CII TRAINING FREIBURG

CI Compact Training Freiburg, Germany 2024

Contact improvisation is based on mutual trust and mindfulness and the ability – in direct physical contact – to deal responsibly, openly, imaginatively and spontaneously with oneself and others. The training includes exercises for sensory perception, fine conscious bodywork, work on the permeability for the inner flow of movement and dynamic elements, such as principles from martial arts and of course the usual skills and techniques of contact improvisation, from the floor to higher levels, such as lifts and jumps. The project is aimed at people with previous experience. It enables you to deepen your own skills in a consistent group, to playfully expand your dance repertoire and to perceive yourself and others in a new way. It can also provide useful support for work in other dance or social/therapeutic fields.

Training content
– Inner and outer perception
– Alignment of our skeleton
– “Centre-Periphery” connection
– Gravity, balance and flow
– Lightness & dynamics
– Touch qualities
– Modulation of your own weight
– Techniques from “surfing” to “lifts” or “up side down”
You can only register for the entire compact training
Former participants can also take individual modules.

Dates 2024
24 / 25 February 2 full days
16. / 17 March 2 full days
13 / 14 April 2 full days
9.- 12 May 4 full days
30.May – 2 June 4 full days

As a rule, there will be always two teachers co teaching (Bernd, Eckhard, Melanie). Bernd Ka will be accompanying the CI Compact Training for the last time this year.

Price
€ 690,- if booked by 16 December 2023
€ 740,- if booked by 27 January 2024
€ 790,- for bookings after that

Times for all trainings
First day: 11 – 17 h
Last day: 10 – 15:30 h
Days in between: 10 – 16 h

Accommodation: We can help arrange accommodation
Language: German and English if required
Info and registration Eckhard Müller E-Mail: CIIFreiburg@web.de Phone: +49 163 717 4939

Bios
Bernd Ka (GER) www.berndka.de
Tänzer, pedagogue and Feldenkrais teacher, co-director of training at TIP – School for Dance, Improvisation and Performance at bewegungs-art freiburg. Bernd has been dancing, performing and teaching Contact Improvisation in Germany and abroad since the early 1980s and has made a significant contribution to the development of C. I. in Germany. “Even after more than 40 years of Contact experience, I am fascinated that you can always discover something new in this dance form.I love to explore, to work unconventionally from time to time, to look at old findings in a a new way with humour and openness, to re-evaluate or refine them and to be able to share this with others.”

Eckhard Müller (GER/F) www.dani-ecki.com
Performer and teacher for Contact & Improvisation, co-founder of the contactfestival freiburg and the dance company degadezo in Strasbourg.He also specialises in contemporary movement techniques on the floor, acrobatics and yoga. “When I came into contact with CI at the end of the 80s, it was like a “magnesium effect” for me that radically changed my life. I switched from being a social pedagogue to the world of dance with a focus on CI and improvisation. In my classes, I try to awaken a playful approach to our body in movement and the physical forces associated with it. In general, I am interested in freedom, lightness and flow in a playful improvisation with others and the group.”

Melanie Seeger (GER) www.tanz-mehr.de
Lives and works in Freiburg as a freelance dancer, teaching new dance, improvisation and contact improvisation. She was also a lecturer at the Basisprojekt, an 11-week intensive dance training programme run by beweguns-art freiburg, and in various children’s dance projects. She trained as a dancer and performer at TIP, Freiburg. Prior to this, she completed a two-year extra-occupational training programme in dance and expressive therapy during her training as an educator. She is a certified Vinyasa Yoga teacher, Pilates instructor and BMC teacher. “I came to Contact Improvisation by chance and knew immediately that this was my home. That was the beginning of my dance journey, for which I am extremely grateful.