Teacher Irmela Stone (nee Wiemann)

Irmela Stone (nee Wiemann) has been involved in exploring, performing and teaching Contact Improvisation for the last fifteen years. When in full time study as a musician in Austria she discovered her love for dancing, causing her to change gear in training and to study with the pioneers of Contact / Improvisation, such as with Steve Paxton and Eva Karczac. Ever since then she has performed and choreographed work - both as a musician and a dancer - in Austria, France, Germany and Holland before moving to London in 1998. Collaborations in England include work for Tadashi Endo, Kirsty Simson, KJ Holmes, Gaby Agis, Jovair Longo, Kisook Cho, Rick Nodine and ESP. Irmela is currently teaching Contact, Improvisation and Composition to actors and dancers at Laban, The City Literary Institute and Tower Hamlets Life Long Learning Service.

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