When dancing Contact Improvisation, we allow ourselves to enter a state of ‘not knowing’,
immediate, and without planning ahead. We move in the here and now, present in the
point of contact, in continuous dialogue with gravity, and responding to the moment. In our
practice, we develop and tune our awareness, our tactile abilities to feel and organize our
weight responsibly and consciously in the moment. We open to experiment and play with
the situation as it arises.

We practice recognizing and reading our shared center of gravity in movement – with an
astonishing amount of clarity and precision – and consciously organize ourselves in the
present moment to enable e.g. invitations of weight transfer, flight or falling.

Often our mind relaxes. Our listening through the skin and tissue is in the foreground, our
body knowledge takes over and our mind observes silently and marvels in the phenomenal
interplay, coincidence and uniqueness of the moment in our dance.

It is less about reproducing a practiced, fixed form and more about applying helpful, open
movement principles in different and diverse situations. We move in a wealth of variations
and possibilities and our shared weight constantly finds itself and each other through
listening.

In this intensive we will specifically look at how to organize our bodies moving with gravity,
using less muscular effort. How can we organize our skeletal structure so that gravity can
move us?

What supports us in finding ease, fluidity and clarity in following our shared flow of weight?
What is needed in order to follow through in both, low and high flying, with a relaxed mind
and a responsive body?

Sharing my work, I like to offer inspiration as well as tools in order to ease, stimulate and
support the individual growth and development in each of us as we improvise and play
together in this festival and beyond.