Weekly
Mon 14-16 Bodywork to Dance
Tue 11:00-13:00 Bodywork to Dance
Tue 14-16 Authentic Contact
Wed 14-16 Fly to Dance
Thu 9:30-11:30 Authentic Contact
Fri 20-23 Fri Jam – the weekly Jam
Sun 19-21 CI Meditations Jam
Events
27.12-1.1.24 membran 2023
13.1-14.1 Tom Goldhand
17.2-18.2.24 Karthik Rajmohan
2.3-3.3.24 Jürgen Kendziora (Bodhi)
16.3-17.3.24 David Bloom
20.4-21.4.24 Hassan Aftabruyan
18.5-20.5.24 Simonetta Alessandri
22.6-23.6.24 Chetan Erbe
18.7-21.7.24 Vega Luukkonen & Hugh Stanier
15.8-18.8.24 Kiori Kawai
16.9-17.9.24 Profi Training Ralf Jaroschinski
21.9-22.9.24 Ralf Jaroschinski
12.10-13.10.24 Benno Enderlein
Infos
Telegram channel – E-Mail to contact@motionlab.cologne
Registration for classes via https://liste.motionlab.cologne
Official Partner Urbansportsclub
Power to the Pelivis and lifts to the shoulders – Tom Goldhand
13.1.-14.1.2024
Early Bird Price until 30.11.23
BYou, and I , and Contact Improvisation – David Bloom
16.3.-17.3.2024
Super Early Bird Price until 31.1.24
Tue 14-16, Thu 9:30-11:30
Contact Class. Body, techniques, awareness, communication. A contact class for more physical possibilities, to open your senses and to play with the principles of physical communication. Please register! 15 EUR / Unit or 40 EUR / month
MoN 14-16, Tue 11-13
Bodywork2Dance uses different types of bodyrelease techniques to relax us. Our body starts to flow. This is the time to start dancing into heaven. Please register! 15 EUR / Unit or 40 EUR / month
Wed 14-16
Fly2Dance is a space to learn lifting and complex patterns to release our body. Our body starts to flow. This is the time to start dancing into heaven. Please register! 15 EUR / Unit or 40 EUR / month
SUN 19-21
CI Meditations. Moving from a meditative ritual into the dance space. The perfect finish for the weekend and a nourished start into the week
FrI 20-23
Contact jamming with all that is in you in that moment. Neusser Str. 26, Aikidoschule im Hinterhof. 10 EUR cash or PayPal to contact(at)motionlab.cologne
Comments to the jam space
HASSAN’S PROJECTS
Voicing in Contact
Workshop
4.11.23 Düsseldorf – tin-festival.de
Musik Magnetismus
Uraufführung
4.11.23 Düsseldorf – tin-festival.de
Performativ Begleitete Lesung
Bücherbörse Köln, 20.8.23
My focus
Contact Improvisation is not restricted by forms. Our movements are free. In other words: they are driven by our own decisions. I am interested in the non-performing aspect of this art, the non-violent body communication and the creation of an unintentional space to witness all aspects of creation.
Some of my thoughts about the relation between contact improvisation and social structures here for download
Network
What is Contact Improvisation?
Contact Improvisation is an evolving system of movement initiated in 1972 by American choreographer Steve Paxton. The improvised dance form is based on the communication between two moving bodies that are in physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their motion—gravity, momentum, inertia. The body, in order to open to these sensations, learns to release excess muscular tension and abandon a certain quality of willfulness to experience the natural flow of movement. Practice includes rolling, falling, being upside down, following a physical point of contact, supporting and giving weight to a partner. Contact improvisations are spontaneous physical dialogues that range from stillness to highly energetic exchanges. Alertness is developed in order to work in an energetic state of physical disorientation, trusting in one’s basic survival instincts. It is a free play with balance, self-correcting the wrong moves and reinforcing the right ones, bringing forth a physical/emotional truth about a shared moment of movement that leaves the participants informed, centered, and enlivened.
Early definition by Steve Paxton and others, 1970s, from CQ Vol. 5:1, Fall 1979