Confessions of a Body

About the background and approach of the 3 facilitators:

• Rooted in dance, art and research, Dorte Bjerre Jensen moves at the intersection of movement, performance, ecology and sensory attention. Her practice grows from a deep curiosity for how our bodies continuously respond to the world—how gravity, touch, friction, and encounter shape the ways we relate to each other and to our environments. You’ll find Dorte exploring these questions in studios, classrooms, stages and outdoor landscapes, always returning to the simple but radical act of listening through the body. Inspired by thinkers like Steve Paxton and Anna Tsing, her work invites participants into a practice of “caring with”: an embodied, multisensory way of being together that acknowledges asymmetry, unpredictability and the messy beauty of shared experience. Caring with inside the unequal, messy and troubled situations. Caring with as deep listening. Alongside the question: what modes of attention and practices of attunement can bring us into responsible relationships? In her humorous yet profound and philosophical way Dorte will share her experience and research (that was, amongst other things, shaped by over 20 years of practicing, teaching and performing contact improvisation) through playful yet challenging explorations of falling, flying, rolling, balancing, weight-sharing and meeting the unknown. Through tools for solo and partner work, she opens a space where gravity becomes a collaborator and movement becomes a way of building responsible, responsive relationships. Her aim is to lead participants into a vivid, grounded connection with their own bodies—and with the forces and beings that move alongside us.

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  Katha Löffler is a colorful, wild and innovative young artist. Home in the field of dance and movement. She is not to be put in 1 box though. You will find her on the stage of theatres as well as in a nightclub fueling the moving crowd with performative vibes, in a forest listening to the whispers and revelations of nature, as well as in the studio together with fellow artists, musicians, researching the universes of our moving body. Katha is fascinated by everything that concerns, moves and transforms the (human) body. Their dance-research confronts the body with the rawness, abundance and transformative quality of nature, investigating the limits of the body and the boundaries between the human and non-human body. Through different practices and with various teachers and artists, she collects experiences and inspiration and mixes all these influences into her own contemporary practice. As a facilitator her main objective is to draw participants into the spell of their own body experience. She loves to share the desire and joy of exploring and expanding the infinite movement and artistic possibilities through and in the body.

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  Mileen Borgonjon is a dancer and poetic performer, home in improvised performance and contact improvisation. Her dancing soul and animal are playful, intense and sensuous. The music of her veins naturally dialogues with the music and other dancers around, meeting each other in the expression of rhythm, texture and intensity. The poetic universes that open when we allow ourselves to be embodied and present, and the playful dialogue with physical laws are an endless source of fascination for her. Both instant composition and contact improvisation are a passion. Platforms and contexts for reflection and expression about this biggest improvisation which is called life. As a facilitator Mileen wants to support a space where people can grow in (body)awareness. She loves a profound and at the same time playful approach where people can plug-in to their movement potential and layered physical, poetic and artistic expression. In her sessions she integrates elements and inspiration from various movement and somatic methods that she met along her own path as a mover and dancer, including Thai yoga massage, breathwork, voice work, Gaga, Ido Portal Method, Playfight and Feldenkrais.