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Communicating through touch – we have cats …

02 Friday Feb 2018

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It feels a bit embarrassing to write about our cats in this blog that has a main focus on dance, the moving body and teaching and learning. Anyways, I dare it and it won’t be too long …

I am not really an animal person. I like the animalistic part of the moving human body, it’s juicyness, it’s lack of hesitation and it’s clear gut-intentions. I like to see animals in the ‘wild’, or at least outside without being fenced in. My wife and my boy love animals, also pets, and I love my wife and my boy. So we have two cats since two years. And I like them surprisingly much. Continue reading →

Adventure Falling – site specific experiencing

04 Saturday Nov 2017

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I am running with my boy through an autumn forest on a winding path, that is covered with freshly fallen leaves. Suddenly my left foot gets caught behind a little root. Time will slow down very soon.

Later on I will be amazed how much can go through my head and emotional body in one second and how much it can keep me busy after this second has been long past. I am not 100 % sure if this experience is so appropriate on this blog, but I enjoyed the freshness and quirkiness of it so much that I felt like sharing it anyway. Continue reading →

Sexual energy in Contact Improvisation

18 Monday May 2015

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For an outside eye watching contact improvisation is usually very irritating. Is it an orgy? How can people touch each other in this way without sexual intentions? Continue reading →

What is Contact Improvisation? – The uniqueness of a syncretistic dance form

19 Thursday Jul 2012

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Contact Jams are partly misunderstood as spaces, where people do whatever they feel like. That’s one reason why many advanced contacters, who’d like to practice Contact Improvisation, don’t go to jams very much. But there is no copyright on the form, no binding definition of what it is. So, what is it?
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