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Lilo Stahl
(Dancer, pedagogue,
artistic co-administration of TIP)
Since 1979 studies and practice of New Dance in technique, contactimprovisation, improvisation, and composition, amongst others at the Naropa Institute Boulder (USA) and Studio di Danza Firenze (I). Important teachers: Nancy Stark-Smith, Laurie Booth, Katie Duck and Sara Shelton Mann. Cofounder of bewegungs-art freiburg.
Fundamental examination with asian forms of dance and expression, Aikido, breathing- and energetic work, amongst others with Anzu Furukawa (Japan). Since 2004 practicing Spiral Dynamics.
She has been dancing in Solos and Ensemble Dance Theatre, amongst others with Bernd Ka (moving-art company), with Renate Wehner (turn twice), in intermedia duetts with the musician Harald Kimmig and was member of the international company Dance Butter Tokyo, led by Anzu Furukawa.
Since the middle of the nineties her work of research is focussed on free improvisation as a form of stage-performance. Since then she has presented Improvisations with international casts of musicians and dancers.
Alongside with the the management and the teaching activity at TIP, she teaches as guest-teacher at dance- and movement-schools and provides workshops, further educations and projects here and abroad.
Bernd Ka
(dancer, pedagogue, teacher of Feldenkrais-technique,
artistic co-administration of TIP)
Since 1979 studies and practice of Contactimprovisation, movement-theatre and New Dance, amongst others with Laurie Booth, Nancy Stark Smith, Julyen Hamilton, Ruth Zaporah, G.H. Soto, as well as at the Naropa Institute Boulder (USA). Studies in Aikido, Capoeira, Tai Chi and other martial arts. Cofounder of bewegungs-art freiburg, since 1995 ceritificated teacher of Feldenkrais-Technique.
His work centers Dance- and Contact-Improvisation and - influenced by Feldenkrais-method - a movement-training, which utilizes and enhances the inteligence of the body. It incorporates principles of the martian arts and regards dance as movement in its most variable manifestations. Mainly in the 80ies he has contributed essentially to the development to contact-improvisation in Germany.
Bernd Ka danced in various formations with Lilo Stahl and Wolfgang Graf, with Jazz-musicians, as well as at Dance Butter Tokyo led by Anzu Furukawa (Japan) and at Alternating Currents - a group of known Improvisers from USA and Europe. In the 90ies he workes with several own ensembles.
Marion Dieterle
(dancer, choreographer)
Studied Contemporary Dance from 1998 to 2002 at the Acadamy of Arts in Arnhem (NL) and Düsseldorf. Since completion of her education she works as dancer and choreographer. She participated both as dancer and choreographer in several research-projects, symposia, productions and perfomances. As dancer she worked amongst others with Hideto Heshiki, Michael Langeneckert and Hellene Jorgensen. Since 2005 she teaches at TIP.
The choreographical work of Marion Dieterle ranges between various soloworks, installations, dance-animations and group-performances. Since 2006 she concentrates her work in her own company "DOSSIER 3-D-Poetry". Her choreographic quest is accompanies by the central idea "imagine with the body".
Since 2006 she is member of "HeadFeedHands", a new founded company, that has created with their piece "One Room Ticket" a symbiosis of dance, circus arts and theatre.
Beatrice Burkart (CH)
(dancer and teacher of F.M. Alexander Technique)
Dances since 1974. formative for her personal style are "bewegungs-art", David Zambrano (NL/V), and Pierre Doussaint (Paris). She dances and researches with several groups in Germany and Switzerland. She teaches New Dance in own classes, projects and at schools, amongst others at bewegungs-art.
Beatrice Burkhard conducts choreographical projects and works as choreographer, dramatic adviser, oeil exterieur and coach with dancers, musicians, actors, artists and a circensic movement-artist. She teaches F.M. Alexander Technique since 2001 in Basel, Biel and Freiburg.
Renate Wehner
(dancer and teacher of F.M. Alexander Technique)
works as freelance dancer (since 1989) and teacher respectively as instructor dancer of F.M. Alexander Technique (since 1989, resp. 2000).
Renate Wehner studied New Dance/Contactimprovisation amongst others with Bob Rease, Julyen Hamilton, Laurie Booth, Kirstie Simson, Nancy Stark-Smith und bewegungs-art. Her F.M. Alexander Technique education she completed in Freiburg with Eckart and Elisa Ruschmann, and visited numerous senior-teachers in Israel and London.
At present she teaches mainly at bewegungs-art, as well as at ZAYT, where she gives treatment in Alexander-Technique, counselling, lessons in dance.
Last dance-productions: "Himmel und Erde" with Lilo Stahl and Harald Kimmig, "New York 1952" in course of the Imaginata/Jena.
Harald Kimmig
(Musician, Composer)
He arranges the lessons for rhythm and music for dancers. He is an improvising musician, composer, and musical adviser of many music-, dance- and theatre-performances, as f. E. "Himmel und Erde" mit Lilo Stahl und Renate Wehner, "the crocodile" dance-solo by and with Anzu Furukawa, "A VOID" with Hideto Heshiki. He had concerts with Cecil Taylor, Peter Kowald, Steve Lacy and many more.
www.haraldkimmig.de
Bettina Helmrich
(Dancer, Dance-maker)
Studied Contemporary Dance, video and performance at the European Dance Development Center of the Academy of the Arts in Arnhem (NL).
Inspiring for her artistic work is/was the cooperation with Lisa Nelson, Eva Karczag, K.J. Holmes and Lilo Stahl.
After the study advanced training in body-mind-centering® and voice-movement integration; training of the martial art aikido.
Since 12 years free-lance dancer and dance-maker; recurrent engagements at the
theater in Kassel.
In her solo work of the passed years she composed the dance with the media video.
Besides the solo work there is a strong interdisciplinary cooperation with musicians of contemporary improvised music and visual artists.
She develops her individual movement language throughout sensorial and sensual
work on perception.
Guest Teachers
Permanent guests
Charlotte Zerbey (USA/I)
Alessandro Certini (I)
Pia André
Former specials guests
| Anzu Furukawa † (J) | Katie Duck (USA/NL) | |
| Cesc Gelabert (SP) | David Zambrano (YV) | |
| Lisa Kraus (USA/NL) | Rusty Lester (USA/D) | |
| Yael Flexer (GB) | Makiko Ito (J/NL) | |
| Juha Pekka (B) | Ivan Wolfe (USA/CH) |
