Moving from the Skin
Are there specific qualities of movement associated with the skin? What does skin contribute to communication in dance? What movements result when the impulse to move is triggered by a stimulus applied to the skin? How are stories created that get “under your skin”? Touching and letting oneself be touched are important elements in Contact Improvisation and will play an important role in this workshop.
11:00 - 12:30
Dieter Heitkamp
Dieter Heitkamp is professor for contemporary dance at HfMDK Frankfurt. His artistic work focuses on the collaboration of conceptions, movement, pictures, objects, light, film and music, as well as on systematic movement research, that examines the human body in its complexity in the context of its social environment. For over 40 years he has been devoted to studying, teaching and performing contact improvisation. He has been a dancer, choreographer, member and one of the artistic heads of Tanzfabrik Berlin.
