This workshop addresses our ability to be present with each breath, movement, and contact, to be in a released and alert space. Incorporating somatic principles with Contact Improvisation, Breath Body Contact allows us to connect to the mindfulness of our innate body wisdom. Contact Improvisation works best when dancers allow themselves to be soft and clear, in communication and connection to their own needs and others. The breath being the bases for our entire being, it is also the easiest tool to connect the inside with the outside. This approach is a wonderful starting point for great dances!  We will work on:

↪  Breath: is our first awaking impulse to connect and prepare our awareness, Breathing through the rhythms of our dance
↪  Touch Qualities: how they help us relate and create tonus
↪  Fascia: connective tissue providing the juice for our connectivity, moving from and going into contact 
↪  Spine: relating to 3Dimensionalionality and accessing the nervous system consciously

The workshop can serve as pre-requisite for the Holistic Dance Teachers Training with Sabine Parzer starting Oct. 4 at Tanzfabrik, Berlin. Registration is already open, please find more info here and/or come to the info session during SommerTanz:
Thurs 27.07.2023  /  15:00–16:00: Introduction & organizational information about the Holistic Dance Teachers Training by Sabine Parzer, Kreuzberg Studio 4

Accessibility Note 

The workshop uses English spoken language, questions for clarification and small translations can also happen in German. The workshop combines elements from Contact Improvisation, Improvisation, Somatics and Applied Anatomy. The exercises require a high degree of self-awareness and awareness of others, working with breath and partner work, as well as optional touch and contact. Throughout the workshop a variety of music, sometimes no music will be used as an important part of improvising. The level is open, dancers with different abilities are welcome. Please communicate accessibility needs in advance. If needed, a free workshop place for an accompanying assistant will be facilitated for participants with disabilities. Information about our location & studios in Kreuzberg, which unfortunately are not wheelchair accessible, can be found here. For questions or more information, please contact Zoé Duflot & Elisabeth Leopold at workshop@tanzfabrik-berlin.de.