We, Johanna Sauër and Alkis Barbas, have started regular classes in the region Arnhem and Nijmegen to deepen the practice of Contact Improvisation.
Contact improvisation is a dance form developed by various pioneers in the 1960s, in which physical contact is central to the creation of movement. Dance becomes a play with gravity, weight sharing, touch and imagination.
In these weekly classes, we offer tools to achieve movement. We go into technical principles about your body and lifting another body. We give different ways of approaching dance that can change the way you look at it.
♦️Johanna Sauër
Johanna is a dancer, choreographer and educator. She graduated as an artist educator in dance from Artez in 2022. She then did further training in contemporary dance and choreography at La Faktoria, in Spain. Contact improvisation is a great fascination for her, she enjoys the physical play with gravity and the possibilities another body gives her in her dance. Additionally, contact improvisation is for her a learning path in relating to other people.
♦️Alkis Barbas
Alkis grew up as a dancer in the cultural scene of Thessaloniki, Greece and later moved to the Netherlands to follow a bachelor of dance in Arnhem. He's been working as an interdisciplinary performer since the end of the lockdowns in 2021. Alkis has had a rich path in movement through physical theater, martial arts, butoh, folk, classical, urban, and contemporary dance forms. Alongside the dance studies, he has explored various ways of training that maintain and grow avail-abilities of the body and mind, while keeping it healthy. This is what brought him 3 years ago to pick up teaching Contact Improvisation and facilitating jams for dancers of all levels of experience. He has since guided hundreds of people in finding their own dance journey and their authentic way of relating to others.
“In my practice and in my class, I place care highly in my priorities, without compromising the search for excitement and individual limits. I love connection, I love to combine playing with learning, and I love to share my passion for movement.”
Thank you Edwin Paree and Kim Doeleman for the photos!
+31628893527
De Kolk 6, 6541 AH Nijmegen, Netherlands
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