Eckhard Mueller (Germany/France) is enthusiastically dancing and performing CI since 1988. started studying contemporary dance at bewegungs-art Freiburg, (diploma in 93) and with Alito Alessi, David Zambrano, Mark Tompkins, Julyen Hamilton, Martin Keogh, Nancy Stark-Smith among many other masters. In the 90´s he was working as a dancer for choreographers like Iztok Kovac, Mark Tompkins, David Zambrano and others. Since 2002 his dance theatre Company Dégadézo in Strasbourg is creating pieces, supported by DRAC and Region Alsace, co produced by Theatre Pole Sud, Strasbourg, with Residency in the Theatre La Manufacture in Colmar 2004-2007. Eckhard is co-founder and organizer of the contactfestival freiburg (www.contactfestival.de) an important event in the CI-Szene creating an annual international exchange about the dance form Contact Improvisation between professional and non professionals. He Teaches CI since 1994 to professionals of theatres/companies, dance students in academies and non-professionals in dance centers all over the world and since 2005 co teaching with Daniela Schwartz.

In his teaching he is playfully searching for depth in the understanding of the form.

Daniela Schwartz (Argentina/France):
Dancer, Performer, Improviser and Teacher of Contact Improvisation and Instant Composition since 1998.Influenced by Martin Keogh, Danny Lepkoff, Nancy Stark Smith, Mark Tompkins, Andrew Harwood and Julyen Hamilton. Graduated in Fine Arts at ESAD, Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg. She has participated in different projects, labs and performances in Cuba, Mexico, USA, Europe and South America. She has been invited as a guest teacher with Eckhard Mueller in diverse Companies, Festivals and Institutions in South America. As a member of the dance theater Cie Dégadézo, she co-created "Cabine d’essayage" , "Parlez moi d’amour" and has been teaching at Theater Pôle Sud, EMDS Ecole Municipale de Danse, TNS Teatre National, and CIRA, in Strasbourg. Years of jewelery making, objects, textile and fashion studies, video creation, installations, performances, and the different artistic aspects of "the body" informed her physical practice and her intellectual research, questioning the idea of "the human being separated form the world".