Cindy Ng

'Contact meets Contemporary' wants to inform, support and inspire Contact Improvisation by the knowledge of other contemporary dance forms. We highly appreciate the intelligence of the contact body - how to deal efficiently with shared weight and the extraordinary multilayered communication through touch - and wish it to open up for more spacial awareness and solo explorations. We want to provide focussed formats where movements and qualities of contemporary dance classes can be danced. From our experience we trust that people want to learn in a focussed environment and find links between these two worlds.
Our beloved lecture formats invite a deeper and wider understanding of our practice. Somatic work offers spaces to understand the moving body in a very nurturing way. And of course basic CI technique will appear.

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This festival was organised by Joerg Hassmann, Daniel Werner, Gabi Neumann, Nadja Schwarzenbach