Workshops 2011:
Für die Workshops ist keine Voranmeldung erforderlich, und sie sind für Festivateilnehmer/innen kostenlos.
Auf dem Festival wird überwiegend deutsch und
englisch gesprochen.
Acroyoga - The Practice
AcroYoga
blends the spiritual wisdom of yoga, the loving kindness of Thai
massage, and the dynamic power of Acrobatics. These three ancient
lineages form this practice that cultivates trust, connection and
playfulness. There are 7 main elements that make up the practice:
circle ceremony, asana, partner flow, Thai massage, therapeutic flying,
inversions & spotting, and partner acrobatics. Our highest aim
is
to bring individuals into a state of union with themselves, with each
other, and with the divine. From this place of mutual support the true
self can be realized, celebrated and shared for the benefit of
all.
http://www.acroyoga.org
Lucie Beyer
(Germany)
Yoga(BYV)
- and Acroyoga-teacher, trained in Hawaiian massage, Clown, acrobat and
educator with enthusiasm. Her special subject is an experimental
movement research where she connects elements from the yoga, acrobatics
and dance. With a lot of joy she teaches child yoga and works in circus
projects.
Lucie did a two years training in Sri Shivanandas
tradition and studied Anusara Yoga with Bridget Woods Kramer. She
collected her experience in Ashtanga, Jivamukti and classical Vinyasa.
Even so she is dancing and flying in her acrobatics, Yoga will always
be her foundation and her path of life.
She loves to sing mantras
during her lessons and to add bodywork or massage technics. Her main
focus is to combine the playfulness and the discipline within yoga
practise.
So erverybody is welcome in her classes to find his own special way to
and with yoga!
http://www.diezauberwerkstatt.de/
http://www.yogamitlucie.de/
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Bodypainting, Contact and Improvisation
In
this workshop we try to find the colours we feel good with and want to
see us. We paint each other in these colours which is followed by dance
and performance aspects.
It should become funny, open, heartwarming and as colourful as possible
when we meet each other in this workshop.
Either you bring your own body paint to share with the group or give
three Euros for the necessary materials.
I am looking forward to meeting you.
I am Nathalie,
artist, freelance coach and art therapist from the Harz.
I like to dance and paint, love nature and do like to do artistic
courses with groups. Inspiration is my job.
http://www.nathalie-reinholz.de
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Center – falling into honeypot & flying with
ikaros ...and back
Center,
naval, grounding, ki, hara... This child has many names, but they all
lead to one. Center is the base of my dance, weather I dance in a solo,
or in contact. Movement can be initiated from the center, or it can
flow from the peripheries to the center. Anyhow, organic movement is
allways connected to the center.
Center is the strong point, from
where – or to where all movements are related. When we are connected to
our center, we can easily move fast or slow, roll and slide on the
floor smoothly, and change levels from up to down, and down to up
effortlessly. Center is the anchor, which moves in the space, and
everything around – your six limbs – hands, feet, head and tail are
organizing theirselves in order to follow-support the center in a
needed, economical way.
And when I talk about grounding, roots or
anchor, I don’t mean that center would be something stable, still,
non-dynamic and slow. Vice verca. Center is the motor of everything,
when we know how to use our center, we are able to move very dynamic,
light and easy way. Center is the engine to fly, to roll up to the high
lifts, or land softly from the jump. All this requires of course also
the other parts and elements of the body to be organized as needed.
Soft spine, breathing, open joints, released muscles...
Relaxation
in movement brings us the ability to react fast in the changing
situations. Especially in contact is needed to be able to adapt tone of
your body in each moment – sometimes you need more strength and
stability to be able to support, straight spine or melting spine,
folded joints or reaching limbs... Also the more you are relaxed, the
more you are able to feel and sense the small, delicate details in
weightshift, tonus and pressure of the touch.
In
contactimprovisation use of the center is very essential. To
understand, where is your center, and how you relate your center with
other’s centers. Following, leading, giving weight, receving weight,
rolling and melting together, flying together, changing levels
together... Moving together in a flow, two centers (or more) constantly
relating to each other. Of course they might diverge into the space,
and come together again. In and out of contact, breathing together,
expanding in the space and becoming as one again.
In this class we
will start from the floor. Falling into gravity, relaxation, melting,
grounding... For me the base of centerwork and contact is allways from
down to up. Feeling the weight and gravity builds up the base for next
steps to move together more dynamic ways. The more we can give our
weight and relax, the more we become readable in our movement. When we
feel the weight of the other’s center, we are also able to “read” it.
Still relaxation does not mean to be passive. So we will play with
different states of relaxation and tonus of the body.
Katri Luukkonen
is
a dancer and danceteacher from Helsinki, Finland. She graduated from
Theatre Academy of Finland 2008 (MA). She has been teaching at various
contact- and dancefestivals all over Europe, Russia, India and Finland.
As well as “SkiingOnSkin”, she is also organizing GOAcontactfestival in
India together with Iiris Raipala and Volker Eschmann. Besides
contactimprovisation, contemporary dance and theatre, she has been
practicing OSHO's active meditations, authentic movement, yoga and
aikido.
“I love dancing, contactimprovisation and
life-improvisation, sounding, singing and playing with my voice. I am
attracted to live and love fully. I enjoy travelling, adventures,
discussions, friends, fleemarkets, kissing, communitys, surrendering to
surprises, meeting and melting, provoking, letting the flow take me,
beautiful journeys travelling in unknown universes… ”
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Heart Space
with Deva Chintana
& Arjuna
Listen to your
heart through meditative music and movement
This
Heart Space workshop is all about listening to yourself, giving space,
allowing and listening to your heart. Simply noticing that all that is
appearing in this moment – sensations in the body, emotions
or
sounds – is all there is.
Nothing is missing, nothing is lacking. This is enough. Perfect. Just
enjoy it all!
Accompanied
by beautiful harp music you can let yourself be touched, allow sounds
to come from your heart, move your body and dance freely. Enjoying the
aliveness and the beauty of this moment notice the love and joy that
are already present and appearing as all this!
At the end you will
be invited to rest in yourself and simply receive the sounds of the
very beautiful and sensitive music. You can deeply relax into this
Miracle of Life.
Deva Chintana
is Finnish and has been sharing her joy and love for dance through
spontaneous dance workshops and courses in Finland, Italy and Japan for
many years. She has been living and working in Italy for 10 years, has
graduated in Dance Therapy at the Osho Institute for Dancing with
Maneesha Mc’Clure and as a bodywork therapist from Osho Multiversity in
Pune, India.
Arjuna is a French musician living in Bonn.
He has studied music at the University of Rennes in France, plays many
intruments: harp, flute, concertina, oriental drums, piano in a
creative and free way that opens the heart. He has won prices in
improvisation and has been considered as an improvisation
master.
www.heartspace.nu
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Melodies and rhythms in the Singing Body
Discover
the melodies and the rhythms that your body constantly sings during an
improvised dance. Let them come to your awareness and then
interact, listen and be inspired by other’s.
We will integrate the voice in the exploration, allowing the sound to
inhabit the melodies and the rhythms of the body.
Solo,
duo, trio, group improvisations with the intention of offering support
and presence to the whole composition. Finding a constant and subtle
focus that connect all the participants together and allow a Choir to
manifest.
Melodies, rhythms and silences unfold in movement and sound through the
space.
Creating a natural choral composition together moment by moment.
Biography
Irene
Sposetti comes from a multidisciplinary background of athletics,
classical music, flute, singing, theater, dance, bodywork and spiritual
practices.
Irene of Italian origin lives now between Asia and Europe, she is based
in an international community in South India.
In
the last six years she taught Body Consciousness and Movement mainly in
Spain and in India; she participates as dance teacher and musician in
festivals and dance meetings all over Europe. She performs in various
projects, collaborating with choreographers, musicians and visual
artists. She co-directs dance theater pieces and organizes dance events.
At
Paris and at Barcelona, she study Contact and Contemporary Dance,
focusing on Body Awareness and Improvisation, with Elsa
Wolliaston(African contemporary), Kiristie Simson, Julien Hamilton,
Vera Orlock (Body-Mind Centering), Katsura Kan Atsushi Takenouchi(
butho), Malpelo, Lipi Hernandez, among others.
She dances tango.
She
develops and teaches a specific exploration on Voice, Body, Movement
and Improvisation “..I am all the time surprised how the opening to the
possibility of “sounding” during the dance empower so much the
expressivity of the body and the opposite way round. Voice and movement
together definitely heighten and enhance each other; I always find that
they open unexpected unusual paths in the improvisation, widening the
access to the field of imaginary and creativity…”
She starts by
studying classical music, flute and voice. She sings for 10 years in a
choir in Italy and collaborates as music-performer in several shows in
Paris and Barcelona. Recently she has been part of a classical choir
and a band, performing and recording in India.
She is studying classical Indian singing from Carnatic tradition.
She
study and practices theater at Rome (Jacques Lecoq school) and at Paris
with Carlo Boso and B. Sangaré (Peter Brook Company) among others.
..She is also Massage Therapist in Ayurvedic and Thai Yoga Massage.
She loves healthy living, nature and animals and aims for spiritual
growth.
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Music in the Blood
An improvisation workshop in three afternoons for musicians.
It is possible to participate in 1, 2 or all 3 afternoons.
In
this workshop we will dedicate ourselves to free improvisation, playing
alone and as part of a music group. We will explore the different
aspects and layers involved in the art of music making such as:
- Listening- the key to the creative
source in us.
- Playing without knowing – music out of
stillness.
- Dissolving ‘you’ and ‘me’ – diving into
the flow of music together with other musicians:
- Rhythm- the root of the connection in
yourself and with others.
- The courage to do it wrong – playing
using your own impulses.
- Fear, shame and insecurity pointing you
back to your living presence.
As
well as playing with our instruments and voices we will use meditation,
body-awareness exercises and various experiments to liberate our
emotions and expand our capacity for spontaneous expression. There will
also be a space for sharing with each other about our experiences so
that we can integrate them.
Requirement: Ability to play an instrument, or musical experience with
the voice.
Bring: Your instrument(s) or voice. We will also provide some
instruments (percussion, guitar, bass, trumpet, harp…)
Arjuna Raphaël Pinel
plays the celtic and chromatic harp, the concertina, exotic flutes, the
trumpet, oriental percussion, the bass guitar and more. He was born in
Normandy, France and studied music in Rennes, winning prizes in
improvisation. He has given concerts and made studio recordings in
Canada, Finland and Germany playing his own compositions and
improvisations, as well as world music, Latin jazz, Celtic, oriental
and meditative music. He performs solo, often employing live looping
(creating harmonies with a looping device), in duos with Shakya and
with trumpeter Tansen and with the jazz trio “Trio Melido”. He now
lives in Bonn where he has a recording studio with Shakya.
www.raphaelpinel.com
Shakya Matthias
Grahe
–plays violoncello, dilruba, guitar, keyboard, percussion and voice. He
has given countless concerts in classical ensembles, pop rock bands and
Latin groups, providing live accompaniment for silent movies,
meditations, dance and healing events. He has also appeared as a guest
musician on many CDs. He is a workshop leader, business economist and
co-founder of a spiritual commune in Bonn (Germany) and is trained in
various massages techniques.
www.arjuna-shakya.com
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States and Tastes in Contact Improvisation
This class of Contact Improvisation is open and accessible to all who wish to come.
During the class we will use playful imagery to explore different tastes of moving together. In this we will use images or characters that are somehow polarities of each other. Through identifying with these images we will experience how they affect our presence and our dancing.
Some polar images that could be researched during the class: abstract dancer vs. panther, cow vs. fox, giraffe vs. wolf, angel vs. animal, etc…
These states have different flavours: some have lots of space, expansion, or clarity and perspective, perhaps a different sense of emptiness… other states are mistier, more richly flavoured or more constricted, with more animal-like or more driven physicalities…
Tasting an image will lead one into a state of dancing: e.g. the state of a panther dancing CI is (perhaps) refined, catlike, sensual, sensitive, lazyish, choosy, etc.
We will also explore the sliding scale between these polarities through movement and awareness (first solo, then CI).
Some sharing will be involved, to verbalize these new or new-tasting states… not just letting them remain unknown heavens or hells… but facilitating them into becoming exciting new landscapes to be explored also later on.
Bio
Juha is a Finnish improviser from the fabled CI community of Helsinki. He is interested in beauty as a felt (rather than seen) experience. He believes that what is felt to be beautiful and rich often also seems precious and intense.
Being naturally sensitive and shy, Juha wonders about which shared moments in contact he wishes to show to others, and which moments he wishes to hide somewhere among the shadows and roots of a jam...
Being also naturally anti-shy and not-so-sensitive, Juha often shares his outrageous expressiveness and childlike humour with the other dancers in the space (to their joy or suffering)…Otherwise Juha works with children in school and studies to become a therapist.
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Rythmicas
„The
rhythm is the architecture of being, is inner dynamic, that gives form,
that is the system of the wave, that is opposed to the other, that is
expression of live.“ Léopold Sédar Senghor, Négritude und Humanismus
Beauty
is Rhythm, dancing in our own rhythm, sensing the rhythm of the other,
playing with different rhythm.. finding a common rhythm. What kind of
rhythms do I find inside myself? How do these rhythm come into dialog
with other bodys and live music?
We will use elements out of Capoeira and BodyMind Centering to surf on,
in, under and between bodies and rhythm.
Heike Kuhlmann
teaches dance and movement for adults and kids for more than 13 years.
I started to teach BMC and Contact Improvisation which I studied for
more than 10 years, using the BMC principles for finding possibilities
for improvisation as well as for repatterning. I realized how much a
somatic approach helps people to come into a satisfying dance. Also I
am always myself excited how many new things I always can discover
working with different themes in BMC.
Starting of with a
university degree in Physical Education and Biology, I studied Dance
Pedagogy with Leanore Ickstadt and did my MA in Choreography. For the
Diploma in Integrative Bodywork & Movement Therapy (IBMT), I
studied deeply Body-Mind CenteringÒ and Authentic Movement.
Since
august I organise with Javier and Moss the Sudsternjam in Berlin. In
August and September we performed for the Drummoon, a full moon Dance
and Music Improvisation.
In 2010 I taught at the Easter Improfestival in Göttingen.
In 2009/2010 I was invited to the first Contact Festival in
Florianopolis, Brasil.
With the Compagnie Kuhlmann . Mocke . Wiegand we developped several
colloborational works from 2008-2010.
In
2008 we realised the International Youth project „Dancing on
water“ and I danced at the Masdanca festival- Gran Canaria. In 2007 we
won the Berlin price of violence prevention for creation a dancetheatre
school project on violence through fairytales.
In 2006 I created
the solo „To be looked at“ for the conference „Slavery in Contemporary
Arts – Trauma, Memory and Visuality“. An article about that performance
has been published in „Slavery in Art and Literature (2010).
I have a daughter of two and a half. In in my freetime I love to dance
and play Capoeira.
more Information on: www.Heikekuhlmann.net
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Slowing Down
Movement, food,
awareness
How
can we slow down in order to see what's important and meet ourselves?
There are many ways but for me the easiest one is through movement. Our
body moves, breathes and needs food to survive so it first has to slow
down. Then, we can slow down our thoughts and stop them at least for a
moment.
This workshop helps us to slow down in our everyday life and
experience in an authentic and deep way some of our essential needs:
moving and eating.
These two most natural actions have become
automatic and we seem to take them for granted. That is why they are
often unconscious and we need to make them conscious through our direct
experience thus gaining a new and more profound quality of life. Just a
moment of conscious moving and eating can transform one's life.
I would like to share this experience with you and see your happy
faces:)
Martina
Biography
Martina is a dancer, interpreter, Ashtanga yoga teacher and passionately enjoys dancing tango. She also teaches English and Italian. Now she’s a certified yoga teacher (RYT 200) and has been teaching Ashtanga and Vinyasa yoga for more than three years. She is specialising in Ashtanga yoga and about to receive her second certificate (RYT 500).
Since 2009 she’s been attending Holistic Dance and Movement Pedagogy teacher training with Sabine Parzer. Different techniques and methods are used like: contact improvisation, authentic movement, Feldenkrais and bodywork which are all useful for dance and movement therapy, dynamic meditation and self-awareness.
At the age of six she started doing gymnastics. Her artistic experience started with several amateur performances in Zagreb Youth Theatre when she was a teenager.
While studying English and Italian at the Faculty of Philosophy, she also started dancing: Cunningham technique with Kilina Cremona and ballet, later followed by contemporary techniques like release, feldenkrais, jazz and street dance, tap, yoga etc. Some of her performances were solos and some were performances in Italian in which she both acted and danced.
Martina has done Iyengar yoga with Kate Foley and Ashtanga yoga with many international dancers and choreographers. She has completed her yoga teacher training with Marco and Sandra Bianco and is immensely grateful to them for their unconditional love and support. She is also deeply thankful to Neil Barker, Katiza Satya, Paul Dallaghan, Sara Granstrom, Duncan Wong, Lea Lončar, Amadio Bianchi, Jadranko Miklec, Snježana Vukas, Igor Barberić and the others who are still the light on her path of yoga. Since learning is a two-way process, she is also grateful to her students who remind her that yoga is a path on which we are all one.
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Sound meets movement
What arises, when body and sound meet in space and begin to leave one’s mark? What happens, when dancing movement flowers out in sound as strokes of the brush? What does it bring, when impulses of sound are getting in contact and appear as a form?
My workshop is about the communication between sound and movement. We try to find out the effects of sound stimuli to movement, and vice versa. There will be space to explore the mutual influence of sound and movement as well as to set movement- and soundquality in relationship, so that they can be experienced separatly as music and dance and also as unity.
For soundproduction serves our own body as well as various instruments (limited number of instruments supplied, own instruments are welcome!). The workshop is based on free and contact improvisation in dance as well as free improvisation and experimental sounds in music.
Biography Eva
Rautenberg
My
childhood and youth were marked by music and dance activities, which
were the basis for my study of music and dance education at the
Mozarteum in Salzburg. Since graduating in 2003 I was working on music
schools in Germany and abroad (Spain) and am working as a lecturer in
various courses in music and dance education. My path has brought me
more and more towards improvisation. What I appreciate in it - whether
in dance, be it in music - the joy of curiosity, observing resulting
images and sounds, exactly the right thing at any given moment,
creating moods of which in the next moment can be changed again or even
to fill a space asset. In my work I combine education, art and healing
work - always with the same goal, to touch the peoples’ hearts. I like
working in different constellations, as a pianist, cellist,
percussionist and dancer, preferably in combination. The variety is
visible in my different projects: I work with singers / musicians
(Bojana Pajtler, Bianca Harrison, Hans Wolf and others), a storyteller
(Björn Nonhoff), dancers (Geraldo Si, Jen Richter, Heidi Schnirch etc.)
and as a soloist.
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Krankenhaus Performance Projekt
„Körpergeschichten“
An zwei Terminen werden wir für eine Performance zum Kulturprogramm des
Uni-Krankenhauses proben. Menschen mit Krankheiten und körperlichen Leiden
durch Lebensfreudige Tänze erinnern wie sehr unser Körper Ort von
Lebensfreude sein kann. Unser Körper der unsere Lebensgeschichten speichert.
Es wird innerhalb einer klaren Struktur improvisiert und eine Performance
von 15-20 Minuten vorgeführt, die zwei Mal aufgeführt werden kann.
Der Schwerpunkt wird auf Tanz und Kontaktimprovisation liegen, mit
Einflüssen von Actiontheater. Personen die an diesem Projekt interessiert
sind werden gebeten tanzbare helle/weiße Kleidungsstücke mitzubringen
(Hose/Hemd/Kleid). …damit die Farbe weiß mit einer neuen Bedeutung gefüllt
werden kann.
Markus Hoft
I started with New dance/ Contactimprovisation around 1993 and started to
deepen my dance experiences in professional dance schools in Köln and
Scotland. Many bodyworks and techniques help to feel and use my body as my
life-tool. Along many I want to name Yoga/Pilates, Capoeira and Action
Theatre. As a freelance dancer I lead/choreograph dance projects and
specially searching for ways of Contactimprovisation performed on stage.
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Elske Seidel and Daniel Werner
Contact Improvisation
"moments in between: momentum in over- and under-dancing"
This workshop will be about over – and under-dancing in Contact Improvisation.
How can I organize my body under the body of my partner? What happens to my dance with gravity when I am supporting (maybe the full) weight of my partner? We will work with stability in under-dancing which is alive and moving. We will look at how to continue momentum, how to breathe in it, how to use and guide it. Understanding stability as a moment we are travelling through in our play with instability.
Special emphasis on effortless pathways in and out of the floor, hands-free dancing, offering body surfaces for support and releasing in under-dancing.
What possibilities are opening up when I am following, trusting, releasing in my over-dance? How can I follow 3-dimensionally, also into my backspace, with ease, letting the ride happen? How can I use my ‘ends’ (fingers, toes, tail, head) in my dance in the air?
We are especially interested in the moment(um)s in between, transitioning from the over-dancing to the under-dancing and vice versa. How do I organize my body from flying to supporting weight? What body-tone do I need in what situation?
This workshop is offered for people who bring experience in CI. Come and play!
Daniel and Elske share many years of friendship, uncountable jams and dances and a mutual fascination for Contact Improvisation. In 2003 they co-founded the ContAct Dance Company, investigating CI as a source for performance work, with a special interest in site-specific art. Both work as independent artists, somatic movement researcher and dancer; both have extensive experience in teaching CI internationally. Besides their individual CI projects, together they are creating and organizing the Contact Festival Fuerteventura (with Gabi Neumann) and North Sea CI Camp St. Peter Ording in which Contact Improvisation meets nature.
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Mokshia Roland Frenzel
"Touch - Move - Share": Faszien and Dancing Organs
Fascial tissue is connecting and differentiating body structures. It is essential for feeling connected and integrated and for elasticity and flexibility in movement.
If you look at the human body as an instrument, the fasciae are like the strings. In this course we will use deep osteopathic techniques and voice work to tune our instruments, and support the process of bringing more freedom, ease and joy into breathing, moving and sounding.
Mokshia R. Frenzel:
Improvisation artist on all levels and a body therapist (Osteopathy, Hawaiian Massage, BMC, TCM, Qi Gong), co-founder and organizer of the Easterimprofestival. …my therapeutical/artistic work is a synthesis of dance, music, body”work” (play) and satsang... There are many different membranes or gates to our essence. In a dance, song, or treatment, these membranes can become more permeable; gates can open easily and playfully. The cells simply remember their "original" goal: to communicate, to dance and to celebrate…" |
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Arunya
"experimentelles malen in raum und zeit"
hier gibts neue spielplaetze zu entdecken!
malen im stehen,gehen, liegen, in bewegung, im bewegt werden, aus der luft, mit pinsel, mit stoecken, mit buersten, mit farben, kreiden und graphit.......
wir bewegen uns dabei zwischen den fixpunkten, die uns der raum mit seinen moelichkeiten und grenzen vorgibt und einem abgesteckten zeitrahmen, der uns gleichermassen herausfordert und unterstuetzt
hierbei geht es nicht um ergebnisse, die angestrebt werden, sondern um freude am tun, am experimentieren und sich dabei selbst erfahren
von den ergebnissen lassen wir uns einfach ueberraschen!
Vita:
wer arunya sandhaus ist?
das herauszufinden ist ebenfalls einer der punkte auf meiner "to do" - liste.....
was ich so mache?
ich lebe momentan die meiste zeit in einem kleinen dorf im ehemaligen osten deutschlands, fuehle mich aber auch in freiburg, hawaii und la palma zuhause dort in beichlingen habe ich das "atelier fuer kreativitaet und lebensfreude"gegruendet , das ich mit unserem hausgeist teile und in dem ich kurse und workshops gebe
ich habe im letzten jahr gelernt, wie man holz hackt, mit lehm verputzt, ziegel setzt und dass ich mit meinen handgemalten "hosentaschen-engeln" geld verdienen kann
ich entdecke jeden tag neu und uebe mich , die dinge anzunehmen, wie sie sind, ...wie gesagt.... ich uebe mich...
ich liebe es, menschen, die "schon immer mal malen wollten" an ihre kreativitaet heranzufuehren und ihnen zeigen zu koennen, dass kunst einfach spass machen kann
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Katrin Lerche
Free your voice
More information soon!
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