Program
Intensives
Workshops
Open Stage and
performance preparations
Jam
Bodywork
Qi
Gong/Yoga/meditation
Room of silence
Morning circle
INTENSIVES
Intensives are workshops of four meetings with the
same teacher.
You can choose one intensive.
The number of participants is limited. Please make a
first and second choice in your registration
„Improvisation
as performance art“
In these classes we will practice, play and explore in
field of improvisation as performance art.
We will focus on four main aspects of the work:
Space, Musicality, Group work and Composition.
Participants will be given specific tools that will allow them to train and
embody physical and compositional skills through self creativity.
We will support participants who would wish to practice with an audience at the
evening performances in the festival.
This practice increases,
Awareness in relation to action
Decisions in relation to freedom
Creativity & responsibility in relation to
performance
As performers and audience we share one wish, for the
art to be alive.
Shahar
Dor and Ilanit Tadmor
are two Israeli based artists. In the last six years
their work is deeply collaborative, practicing and exploring improvisation as
performance art. Their practice and art draws on a verity of schools as
movement and contact improvisation, physical theater, aikido, music, text and
video and is based on their shared interest and love for live art. They lead
various dance & theatre projects, teach in diverse programs and perform
regularly together and separately on international bases. Shahar and Ilanit
accompany the 'Osterimprofestival' since it has begun.
Shahar
Dor (
performer and teacher
In the last 10 years Shahar has been deeply involved
with improvisation,
exploring it through Dance, Theatre, Music and Video,
and through various
collaborations with artists from all over the
world. His work as a
performer, teacher and producer in Israel has opened
up opportunities for
other people to explore and discover the uniqueness of
the art of
improvisation. Currently he is forming the
experiential Art of the Moment
school, in Israel.
Ilanit Tadmor (Israel)
choreographer and dancer
Artistic director of Ilanit's Tadmor dance company.
Winners of the excellence of performance prize at the
Shadows in Dance
Festival 2001. Co-founder of Improbiza Ensemble. In
2000 she took part
in an artist exchange between
choreographed and gave
workshops. She collaborates regularly with artists
from
“Just
Contact...“
Working technically with ideas of simplicity;
Softening, breathing into moving. Finding the coresspondence between
emptying the body and the best moments
to refill the body. We will invest time for clear alignment practices and more
efficient ways of carrying and lifting our partners body and limbs.
Learning to collapse the body to save time, energy and as a guick safty measure
in moments of falling. Extension is used to expand ourselves from the inside to
connect with the space and beyond our partners size and weight. We will
lengthen the bones, open the joints, tune the mind in this dialogue used for
sudden reflexes. We will WORK on doing less, finding the still point so we can
fly and unweight more easily. Lastly we will break down how to invert,
conquer our upside down fears and ease into the chaos of three dimensionallity
in space and in our senses.
Stephanie
Maher (
is a dancer, choreographer, improviser and teacher.
She spent 10 years in San Fransisco after her NewYork modern/ classical training
studying deeper and wilder the many forms of multi-disciplinary forms of
motion, improvisation, the voice and image making in performance and
community based art.
She relocated to Berlin in 98 to her home based k77
studios and continues to teach, develop and organize the Ponderosa
Tanz/Land festival in the countryside at Stolzenhagen.
She has created/ collaborated and performed works with
Kathleen Hermesdorf, Ka Rustler, Jess Curtis, Ray Chung, David Hurwith, Sten
Rudstrom, Stina K. Bollman, KJ Holmes and Howard Katz Fireheart.
Improvisation lies at the heart of her work. Bringing
a body based approach to express an intimacy, sensitivity and a wild
humor to her choreographies. As a teacher she works across the U.S. and Europe.
Technically she has been highly influenced by the teaching of Susan Klein and
Barbara Mahler and radically by her long history of mixing action, art and
politics from her 848 community space history.
“Theater into Contact”
I am interested to step the way from deep solo-monolog into the free dialog in
duet, trio and more partners.
Three circles of attention through Mikle Chekhov will be the thread for all
intensive days.
We will use different theatrical frames and limitations to open a new
unrespectable
physical and emotional space in us.
Contact improvisation will be our common ground to come into a physical and
playful dialog with others.
We will spend time deepening our skills in CI and use them in different scores
for our improvisation.
This workshop is meant for those who are working in the field of the performing
arts or have the basics of Contact Improvisation.
Andjela
Doni (
Dance improviser, choreographer and teacher. Oriented towards CI and
contemporary dance, with extensive experience in theatrical choreography.
She was born in Kishinev, Moldavia.
Part of her Education was at the High School of Culture in St-Petersburg,
Russia in 1985.
She has been teaching CI composition to professional dancers, actors and
amateurs in a
wide range of backgrounds since 1997.
Since 1999 she lives, works and teaches in
concerning improvisation and contact include:[NL]Regine Chopinot (France),
Eszter Gal (Hungary), Benno Vooram (Sweden), Denny Lepkoff (USA), Lisa Nelson
(USA).
Since 2000 - member of Yearly European Contact Improvisation Teachers
Conference.
“Talking
Space”
Let our body get to talk to the space using form,
feelings and intuition as directors of our performance.
The Alexander-technique leads us into experiencing
each moment as a new beginning and into trusting
the “Non-Doing” to allow our nature to
express itself. With extending our awareness onto the different
bodysystems we
reach a more awake dialog with our themes, the space and our partners.
Torsten
Konrad (
is a freelance performer, choreographer
and teacher for movement- and body-awareness at the
Folkwang-University in
Leeder-Jooss-Bausch dancetradition as well as the movementwork of
Suprapto Suryodarmo.
He is a teacher for Alexander-technique and a
psychosynthese-adviser.
Workshops
Awareness Theatre
is beeing in the middle of alldaily life enviroment and situations with the
awareness of being not completly IN the situation BUT part of it.
So I know that i am playing with the enviroment and the situation but others
not...or they feel something going on...or they find it a kind of subtle
unusaul...or they recognize you as a playful artist... .
So in this workshop we explore few aspects of group imrovisation in diffrent
kind of public places like street corners,train station, department stores
or cafes etc.,never predictable and always unique!
We will explore the special awareness of the performer,as well as the
contact among the performers.Welcome to play!
Kabiro:
i am on my journey to fall each step ...into the present moment.
As an dancer,performer,hawaiin.massage practioner and beeing with differnt
spirituell teachers, I discovered the "live awareness theatre "
inside of my
Self to share and enjoy the huge range of playful awareness and creativity
with other people.
Lior
Lior lives in Tel-Aviv, Israel, and is in a constant search for balance
between his profession as an engineer and his passion for dance, body-work,
and meditation.
In the last years, Lior studies and practices, in many locations (Israel,
Europe, US, Japan) various forms of movement and awareness, including:
Contact Improvisation, Shiatsu Therapy, Yoga, Vipassana Meditation, Tai-Qi,
and
Butoh.
Recently Lior is fascinated and is exploring performance in public places.
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"ContACT
Games"
We will use theatre tools which are aimed at
freeing the imagination, ability to play theatrically and ability to
transformations. We will develop dance dialogue from being awake personal
creativity, using real life communication, humor, emotion and playful bodies
fight.
Ilya Domanov (
is actor, performer and teacher from
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“Fooldance”
In this workshop we try to expand our bodily and creative borders. After an intensive
warm up, we use exercises from theatre (physical theatre, action theatre) to
combine and mingle with contactimprovisation. For me “Fool” means to open up
your personality. How can I create poetic images? What is boring, what is
interesting to watch for the spectator? This workshop addresses to all who want
to “show themselves” in front of an audience
Markus Hoft (Germany)
Tanzt seit 1993, New Dance, Körperarbeit, Ausbildung bei Moving
Art/ Köln und SSCD/ Schottland. Theater an ecole philippe gauliere/UK und mit Ruth
Zaporah u.a./USA.
Aufführungen in Deutschland und GB/Schottland. Schwerpunkt von Release Dance,
Kontaktimprovisation und Theatertechniken/Komik. Yogalehrer i.A.Dancing since 1993, New Dance, Contactimprovisation, Body
Work. Trained at Moving Art/Köln and SSCD/Scotland. Theatre training at ecole
philippe gauliere/UK and Ruth Zaporah a.o../USA. Performed in Germany and
UK/Scotland. Main focus is release dance, Contactimprovisation and
Theatre/Clowning. Most recently: Yogateacher.
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„Voices
from the center“
The voice is an inner movement; it travels in the body
and extends us from the inside.
In this class we will create a dialogue between
movement and voice.
Connecting to the breath, simply allowing the air to go
out of the body as a sound, we
will make a place for intuitive movement
to arise.
We will play and communicate with voice and movement.
The dance of the voice is the song of our body and
soul.
Orly Portal (
teaches movement and voice
improvisation and belly dance.
She has developed a unique approach to teaching the
art of belly dance.
She danced in two of the famous contemporary dance
companies in
As a creative artist she performed in a three years
series of contact improvisation
and collaborated with great musicians as
Omar Farok and Timna Braouer.
She performs and teaches in festivals around the
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Empty-Space-Theater
Entering the stage without knowing what to play?
We play in the empty space. We play out of the moment with everything, which is
there right now. By dance and play and by sharing our experiences we are going
to learn to identify our masks (feelings, inner voices, architypes) and to
perform them – no
matter what it is. Even the fear of being on stage is wellcome to be played....
had an ordinary childhood. Everything has been normal – except the stuff in my
inside. And so it becamean important part of my life to express these things
transformed into movement, dancing, theatre and music.
I have experiences in many kinds of theatre, but what I am really crazy about
is „Fool“, a sort of improvisation-theatre. Meanwhile I am player in a foolish
ensemble.
My life as a fool offers me the possibility to express everything what is inside
of me, instead of performing, what a script or a director wants me to. However
– in my point of view - this work, which I learn from Franki Anderson, is not
only an improvisation-technique. It is also a way of living: Fooling frees me –
on stage and in addition to that on the stage of life.
Turid
Müller (
I had an ordinary childhood. Everything has been
normal – except the stuff in my inside. And so it became an important part of
my life to express these things transformed into movement, dancing, theatre and
music.
I have experiences in many kinds of theatre, but what
I am really crazy about is „Fool“, a sort of improvisation-theatre. Meanwhile I
am player in a foolish ensemble.
My life as a fool offers me the possibility to express
everything what is inside of me, instead of performing, what a script or a
director wants me to. However – in my point of view - this work, which I learn
from Franki Anderson, is not only an improvisation-technique. It is also a way
of living: Fooling frees me – on stage and in addition to that on the stage of
life.
Daniela
Schlemm (
What shall I write down about me? I got the chance to
make a lot of experiences on stage.
I did an education as a clown, I was working as an
undercover comedian for some time,
I played Theatresports with Inflagranti Bremen, I
teach… But all this doesn´t mean anything!
I learned a lot but there was none who could teach me
about the most important thing. What I mean is the play which is coming
directly from the heart and which is honest without any mercy.
In Workshops with Franki Anderson I learned more about
the irrelevant being relevant and the relevant being irrelevant. I learned to be and suddenly my play worked
??? In the past I could never say:” I am a clown!”
Today I can say:” I am a fool !”
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“Breathcomposing”
-Music and Movement workshop-
"Music already implies movement and movement already has music. My
workshops
are intended to help contact dancers and other movers develop this creative,
immediate and spontanious relationship with music. Through a series of
simple exercises and performance scores we focus on breath, voice and body
and experience the power of listening and playing. (Musicians are very
welcome to attend, but no musical experience at all is expected or necessary
in order to participate)."
Richard
Scott (
is a composer, improvisor and visual
artist.
He has worked with many dancers and chereographers and has an intense
interest in the process of improvisation in music, painting and dance
performance.
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Ta
Ke Ti Na – borne by rhythm and voice
How can I cope with a complex situation without
stressing me out?
With the Taketina Rhythm Pedagogy everybody can learn
to be borne by rhythm and voice in a playful and serene way. In this workshop
we are not learning random rhythm patterns, it’s a matter of reconnecting us
with our innate knowledge of rhythm, of experiencing rhythm archetypes. Through
falling out and inside a rhythm we can become aware of the simultaneousness of
different rhythms, time and again more profound, and develop our musical
creativity.
In Taketina our voice is the tie in the polyrhythmic
of stepping and clapping. Our body itself becomes a musical instrument.
Everybody can learn in his or her own pace. The rhythmical play of the berimbao
stimulates our singing, the surdo bass drum supports our basic steps.
Taketina combines playful easiness with high
concentration, deep relaxation with revitalizing, trance with increased
awareness, chaos with order. Musicians, actors, theatermakers and performing
artists can enlarge their creative competence and open new spaces between
inside and outside, thinking and feeling, active acting and a passive “let it
happen”.
Previous rhythmic knowledge is not required since Taketina
assumes that primordial rhythmic knowledge is innate in everybody. Thy body
remembers how rhythm bears
and happens.
Lothar
Berger (
is taketina®
rhythm teacher, performing overtone musician and choir leader. He got his three
year vocational training as taketina® rhythm and percussion teacher from
Reinhard and Cornelia Flatischler. And he was also trained in vocal and choral
improvisation as well as overton singing from Michael Vetter, Daniel
Diestelkamp, Reinhart Schimmelpfeng and Christian Bollmann.
As a long standing member of the „Diaphonisches
Vokalensemble“ he took part in numerous concerts. He understands his vocal art
as a cross-cultural and performing work, which is reflected in his
collaboration with different musicians, theatre projects and performance
artists.
Since 1999 Lothar Berger is leading his own overtone
choir („Bonner Obertonchor“), which evolved from his courses in overtone
singing and vocal improvisation. The „Bonner Obertonchor“ uses the human voice
as a „transverbal“ medium of expression (in the sense of Michael Vetter) and
links harmonic singing with verbal and experimental sounds as well as with
polyphonic and polyrhythmical singing.
Lothar Berger gives taketina® rhythm workshops and teaches overton singing and vocal
improvisation.
Hanspeter
Pelzer (
TaKeTiNa-Rhythmuspädagoge
Studies of movement theatre (play/music/dance) and
longtime freelance musician (mostly percussion).
Multiple experiences as a teacher for youth- and
adult-education.
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„Dancing
with colour“
Let us find the interaction between the dancer and the
„catcher“ on paper.
What is the information I get to bring the movement
onto the dimension paper to be still seen and understood?
And what is the influence to the mover to be watched
that way but stay with its dance?
This will be our exploration including the jump into
both roles….
Azriel Cohen (
is a painter who recently fell in love
with dancing.
Contact improvisation is one of the forms he enjoys a
lot, but painting the daily improvisation in life in various cafes of
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“Tree
root and water”
This class is about increasing trust and skill in giving,
supporting and transporting weight, falling and rising together with ease, and
about bringing these skills into dancing.
We will
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explore the state, the movement quality and the rhythm that come out of the
images of being tree root or water (stone? spider?)
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dance solo to duet and trio with these images, movements and qualities,
shifting easily and intentionally between them
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use this as a basis to learn some techniques of sharing weight, supporting
riding and floating up
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make a very physical journey supported by our imagination. It will lead you
from sensing to dancing to exercise and to more dancing while sensing and
shifting qualities…
Gesine
Daniels (
is a choreographer, dance teacher and
performer.
She has been dancing since her childhood and
practicing many forms of dance and movement from Ballet and Gymnastics to
Contactimprovisation.
Since 18 years, CI together with improvisation is her
passion; which influences her teaching and artistic work as well as her daily
life.
Her style of dancing and teaching Contactimprovisation
is energetic, playful and sensitive.
Exploring the physics of the human body in movement
fascinates her and the question of “how do we communicate in and through dance?“
is a big issue for her.
Gesine has been dancing and creating in a wide range
of events and places from opera to street performance, solo and group works; as
a teacher she has been working in social ghettos and theatre schools, she
taught children in primary schools as well as educated dancers;
Since 1986, she makes up and dances her own
choreographies in addition to her work as a free-lance artist.
In 2000, she founded the SomeBodyElse Dance Company,
which uses improvisation and Contactimprovisation in their site-specific dance
pieces.
With her artistic work she aims at showing the poetry
and the depth of the ordinary, banal, everyday life.
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„Dance-improvisation
& Speech“
How can I involve my voice in a casual way for Improvisation
which is mainly ruled by movement? Less thinking, but increasing our dance with
speech.
How can it be combined to support each other?
We will experiment with different possibilities of
using the voice/speech in our dances: emotion & speech, to dance text etc.
Sabine
Simon (
is a teacher for sport, dance and
theatre.
She teaches newdance at the ILK Marburg and works at
the Staatstheater Kassel at the moment.
Her dance-education is mainly influenced by the
dance-educational programs of Bewegungs-art Freiburg.
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“Awareness
theatre at public places”
text follows
Lior Ophir (
Text follows
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“DANCE
OF THE HEART”
There is something that touches us deeply...
By a subtle motion we are truely moved.
This movement became the pervading dance for Garita,
in her heart, her body
and in her life.
To share "this common place" we come
together.
„Tuning in“ in silence with music, meditation and
dance.
Garita C. Stieber & Michael Sapp
(Germany)
The longing and hunger for truth carried Garita C.
Stieber from her study of
modern dance via continuous furthering education
deeper and deeper into the
practise of meditation.
Since winter 2003 the musician and composer Michael
Sapp put himself out for
the "Dance Of The Heart" and many joint and
wonderful danceritual concerts
and workshops came into being.
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“Contact-Stories”
In this class we will search for the story in the improvisation. After a common
beginning, we will spread up into groups, using with different movement ideas.
Over giving feedback, about what do I feel, what do I see, where does the story
goes, we will find the essence of the meeting in
improvisation, including the influences of space and circumstances. Every group
can decide to find a special place, inside or outside
the building, work with props or costumes, to give their story another layer.
Gaby
Koch (
is dancing since she was 5 years old.
She is movement pedagoge. After Ballett,
Gymnastics and Modern Dance, she discovered her passion for Contemporary Dance
and Contactimprovisation. Since
1995 she works as a freelance dancer and choreographer in many productions. She
teaches Contemporary Dance and Contactimprovisation since 1997.
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“Painting
& Dance”
(text follows!)
Susanne
Rickus (
coming from the fine arts…
(text follows!)
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“Musicimprovisation”
(text follows!)
Attila
DÓRA (
Composer and performer
Why search in Plato, if saxophone can reveal another
world? (Cioran)
I had studied math and philosophy and graduated
’buddhist teologist’ in ’The Gate of Knowledge’ college in Budapest. Currently
I play on alto and tenorsax, prepared trumpet and build recycled sound
installation with low-fi electronics.
Some people call my style ’free improvised music’,
others say it’s ’conceptual noise structures using chance-operations’. As in
the concept of ’no-self’ from buddhist tradition, I say thinking of categories
makes trouble. I say both notations depending on different days. I focus on stepping
across a border, or standing on the borderline. I improvise.
In recent years I often work and perform with dancers
Eszter Gal, Daniel Lepkoff (usa), Oleg Soulimenko, Angela Doni (rus), Eva
Karczag (nl), Benno Voorham and Sybrig Doekter (S), Szilvi Szephegyi; with fine
artist Zsolt Koroknai and video artist Jozsef Bartha (ro).
I was invited by Eszter Gal and conducted a ’dance and
music’ workshop with Toshi Makahira and Zsolt Sores in Contact-Budapest-2004
festival.
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TALK & ROLL
Here is space for themes, which are born during the
festival or brought from you.
In Labs there is no teacher. You will be explorating together.
Single Lesson
means a one-on-one session and takes 20 minutes.
With a teacher of your choice, its
an individual lesson, you can either bring something you want to work with
or “just” dance and play with this person.
JAM
…every night into the night, open end, with
live-music.
specials: wave, silent-jam, blind-jam, new ideas are welcome
BODYWORK
This year we will have some bodywork-offerings in the
afternoon.
There is a room only for bodywork and silence.
QI GONG and YOGA
For all, that want to breath and stretch out into the
morning together,
find the centre and connect with sky and earth.
Sunday morning there will be an Eastermeditation…
Silence space
simple invitation for being in silence (not only in this
room but here especially)
Timetable:
WEDNESDAY 23.3.2005
16:00 Arrival, registration
18:00 Dinner
19:00 Opening
20 Uhr Warm up with Stefanie Maher & Jam
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Saturday 26.3. |
Eastersunday 27.3. |
Eastermonday 28.3 |
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Qi Gong and Yoga |
Qi Gong and Yoga |
Qi Gong and Yoga |
Eastermeditation |
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S1:Int.1 “Improvisation als
Kunst-Performance” with Ilanit Tadmor & Shahar Dor S2:Int.2 “Just Contact…” with
Stephanie Maher S3:Int.3 “Theatre into Contact” with Andjela Doni S4:Int.4 “Talking Space” with Torsten Konrad |
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WS1:”Paint &
Dance” Susanne WS2: “TAKETINA 1“ Lothar Berger
& Hans-Peter Pelzer WS3: “ContACT Games” Ilya Domanov WS4: “Fooldance” Markus Hoft |
WS1:“EmptySpaceTheater” Turid Müller &
Daniela Schlemm WS2: “Breathcomposing” Richard Scott WS3: “Dancing with
colour” Azriel Cohen WS4: “Tree root
& water” Gesine Daniels |
WS1:“Voicefromthecenter” Orly Portal WS2: ”TAKETINA 2“ Lothar Berger &
Hans-Peter Pelzer WS3:“Awareness
Theatre” Lior Ophir& KabiroScheller WS4:
”Contact-Stories” Gabi Koch |
WS1:“EmptySpaceTheater” Turid Müller & Daniela Schlemm WS2:“Dance of the Heart” Garita Stieber & Michael Sapp WS3: “Dance & Speach” Sabine
Simon WS4: “Musicimprovisation” Attila
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The circle be open… & Abschluss Jam |
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Performance & Jam Blind Jam (21:45) |
Performance & Jam Silent Jam (21:45) |
Easternight- Performance- Ritual, Jam |
Public Performance, Open Jam |
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