Due to the Corona Virus situation we had to cancel this Workshop, we are super sorry! But we want to make it happen at a later point, when meeting, dancing and connecting with groups is possible again!

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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 bodyparts can find more freedom and responsiveness, while being elasticly 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.
On the other hand we’ll work on committed, weightsahring 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.

And we will dance a lot!

People should have some basic experience in CI and weight sharing situations

Friday: 7-9pm open jam with lead in by Joerg
Sat+Sun :10:30 – 4;30 1 hr for lunch
Weekend includes Jam

Full $155 / early bird $140. Jam only $10 / Sat only $100

Due to the Corona Virus situation we had to cancel this Workshop, we are super sorry!

But we want to make it happen at a later point, when meeting, dancing and connecting with groups is possible again!

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I wish to have two essential poles of our CI practice more alive and available: the contact body, that is responsive to touch & weight everywhere & anytime, allowing a weight sharing duet that builds up physical & emotional trust for subtleties & risk taking. And on the other side an improvisation mind that enjoys the complexity of the wider surrounding for intuitive and compositional choice making. I am longing to see the self-sufficiency of soloing, committed CI duets, fearless trio work and the whole group as an intelligent organism.

We will explore moving bodywork as an improvisational journey, where many compositional aspects are tangible and which brings the body into its full CI capacity. We’ll explore how the improvisation mind can develop in this bodywork and survive in CI situations, soloing and more complex situations.

Especially trios I’d love to explore a bit more, since I found ways to make them more easily accessible. And they open us up beyond the familiarity of a CI duet.

We will definitely dance a lot!!
Participants should feel familiar within the field of Contact Improvisation

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A Saturday and Sunday Workshop with Joerg Hassmann.

Spaces are very limited- we filled an event in 2019 of 50 attendees, and only have spots for 25 this year.

To book, transfer to the following account:

Name: Eamonn O’Flaherty
BSB: 944600
Account Number: 000138151
Reference: [Your Name]

Cost is $200
Earlybird (by 31st of March) $175

Embodiment and Improvisation as a base for cultural change

We love the light hearted & minded spirit that has been developed on this festival within the last 11 years. We want to continue our dedication for focussed movement-research and improvised dancing within the frame of Contact Improvisation and related contemporary dance forms.

cmc wants to acknowledge the dramatic challenges that are about to change our lives through climate change. We believe that somatic practices, which support embodiment and calmness, will be a key for the necesarry cultural change and so is the general ability to improvise, to compose together with what we have, consciously and intuitively.

We want to dive into our familiar practices through classes that offer CI-skills, contemporary dance techniques, somatic approaches and improvisational tools. Many formats will suport a mode of more self directed research. Our beloved interactive lectures will feed the mind with new perspectives. And in the Jams we will celebrate the dance together. Within all that we’d like to include an awareness that we are connected to a world, that needs our somatic and improvisational knowledge.

As usual cosy corners support the needs to rest. Organic food from our fabulous cook Lorén will nurture us physically. A park and a public ecological pool closeby add a summer feeling to our festival.

A team of around 25 international teachers will support and inspire this festival.

Our musician: Nathaniel Damon (USA/ Germany)

more information: https://contact-meets-contemporary.de/

Some deeper insights into the idea and history of the festival you can
find in the online edition of contact quarterly:
http://qr.net/bu9KP

Also join us on fb:
Event 2020: https://www.facebook.com/events/2586399064770511/

FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/ContactMeetsContemporaryFestival/
Group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/178208908981732/
ID: https://www.facebook.com/ci.festivalcmc?fref=ts

Watch a video about the festivals of the last years:
2019:https://vimeo.com/356140585fbclid=IwAR0ZvCNaacsgCM1VHqLLt7j3EM9OzsQoFHSiQ0_JUTwhYWIG_ORRqWg2I50

2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_10VawgI98
2015:https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=BpVwDswB2_M
2013: https://vimeo.com/79704469

FEEL WELCOME TO JOIN US !
Your festival team
Jörg Hassmann, Daniel Werner, Gabi Neumann and Nadja Schwarzenbach

The festival is designed for people who feel rather familiar with CI or Contemporary Dance.