About master-class:

All Levels. In the five years of their colaboration, co-teaching CI to beginners as well as to professional dancers all over Europe and South America, Daniela and Eckhard have been developing a system of basic tools to access and deepen into Contact Improvisation.
We will offer a movement training, as a tool to organize our body in a more efficient and economical way. We will explore the center-periphery connection (starfish) as a key principle to connect and separate the limbs from the center, the right from the left side and/or the diagonals. Through the action of releasing and activating, reaching and folding, spiraling, etc, we will develop different movement patterns, that will help us to let go from old and unefficient ones to find ease and flow in our own pathways along the floor and through the different levels.
Moving with a more clear understanding of our center, we will be ready to connect to our partner's body and fully commit to the dance, while we stay centered and grounded, as we enter our spherical space. We will work with light touch and the idea of keeping the weight on our own feet as well as sharing the full weight to become aware of the wide range of possibilities.
Through respectful listening and body actions like scanning, sensing, reading, informing, leaning, proposing direction, following the flow, accepting, resisting, balancing, off-balancing, counter-balancing, etc, we will engage ourselves in an open physical dialogue.
Understanding and integrating some of the principles, we will find more trust and freedom in our own body, own movements and in the communication with our partner.