Solo & CI Tirol Festival 2021

CI-BASE — Morning Courses of Basic Contact Improvisation

Morning courses of basic contact improvisation is led by "Guest teachers" been set up to start new day gently and soft.

During morning course you'll get the diversity of CI-base approaches from technical to meditative.

Here are teachers who gonna share with you knowledge:

DANCE THEATRE PROJECT — “HERE AND NOW”

This dance theatre course with Yourri Perrut and Tamara Maksymenko is built on the project "Here and now", which took place in Nantes, France, 2020, and "DNAture" performance in Innsbruck, 2018.

This research is based on Yourri's thesis that he has done at Dimitri's school in Switzerland. He explored female and male stereotypes of movements, starting simply looking at the walking style of both.
Simultaneously in a different part of the World Tamara started to work on the piece which had been based on a female aspect of nature.

The main concept of the project "Here and Now" is to fill up space and time with improvisation. You will have a perfect chance to dive deeper into it and perform "under the score" during 5 days of this workshop.
During this course, you will get the possibility to transform your observation, ideas, and thoughts into performance, which will take place on the last day of the festival.
The participation will be limited, please make a note during the registration in case you're interested in taking part in it.

CONTEMPORARY DANCE with Marion Sparber

Contemporary dance platform is going to be a part of the festival. You can easily jump onto it!

I teach Contemporary dance training with emphasis on spirals and floor work. We start the class by opening our channels of awareness and feel the inside and the outside, everyone and everything that surrounds us. The warm-up is focused on passing through the whole body and expanding our flexibility and strength - never abandoning a flow of natural and organic movement and feeling our feet as our base and connection to the ground. We use the playfulness to get inspired, let go and surprise ourselves. With the help of exercises and games in different constellations - in a group, with a partner and by ourselves - we listen to the weight of our body and direct it through the space, putting awareness into proximity and distance as well as our orientation and relationship to the room and the others. We play with the off-balance and shift of the axis. Another important aspect of the training is the attention to the momentum in movement, the grounding of our center, the natural flow of breath and the expansion of our extremities. By integrating changes of dynamic and musicality into our movement phrases we constantly recycle our energy and avoid muscle-fatigue. We move as a continuous spiral into the floor and out of the floor, using the attack and release as our guidelines and try to work from the bones and the spiral connections in our body, letting go of unnecessary tensions and holding of the muscles. The skeleton as a motor for movement and the center as the inside of a flower that grows into all directions. The clearer and stronger our connection to the ground, more freely we can move. We learn which parts of the body are pushing and receiving the floor and which can relax and react to the impulses. I like to dance with a strong and physical movement quality using the eyes scanning the space constantly. As techniques of inspiration for my class I use a lot dynamics of a wave or the wind, as well as the image of an octopus expanding from the centre. I am very inspired by the Flying Low technique by David Zambrano and the Release technique mixed with my personal investigation. I like to establish a collective mind and body inside the class to enhance the group power giving an energetic push to the individual source of creativity.

CONTACT-TANGO with Raffaele Rufo

WHAT IS CONTACT-TANGO?
Contact-tango is a growing international field of dance practices that explore the interchange between the dance forms of tango and of contact improvisation. The main goal is to help dancers develop their kinaesthetic-tactile sensitivity and nurture the physical-affective potential of their encounters. As a movement artist I have learned tango first and then I have approached contact improvisation to deepen my sensitivity and expand my vocabulary. In my experience, dancing tango is conducive to a state of feeling together and to be reached and changed by the impulses, sensations and feelings of the other dancer. The embodied knowledge of contact improvisation is a key to become aware and express this perceptual shift. Contact-tango is a door to the enchantment, the emotion of being the witness of a dance that is more powerful than the individual dancers and of the established form of the dance. This door opens up a space for nurturing and sharing empathy, generosity and responsibility. These qualities are essential for our individual well-being and for our survival as a species.

JAM — Jochen Hampl & Carsten Lumière Sasse

Every evening we are going to dance wildly and free during jaaaam sessions. It's special time and space where we could truely practice our CI and solo-dance skills with live music.
The main musician is Jochen Hampl.