- Otto Akanen
Otto has danced CI about 8 years. He’s still amazed by the sheer volume of possibilities involved. He has had quite a few teachers, from whom he has learned a lot, but most he has learned from dancing with other people in Helsinki CI community, and with some of them he is organizing Skiing on Skin CI festival.
Joint Venture
Join, joint, joy, choice, choose, chosen, chose, to join, joining, rejoice.
Small class we look joints joining and joy. I think of this. If I let myself join into a dance, really, I have more choices, I have more joy.
If I open my joints and join. If I open my choices. If I don’t think about me, if I don’t think about. Just enjoy, the dance.
- Ilona Kenova
I´m dancer and teacher from Czech republic living in Finland.
I work in field of contemporary dance and contact improvisation.
I love to dance with easiness, softness, flow
Relaxing in contact
Feeling easy, open, enjoy the dance….
In this class we will explore how the relaxation is efecting dance
- Ester Momblant Ribas
She is Mediterranean. ‘For me CI is a constant study of both, body and mind, in motion.’ Graduated in Dance and Related Arts in England, and studied in S.N.D.O. Amsterdam, Ester has been involved in dancing, teaching and performing CI since 1997. Since then she has taught around Europe, Russia, Brazil, and Israel. She is constantly involved in movement research connecting it with nature, pedagogy and personal development. Since 2004 she is a Body-Awareness teacher at ESMUC, University of Music in Barcelona.
- Lior Ophir
Dancer, Improviser, Shiatsu therapist, Engineer, Teacher, Student.
Lior practices various forms of movement, dance, body/mind and awareness, including: Improvisation, Contact Improvisation, Butoh, Shiatsu Therapy, Yoga, Vipassana Meditation, Tai-Qi, Qi-Kong.
Lior teaches, studies, and performs in different locations – Israel, Europe, US, Japan. He currently lives in Tel-Aviv, Israel.
How can we fine-tune our body/mind for a meeting? a dance? an improvisation performance? How can we enter together as a group into a “common bubble” and build a joint awareness in which we feel/see/sense all members of the group and KNOW what is the right improvisational choice now (and now, and now…)
- Ester Forment
Coreographer , dancer y performer of Contact Improvisation, Tae Kwon Do.
She studied marcial arts, contemporary dance, dance classic, , contact-improvitation.
She is teaching and training about contact-improvisation concept in several theater and dance companies since 2001. I’m teaching since 1999, on the begining dance for handicaps people, and old people.
Choreography Composition and contact improvisation
Using several concepts about martial art, like work in intuition and listening, not on violence, only work on the moment of to be active and attend, and put in contact with contemporary dance and contact-improvisation, I would like to teach how to compose a little choreography with a partner, or several partners. We will play different possibilities of our movement and from the partner, and we try to develop a little choreography.
How the intuition can help us to keep attend. And how to use since a simple exercise could develop a dance composition.
My intention is: in one hand, how use the philosophy about martial art, keep concentrate, use the energy and listening; and for the other hand, how to compose something with one order.
Is interesting on composition keep the energy and how we can use it to be present in stage. Learn what happens inside and outside us. How we can transform the movement in intention. How we can give without words an emotional intention, how we can be present, active and consciousness.
- Ramon Roig
In 2001 I gave my first course as a teacher of Contact Improvisation, since then I have given intensive courses in France (Paris,Burdeos), Holand (Amsterdam), Moroco (Knifhra) and Spain (Barcelona, Santander, Formentera and Ibiza).I am continually learning new technics with teachers such as Marin Keogh, Gustavo Leiche, Cathie Caraker, Frey Faust, Ray Chung, Karl Frost among others. Currently I am giving regular classes, in the Barcelona Civic Center, and in the Col.legi del Teatre de Barcelona.
Desire and Memory “ through listening and waiting we are able to percive the sound of life, the dancethat flows from the origins of time , which we recreate physically abusing the weight and breath, streching the barrier between desire and memory.”
- Ingo
Ingo’s interest in the art of movement- and body-awareness comes from many years of research in different forms of bodywork, improvised dance such as Contact Improvisation and Dance Theatre including an influence by martial arts and eastern philosophies.
“Inside out” A movement based laboratory on Contact Improvisation and bodywork with Ingo Rosenkranz from Germany.
Opening our dance from the inner world and body travels allows us to be more honest with our wishes, needs, our personal creativity and most important the joy of moving in our dance. Every moment we have the joice to be honest with our interest of the way to be in contact. This makes our dance more color- and joyful.
- Autarco
Abilities for getting to nowheremain points upon understanding that there’s nowhere to go to, we’ll try to liberate the physicality from the mental activity. in this way we can access the zero point, experimenting the paradox of being in balance and falling at the same time. From this movement quality we will broach the abilities that CI provides us to sintonize our dance in relation to the other, space and time.
Autarco born and currently residing in Argentina. Dancer, teacher and performer. Explorer of movement and its expression, navigates in the Contact Improvisation for over 15 years, interested in other dances like Butho, Contemporary Dance and Improvisation, a practioner of Tai Chi Tchuan and Zazen. Received and is receiving influences from these disciplines, from different teachers such as Gabriela Morales, Karen Nelson, Alito Alessi, Martin Keogth, Nancy Stark Smith, Daniel Lepkof, Susan Shell and with the continuous interaction with advanced and beginner dancers.Organizes in a weekly jam in his studio for the past 7 years, organized the 1st Contact Improvisation Festival of Rosario in 2005, CI 36 and is part of the group that is currently organizing the 6th CI encounter in Nature (Sierras de Córdoba, Argentina).
We’ll explore the breathing. Free breath, listening in the air. Air qualities.
My intention is to recognize and deepen the breathing state, and try to have a dialogue including this level.
We will work our lighter aspects, sharing the weight of the air. Breathed jumps, falls and flights.
Falling to the unexpected, to the unknown, to the suprise breaaaaaaaaathing
Lucas Ricci: I discovered CI, or Contact Improv discovered me 10 years ago.
I was born in Argentina, I dance CI since 1998. I studied with Alito Alessi, Camillo Vacalebre, Eckhard Müller, Daniela Schwartz, Cristina Turdo, Gustabo Lecce, Andrea Fernandez, Carola Yulita and my sister Clara Ricci. I graduated from the university of bodily expression dance of Buenos Aires IUNA. Commited to the dance and body conciousness, I partipate in different body oriented festivals and events around the world. I’ve been giving CI classes for 5 years in Argentina and currently in Ibiza and Valencia.
