JamJam Festival

Resource-oriented improvisation – or what it’s like to swim as a grape in the bubble

Through differentiated improvisation settings and scores, you will get to know new and unknown experiences, movements and forms of expression. You will expand your own movement repertoire through new “improvisation tools”.

In the field of resource-oriented improvisation, we will move with inner images, the body systems and the things that surround and inspire us.

The idea here is to immerse ourselves completely in the quality of something, to explore it and thereby discover new states of experience and scope for movement. The movement vocabulary thus becomes more complex and one’s own experiential spaces more profound.

It becomes mindful, still and listening;

                 playful, crazy and wild

                       lyrical, free and .

I look forward to the hours with you!

Workshop language: German

About Anna:

Anna’s life becomes more colorful and easier when she dances and moves. This is how she came to study eurythmy and has now been teaching movement and dance to people aged between 3 and 90 for 7 years.

The focus of her teaching is to accompany everyone into their own creative space so that they can try things out freely and authentically and surprise themselves.

Desires & Boundaries – an Improvisation Lab

Desires & Boundaries, in many manifestations, are issues i’ve been working and playing with for over 10 years. In this workshop, i want to consider the ways in which they arise while improvising. Where do they come from? What do we do with them? Are they friends? Allies? Enemies? Lovers? We will work with each other as mirrors of Desire, then expand our awareness to include our Desires towards our movement, the space, and the world at large. How do we let all of them in, or if we prefer, keep some of them out? 

This lab is for anyone who has ever had doubts about their choices while improvising.

Language: English

About David:

David Bloom (he/him/his) is a choreographer, dancer, teacher, parent, filmmaker, pianist, bodyworker, and fermenting Jewish mystic. More info at: https://davidbloom.info

Releasing into gravity, melting into and becoming one with the earth, sensing it’s strength and presence arise through our bodies, filling our joints, muscles and tissues and spreading out into all directions. Touching a stone, a tree, the ground, we will listen to and be aware of nature, sensing its stability, instability, heaviness, lightness and all the nuances in between. How can this dialogue with the earth and with nature inspire and enrich our dancing?

We will look at the four elements earth, air, fire and water. How can these elements be represented in our dance? What elements of composition can be observed in nature? What can I learn from nature to improve my sense of composition? When I see nature as a composer: how can I find my role in this greater composition, dancing in harmony with the natural surroundings?

„You’ve been swimming in gravity since the day you were born. Every cell knows where down is. […] Your mass and the earth’s mass calling to each other.“ Steve Paxton

Language: German

Über Angela-Mara:

Angela-Mara Florant (GER) had her first experience with CI during her performance arts studies in Besançon, France. Based in Hamburg, she teaches several regular contact classes, gives workshops and organizes jams and festivals (NORDTANZ Festival). Since 2015, she is co- director of the dance studio “Triade” in Hamburg. In 2022, she brought to life the Contact CompanI, a dance company performing CI. When Angela-Mara is not dancing or teaching contact she is teaching corART (Pilates), directing independent theater productions, choreographing dance pieces (mostly based on CI). Teachers that have inspired her work are: Nancy Stark Smith, Jörg Hassmann, Nita Little, Anjelica Doniy, Mirva Mäkinen, Martin Keogh, Frey Faust, Scott Wells, Andrew Hardwood, Daniel Lepkoff,… 

In the workshop “Music from the moment” (sound, voice and music improvisation) we draw on the music that is always present, which is created by listening to the present moment, looking at movement and dance, inner images and sensing togetherness. In a playful way, we help each other to throw the demands of “good music-making” overboard and trust spontaneous impulses. Mastery of an instrument is welcome, but not required.
With lovingly prepared improvisation exercises composed for you from the moment, you will experience a sensitive space that opens up for deep as well as light expression
à la JamJam.

Language: German/English

About Leonie:

Leonie Mayer is a violinist and singer, improvisation teacher (trained by Peter Jarchow) and music therapist. Her performative focus is on concerts with her solo project “Gwendolyn&Ich”, as well as on music in combination with dance, especially contact dance and movement theater. She co-founded JamJam in 2021 and has been closely involved with the festival in various roles (workshop leader, artistic director) ever since.

Alex Zampini is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist active in the field of music, film-making and performance. As a C.I. practitioner he facilitates jams and festivals internationally as a musician and musical director.

His projects are process-oriented and combine his interests for social psychology, improvisation as a performance practice, social and environmental activism and the inquiry of power dynamics.

www.AlexZampini.com [1]

Tabea Gregory lives as a performing artist, theater pedagog and yoga teacher in Darmstadt. Internationally trained in Improvisation, Social Presencing Theater as well as Contemporary Dance she loves to create poetic stories with language, movement and sound. Her mission is to increase awareness through artistic practice. She teaches through awakening the senses and supports the trust in the body and its impulses.