From elskeseidel at hotmail.com Thu Jun 16 10:59:54 2016 From: elskeseidel at hotmail.com (Elske Seidel) Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 16:59:54 +0200 Subject: [CI-Announce] Embodied Anatomy & Contact Improvisation with Elske Seidel and Heike Kuhlmann/ September 17+18, 2016/ Mime Center BERLIN In-Reply-To: References: , , <5C9302B6-8CFA-463B-B410-015B0DF8137F@googlemail.com>, , , , , , , , , , Message-ID: Embodied Anatomy & Contact Improvisationwith Heike Kuhlmann and Elske SeidelSeptember 17+18, 2016Sat 10-6, Sun 10-5Studio 2, Mime Zentrum - Kunstquartier Bethanien Berlin An invitation to experience Contact Improvisation through embodied anatomy, learning through sensing, feeling into detail and enjoying the discoveries. Experiential anatomy based on the principles of Body-Mind Centering (BMC) will deepen our understanding of how we experience both our body and our partners'. Through Hands-On work and specific Movement Research we will explore our personal movement impulses, the initiation of movement inside of us. By focusing our awareness while engaging our imagination we can connect to the inspiration within out bodies. Feeling our creative source allows us a clearer idea of who we are and how we move. This is an invitation into a somatic journey, into a place where we feel at ease with possibility and play. From a safe place within us, we begin to discover our dance in relation to ourselves, the earth and another body. We will touch gravity, communicating and listening through our bodies as we dance. For people who wish to experience CI through the work of BMC. What is BMC?Body-Mind Centering is an approach of experiential anatomy, which has been developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Anatomical images and information give us a clear understanding of our body and help us to focus on certain structures. Using these structures, touch, and active imagination, we find movement. A wider sense of our body can give us movement inspiration and possibilities, can support us to be present and at home in ourselves. We will give our body time to experience itself, to regenerate and to find expression. Place: Studio 2, Mime Zentrum - Kunstquartier Bethanien Mariannenplatz 1, Berlin Kreuzberg Times: September 17+18, 2016 Sat 10-6, Sun 10-5 (incl. 1.5h lunch break) Price:Euro 120 (until 1.8.2016)later Euro 150Taught in: English/ German Information & Registration: Elske Seidel elskeseidel at hotmail.com Heike Kuhlmann heikekuhlmann at googlemail.com Heike KuhlmannI live and work in Berlin as a dancer, choreographer, teacher and Somatic Movement Educator and therapist (SME/SMT) I am an Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapist (DiplIBMT), student from Linda Hartley, and hold an MA in Performance Studies/Choreography. I am interested in the integration of body and mind into our dance and our life. This manifests in being present in the different layers of our body, researching new movement impulses, and repatterning by becoming more aware of our habits. I love to dive into the immense ocean of my body to discover myself as I am and in new ways, and to meet others.In the last years I have taught in Brasil, Romania, Spain, Switzerland and England and performed in several works internationally. In Berlin I teach Contemporary Dance, Embodied Anatomy based on the principles of Body-Mind Centering (BMC), Contact Improvisation, and Mornin?Movin? classes. I am organizing jams, research events, and workshops. You can find more info about me here: www.Heikekuhlmann.net Elske Seidel,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 over two decades, CI since 2004. In her teaching she believes in opening spaces where dance in all its vital magic and play can simply happen. ?In her work she has the experience and knowledge to do little - slowly - so the experience of the participants can expand into the space she holds.'She likes to create CI projects that take the studio focus outside into nature and into the experience itself. She enjoys gathering community, and the merging of life and dance. She has taught CI in Europe, Canada, the U.S., Argentina, Israel, Russia, and Japan.Some of her projects include: Annual Contact Festival Fuerteventura/ Spain, Contact Saturday Berlin, Berlin Weekend Jam, 23h Jam Berlin, North Sea CI Camp/ Germany, Dance Your Question: CI Research Week/ Arlequi/ Spain, CI Training Program Hamburg and CI Workshop Series BASICS Berlin + Hamburg/ Germany.www.elskedance.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 20160917-bmc-vorseite-web.jpeg Type: image/jpeg Size: 91438 bytes Desc: not available URL: From elskeseidel at hotmail.com Mon Jun 27 13:12:59 2016 From: elskeseidel at hotmail.com (Elske Seidel) Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 19:12:59 +0200 Subject: [CI-Announce] CI Training Program in Hamburg/Germany Sept/Nov 16- March 17 with Elske Seidel and Daniel Werner In-Reply-To: References: , <5712A50E.1020609@dancecontact.de>, , Message-ID: CI Training Program 2016/17 Hamburg (Germany) Elske Seidel and Daniel Werner 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, somatic movement research (learning from within) 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 Training Program in Hamburg. We want to create the opportunity to learn and play with a group of people sharing a common knowledge of CI. At the same time 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 training program. WE 1: (Introduction Weekend): September 30-October 2, 2016/ Elske & Daniel (single booking possible) WE 2: November 11-13, 2016/ Elske (still possible to join) WE 3: December 16-18, 2016/ Daniel WE 4: January 27-29, 2017 (Laboratory: Participants will research on their own. Bringing their personally relevant topics and questions to the dance.) WE 5: Intensive: March 24-26, 2017/ Elske & Daniel (incl Aquatic Contact) >>In special cases it is possible to miss one module. >>This year we will have an additional Aquatic Contact session (Nov or Dec weekend), on Saturday afternoon with the option to stay longer to enjoy the thermal bath and sauna! Times: Fri 7-9:30 pm, Sat 11-6 pm, Sun 11-5 pm (Sat+Sun incl. 1.5 h lunch break) March Intensive: Fr 11-5 pm possibly longer Aquatic Contact (in hot pool/ approx. ? 12-14 for entry), Sat 11-6 pm, Sun 11-5 pm (incl. 1.5 h lunch break) Price: ? 660-560 (till Aug 1, 2016), later ? 710-610 Introduction weekend only ? 140-110 (till Aug 1, 2016), later ? 160-130 Sleeping in the studio for ? 7/night possible! Place: TRIADE ? Zentrum f?r Tanz und Performance Bernstorffstrasse 117 (1st story), Hamburg St Pauli Info & Registration: Daniel Werner daniel.werner at dancecontact.de www.dancecontact.de www.elskedance.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. www.canarian.contactfestival.info In cooperating for the Training Program in Hamburg they wish to combine their creative energy and interests, support and inspire each other and every single one coming. Daniel Werner studied Dance, Contact Improvisation, Body-Mind Centering and other Somatic Methods and Practises with various teachers, and works internationally in this field since ?97 as a dancer, teacher and director. He graduated in contemporary dance at the North Karelia College in Finland. Furthermore he is a teacher for Qigong and Tai Chi in the line of Master Mantak Chia. Also he is involved in the following projects: www.dancecontact.de, www.contact-meets-contemporary.de, www.bodymindpresence.de, www.in-touch.es,www.easterimprofestival.info, www.canarian.contactfestival.info Elske Seidel, 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 over two decades, contact since 2004. In her teaching she is interested in ?opening spaces where dance in all its magic and play can happen?. She likes to create CI events which bring the studio focus outside into nature and into the experience. She enjoys gathering community merging life and dance together. She has taught CI in Europe, Canada, the U.S., Argentina, Israel, Russia and Japan. 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