My passion and profession is the moving body. My field of practice is the dance – especially Contact Improvisation. I love to share the dance – first of all by simply dancing with others. But secondarily also through teaching it, which surprisingly connects back to what I originally studied – becomming a high school teacher. So, now I make my living by teaching others to connect to their bodies, to move efficiently and with delight. I support them find their dance and to explore the heartful and intelligent network of encounters in bigger groups. I still perform CI based improvisations now and then - even though I have big qdoubts around it. But it keeps me questioning and learning.
Teaching workshops and training programs are clarly the major part of my work: dancecontact.de, moving-body.de
and supporting and organizing festivals: contact-meets-contemporary.de, contact-festival-madrid
Writing is another way to share my dance, but it is also a tool to understand more clearly my own driving forces, questions, believes and struggles. Most of my texts you'll find in my blog: joerghassmann.wordpress.com
I am 45 years old and share the another major part of my life with my wife and my boy.
Since you are surfing the internet, here is a little collection of video clips with me dancing that I find acceptable. You can see me improvising with:
Aaron Brandes (Earthdance 2008)
Adrian Russi (ECITE 2005 Estonia)
Angela Kalis (Goettingen 2013)
Kira Kirsch (CI 36 Pennsylvania 2008)
And in mainly set ieces with: