regular COntact
Mon 14-16 Bodywork to Dance
Tue 11-13 Bodywork to Dance
Tue 14-16 Authentic Contact
Wed 14-16 Authentic Contact
Thu 9:30-11:30 Authentic Contact
Fri 20-23 Fri Jam – the weekly Jam
Sun 19-22 Class into Jam
Please register here https://liste.motionlab.cologne
CONTACT WORKSHOPS
27.12.-1.1.25 membran
18.1-19.1.25 Tom Goldhand
22.2-23.2.25 Simonetta Alessandri
24.2.25 CI Pro Series: Simonetta Alessandri
5.4-6.4.25 David Bloom
17.5-18.5.25 Hassan Aftabruyan
19.6-22.6.25 Nita Little
10-13.7.25 Vega Luukkonen and Hugh Stanier
21-25.7.25 Hassan Aftabruyan
23-27.8.25 Kiori Kawai
29.9-1.10.25 CI Pro Series: Ralf Jaroschinski
3.10-5.10.25 Ralf Jaroschinski
18.10-20.10.25 Shel Wagner Rasch
Poetry of rising and falling – Simonetta Alessandri
22.2-23.2.2025
Soft eyes and playful readiness – CI Pro Series with Simonetta Alessandri
24.2.2025
Very Early Bird Price until 31.12.24
Tue 14-16, WED 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
MON 19-21
Q-jam is an invitation to research and jam without heternormativ patterns. Details will follow soon.
SUN 19-22
Class into Jam with focus on CI fundamentals. 90 Minutes Class, 90 Minutes Jam (Only Jam is possible. Please register!15 EUR / Unit or 40 EUR / month
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
(not incl. in monthly subscription plans)
Comments to the jam space
HASSAN’S PROJECTS
Eine Begegnung
Performance into Jam
27.4.25 Köln – Details
Eine Begegnung
Performance into Jam
28.4.24 Köln
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
facebook.com/groups/130268517131265/
contactquarterly.com
contactfestival.de
contactimpro-koeln.de
tanjastriezel.de
contactimpro-aachen.de
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