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Anir Leben

I'm a musical oriented dancer and a dancing oriented musician and vocalist.
When I dance, even without any sound, I get impulses for movement from
inner melody or rhythm and from principles that i experience through music.
There is loud and quiet, soft and rough, stillness and dynamic flow, pauses,
up and down, contrast, harmony, dissonance, co-existence and and and...

I study dance, performance and improvisation at TIP and I teach Contact in Freiburg. I was studying Jazz-singing in Berlin for a while, when I fell in love with CI which gave me a seeming change of direction, which, as it turns out to be, is not totally correct.
Combining music with dance is as old as mankind is breathing earthly air,
to connect CI with sound however, is somehow quite different.
It has taken my interest for a few years now and i feel a nurturing richness in both impro-forms, music and dance, being able to feed each other with different kinds
of tasty delicious bits of gwummmmdschiimmmmdjammm :)