Elske Seidel is a globally connected CI dancer and internationally engaged CI teacher. She has been teaching dance independently for over 16 years, CI since 2004. Originally from Hamburg, GER she lived in Canada and the US and now in Berlin, following her interest in movement research, exchange and cooperation.  

In 2003 she co-founded the ContAct Dance Company, investigating CI as a source for performance work, with a special interest in site-specific art. She is dancing in contact-based performance projects. Elske has been organizing the Annual Hamburg Jam as well as the weekly CI jam in Hamburg. She likes to create formats to practice, live and exchange about Contact Improvisation and has a special love for bringing together inside and outside, studio focus and nature experience. she co-organized the Contact Festival Fuerteventura.

Since her studies at the University of Hamburg the core question for her teaching has been: “what does it need in the teaching of dance, that dance can be alive?”

For her, teaching Contact Improv means creating something precious, making art, moving energy within a group, understanding movement more deeply, and laying the ground so that this dance can happen.