Thresh-holding Times
CI Deep Dive into 2025
A five day immersion into CI, Body-Mind Centering® and Silence
Taking our practice into the New Year
The idea to Thresh-holding Times evolved out of a wish to create a frame of silence and focus around the practice of CI, taking a smaller group of around 50 dancers on a journey where we deepen our practice together, as a group.
Therefore, we offer two ongoing intensives with the same two teachers, building on to each other and over several days, so the whole group of dancers are taking the same journey, deepening a shared language around specific themes, with time to finding and exploring their own questions and curiosities each.
We will integrate witnessing and Contemplative Dance Practice, and on New Years Eve, we will take it into complete silence (no talking), moving-transitioning into the New Year from a Place of Silence.
Food
Location
Located on the outside of Skanderborg, vi vil reside at Audonicon, the Waldorff-teachers-seminar, which has beautiful large spaces to move and rest. The building has a unique atmosphere which is well suited for retreats.
There are different class rooms for sleeping (bring sleeping mat and sleeping bag). There are also a few smaller rooms with madrasses end beds, which you can book (for an extra fee).
Timetable
Meet our teachers
Ka Rustler
Exploring Transitional Spaces
As human beings, we develop through continuous movement—migrating, folding, unfolding, expanding, spiraling, and creating space within specific stages. In Contact Improvisation, these early developmental phases are inherently present, offering us profound patterns for movement explorations.
In this workshop, we will navigate the continuum from core to periphery. By working from the cellular and embryological level outward, we will investigate how inhabiting new realms of consciousness can offer diverse layers to our movement, perception and action.
Through deep listening, we will connect to the dance within ourselves, our partners, and the collective group. By experiencing movement from these physical terrains, we expand our dynamic imagery and discover the beauty of expression in both our emotional and physical states. As we journey these evolving pathways, our creativity, clarity and intuition will deepen, allowing the mind to be embodied and the body being minded.
Ka Rustler creates, performs and shares her research and teachings in an international circuit. Working with pioneers in the field of improvisation, theatre and dance, she has been a collective member of Tanzfabrik Berlin, co-author of multi-layered productions, and performs with numerous artists framing social and ecological contexts theoretically situated within feminist understandings of embodied subjectivity.
As a Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner & Teacher for over three decades, her work experience includes somatic psychotherapy, applications and methods derived from BMC® and other somatic practices, and their relevance at the interface of performance-neuroscience-somatics. She is a member of Cranky Bodies a/company, testing non-hierarchical and cross-generational collaboration in an international collective and continuous work practice, co-founder of the Authentic Movement Research Group Unwinding the Body and of C.A.R.E., an education program for teachers and therapists to support babies, children and adolescents in their developmental process.
Her future work is focused on expanding the integration of somatic practices in both creative and therapeutic fields fostering environments that promote healing, artistic innovation and social evolution.
Andrew Wass
(t)here
I am different because you are here - Barbara Dilley
How am I different because you are (t)here?
How are you different because I am (t)here?
How are we different because we are (t)here?
Swimming in the confluence of the ideas from Barbara Dilley, Nina Martin, and Nancy Stark Smith, these sessions propose several ways the self, the other, and the space can inform and transform one another. Starting with perceptual scores that relate to the self, we will investigate how they can be applied to duet and ensemble situations. Shifting outwards we will engage in spatial and ensemble scores to see how they influence our somatic sensations.
Hailing from Southern California, Andrew Wass is a choreographer, dancer, and researcher. His interests lie at the crossroads of philosophy, cognitive science, and improvised dance. Looking to dissolve the boundaries between academic research and performance, he juxtaposes corporeal and cognitive practices to discover their theoretical commonalities. These commonalities then reveal more potential in his teaching and performance practice. Teaching opportunities have taken him to universities, festivals, and theaters in Europe, the United States and Asia. Andrew has performed in work by Nancy Stark Smith, Mary Overlie, Jess Curtis, Nina Martin, and Scott Wells, among others. A member of Lower Left and a graduate of the SoDA program at the HZT in Berlin, he recently completed his PhD in Dance from Texas Woman's University.
Nicky Visser
Contemplative Dance Practice
Nicky is a community dance artist and teacher. She has a long standing respect and passion for Contemplative Dance Practice, the open structure score that dancer and Tibetan Buddhist, Barbara Dilley created in the 1970s. She has been hosting it for many years in South Africa and in Aarhus, Denmark.
Nicky on CDP:
"It offers something most profound and ordinary in the same moment, outside words and time, yet closer than close. It has grown to matter for many reasons, but one of them is that we do it together, and we are different simply by showing up for the practice. As Dilley encourages - we 'follow kinaesthetic delight' - and as my grandmother would say - we give it 'no never mind'."
Meet our musicians
Stefanie Alf
Stefanie Alf (M.A. Choreography, B.A. Music and Dance Education) is a , choreographer, dancer and violinist. She works with improvisation of music and movement. In her working methods and choreographies, she creates spaces of collective experience.
Her
music is characterized by an improvisational-experimental character,
interacting in dialogue with the dancers and the space. She mainly
plays acoustically and finds various ways to create different
atmospheres.
She has collaborated with Sebastian Matthias in
"Urban Creatures" (dance, choreographic assistance) and led the
workshops "Trees" and "Bewegungsschreiber" (violin) with
Trinidad Martinez and Ingo Reulecke.
Stefanie Alf lives in Berlin
and has worked as a dancer, choreographer, choreographic assistant
and musician in dance projects and guest performances in Germany,
Switzerland, Croatia, Belgium, Austria, Spain, England and Portugal.
Oliver Nani
Oliver Nani is a Danish/Italian composer and multi-instrumentalist (singer, piano, clarinet and various string instruments).
His sound universes are diverse, poetic, deeply moving at times and subtly present at other times. He is very influenced by classical minimalism, children's music, experimental world music, neo classical and songwriter.
As a musical space holder, he draws on his extensive experience with meditation, contact improvisation and authentic relating, holding an ideal of dialogic musical attunement with what unfolds.
Listen to some of his music: www.olivernani.dk/music
Online registration form
You secure your place by filling out the form and transfering the deposit of 100 €.