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3rd Annual International Festival for
Contact Improvisation inviting Contemporary Dance
15.-21.7.2011 - in Göttingen, Germany
Contactfestival where Contactimprovisation meets Contemporary Dance
You might have heard that we had some challenges with our venue. But we found a new place - also in Goettingen - and the festival will definetely take place (!!!) including some adjustments that might keep the spirit of improvisation alive. Sooo ...
Welcome to the homepage for the Contact-meets-Contemporary Festival in Göttingen. Contact meets Contemporary is a Contact Festival that invites and includes the knowledge from other contemporary dance forms. We are very happy about the successful start of our festival in 2009 and 2010, and we are excited to develope and improve it in 2011. "Contact meets Contemporary" is inspired by the idea that Contact has it's origins in the contemporary dance world, before developing into a more social dance form of which the festivals are a vital part. We like to reconnect Contact Improvisation to the knowledge and practice of contemporary danceforms, that also appreciate the spirit of improvisation.
For contacters we mean to enrich the regular CI-festival experience by also offering classes in solo dance technique and improvisational skills and integrating these into a jam environment. For contemporary dancers we aim to give access to contact technique classes, and build a bridge for joining a festival where contemporary movement technique can be purely danced with others (instead of being rehearsed in order to go on stage). The common ground we will build on is curiosity and improvisation.
And to make it a real summerfestival, we will also use the meadows and the beachvolley-sand-courts for dancing, and have an outdoor pool and showers. The next lake is about 10 min. by car.
The homepage for 2011 is still in preparation. You can get a first taste by checking the homepage of last year and contact us for questiones under info@contact-meets-contemporary.de. We'd be happy to meet you in the summer
The Festival Team
Jörg Hassmann, Daniel Werner, Gabi Neumann and Pen Hassmann