We invite you to our 2nd Contact Improvisation Festival in Crete, Greece that will take place in Heraklion. We are looking forward to welcoming you in our beautiful island and sharing with you our love and passion for dance, movement, art and Crete!

The teachers of our festival:

Stephanie Maher (contact improvisation)
Sadira Smith (contact improvisation)
Ippokratis Veneris (contact improvisation)
Milka Panayotova (contact improvisation)
Georgia Petrali (contact improvisation/parent & kid contact)
Thalia Ditsa (improvisation composition)
Nikos Dalamagkas (contact tango)
Anastasis Koutsogiannis (partner yoga)
Uli Kaiser (shiatsu)

For more information please visit the festival’s website: www.contactimprocrete.com

Come join us for Malaysia’s second international contact improvisation festival. Study intensively with experienced teachers from around the region. There will also be jams, a performance matinee, and participants have the option to live on-site at the venue, which is the beautiful Rimbun Dahan, a residential arts complex situated not far from the city. For the most up-to-date information, kindly visit our website at www.contactimprovkl.com/festival.

List of teachers:
Mei Li (Taiwan)
Li Yong Wei (Singapore)
Jacob Lehrer (Australia)
Tsai Chia-Chun (Taiwan)
Yuenjie Maru (Hong Kong)

Mind the Point is a week long research and exploration event focusing on the topics of
awareness and consciousness within the practice of Contact
Improvisation.

This study event focuses on how our practice of Contact Improvisation
shapes and changes the ways we perceive ourselves, others and the
world around. We are interested in naming, framing, and bringing
awareness to the values we gain when practicing this particular
movement form, but also strengthening the bridge between the practice
and everyday life.

We encourage exploration, engagement, sharing, discussion and learning together while discovering CI in its fuller understanding and
existence.

Please note that the experience is open for a limited group of
participants. Registration opens on August 13th!

For more information, please check http://mindthepoint.wordpress.com/

“We will concentrate on serenity, listening deeply to the dance that emerges from our interior, from our peers, and between the both. We will explore, from this expressive flow of the body, technical aspects of CI, keeping sensibility, freedom and humour at all times”. Patricia Gracia, teacher and organizer in Contact·teu’s Festival.

Contact·teu is the I International Contact Festival in Valencia (Spain). With a consolidated team, and after our Festival in Novelda (April, 2012) we are we are proud to present the first big CI Festival in Valencia.
We will celebrate this dancing and sharing encounter meeting at the maritime neighbourhood of Cabanyal, a Protected Historic Site within Valencia city, declared Heritage of Cultural Interest n 1993. The event will be carried out very near to the sea, so that we can also can enjoy from nature movements in our improvisations.

MORE INFO: http://contactteuvlc.tk/
FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/Contactteu
Mobile phone: +34 637735565

Play, enjoy and discover with us!!!!

Contact Improvisation will be the common ground to continue and deepen our skills to come into a physical and kinaesthetic dialogue with others. We will play with different scores for improvisation to challenge and sharpen our compositional and spatial awareness. Articulation and playfulness are two keywords for this workshop in which we will dance a lot for and with each other. Dances in which we can expect to be in physical contact at any moment and at the same time keeping an awareness of ones own direction in improvising. This workshop will provide a playground for those who are interested in exploring territories in which we use our creative potential in dances that are created in the here and now, the present moment of an improvisation.

in the Shenandoah Valley, not far from Washington, DC

The East Coast Jam is a glorious four-day contact improvisation jam, held each fall and spring at Claymont Court, Charles Town, West Virginia. We dance in an octagonal barn and live in a great white mansion, linked by a walk through gardens and fields and forests. All meals (succulently prepared by Claymont staff) are included.

From now until September 25, register for the fall jam at the base price of $310. The price goes up on September 26, so don’t delay!

Visit eastcoastjam.com for details and online registration. Only a $50 deposit (not refundable after Sept. 25) is required at the time of registration, by PayPal or a cheque in the mail.

The East Coast Jam is a collaboration – much like a dance. Warmups, workshops, performances, and other structures are initiated and led by us, the jammers. When we’re not dancing, there’s conversation, music, exploring field and forest, poetry, chocolate, theater, walks, games…

As ever, spread the word by inviting the people you’d like to dance with, and forwarding this message to interested communities. We want to continue to grow and deepen this lovely gathering.

In anticipation of dancing in a few weeks, we hope you’ll be with us!

a 5 rythms workshops combining “waves” in water and on earth. In this workshop you can discover the magic of improvisation mostly in water but also on earth, so that you will deal with the natural force of both elements.
The warm water invites you to let go and to experiment an organic and fluid way of moving. You learn how to play with its resistance and dynamic, how to transition between following the waves and making soft and clear propositions. You go into aquatic and subaquatic explorations, experience effortless breathing and play with the balance between weight and weightlessness. On land you also learn how to let yourself fall, how to stay in graceful flow or dynamic stillness, falling into motion.