Teacher Thomas Kampe

Thomas Kampe has worked with dance, theatre, and movement for the last 25 years. He worked as performer, choreographer and director in Germany and Britain, and works as Senior Lecturer for Dance at London Metropolitan University. He has taught somatic approaches towards movement education, dance theatre, and Contact Improvisation in different settings around the world. While working as a free-lance choreographer and dancer he collaborated with director and writer Julia Pascal as a performer, choreographer, director, and designer since 1990. During the early 90's Thomas collaborated with Rosemary Lee for several years in large scale site -specific dance theatre creations. In 2003 he co-directed Urban Rituals, a site-specific dance theatre event with 150 performers and 1 dog in the St.Pauli Football Stadium in Hamburg Germany. His teaching of contact improvisation has been informed by extensive studies in explorative and somatic disciplines including Holistic Massage, Traditional Thai Massage, Cranio Sacral Therapy and Laban Movement Analysis. He is a qualified teacher of the Feldenkrais Method ®, which forms a foundation for his teaching of dance and movement.

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