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Andjela Doni (RU)

"Legs like arms and arms like wings"

When I teach I give only those things which I know how to dance and love to dance.  Observing my dance I discover my endless curiosity to spirals in movement and my aspiration to be light, to fly and to feel legs and arms like wings.

I recovered my childhood habits of creating relations with other people, such as trust, sincerity, openness and healthy selfishness. I am very interested to keep my dance vivid and live and, of course, to keep human touch in it.

We will use parent -child patterns to look for the natural instinctual reactions imbedded in the body to support somebody and to be lifted. It will build up the structural support through the skeleton in order to be able to take physical risks.
We are going to explore the connection between the limbs and the center, and use it while dancing on the floor, in the air, and with a partner.
During this course I wish to reach unusual places by entering unknown trails in our dance, meet our limitations, and to find safe ways to go beyond our boundaries, in solo, with a partner and the group.
Qualities which I would like to awake and integrate into the dance are:

•    Initiation and surrender
•    Inertia as a source of energy
•    Resistance and following the flow
•    Risk and trust.

I love the reality of dance – the floor, my body and partner’s body, gravity and weight, and I love to move this reality between the sky and the earth.

Andjela Doni

She is a dance improviser, choreographer and a teacher oriented to contact improvisation and contemporary dance. She was born in Kishinev, Moldavia. She is educated High School of Culture, St-Petersburg, Russia 1981 -1985.
After graduation, she has experience like theatrical choreographer for 10 Years
Since 1999 she lives in Moscow, and teaches contact improvisation, improvisation and development of movement.
>From September 2006 she is organizer and leader of the project “Creative atelier for contact improvisation and performance teachers” in theater “Practice” in Moscow. This project provide space for different experiments in performance work and contact improvisation dance.
2006– 2009 July She is organizing the yearly International Contact Improvisation and Performance Festival in Moscow. 9 days experience of dance and performance. Festival includes the improvisational performance night in the Moscow Theater.
I can not say – “I teach contact”. I share contact improvisation, I share my self, I share what my teachers taught me, my dance, tea…

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Geraldo Si (BRA/D)

"Workshop for Dance Improvisation"

The aim of Geraldo is to help the participants to free themselves from old patterns, by extending ones own movement abilities and reaching the free improvisation.

The warm-up will be focused on the movement of our bones in relation to each other and how our bones moves in the space; with this practice we will support the body in discovering tools to play with later.

He will introduce a structured way of approaching movement that through the course of the workshop will gradually melt away leaving a new increased freedom in improvisation.

This structured methodology will involve working with and without partners, to explore different levels, speeds and dynamics, along with our spatial perception and understanding of how we can use a performance environment.

 By developing the sensibility of our perception about the environment around us, we can admit ourselves into the „intelligence of the body“, source of our own dance motivation.

Geraldo Si

Geraldo Si begun in 1981 his dance carrerr in Brasil with Pantanaliadança.
In São Paulo, he works as dancer and actor with Antonio Abujamra, Geraldo Thomas, Penha de Souza, the „Teatro Brasileiro de Dança“, Marzipan Dance Cia between others; and some colaborations with t.v. series aswell.
In 1990 comes to Germany as Soloist at the Wuppertaler Tanztheater led by Pina Bausch where he stays four year long. After works in colaboration with Raimund Hoghe (Geraldos solo 1996 andTanzgeschichten  2003), dem Healing Theatre Köln, rodolpho leoni dance , Stephanie Thiersch, Vera Sander Art Connect und Cocoondance.
1996 Founded x.x.y. theater in Wuppertal where directed several theater productions.
He is also Artistic Director „Sommertanz Junge Talente“ Tanztheaterproject with youths, that was a pilotscheme from the „Kunststiftung NRW 2003, 2004 and 2005”.
Own series of events "SichtLaut" Dance and Music Improvistion (since 2002). Performance evening where Dancers, Musicias, Painters and Video artists as welll experiment within the borders of improvisation.
Gives  Improvisations Workshops in diferent places:

dance conected in Dance City (Newcastle / England)
oficina de movemento Theatro Aracy Balabanian (Campo Grande / Brazil)
oficina de danca (Sao Paulo / Brazil)
Zagreb Tanzschule (Croatien)
New Castle College (England)
Tanzfabrik Berlin (Germany).

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Daniel Werner (D) and Jagat Mokshia Frenzel (La Palma)

"Body-Mind-Presence: Zero"

We have breathed out and the next inhalation has not yet begun … this moment of emptiness … zero … still point… This intensive offers the space to be one with and in softness with these moments of emptiness.

In Contact Improvisation we know the moments when movement energies at the right time in the right place and with the right quality come together and we can dive into this wonderful feeling of “flow”… and we can have the same experience in a well done Bodywork.

We will allow our bodies, emotions and mind to relax and explore organic ways from zero point to momentum and to the next zero…and we may surprise ourselves and our partners with new experiences in Contact and Bodywork.

Jagat Mokshia Frenzel

passionate Contact dancer and playful body worker, inspired from more than 15 years different therapeutic and artistic systems, enjoy more and more to let go of all concepts.

Daniel Werner

I teach CI since´97, and love to continuously discover new dimensions of this amazing dance. Essential influences for my work come from Body-Mind Centering, Release-Techniques and Asian Movement Arts. I studied contemporary dance at the North Karelia College inFinland and enjoy working internationally as a dancer and teacher for dance. Further I am involved in the following projects:

Contact Training Programs in Europe: www.dancecontact.de

An international Festival for Contact Improvisation and Contemporary Dance: contact-meets-contemporary.de

Barcelona International Dance Exchange: www.bide.be.

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Peter Krempelsetzer (D)

"Actiontheater™ Training"

AT improvisational training, starts with the body and leads into playfulness and flow. A journey into the creativity of our movement, voice and speech. The AT tools are opening new ways of expression.
Improvisational exercises – alone and in groups – develop spontaneity and conscious compositional choice. They are deepen the ability to express feelings and expand voice, bodyexpression and imagination.
Performing AT means? to compose with words, movements and sounds.
Each moment open to be touched by atmospheres, feelings and images.
Each time an exiting journey into the unknown, with or without words, full of action or quiet, abstract, poetic or funny.

Peter Krempelsetzer

1964 born in Munich, studied theater at the Scuola Dimitri in Switzerland, dance and improvisation. He learned Actiontheater™ Improvisation in intensive studies with the founder, Ruth Zaporah, USA. He is a certified teacher in this method since 2007.
As a performer and director of his own productions, he explores and expands the borders between acting, dancing and music. His special interest is in improvisation as a performance-art.
As improperformer he works and has worked with many groups. Peter Krempelsetzer is based in munich and teaches Theaterimprovisation, Contact Impro, Dancetheater, Contango and Performance at the ImproArt improvisation school.
More about his backround and teaching on his webpages:
teaching:  www.improart.de
performing: www.comtesse-co.de, www.freefishing.de
official AT site: www.actiontheater.com