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Monthly Archives: January 2014

Head & tale – Why not simply ‘spine’?

27 Monday Jan 2014

Posted by joerghassmann in Movement & Technique

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This text is part of my preparation for a Contact Workshop I taught in Marseille (January 25/26 2014). I wanted to focus on something that helps exploring the basics (spine) but that included something more specific and also challenging for my own teaching (head & tale).

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‘Witnessing’ or: ‘eyes on work’!

10 Friday Jan 2014

Posted by joerghassmann in Improvisation & Performance

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Most people who have practiced CI will have been confronted with the word or concept of ‘witnessing’. And I guess the vast majority was – at least in the beginning – irritated. I use the term ‘witnessing’ quite a lot in my teaching but I still struggle with the word. It sounds so sterile and distant. A breeze from the court world with the concept of eventually judging a case makes me shiver a little.

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