Contact Improvisation
SPRING
JAM @Ponderosa
APRIL 21-23

studied MA "Arts du spectacle" (performing arts) in Besançon (France). She lives as a freelance theatre director in Hamburg, teaches weekly contact classes, gives workshops and organizes jams and festivals. Since 2015 she is co-organizer of the NORDTANZ Festival in Hamburg and is part of the management of the dance studio Triade. When not dancing Contact, she teaches Pilates, dance and theater for children or directs independent productions.

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has been dancing and teaching CI for a decade. His knowledge of the moving body and his teaching are strongly influenced by the Alexander Technique (Dino is a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique), Klein Technique, his meditation practice and BMC®, and by intensive work with many wonderful teachers, such as Yoyo van der Kooi, Dan Armon, Eva Karczag, Joerg Hassmann, Hanna Hegenscheidt, Friederike Tröscher and Jens Johannsen and Susanne Middendorf.

Explorer of sound and vocal styles, especially folk singing styles from around the world. He is the founder and director of the Weltmusik Chor Hamburg and gives workshops regularly in vocal improvisation and various ethnic singing styles. Banjo, violin, percussion and computer effects help create sound landscapes to support his singing. Although Nathaniel has been living and studying in Hamburg since 2004, his american roots can often be heard as an influence in his music.