Jo
Bruhn
PERFORMANCE - DANCE - CI
Welcome To My Website
My name is Jo Bruhn, I am a performer, dancer, Contact Improvisation (CI) teacher.
On this website I want to share my art, my work, my passion with you.
As a CI dancer I enjoy the composition of the moment, the bodies, the group, the coincidence. I am particularly interested in interpersonal communication and the connection with oneself. To research on effortless movement, flowing acrobatics and playful relating is another deep interest of mine. With great joy I share my experiences, insights, questions and researches in classes and workshops.
The way how you share your dance knowledge inspired me a lot. I appreciate the energy you’re bringing into classes and jams – it felt very new to me to work with the quality of calmness and presence you’re bringing, and I already see the impact on my improvisation.
Dimitri
As a performer I bring topics to the stage or into public spaces I am passionate about. Be it very concrete or in an open way, inviting the imagination of the spectators to create their own stories or landscapes. One of my goals is to touch people with my art, inspire and invite to reflect.
You’ve been swimming in gravity since the day you were born. Every cell knows where down is. Easily forgotten. Your mass and earth’s mass calling to each other.
Steve Paxton in “Gravity”
If you would like to read about upcoming events I am involved in, you are warmly welcome to subscribe to my newsletter (being sent every 3-4 months). The events are as well listed in the CI Global Calendar.
I am delighted to organize the Contact Time @ SerVivo (Portugal) festival again in 2025. Together with Jennie Zimmermann. This edition will start with an optional week of landing, grounding, connecting on 23th April 2025. The orchestrated festival will be from 28th April to 4th May 2025. See all information here.
Throughout the last years I was part of many events as organizer, teacher, facilitator. Some are listed below:
Performance “Underscore”, Contact CompanI, Hamburg, (D)
Performance “Dialogos” Casa de Cultura, Setúbal, (PT)
Performance Contact companI, Marseille, (F)
Arrábida Dance Gathering, SerVivo, Palmela, (PT)
Nordtanz Festival, near Hamburg, (D)
Dancer at Le Royal Cabanon, Rogne, (F)
Contact Time @ Waldhof #1, Zukunftsdorf Waldhof, (D)
Contact Time @ SerVivo, Palmela, (PT)
Contact Improvisation Training, Köln, (D)
Centers of Practice: Continuing Nancy Stark Smith’s Research, (online)
OsterImproFestival, Göttingen, (D)
Fuerteventura Contact Improvisation Festival, (ES)
Porter et voler, CI Workshop, Marseille, (F)
Contact Improvisation – oder eine Reise ins Unbekannte, Feldberg, (D)
Listening bodies, CI Workshop Dresden, (D)
January Workshop with Nancy Stark Smith, Massachusetts, USA
Zoom in – zoom out, CI WS, Hamburg, (D)
Contact Training, K77, Berlin, (D)
Mühelos Fliegen, CI Workshop, Rostock, (D)
CI Workshop, Chambérry, (F)
CI Festival Dresden, (D)
Contact Time @ Steigemühle #7, (D)
Contact meets Contemporary Festival, Göttingen, (D)
ECITE, European Contact Improvisation Teachers Exchange, Kiew, Ukraine
nature, dance & I, a 5-day retreat in La Semilla, Galicien, (ES)
January Workshop & Long Dance (Co-Organisator), MA&CT, (USA)
Performance: “soft catastrophism”, Artist Homes, Berlin, (D)
Dance-Theater: “Designed to die?”, Nah Dran – Ada Studios, Berlin, (D)
Global Underscore, Marseille, (F)
Festival de Danse Contact, Marseille, (F)
“Dance, Drop, Dare” CI WS, Hamburg, (D)
New Years Contact Festival, Berlin, (D)
5 Days – 8 Jams, Moskau, (RUS)
