My first Silent Contact Improvisation Retreat // Part 2
– reflections as an organiser and facilitator 6.-12.4.2025 Sunshine Coast/ Australia “What do we actually mean with ‚silence‘ in the context of this Retreat?“
Entries by Joerg Hassmann
The golden ‚grey zone‘ – how to direct attention
The golden ‚grey zone‘ – how to direct attention By Joerg Hassmann, April/May 2025 „I want to celebrate connections in my body: I don’t want to create all that by putting myself into the perfect alignment or executing well trained movements. I want to connect to what evolution has put into me and what my […]
What’s the point? Thoughts about my Somatic Improvisation classes on Zoom
What’s the point? What am I trying to do here when I teach Somatic Improvistion classes online – instead of Contact Imrovisation in proper studios? What do participants get out of this and what do I expect from them? I never wanted to teach online classes. Teaching into a flat screen without being able to […]
The challenges and rewards of offering ‘open level’ workshops
Thoughts from Joerg Hassmannn – July 2021 The last years I was in the privileged situation to mainly teach Workshops experienced Contact Improvisers. Whenever asked to teach beginners or open level classes I got quite nervous. It is amazing to me, that new teachers usually have to cope with these much more difficult teaching frames. […]
The risky stuff – Improving CI technique, but how?
“If you want to reach the maximum of your technical abilities you need to work on jamming and improvisational skills.” A recent workshop with our experienced Half Year Programme group in Berlin led me to this statement, which is refreshingly provocative for me.
Communicating through touch – we have cats …
It feels a bit embarrassing to write about our cats in this blog that has a main focus on dance, the moving body and teaching and learning. Anyways, I dare it and it won’t be too long … I am not really an animal person. I like the animalistic part of the moving human body, […]
Irritationen
Irgendetwas ist anders, es passt – fast, aber nicht so ganz … naja, nicht so wild, geht ja trotzdem. Bei meinem letzten Workshop habe ich das Anerkennen von Irritationen als einen Schlüssel für lebendige Räume erkannt. Es sind feine Momente, undramatisch und es scheint nicht wirklich wert groß Aufhebens drum zu machen. Aber in diesen […]
What is it that makes me feel ‘I am dancing’? And is that all I want from the dance?
There are these moments in my practice where I suddenly think and feel ‘Now I am dancing!’ What makes me feel that? And what am I doing, when I don’t feel like saying that? A participant of our CI training programme asked this question. And I noticed that I have given conflicting answers in writing […]
Adventure Falling – site specific experiencing
I am running with my boy through an autumn forest on a winding path, that is covered with freshly fallen leaves. Suddenly my left foot gets caught behind a little root. Time will slow down very soon. Later on I will be amazed how much can go through my head and emotional body in one […]
