Flow Follows Form - A Contact Improvisation workshop with Noam Carmeli in Freiburg

Name: Flow Follows Form - A Contact Improvisation workshop with Noam Carmeli in Freiburg
Start: 2025-10-18T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-19T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Tanzhalle Freiburg

Schedule

Sat, 18 Oct, 2025 at 10:00 am to Sun, 19 Oct, 2025 at 05:30 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Tanzhalle Freiburg | Freiburg Im Breisgau, BW

All levels
Saturday, 18.10.2025, 10:00-17:30
Sunday, 19.10.2025, 10:00-17:30
(including 1 hour lunch break)
Tanzhalle Freiburg, Markgrafenstr. 38, Freiburg
150€ (earlyBird 120€ until September 30)
Register or feel welcome to ask any questions to [email protected]
Is it possible to develop the ability to sense—and how does it affect the dance?
How can we move with less effort by aligning with the forces of nature?
What are the conditions that support the flow of movement?
In this Contact Improvisation workshop, we will explore the meeting point between structure and flow, between effort and release, between grounding and floating. By tuning into sensation, we’ll discover how clear physical structure can support freedom, choice, and expression within the dance. We’ll explore how to move more efficiently by utilizing the skeleton, minimizing muscular effort, and using gravity as a partner. This essential balance between form and flow—so present in nature—offers us a dance that is alive, grounded, and free.
The workshop blends individual research with shared work in pairs and groups. We’ll bridge somatic awareness with acrobatic exploration, integrating sensation and action, passivity and activity, softness and strength. Throughout the process, we will deepen into the biomechanics of the body as a source of valuable information, and discover how refining bodily awareness can enhance both internal experience and inter-being communication. In this space of exploration, we will invite the new, and hopefully experience and express that which cannot be spoken.
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Noam Carmeli (1971) is a teacher, dancer, director, and producer (and was an architect until 2010). For over two decades, he has been exploring the intersection of art, physical practice, and personal–social awareness. As a teacher and performer, Noam specializes in Contact Improvisation and group improvisation. His teaching draws from a wide range of influences, including Aikido, the Ilan Lev Method (ILM), Body-Mind Centering (BMC), and Gaga. He has been teaching and performing since 2005, both in Israel and internationally, working with professional dance companies, colleges, schools, and the general public.
Noam is the CEO of the Contact Improvisation Association in Israel, co-director of Studio Tena, and a founding member of the Octet Improvisation Group. He also manages the Community Dance Project supported by the Israeli Ministry of Culture.
Holding a Master’s degree focused on group improvisation as a performance art and a practice of belonging, Noam brings a unique perspective to his teaching—blending technical expertise with deep attention to connection, creativity, and community.