2025 Core Skills in Contact Improvisation

Core Skills in Contact Improvisation

In this 4 week course, we will teach you the core skills of contact improvisation, such as weight-sharing, rolling point of contact, body-surfing, physical listening and spiralling, to equip you to participate in the different open jams in town.

Intended for beginners and those who have not yet explored the technical basis of CI or want to revisit

Themes

20.03: Body-surfing

27.03: Tabletops

03.04: Pouring of weight in standing

10.04: Saying yes and no with your pelvis, in and out of jams, safety and risk taking, next steps

Throughout we will work with the rolling point of contact, spiralling, body awareness, physical listening, the physicality of bodies and forms of touch.

We encourage participation in all sessions for a homey group feeling, but drop-in is also possible.

We are:
Alina: professionally trained dancer (DE); dance educator since 5+ years; CI dancer for about 10 years.
Bettina Gro: CI dancer since 2005 (DK/NL/DE/ID), scientist, certified yoga instructor.

Price: 50€ for all, 15€ single (or what you can)

Time: Thursdays 6-8 pm

Location: Studio Grosszschocher, Ernst-Meier Str.3

More info and registration https://t.me/CI_explorations
grobss(at)gmail.com