Dancing the Unknown

Contact Improvisation Training

Are you…

…curious what Contact Improvisation is all about?

…hesitant to join jams because not confident you have the skill? or feel safe enough?

…already dancing CI, but find yourself not progressing, repeating patterns, and want inspiration for new ways to move and dance? 

…ready to skill up to the next level, so can flow with more freedom, grace & power?

These trainings are designed for both new and advanced dancers with techniques, inspiration and exercises with many variations, options and diverse pathways to accommodate different skill levels.​​​​

Throughout the day, you learn how to develop a strong and intuitive connection with yourself and your dance partners, as you explore the possibilities of contact, movement, balance, momentum, body awareness, weight-sharing and flight.​​​

We divide the training into 2 half days, so you can attend either or both:

​​FREE YOUR DANCE ~ Fundamentals of CI to Survive and Thrive in Jams​​

• Moving from self into others: Build on self-connection and awareness before contact with others
• Impulses and inspirations: Play with mirroring, leading, following, inputting and responding
• Different levels: Fluid transitions from ground to sky and back
• Contact techniques: Ways to make contact with others – rolling, pivoting, sliding…
• Inspiration from nature: Fluidity of water, rooting into ground, animal play, and spirals to enhance ease and power of movement
• Integration: Unravel apparent contradictions in the interplays of structure and fluidity, care and freedom, precision and spontaneity, inertia and momentum, falling and flying​​​​​

LEARN TO FLY ~ Sharing Weight and Navigating Gravity For Effortless Flow and Flight

• Layers of contact: Connect with others through space, skin, flesh and bone
• Sharing weight: Practice different orientations like leaning, pushing, pulling, pouring and falling into points of contact
• Balance and support: Find yourself, the ground, the other(s) and the sky
• Projection: Extend our bodies to enhance movement, balance and weightlessness
• Physics of bodies in motion: Understand the principles of inertia, momentum, leverage and centre of gravity to achieve weightlessness
• Flight pathways: Effortless lifting and flying in many many different orientations, directions and rotations​​​

BOTH INCLUDE:

• Core principles & techniques – move through different levels & ways to make contact, seamless transitions, momentum, balance, spirals, falling, projection & loads more
• Build confidence, trust, safety, connection & CI culture
• Improve your range of movement & creativity, physical communication & conditioning, spatial & body awareness
• Explore the interplays of structure & fluidity, care & freedom, precision & spontaneity
• Jams to integrate & practice it all

No previous experience required.

Whether you are looking to refine your technique, deepen your understanding of movement, or simply have fun exploring a new style of dance, this CI training can be an enriching and rewarding experience.

So come and join us, and discover the joy and freedom of movement that Contact Improvisation has to offer!