Since 2012 I have been organizing the weekly Witzenhausen Contact Impro Jam together with Marielle Gerke. I have been teaching CI since 2014 and contemporary dance inspired by the Axis syllabus since 2017 in evening classes, seminars and at international Contact Impro Festivals. Projects that I initiated are the Waldfrauenzeit – Dance to Be, the DIALOGE Contact Impro Jams, and most recently the CI Labbing Culture Witzenhausen.

My dance and teaching practice is particularly inspired by my studies with Jörg Hassmann and Daniel Werner (CI), Kira Kirsch, Antoine Ragot and Frey Faust (Axis Syllabus), Emily Conrad and Susan Harper (Continuum), as well as my research and teaching practice together with Marielle Gerke (CI). In addition, I am inspired by influences from Butoh dance and various somatic and environmental somatic approaches.

Further information about my CV and projects: www.katja-bahini.de