Möckernstr. 68
10965 Berlin
with movement experience
Somatic into Contact Improvisation
Kurs
with
Adalisa Menghini
We begin the class with the Feldenkrais Method, an approach that, through developing movement awareness, equips us to use our bodies more skillfully, efficiently, and easily. This method helps us become more attuned to our own experiences and integrate intention with action. Contact improvisation will inspire our exploration of movement. While there will be individual explorations, our focus will be on contact improvised dance, recognizing that each individual, body, and personality is unique. Exploring, respecting, and integrating these differences into our dance is a key part of our practice.Contact improvisation is a mindful dance, a non-hierarchical dialogue between two or more people. We will deepen our movement practice by incorporating rolling, falling, rising, and lifting with minimal effort, using gravity, balance, and momentum. This process helps us discover ourselves as improvisers and connect with others through movement.
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.
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