Contact Improvisation
SUMMER INTENSIVE with Ulli Wittemann

at the Quinta Braz Retreat Center near Tavira/Faro, Portugal

All details on
www.consciouscontact.de

DATES
11 to 31 August 2024
<<< it's 3 weeks for the SUMMER INTENSIVE!!! >>>

Here's a video from the CI WINTER INTENSIVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1rPOT16owY

PLACE
Quinta Braz Retreat Center
near Tavira/Faro,
Algarve, Portugal

MORE INFO
If you are interested in knowing more about this program, check
www.consciouscontact.de and for specific questions
write to Ulli: ulliwittemann@gmail.com

CONTENT
In this Intensive you have the chance to dive really deep into the form of Contact Improvisation, going for three weeks of ongoing practice and intense training with a very experienced teacher in a group of dedicated dancers.
We will feed our bodies with a lot of technical tools and tricks, engage our mind longing for a deeper understanding of what we are doing when we are dancing CI and inhabiting a human body. And yes, we will nourish our soul, craving for an environment of heart-open like-minded humans, where artistic expression is just as important as fresh air, healthy food and sunlight.
We will start with the floor, connecting with gravity and our breath and inviting a deep listening as a base of contact from body to body.
From Floor Work to Shoulder Lifts, engaging in discussions and watching videos, working extensively in the studio and use the nature as a landscape to immerse ourselves... losing ourselves for finding something new. Together.
Be ready for a transformative experience in your dancing and in your life.

I already feel honoured and excited to be your guide on this journey,
Ulli Wittemann

Here some little "snacks" to feed your curiousity and give you more of an idea of how I see CI

Interview with Ulli about CI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhjeMgG6wuM&t

Ulli dancing in Goa 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhjeMgG6wuM&t

Ulli teaching at the Acroventure 2019 in Croatia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhjeMgG6wuM&t

On the website you can find all details and info about the program, content, prices and info about the place
www.consciouscontact.de

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Your host
Ulli Wittemann
A passion for movement and growth has drawn Ulli to new directions since he was a child. He started with Ballroom Dance at age 9 and besides practising Ballroom Dance and Hip Hop as a teenager and 30 years of studying different Martial Arts forms (Judo, Aikido, Kickboxing, Boxing and Muay Thai) he deeply fell in love with Contact Improvisation in 2001 during his actors studies at the University of Performing Arts in Frankfurt, Germany.
After eight years of performing more than 1000 shows as an actor in the German State Theater system he decided to change his focus from performing to sharing his love for Contact Improvisation, Acting, Awareness and Communication in Munich and abroad. Since 2010 he taught Workshops, Classes and Retreats in China, Japan, India, Thailand, Bali, Israel, Palestine, USA, Canada, Mexico, Russia, Crimea, Turkey and many European Countries.
He is one of the Founders of the TanzTageTempelhof in Germany and the Conscious Flow Festival in India and the Mazunte Contactfestival in Mexico and is one of the organizers of the BODY MIND SOUL Festival.
His annual retreat BEING HUMAN takes place in the beautiful mountains near Munich in August. Together with his wife Isabelle Pyttel they founded the CONSCIOUS SENSUALITY Retreat and they keep growing together by the adventure of parenting - they accompany two wonderful kids on their journey.

Thank you for your curiousity and interest in my work!
Ulli

www.consciouscontact.de