motionlab.cologne is a comunity platform and supported by a lot of people in different ways and with a variety of motivations and attitudes. Each dance, each dancer, each teacher is building this space. And there is also a growing team for hosting jams and classes.
EVA GROSSE-WILDE
Eva is a special education teacher and a dancer at heart. In recent years, she has been facilitating Contact Jams and free dance sessions in Würzburg. In these spaces, she invites playful movement, fine sensing, and authentic encounters. With curiosity and presence, she invites to explore each unfolding moment.
HASSAN AFTABRUYAN
I feel as a dancer, dance teacher and body philosopher with a background in Aikido and Toaistic movement practices. I run motionlab.cologne, a platform for contact improvisation and embodiment. I love transformative spaces in movement, dance and life.
HEIDI KÄFER
Heidi is interested in the infinite possibilities that lie in the artistic and somatic exploration, expression and experience of movement. She sees dance and movement as a fascinating tool for engaging with oneself and the world, deep encounters, liberation and resilience. Her interest explores site-specific movement, the poetry of touch, motion and the mundane as well as the social dimensions of somatics, transformation and the creative power of community.
KATHARINA FRIMONT
Dancing has been my passion my whole life – from Modern Dance, Ballet, and Contemporary Dance to Contango, Axis Syllabus, and Contact Improvisation (CI). When dancing CI, I feel free and connected at the same time, deeply inspired by moving bodies and human interaction. After 15 years of dancing CI, I truly feel at home in it and enjoy sharing my experience with others.
STINA LEHR
Stina is an enthusiastic human counsellor and space holder. She is a tantric masseuse, gestalt therapist and co-founder of „ehrlicheben“. She has also been an enthusiastic contact improviser since 2022 and is particularly interested in encounters in empty space.
The opportunity to meet herself and each other away from all trained labels and codes of behaviour is central to her, because the space to feel freely is particularly important to her in all areas.