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IMONIW18-20 CI fundamentals
IMONIW20:15-21:15 Silence
ITUEEW10:30-12:00 Authentic Contact
ITUEEW18-19:30 CI fundamentals
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IWEDIW14-15:30 Bodywork to Contact
IWEDIW15:45-16:30 Nap to Jam
ITHUEW8-9 CDP
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ISUNEW18-20 Love and rage
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PAN 2027

Poetic Anatomy
a CI program in 12 moduls

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My focus

Contact Improvisation is not restricted by forms. Our movements are free. In other words: they are driven by our own decisions. I am interested in the non-performing aspect of this art, the non-violent body communication and the creation of an unintentional space to witness all aspects of creation.

Some of my thoughts about the relation between contact improvisation and social structures here for download

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What is Contact Improvisation?

Contact Improvisation is an evolving system of movement initiated in 1972 by American choreographer Steve Paxton. The improvised dance form is based on the communication between two moving bodies that are in physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their motion—gravity, momentum, inertia. The body, in order to open to these sensations, learns to release excess muscular tension and abandon a certain quality of willfulness to experience the natural flow of movement. Practice includes rolling, falling, being upside down, following a physical point of contact, supporting and giving weight to a partner. Contact improvisations are spontaneous physical dialogues that range from stillness to highly energetic exchanges. Alertness is developed in order to work in an energetic state of physical disorientation, trusting in one’s basic survival instincts. It is a free play with balance, self-correcting the wrong moves and reinforcing the right ones, bringing forth a physical/emotional truth about a shared moment of movement that leaves the participants informed, centered, and enlivened.

Early definition by Steve Paxton and others, 1970s, from CQ Vol. 5:1, Fall 1979

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