

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Simonetta Alessandri: Embodying and Navigating opposites – Feldenkrais and CI
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 21 Mar, 2026 at 10:30 am – Mon, 23 Mar, 2026 at 04:00 pm
- **Event Description**: motionlab.cologne warmly presents

SIMONETTA ALESSANDRI
Cologne, 21.2-23.3.2026

(Optional Friday Jam 20-24)
Saturday 10:30-16:30
(Optional Saturday Jam 20-23)
Sunday 10:30-16:30
Monday 10:00-16:00

Tickets: https://pretix.eu/motionlab/simonetta0326/

Price 200 EUR 2 days / 280 3 days
Early Bird 170 EUR 2 days / 220 3 days until 28.2.26
Very Early Bird 140 EUR 2 days / 200 3 days until 15.1.26

Food and accommodation not included
Spaces are limited. Dancefloor with 220 sqm soft tatami mats.

Workshop language: English. Translation available on request
Level of Experience: Minimum of 6 month CI experience recommended

More infos: https://motionlab.cologne/simonetta032026

(For German version scroll down)

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Embodying and Navigating opposites – Feldenkrais and CI

In this workshop, we will investigate polarity in movement through the Feldenkrais Methods and Contact Improvisation, moving from inner toward outer awareness. With the Feldenkrais Method, we turn the attention inward to notice sensations without judgment. Honouring the body’s intelligence, we explore habits and discover new, efficient, and freer movement options. This mindful tuning cultivates a felt sense of wholeness that reshapes how we move, perceive, and relate — to ourselves, to others, and to the world around us.

We’ll explore how this embodied awareness evolves and transform as we engage with touch, shared weight. We will observe how we constantly encounter polarity in our movement, integrating and embracing opposing forces such as stability and mobility, tone and softness, freedom and structure, motion and stillness, control and surrender. By working with these dualities, we become aware of how opposites create balance. 

The Contact Improvisation vocabulary— spiralling up and down, falling, catching, and lifting—will be nourished by specific technical material offered in the workshop, explored through the lens of opposites and oppositional movement. We then engage the full spectrum of opposing forces, embodying wild, instinctive, and unpredictable energy — exploring the tension between safety and risk. At the other end, we enter quiet, gentle physical dialogue shaped by subtle shifts in weight and stillness. Playing with gravity while riding momentum, our conscious choices will drift between both realms, unfolding through exciting duets, trios, and group configurations.

SIMONETTA ALESSANDRI

Simonetta is an Italian dance artist and a somatic educator based in London. She applies the Feldenkrais Method in dance and movement training and in performance making. She teaches at Trinity Laban, Goldsmiths University and London Contemporary Dance School. Her work is informed by more than 30 years of dancing, teaching and choreographing. Her choreography has been for dance companies, student pieces, large scale opera, improvised performance, site specific and movement direction for theatre. She taught for more than 20 years in Italy and kept Contact Improvisation alive in Roma for 10 years with her classes and jams. She was one of the few dance practitioner in Italy who began working with CI in the 90’s. She has been a guest teacher in Germany, Colombia, UK, Norway, Israel, France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Taiwan. She obtained the Post Graduated Diploma at London Contemporary Dance School, she is a qualified teacher of the Feldenkrais Method and she holds the Teacher Certificate of the Royal Academy of Dance. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is one of the founders of CI@Goldsmiths, newly established association of dance artists dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of Contact Improvisation in London and UK

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Verkörperung und Bewegung in Gegensätzen – Feldenkrais und CI

In diesem Workshop werden wir die Polarität in der Bewegung mit Hilfe der Feldenkrais-Methode und der Contact Improvisation erforschen und uns von der inneren zur äußeren Wahrnehmung bewegen. Mit der Feldenkrais-Methode richten wir unsere Aufmerksamkeit nach innen, um Empfindungen ohne Bewertung wahrzunehmen. Indem wir die Intelligenz des Körpers würdigen, erforschen wir Gewohnheiten und entdecken neue, effiziente und freiere Bewegungsmöglichkeiten. Diese achtsame Abstimmung kultiviert ein Gefühl der Ganzheit, das die Art und Weise, wie wir uns bewegen, wahrnehmen und in Beziehung treten, neu gestaltet – zu uns selbst, zu anderen und zur Welt um uns herum.

Wir werden erforschen, wie sich dieses Körperbewusstsein entwickelt und verwandelt, wenn wir uns mit Berührung und geteiltem Gewicht beschäftigen. Wir werden beobachten, wie wir in unserer Bewegung ständig auf Polaritäten stoßen, indem wir gegensätzliche Kräfte wie Stabilität und Beweglichkeit, Spannung und Weichheit, Freiheit und Struktur, Bewegung und Stille, Kontrolle und Hingabe integrieren und annehmen. Indem wir mit diesen Dualitäten arbeiten, werden wir uns bewusst, wie Gegensätze ein Gleichgewicht schaffen.

Das Vokabular der Kontaktimprovisation – Auf- und Abwärtsspiralen, Fallen, Auffangen und Heben – wird durch spezifisches technisches Material genährt, das im Workshop angeboten wird, und durch die Linse der Gegensätze und gegensätzlichen Bewegungen erforscht. Wir lassen uns dann auf das gesamte Spektrum der gegensätzlichen Kräfte ein, verkörpern wilde, instinktive und unvorhersehbare Energie und erforschen die Spannung zwischen Sicherheit und Risiko. Am anderen Ende treten wir in einen ruhigen, sanften körperlichen Dialog ein, der von subtilen Gewichtsverlagerungen und Stille geprägt ist. Indem wir mit der Schwerkraft spielen und Impulse nutzen, werden unsere bewussten Entscheidungen zwischen beiden Bereichen entwickeln und in aufregenden Duetten, Trios und Gruppenkonfigurationen entfalten.
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- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Cologne
- **state**: NW
- **country**: Germany
- **location**: Neusser Straße 26, 50670 Köln, Deutschland
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- **long**: 6.95739
- **full address**: Neusser Straße 26, 50670 Köln, Deutschland, Neusser Straße 26, 50670 Köln, Deutschland, Cologne, Germany

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
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