OPEN PROGRAM
DANCE JAM
FRIDAY
Contact Improvisation
7:00 to 8:30 pm
Price Class:
8 Euro Ikarians
12 Euro Visitors
After 8:30 pm
Free Open Jam
0,00 Euro
Every FRIDAY – Dance Jam
With Katrin Gerner. Class from 7:00 to 8:30 pm. After Open Free Jam for everybody
This hour we will dedicate to our moving body and mind. The dance class is based on the principle of Contact Improvisation and that the body and mind are inextricably connected. Through movement you can access and heal the deepest parts of the psyche. Every Friday will show different starting points of how we can enjoy dance in it´s big variety. No experience needed! After the official class we start the Open Free Jam. Bring your instrument and friends and let´s DANCE JAM together!
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THE EGG
Dance Jam
This hour we will dedicate to our moving body and mind. The open dance class is based on the principle that the body and mind are inextricably connected, and that through movement you can access and heal the deepest parts of the psyche. Every Friday will show different starting points of how we can enjoy rhythm and dance in it´s big variety by being into contact with dance partners and with ourselves.
The lesson will start with grounding yourself and sensing your body in the 140 m2 open-air dance space of THE EGG. Stimulating awareness and unique needs inside of you. According to the different moods of each Friday group we will start from a certain point, exploring individuality and team spirit. Sometimes the evening will be more experimental, sometimes more specific depending of what we need that day as a group. Just come along, with or without any dance experience! A lot of dance, music and many feelings guaranteed!
And after the official Contact Improvisation lesson we start the free Open Jam.
Live Music/ians
On some of the evenings we will be supported with organized live music from THE EGG. But we also invite all dancers and musicians to just come along each Friday and join the Open Dance Jam after the official class (8:30 pm). The more dancers/musicians we are, the more fun the evening will be. Spread the word and tell to your friends. Please bring your instrument and own beverages with you! THE EGG is not allowed to sell you any drinks/food.
ABOUT
KATRIN GERNER
“Contact Improvisatioin became my passion, my life and my best guide till now. I finally found all dances combined in one because of it´s informality.”
Katrin Gerner
Contact Improvisation Teacher
Born in Germany, 1977
I started dancing by the time I was 19 with all kinds of Latin American Dances (Salsa, Merengue, Bachata, Samba). After years of professional practice with one partner and many nights out dancing in Cuban clubs all over the world, I got more sensitive about slower rhythms. I discovered Tango Argentino in Buenos Aires and it became my new addiction for about 3 years. But to the same time I was moving into more experimental and acrobatic dances like Capoheira and Improvisation. All of the above named dances are still inspiring me and are my scource for purifiying and energizing my system.
A trip to India in 2012 seemed to change the whole idea of moving my body. I found the Contact Improvisation scene and knew immediately that this art of moving will keep me forever. I was studying for about 10 weeks with world class teachers and dancers in several festivals and workshops. After that I continued a regular training in Germany with Heike Pourian and of course I kept on visiting many more Workshops and Festivals before I started teaching in THE EGG.
Contact Improvisatioin became my passion, my life and my best guide till now. I finally found all dances combined in one because of it´s informality. Moving freely but guided from your feelings inside and your partner/s. Listening and giving impulses, reaching and playing with your boundaries and being aware of them in daily life, jumping high and falling low, sensing, surprising, vivid, ugly, true, pleasant, painful, acrobatically. Every dance is unique and can never be repeated or copied. It´s like a poetry written inside the dance floor.
It´s always new, but always you.