Name: CI Spring Intensive in Berlin
Start: 2023-5-8T10-10-00-00
End: 2023-5-12T17-17-00-00
Location: Eden Studios

Fortnightly classes in Contact Improvisation at Eumundi CWA hall

09dec(dec 9)18:0011(dec 11)17:00Contact Improv Weekend with Joerg Hassmann in AngleseaFLUIDITY & STRUCTURE

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CI WORKSHOP FLUIDITY & STRUCTURE

What is it that creates the flow in dancing together, the openness of body and mind to follow the obvious or the unpredictable in each moment?

After 25 years of teaching this dance form I still feel the mystery and magic around this question. My body knows it through experience. My mind thinks that getting the body in a fluid state is an essential part of the magic. At the same time we need this embodied knowledge of our bony structure to offer or read support, knowing intuitively when we can trust.

Fluidity and structure feel sometime very far away from each other – not only in the dance. Whilst acknowledging the weight bearing potential of our skeleton, we’ll also explore the elastic nature of fascia as a support for both fluidity and structure.

We’ll dive into somatic explorations alone and together. We’ll embrace stuckness as moments to deepen connections, we might find moments of magical flow … or not, but for sure we will dance a lot!

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TIMES
Fri 6-8pm
Sat 10am-6pm (with 2 hour lunch)
Sun 10am-5pm (with 1.5 hour lunch)

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FEES
$300 normal
$250 concession

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BOOKING
https://www.trybooking.com/CECWP

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ENQUIRIES
Sarah Rosenberg [email protected] or DM on messenger

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ON FACEBOOK

https://www.facebook.com/events/805875850626043

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JOERG HASSMANN
Joerg has been dancing Contact Improvisation for over 25 years. He is inspired by Contact Improvisation, as a way to understand and celebrate the moving body and human communication.

Many sports, release techniques, somatic work, instant composition and creating dance and theatre performances inform his dance and his teaching.

For over a decade Joerg was the artistic director of the CI festival Contact-meets-Contemporary. Together with Daniel Werner he developed a systematic approach to Contact Technique, which they taught in Berlin and throughout Europe over 12 years.

His writings, offers and some video clips you find on his homepage www.joerghassmann.com.

Joerg is finding a second home for his somatic passion in the Zenthai community, where he is currently diving into the ZenThai therapist training.

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CONTACT IMPROVISATION
Contact Improvisation is a dance form that strengthens the connection to oneself, the dance partners and the whole group. It’s underlying movement technique is based on the exploration of how two people can move together while being in physical touch, sharing weight. It benefits from empathic listening, generosity and curiosity and creates a space to practice letting go of expectations, allowing repetition and receiving the new as a refreshing byproduct.

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RESPONSIBILITY AGREEMENT
Please note: By attending participants are asked to agree to the following statement:
“In attending this workshop I take full responsibility for my own health and wellbeing. I acknowledge the nature of the workshop involves proposals to participate in exercises and movements that may be new to me. I recognise that the proposals are simply offers to try, and I take full responsibility to participate only within my own capacity as I see fit at the time. I acknowledge that the workshop facilitator has no liability for any injuries which may occur during this workshop”

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CANCELLATION POLICY
Cancellation more than one week prior to commencement of workshop will incur a 10% non-refundable processing fee. Cancellation less than one week prior to commencement of workshop, will incur a 50% non-refundable processing fee. In the event that the workshop is cancelled or if you can’t join due to covid related issues you will be refunded 100% of your ticket payment.

PHOTO
Joerg Hassmann & Elske Seidel
by Katelyn Stiles

Time

9 (Friday) 18:00 - 11 (Sunday) 17:00 Melbourne

Location

The Anglesea Memorial Hall

1B McMillan St

Organizer

Sarah Rosenberg[email protected]

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05jan(jan 5)15:0008(jan 8)16:00Contact Improvisation Retreat in Cooran/ Sunshine CoastStarting the New Year together

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Contact Improvisation New Years Retreat

What a special time of the year! This gap after the Christmas and New Year’s busyness, before normal life kicks in again. A good time to acknowledge how and where we are, getting more deeply in touch with ourselves through being in touch with others. What would I like to invite in, what can I let go off?

What emerges when we give our bodies, minds and hearts space to move, connect and play? More being than doing with a sense of timelessness.

Contact Improvisation will be our main language with a curiosity on how movements and connections begin. Basic techniques and priciples of the form around leading & following, sharing weight and probably some lifts will anchor our journey.

Beginners are welcome! You need to be comfortable to move between floor & standing and interested in acknowledging your limits.

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TIMES
Thursday 3-6pm (arrival from 11 am onwards)
Friday & Saturday 9am-6pm (looong lunch & chillout time)
Sunday 9am-4pm

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WORKSHOP COST

$315 concession
$375 normal
$435 support others
Prices include one warm meal for Thursday til Sunday and raised costs for camping and ‘visiting’ the Hillier Retreat for our lunches.

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BOOKINGS
via Trybooking at some point
A few tickets are available by donation… Contact Joerg: [email protected] or 0492803149

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DANCE LOCATION
Cooran Hall
14 King St, Cooran QLD 4569

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ACCOMODATION
There is the option to camp at the nearby, extremely beautiful Hillier Retreat for $20 per night.
It has an outdoor kitchen, a big dam for swimming, non-heated showers, composting toilets …
Hillier Retreat, 236 Arthys rd, Cooran, QLD 4569.
https://www.facebook.com/hillierretreat

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ON FACEBOOK

https://www.facebook.com/events/5515822265202156

Time

5 (Thursday) 15:00 - 8 (Sunday) 16:00

Location

Cooran Hall

14 King St, Cooran

Organizer

Joerg Hassmann[email protected]

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20jan(jan 20)18:0022(jan 22)17:00Contact Improvisation / Workshop in Sydney

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INDEPENDENT & CONNECTED

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Contact Improvisation is an amazing frame to experience how being independent & self sufficient supports a sense of connectedness.

On a physical level we’ll explore how all body parts can find more freedom and responsiveness, while being elastically connected to the center of the body.

From somatic based work that nurtures our solo we’ll research how we are connected to others and the group as a whole and eventually how to create Jams that are more than just a collection of closed off duets.

We’ll also work on committed, weight-sharing duets with some specific Contact-technical input. A question in the background will be how we can stay independent in these physically strongly connected dances and how to create more breathing and choice-making space to feed the improvisational mind, that makes us feel alive.

As usual, my work is somatically based, accessing our bodies wisdom through sensing and exploring with a flavour of wonder. We’ll dance a lot, while noticing the freedom and support we receive by being on a journey together as a group.

This workshop will be suitable for people with previous experience in Contact Improvisation. If in doubt please check in with Eamonn.

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Bio: Joerg Hassmann

Inspired by contact improvisation for more than 25 years as a way to understand and celebrate the moving body and human communication. Many kinds of sports, release techniques, somatic work, instant composition and creating dance and theater performances have informed his dance and his teaching. As the artistic director Joerg is involved in the CI festival ‘contact-meets-contemporary’. Together with Daniel Werner he developed a systematic approach to Contact Technique that they taught over 12 years in Training Programmes in Berlin and throughout Europe.

His writings under www.joerghassmann.com/blog/ give deeper insights into his passion.

For the past two years Joerg has been living on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland and is grateful to have options to share his passion and knowledge around the moving body – locally and in other parts of Australia. https://www.joerghassmann.com/

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TIMES

Fri: 6pm – 8pm
Sat: 10am-6pm (with 2 hour lunch)
Sun: 10am-5pm (with 1.5 hour lunch)

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COST

$250 normal

$200 reduced (If the regular price is too much for your current income level you can choose the reduced rate)

$300 supporting (Paying this higher price makes it possible for us to offer cheaper tickets for those in need)

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PAYMENT
Via BSB to:
Name: Eamonn O’Flaherty
BSB: 944600
Account Number: 000138151
Reference: [Your Name] Joerg

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LOCATION

Harold Park Community Hall

1 Dalgal Wy, Forest Lodge NSW 2037

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RESPONSIBILITY AGREEMENT
Please be aware that for attending the workshop you need to accept the following:
“In attending this workshop I take full responsibility of my own health and well being. I acknowledge the nature of this workshop involves proposals to participate in exercises and movements that may be new to me. I recognise that the proposals are simply offers to try, and I take full responsibility to participate only within my own capacity as I see fit at the time. I acknowledge that the workshop facilitator and event organiser has no liability for any injuries which may occur during this workshop.”

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Photo Arkadiusz Kasperczyk

Time

20 (Friday) 18:00 - 22 (Sunday) 17:00 Sydney

Location

Tramsheds Sydney-Annandale

1 Dalgal Wy, Forest Lodge NSW 2037

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09feballday12Understory - a residential retreat - save the date!!somatic improvisation meets embodied nature connection

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Understory – a residential Retreat

somatic improvisation meets embodied nature connection

For this new and experimental adventure, Joanna Lin and I are bringing together our passions for somatic inquiry, deep nature connection, and community.

While we love the depth, playfulness and complexity of authentic connections in the practice of Contact Improvisation, we are aware that, for different reasons, Contact Improvisation is for many people not accessable. How can we share this experiential and somatic richness in other, less exclusive ways?
How can we do this while linking our human bodies with the more the human world?
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Our title ‘Understory’ is inspired by the understory of the forest, connecting to the rich and diverse space beneath the canopy, and combined with ‘The Underscore’ – Nancy Stark-Smith’s life’s work (a long-form dance improvisation structure). As a Co-founder of CI she developed a system of symbols to describe ways of how we relate to ourselves, our surroundings and other humans. We love the clarity, simplicity and depth of it.

Symbols have been used by Indigenous people on these lands for millenia, to tell stories, to map, guide and connect.

Symbols feel like anchors to us, where meaning can attach in a non-linear ways, offering direction for experiencing and for reflection. We’re inspired by how we could apply Nancy’s Underscore symbols and others, to support our nature- based and relationship- based somatic inquiries.

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We will offer frames for somatic work in a studio as well as sessions at the beach and in the bush. We’ll go on journeys alone and together, finding new insights and growths, sharing who and how we are…

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Food and accomodation will be provided at the beautiful – and basic – Glenrock Scout Camp where we had an amazing CI Retreat in May 2022.

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more content and information about fees and registration will be announced

Time

february 9 (Thursday) - 12 (Sunday) Sydney

Location

Glenrock Scout Camp

Glenrock Scout Camp, Scout Camp Rd, Whitebridge NSW 2290

Organizer

Joanna Lin[email protected]

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24feb(feb 24)18:0026(feb 26)16:00CI Workshop in Bellingen - save the date!

17mar(mar 17)16:0019(mar 19)17:00CI Workshop in Perth

28apr18:003.5-day residantial Workshop in Turin/ Italy - save the date!

08may(may 8)10:0012(may 12)17:00CI Spring Intensive in BerlinFLUIDITY & STRUCTURE

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I have been missing the Summer- & Winter-Intensives in Berlin, which Dino and I organised together for many years. They have always been highlights in my year with their depth, spaciousness and lightness. This one is the first Spring Edition – a whole week from Monday til Friday 10:00-17:00 in the beautiful Eden Studios in Berlin Pankow.

FLUIDITY & STRUCTURE

CI Spring Intensive with Joerg Hassmann

8-12 May 2023, Eden***** Studios, Berlin

What is it that creates the flow in dancing together, the openness of body and mind to follow the obvious or the unpredictable in each moment?

After 25 years of teaching this dance form, I still feel the mystery and magic around this question. My body knows it through experience. My mind thinks that getting the body in a fluid state is an essential part of the magic. At the same time, we need the embodied knowledge of our bony structure to offer or read support, knowing intuitively when we can trust.
Fluidity and structure feel sometimes very far away from each other – not only in the dance. Whilst acknowledging the weight-bearing potential of our skeleton, we will also explore the elastic nature of our fascia as a support for both fluidity and structure.Additionally, we will spice up our dancing by daring to go against the flow, inviting challenge & surprise, embracing stuckness as moments to deepen connections, and finding more choices.
Somatic solo and hands-on work will set the ground. And we will dance as much as possible to let the bodies integrate the given material and to allow connections to emerge on all possible levels.

Participants should be quite familiar with Contact Improvisation technique, which will be our common language for this Intensive. In case of doubt, check in with us.

TIMES
Monday-Friday 10-17 (90 min lunch break)

FEE
440-290 EUR (sliding scale)

INFO & REGISTRATION

[email protected]

LOCATION
EDEN***** Studios
Breite Strasse 43, 13187 Berlin-Pankow

Visit Joerg’s homepage & blog www.joerg hassmann.com

Foto by Ralf Hiemisch

Time

8 (Monday) 10:00 - 12 (Friday) 17:00

Location

Eden Studios

Breite Strasse 43

Organizer

Dino Spiri[email protected]

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17may(may 17)18:0021(may 21)14:00ContactSomatic Workshop-Festival in Freiburgtogether with Daniel Werner and others