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Artistic & Movement Journey – Timeline

2025

IDance Japan – Part 2 & Part 3

Contact Improvisation Festival IDance Japan Website
Organized by Contact Improvisation Group CLCO
IDance is a traveling CI festival occurring every two years among Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan.
An international exchange of movement, culture, and improvisation.

10-Day Residency — CI Humble Gathering, Ibusuki (Japan)

A research-based residency focused on deep CI practice, collaborative movement exploration, and international exchange.

Breitenbush Jam — Oregon, USA

March 23–27
A gathering of CI practitioners, dancers, musicians, and teachers in a nature-immersed retreat setting.

3-Week Residency with Kirstie Simson & Dolores

An intensive training and research residency with two internationally renowned master teachers of improvisation and embodiment.

2024 – 2026

Performance Project “Il peso dell’aria”

2024

Performance Project “Integration: abled/disabled dancers”

2022

Übernahme der Movity Tanzschule

2021 – 2022

TischTanz Projekt
Transpersonale Ausbildung

2021

Tanz Werk101 – “lines & limits”
Choreographie: Muriel Mollet & Dorothée Däster
In Co-Work mit den Studierenden

2019

Diplom Kundalini Yoga Instructor
Zertifikat PM-Trainerteam — Raum der Möglichkeiten (Harbigarr)

2017

Certificate of Completion – Freediving Pool

2012 – 2015

Teaching Contact Improvisation

2012

Umzug in die Schweiz

2008 – 2012

Mitglied eines lokalen Zirkus in Arcata, CA
Mitglied von Synapsis, Eureka CA
Betreiben eines eigenen Kräuter-/Herbal-Business

2000

Teaching Pencak Silat

1998

Umzug nach Sausalito, CA
Beginn Boatbuilding School

1997

Studium Pencak Silat in Indonesien (14 Monate)

1996

Training mit Heidrun Hoffmann – Rhythmus & Dance

1995

Danceability Workshop mit Alito Alessi
Research Danceability mit Karen Nelson & Alito Alessi

1994 — Ein Jahr intensiver CI- & Danceability-Forschung

Contact Improvisation mit Alito Alessi
Disability Workshop in CI, Eugene OR
Dance & Rhythms mit Heidrun Hoffmann
Viel CI mit Alito Alessi, Howard Sonenklar & Dieter Heidkamp
Danceability mit Alito Alessi & Emery Blackwell
NYC Improvisation Festival
New Dance mit Rusty Lester

1993 — Foundation Year in Somatics, Dance & Improvisation

Musiktherapie mit David Conzales
Inner Skiing & Holotropic Breathwork (Stan Grof)
African Celebration – Onye N. Onyemaechi
Movement / Dance / Rhythm / Voice Weekend
Feldenkrais & Gentle Dance
CI & Bodywork mit Alito Alessi
Noah Pikes – Singing
CI mit Rochus Schmücker
Lisa Sokolov – Singing
CI mit Robin Feld
Kinetic Awareness – Frances Becker
CI–Performance Project mit Rusty Lester
CI mit Nina Martin
Dance Therapy – Gila & Jeff Rogers
Workshop: “How to animate street-kids into art”
Sarah Shelton Mann – 3-Week Project, San Francisco