Weekend workshop - Fluid Awareness in Flight - With Elske Seidel

About this event

In this weekend workshop, we will play with essential physical states and core movement principles, looking at what supports us in arriving into the experience of a body that is relaxed and ready to respond. We will meet our responsive body as a vital state that is available and familiar to us, deeply rooted in our early movement development. As an integral part of ourselves, it is both our source and our doorway into improvisation.

We will explore useful technical aspects of Contact Improvisation, as well as work somatically – sensing and understanding movement from within – arriving into a state of awareness, clarity, and deep learning.
Key ingredients as we move and discover will be:
The Falling Body, Following Through, Moving Support and Alignment, Spherical Space, and The Interplay of Spirals Through All Levels.

I am particularly interested in looking at what is needed in order to follow through in both low and high flying with a relaxed and responsive body.
How do we adapt our body tone as the dance changes from moment to moment?
How do we organize our awareness and our body in the air with fluidity and ease while dancing with the constant possibility of disorientation?
How do we land and allow the falling weight to continue through our bodies and into our improvisation?

Sharing my work, I would like to offer inspiration as well as tools to ease, stimulate, and support the individual growth and development in each of us as we improvise and play together in this workshop and beyond.


AMSTERDAM - 14-15 November
Schedule -
Friday - open jam (included for workshop participants) - 19:30-22:00
Saturday – 13:15-19:15
Sunday – 10:00-17:00

PLACE (workshop) - The beautiful studio Belcampo Loft – Hannie Dankbaarpassage 33

PLACE (Jam) - The beautiful Gym studio in - Zaal B (Studio B) at Willem Witsenstraat 6.

PRICE - According to your income level:

Above average income - €215
Normal income - €195
Low budget/student - €180

Spaces are limited and registration is required - we expect to be full

For questions send a mail to - sadhana.improdance@gmail.com

Elske Seidel - Based in Berlin, is a passionate CI dancer & teacher, deeply committed to CI and its community internationally. She has been teaching dance full time and whole heartedly for more than three decades, CI since 2004.

She holds a master's in Sport Science, Education and English from the University of Hamburg, Germany. Her core research question 'the essence of dance, its teaching and improvisation as a vital inspirational art within its unfolding' expands from her early days at University until the present.

Her boundless fascination and joy exploring and researching Contact Improvisation in all its depth and subtleties, inspires her workshops, ongoing classes, and each of the projects she creates.