Möckernstr. 68
10965 Berlin LEVEL:
B
Contact Improvisation
Kurs
with
Adalisa Menghini
Gravity, movement dynamics, body contact and trust had been the main elements in the late 60s in the USA from which contactimprovisation was developed. The class will focus on these elements by using, exploring and playing with them. We will practise the basics of contact such as giving and taking weight, playing and risking balance as well as working on orientation in the space. Body awareness and body memory help us to deepen the work. During each class we will find the space for improvisation by free and dynamic play, by changing our partners, by taking on different roles in order to allow new movement vocabulary to arise.
Adalisa Menghini
Adalisa Menghini (IT/DE), teacher, choreographer, performer, studied at S.N.D.O. Amsterdam, Embryology with B.B.Cohen and holds a MA in Neurophysiologic Psychology, Feldenkrais teacher. Adalisa is performing improvisation, creating pieces and was collaborating with different artist including Dieter Heitkamp, Nita Little, Keith Hennessy, Kirstie Simson, LaborGras, Sasha Waltz. She choreographed for professional and non professional dancers including children and elderly people and is collaborating with Teatro Instabile Berlin. Twice she was awarded best director and choreographer of “Giocabriga”, a popular theatre genre in Italy. In collaboration with K. Wickenhäuser she created performances with schoolchildren in Museums i.e. Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlinische Galerie, Museum für Kommunikation. They received twice the price “Kinder zum Olimp”. Adalisa is teaching contact improvisation and composition and since 2012 movement and choreography at the Master Program-Theater Pädagogik at the University of Art (UDK) Berlin.