CONTACT IMPROVISATION / DEEPENING INTO ENQUIRY

Facilitated by Daniela Schwartz - Eckhard Müller - Melanie Seeger 

Join us and those passionate dancers about CI enquiry and development, for a week of exploration, labs, try outs. A space/time to share and exchange around and about deepening into the practice of teaching and/or facilitating Contact Improvisation.

We will propose diverse formats for accessing your interests and questions, we will bring bibliography to dance with and to questions or (re)formulate concepts, as well scores and formats for Jamming and researching CI. You will benefit from a stable group of motivated movers committed to further develop and share their practice and knowledge within a group.

Dates

14 - 18 February 2026

Place

Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.

Time

First day: 11 - 17 h Last day: 10 - 15:30 h Days in between: 10 - 16 h

Price

380 euros till Nov 10th 2025. 

430 euros till Dec 10th 2026.

480 euros after.

Accommodation: We can help arrange accommodation

Language: English. We also speak german, french and spanish.

Info & registration : Eckhard Müller: cittfreiburg@gmail.com ; phone: +49 163 717 4939

greetings

the CI Teacher Training team Freibrug

Dani, Ecki & Meli

TEAM Daniela Schwartz (F/RA) Nomadic artist, involved in the practice, performance and teaching of Contact Improvisation and Improvisation since 1998. She travels throughout EU and the Americas giving workshops in various institutional and private contexts. In Alsace, her base of action, she is a member of Co. Dégadézo since 2005. 
She is co-organizer and co-artistic director of contactfestival freiburg in Germany since 2012. She was part of the conception, organization and conduction team of the 1st ISS Improvisation Summer School in collaboration with the Université Côte d'Azur, France 2019. 
With a focus on the ecosomatic practices as multidirectional movements in the present moment and as material for research, thought and creation, my main interests are the complexity of the interrelational dialague and the virtuosity of attention and imagination anchored in the physical experience. Eckhard Müller (GER/F) Performer and teacher for Contact Improvisation & Improvisation, co-founder of the contactfestival freiburg and the dance company degadezo in Strasbourg. Further areas of experience in Somatics, contemporary movement techniques, acrobatics and yoga. I am teaching CI and Improvisation since the early 90ies worldwide. These techniques are also the foundation for my SKIN Interactive Performance Concept project, that I have realized in many cities all over South America and Europe with my partner Dani. My main objective is to find to a mutual communication with our partner. In my lessons I try to awaken a playful approach to our bodies in motion, the associated physical forces and touch. In general, I am interested in freedom, lightness and flow in the meeting with our partner and the group. Melanie Seeger (GER) www.tanz-mehr.de Lives and works in Freiburg as a freelance dancer and dance teacher. She gives regular courses in new dance, improvisation, contact improvisation (CI) and Vinyasa yoga. Together with Eckhard Müller and Bernd Ka, Melanie teaches the advanced CI training program by Bewegungs-art Freiburg. Apart from her teaching activities, Melanie performs in various stage projects. She did a two-year training in dance and expression therapy at Wendpunkt and graduated as dancer and performer at TIP (school for dance, improvisation and performance) in Freiburg. Currently she is undergoing Body Mind Centering® training to become somatic movement educator (SME). Melanie first discovered her love for dance when she was in her early 20s. Since then she has been intensively researching various contemporary dance forms and techniques, enjoying going deeper into body-aware understanding of healthy, sustainable movement.