Contact meets Waterdance Training I

We experience ourselves as breathing beings that allow their cells, souls and bodies to expand and condense. We explore external and internal breathing and how the breath supports our movement – alone and together, in water and on land. We explore our center and our limbs as well as their relationship to each other through movement and touch as a basic organisational principle of the moving body. We explore how this principle supports our Contact Improvisation practice on land in all levels in space and in the water.

Arambol Beach, Goa

Welcome to our movement oasis, located at Arambol Beach, North Goa, India. Built by the community, for the community; Forgotten Land is where we come to learn, play, and connect. Our unique ocean-side dance floor is the perfect place to sing, dance, and perform together.

Contact meets Waterdance Training
Contact Improvisation, Waterdance & Experiental Anatomy
with Marielle Gerke in Forgotten Land – Goa
In this training we explore solo movement, contact improvisation and waterdance using elements inspired by Body-Mind-Centering as a point of departure. We explore our bodies anatomy and movement abilities in relation to gravity and to different objects or subjects in space. Sensing ourselves, moving from within, connecting to our inner wisdom and need to move, touch and explore our environment with a playful and curious mind in a safe setting in water and on land.

Especially inspired I feel from remembering the fact that we all have already spent the first nine months of our existence in a watery environment – our mother`s womb. In my experience reconnecting to the element of water, exploring movement in water and finding inspiration from in water-living creatures can be a great source of finding softness, permeability, connectivity and three-dimensionality in movement as well as a sense of comfort, freedom, support and joy in our being.

Through somatic explorations based on the developmental movement patterns described by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, hands-on-work and pathways we deepen our understanding of our resting and moving bodies as well as our contact improvisation and waterdance practice.

Guru Suraj & Marielle Gerke from Marielle Gerke on Vimeo.

Video credits Ci: made by Rahul Verma

Module 1: 26.-29.12.2018

10 am – 1 pm / 3 pm – 6 pm
Breathing Beings – finding softness, permeability and comfort
We experience ourselves as breathing beings that allow their cells, souls and bodies to expand and condense. We explore external and internal breathing and how the breath supports our movement – alone and together, in water and on land. We explore our center and our limbs as well as their relationship to each other through movement and touch as a basic organisational principle of the moving body. We explore how this principle supports our Contact Improvisation practice on land in all levels in space and in the water.

Module 2: 22.-25.02.2019 (View Module Two Here)

10 am – 1 pm / 3 pm – 6 pm
Collaborating Bodies – finding direction, stability and support
We find freedom, choices and directions in moving towards and away from each other. We experience our spine as an alive, mobile and resilient structure that can support ourselves and others. We explore our soft and strong spine in solo movement and in contact with another body, in water and on land. We explore how the modulation of the tone of the spine serves different situations in relation to gravity and the full or partial weight of another body.

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Registration

Early Bird Price: €220 - Deadline November 26th

Cost of Event: €250

Indian Nationals Cost: 13.200 INR

What's Included:

Each day we will meet at 10am – 1pm and 3pm – 6pm.

One session will be on land and the other in the water (either pool or ocean).

Lunch is included with the price.

Please bring noseclips, goggles and a wet suit (1,5 – 2 mm; shorties are fine).

I will also bring
noseclips to buy for 5€ or to borrow for a deposit of 5€.

I have a few extra wet suits but only female model only and small size.

There are cheap wet suits that you can buy for example in “Decathlon” shops for 15-20€
(https://www.decathlon.de) or other places.

You are responsible for finding your own accommodation. On the Goa Contact Festival homepage you will find some recommendations for places to stay.

If you commit and pay for both moduls – you get a discount of 10 %.
If you are participating in the Contact meets Waterdance Gathering – you get a discount of
10 %.

Questions & Registration:
Contact Marielle
www.mariellegerke.de

Meet Your Facilitators

Marielle Gerke

Marielle discovered her passion for dancing – especially for Contact Improvisation in 2012. Since then she is continuously fascinated by this unique and exciting danceform. In her practice as a dancer and teacher the exploration of developmental movement patterns described by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, principles of leading and following over the soft tissues of the body and water work are very useful and exciting. She is interested in exploring anatomical structures in hands on work and while dancing.
Marielle assisted twice Daniel Werner’s and Joerg Hassmann’s CI Training Programme in Berlin. In Witzenhausen she organises the weekly Contact Impro Jam together with Katja-Bahini Mangold and teaches Contact Improvisation in regular evening classes, different workshop-formats and on various Contact Impro festivals in Germany and internationally in
Austria, India and Portugal. Since 2016 she is also teaching in the school for contemporary dance Sozo Visions in Motion in Kassel and is involved in a couple of different performance projects. She is investigating somatic practices such Body-Mind-Centering and the Axis Syllabus as a point of departure for solo movement and Contact Improvisation in water and on land.

For this training she feels especially inspired by her teachers and colleagues Jörg Hassmann (CI), Daniel Werner (CI), Friederike Tröscher (BMC), Jens Johannsen (BMC), Otto Ramstad (BMC), Nina Wehnert
(BMC) and Kira Kirsch (Axis Syllabus).

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