Contact Improvisation Workshop in Melbourne with Joerg Hassmann

Name: Contact Improvisation Workshop in Melbourne with Joerg Hassmann
Start: 2025-11-28T09:00:00+11:00
Location: WXYZ studios Melbourne

Schedule

Fri, 28 Nov, 2025 at 09:00 am

UTC+11:00

Location

WXYZ studios Melbourne | Melbourne, VI

OPENING MORE - KNOWING LESS
I wonder what helps me to have more options available in my dancing ? … and through that less the feeling of always doing the same but instead feeling more free.
There is a technical side to it. Our nervous system intuitively avoids the direction backwards and upside down. Let’s go there!
From a somatic angle I want to notice where we can soften core holding patterns, like in the breath, the upper neck and the hip joints. Can we notice these limitations generously as a first step towards opening up for more, while not knowing what that is?
I also like to play with some strategies around the use of our eyes, that lure me out of the comfortable known. A bit like tricking the body and the mind to know less about what's going to happen next.
Next to these rather practical offers for ‚opening more & knowing less’ I am deeply curios about the state of mind (& heart) that allows more inner spaciousness and makes us truly available for what the moment is asking for?
Participants should be familiar with the basic weight-sharing principles) in CI. In doubt check in with us.
TIMES Nov 28th-30th
Friday 6-8pm
Saturday 11am-6pm
Sunday 10am-4-30pm
FEES
$260 normal
$210 reduced
Donations will go to people who can’t afford the reduced fee.
REGISTRATION
soonish via Humanitix …
LOCATION
WXYZ Studios, 130 Dryburgh St, North Melbourne VIC 3051
contact: [email protected] or via messenger
JOERG HASSMANN
Joerg is a dancer and passionate movement teacher, deeply interested in learning and the question 'what is it that makes us feel connected?' - on many different levels. He is one of the leading figures in Europe in the field of Contact Improvisation, and has been teaching for more than 25 years, offering training programmes and organising festivals. He's been living on the Sunshine Coast for the last five years, facilitating the growths of the local CI community.
www.joerghassmann.com