Camper
230€ im Schlafsaal
270€ im Mehrbettzimmer
320€ im Doppelzimmer
370€ im Einzelzimmer
Helferteam
250€ - 350€ (je nach Unterkunft) insgesamt
Dafür hilfst du ca 3 Stunden am Tag
Es wäre toll, wenn du schon am 24.06. anreisen könntest.
Am wunderschönen Lebens - und Lernort
Windberg e.V.
http://amwindberg.de/
Lu Sarmiento & Lotte Jirka
Wir sind Organisatorinnen des Windberg Contact Festivals und der WindJam
Diese Formate haben wir ins Leben gerufen, um unserer Freude und Liebe für den Tanz Ausdruck zu geben.
Uns verbindet eine 8 jährige Freundschaft, in der wir uns immer wieder so tief in der Bewegung und dem Körper sein
begegnet sind, dass es ein unglaubliches Geschenk für uns ist, aus dieser Verbindung heraus zu kreieren und zu wirken.
Und wir erinnern uns immer wieder daran, was wirklich wichtig ist.
Zu atmen. Zu vertrauen. Sich zu zeigen. Zu tanzen. Und dem Tanz zu vertrauen und ihn satt zu umarmen.
Welcome to Windberg Contact Festival
It is our great pleasure to invite you to the 2nd Contact Improvisation Festival at Windberg! Close to Erfurt/Germany
Contact Improvisation is a dance form characterized by improvised movement and physical contact between the dancers. It is about being in the moment, reacting to each other, listening to each other and developing a unique dance language together.
Immerse yourself in 6 wide and rich days!
We have 3 Intensives in the mornings, where you can dive deep with one Teacher in a fixed group.
Different Workshops and Proposals in the afternoons and big Jams every night with inspiring live music.
Also a bautiful Sauna, Forest, lots of medows and trees ouside and super delishes food!
This festival offers you plenty of space to deepen your CI skills and receive new impulses from an international team of teachers.
Let's experience the magic of improvisation together, unleash our curiosity and dance in a mindful and open-minded way.
The atmosphere at Windberg offers a wonderful breeding ground for dance to unfold!
Breathing skin - moving spine - swimming in spirals
“Just the pleasure of moving and the pleasure of using your body is, I think, maybe the main point. And the pleasure of dancing with somebody in an unplanned and spontaneous way, when you're free to invent and they're free to invent and you're neither one hampering the other - that's a very pleasant social form.” Steve Paxton
INTENSIVE TEACHER
Kaisa Kukkonen(F)
Jules Beckman(US)
Alessandro Rivellino(BR)
WORKSHOP TEACHER
Paweł Kubiak(P)
Yuval Finkelshtein(IL)
Florian Busch(D)
Ben Julian(UK)
Lotte Jirka(D)
Mona Ring(D)
MUSICIANS
Pan(CZ)
Sakari Savola(F)
Lu Sarmiento(D)
INTENSIVES
We have 3 wonderful Intensive Teachers.
We meet in a fixed group every morning and you can decide on the spot which Intensive you would like to participate in.
-
An intensive on my favourite and juiciest basic techniques of Contact Improvisation! Join me if you are at the beginning of your CI exploration or you want to get back to the basics. This intensive is suitable for everybody.
I aim to include the aspects of the CI technique listed below. There is no final set of CI techniques, but these are essential for me to make a dance safe, enjoyable, flowing and fun. We will explore them through precise exercises as well as working more freely with the principles.
Leaning - working with weight, and with different amounts of weight, shared axis, and directions
Finding own movement and movement with the other/s
Moving with weight
Moving through levels, moving at different levels
Rolling and sliding on the floor and with a partner
Managing weight through tone and relaxation
Grounding to one's own body and movement, going towards others and the space from there
Practising boundaries, saying yes and no, leaving dances, joining dances, and being clear with your own intentions and the ability to listen to others.
Taking care that the bodymind is open and warm for dance
Noticing and recognising one’s own wishes, hopes, interests, intentions
These are seeds for research and exploration. Each body and each dance is different, and even from the beginning, we are figuring out, learning by doing and sharing the practice. -
(when contradictions accumulate)
Perception & Presence, Play & Performance in CI
Through solo, duet and group exercises, we refine our presence and perception. We explore the constantly evolving relationship between our physical body, our subtle energetic body and our tactile environment, which includes other moving bodies. (Re) discover your natural ability to perceive and respond to inner and outer stimuli with precision and agility.
We cultivate a kind, supportive and non-judgmental inner outlook: the starting point for free-flowing improvisation. Being seen is essential to our evolution, our fulfillment, our sense of belonging and our deep human need to share. We will face the fear of being fully seen in all our vulnerability, monstrosity, hunger, strength and beauty. -
If time happens through the body, space are the bodies in the space, and body is such a mistery, I dare to say that they are same phenomena of presence only happening right now...
Our practice is about meeting, listening, falling and flying; in the bottom, and at the process: is about dancing. Or shall we say, about being danced?
How to play with the entangled forces that make us alive?
To be aware of what happens beyond words?
I understand that our dance is a practice. And our practice is to get closer to the place of being the dance itself...
I see that is not about doing that, exactly, but feeling it, with our wholeness...
How to teach that?
[ I once heard with my eyes what Kazuo Ohno said:
If you want to ask the spirit, your open hand is not enough, do that with your whole body, and let the spirit enter through your eyes, that are everywhere, by the way. ]
We invite our senses to be available, and maybe to have less hierarchy in between them, regarding our attention and availability to receive.
We invite our identities, or ego, to step out of the way...
We invite to radically trust in our bodies, guts, antennas, and in the subtleties of the present moment, as something bigger than our current standing-social-body, a present, that includes the invention of a dance based on shared principles.
Do we need a dosis of surrendering, and trust, in the dance itself, as a teacher, too?
We will open up time and hold the space, suggesting paths, mainly for our attention to take as material, and let grow what is happening from inside out and outside in.
Body, Space and Time, same thing.
It is a C.I. workshop.
[ Can we enjoy the "depth of the sky" and the "being high of earth", as if it is the easiest thing that we can do?
Over and over again for only the joy of it? ]
Questions are to be lived, danced, you are welcome, as you are.
With love,
Ale.
Participation fee
250€ - 450€ early bird until May 15th
300€ - 450€ from May 16th
(sliding scale//depending on income and own possibilities)
plus
accommodation and meals
220€ in own tent/camper
230€ in dormitory270€ in shared room
320€ in double room
370€ in single room
Helper team
250€ - 350€ (depending on accommodation) in total
For this you help about 3 hours a day It would be great if you could arrive on June 24th.