FEstin de Contact Improvisación
Contact improvisation world wide festin

Nov 2012
“… this point where we get in contact …..

is offering movement and dancecourses, bodywork in one to one sesssions and groups,familydance, sometimes an Improjam

International Contact Improvisation Festival of Rio de janeiro, oficial website

t is a project of communication and exchange of opinion formation and improvement to the dancers, choreographers, directors, and dance professionals. During the last years this project is creating a communication network between Brazilian and foreign professionals, allowing for reflection, research development and improvement work.

The Festival was created in 1996 by artist Giovane Aguiar, is currently Director and Programmer of the festival.

The Montreal contact improvisation dance community has set up a formal (and let’s admit it: legally incorporated) structure to preserve that fragile, precious moment when anything seemed possible. This structure is the Association de contact improvisation.

In its formal dimension, the Association is composed of members who come together annually in a general meeting to elect a board of directors, ratify any changes to the general guidelines, and approve the financial statements.

In its intuitive dimension, the Association expresses a hope of solidarity and harmony arising from the regular practice of contact improvisation.

The mission of the Association of Contact Improvisation (ACI) consists of: assembling individuals to support an artistic community project, adequately representing its membership before concerned parties, promoting contact improvisation dance through education, research and performance, developing the practice of contact improvisation and broadening its accessibility to the public.

Study alternatives in physical training, creation and performance at Mascall Dance’s annual Way Out West summer intensive. Contact improvisation workshop for 2011 is w/ Yves Candau and more…way more!

Kathleen Rea, former dancer with the National Ballet Company of Canada, Ballet Jorgen Canada and Tirolerlandes Theatre (Austria), founded REAson d'être dance productions in 2000. Directed by Kathleen Rea, its mandate is to create and produce dance events that use dance, vocalization, text and physical theatre to express the human condition. The company highlights the creative work of Kathleen Rea and other artists. REAson d'être dance productions also strives to teach and inspire the public about dance through education projects, and provides experience for young dancers. Another unique feature is that Rea values senior dance artists as much as young dancers. She is inspired by the generational story telling and themes possible with a dance company that spans many ages.

REAson d'être dance productions has produced four main stage works choreographed by Kathleen Rea: Fleeting, Marrow, Ire and Long Live. Another memorable event was the co-production of Lapinthrope, a dance film choreographed by Rea. Lapinthrope was screened at 14 international film festivals and won best long-short film at the Festival Der Nationen (Austrian film festival). REAson d'être dance productions also produced Close Knit for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2007, which was performed outdoors throughout the night and involved a 30 foot long piece of knitting. REAson d'être dance productions has co-production credits with Decadence Films, the Chimera Project, Kaeja d’Dance,the Parkdale BIA and princess productions.

Most recelty REAson d'etre dance productions' Long Live was nominated for three Dora Mavor Moore awards, Outstanding Choreography for Kathleen Rea, Outstanding Dance Performance for Karen Kaeja and Outstanding Sound Design/Composition for Daniela Gesundheit and Dan Goldman

REAson d'etre dance values:

- Expression through movement

- Excellence in the field of dance

- Diversity

- Arts Education

- Accessibility of the arts

- Support of other artists in an inclusive approach to creation and business practices

REAson d'etre dance activities:

-Production of dance performances

-Production of affordable dance based workshops and classes

-Mentoring of other artists

- Education outreach

- Programs that ensure that dance is accessible

A company dedicated to dance improvisation in contact.
Where collaboration between dancers and musicians is the antidote as we flow through the realms of improvisation in intimite adoration of the revealing moment.

Danse contact Improvisation tous les mardi soirs de 18h à 19h 30 dirigé par Genevieve CRON

http://www.chorescence.org/ENGLISH/welcome.htm

Chorescence was founded by Isabelle Üski in April 2005. Since then, it has been offering various spaces for practicing, exploring, and performing contact improvisation and related practices. The dynamic around the association keeps growing amazingly.

Please come and visit! Our beautiful community will be very happy to recieve your visits..

Where is Grenoble?

In the French Alps, 1,5 hour East from Lyon, 1,5 hour South from Geneve.

Please note a that the local aiport (Grenoble) is connected with several low cost air compagnies.

> JAMS AND FESTIVALS
>> St SYLVESTRe jam
>> SUNDAY JAMS

> WORKSHOPS
Week-end workshops in Grenoble
Intensives in ‘St ANDEOL

ST Andeol has a beautiful studio located in the montains 45 km from Grenoble.
Please check >> the program, the workshops announced with an English flag are offered both in French and English!

> CLASSES

Please contact us for details if you don’t understand the French webpage

> Performances
Performances and Artistic project, please check the program.

The Atlier de Paris Carolyn Carlson proposes a season of masterclasses for yearly more than 350 dancers and professionals from the world of performing arts. Our most important goal is to offer an education of high level conrtibuted by important international artists.

The Masterclasses take place in the Atelier situated in Paris, in the « Cartoucherie » a complex of various Parisien theatres.
Very soon (Noevmbre 15th – 19th) we will be offering a class given by choreographer Robyn Orlin. In December we will have classes given by : Ivan Wolfe a Suisse master of contemporary dance and contact impro as well as Juha Marsalo, former dancer of Carolyn Carlson, who’s now very activly creating his own works in Paris and throughout Europe.
In January follows our Australian programm with choreographers Rosalind Crisp, Helen Herbertson and performer Andrew Morrish.

Likewise we’re also a place of creation, offering space for artists to create , rehearse and research for their work. See further information on our website.

Initiative Contact Improvisation

Dance Studio where Contact Improvisation, New Dance, Dance Improvisation and work with the voice is taught in workshops and ongoing classes.
The studio can also be rented for Researching etc. It is situated in a very remote place with beautiful environment. Accommodation is also available.

Fysalida is a dance group based in Heraklion, Crete. The company was founded in 2006 by Georgia Petrali with the aim of exploring, creating and producing any art form through collaboration between artists, educators, therapists and scientists.

Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company is recognised as Northern Ireland’s leading Dance Company. It was created by Ursula Laeubli and Steve Batts in Amsterdam in 1991 and after six years of project work in Europe it relocated to Derry, Northern Ireland where it has since become a key influence in the development of dance theatre in Ireland.

Echo Echo regularly produces and tours internationally with original new performance work for an ensemble of local and international dancers. The company also has a strong commitment to developing dance as an accessible art form maintaining a busy dance education and outreach programme for people of all ages and abilities.

It is the company’s movement style and ethos that sets it apart from the crowd with influences ranging from the quirky and playful to gentle and poetic, sourcing its movement material from a very wide range of contemporary dance forms and movement practices.

Echo Echo’s team of staff, artists and volunteers has flourished in recent years, generating a diverse and exciting programme of education and performance work.

Artness: A Home and School for the Art of Movement and Its Performance

Artness, founded in 2005 by Shahar Dor, and located in Kibbutz Ein Shemer, is a place for movement artists, audiences and community, in which to study, create and perform. Participants come from all over the world.

“Artness is the connection of art to life, the expression of belief and practice. I see the artist as the human being who is connected to the fire of knowledge and life, and art as originating in core sources and being expressed in never-ending ways.”

“Movement and the Art of Performance are powerful tools for the discovery and expression of the self; of what we are, and what we are living. The willingness to come close to and touch the hot inner core is the key to discovery of the treasure, the doorway to the other, the invitation of the miracle. The necessary ingredients are a love of movement, practice, patience, availability, attention, all over time. The tools are the body, the heart and thought.”
Shahar Dor, Artistic Director, Artness

The School, first and foremost a demanding artistic framework, trains dancers, creators and performers, while allowing them to develop as people and artists who can lead themselves, their art and their surroundings, with curiosity and creativity to new and rich places of inspiration and doing.

The Artness vocabulary is that of body, the awareness of movement and the art of image creating. It is the result of many years of research, creativity and the search for ways of varied expression of a common and inclusive language; in philosophy and practice, in performance, in directing and teaching.

Studies expose the student to a wide variety of experiences aimed at achieving technique and work methodology, discovering their core sources, finding and developing their specific language and voice, and a personal and indelible style as creators and performers.

Artness is also distinct in its physical campus and locality, located in a cooperative agricultural community, made up of small buildings and nature. The experience of attending Artness is therefore a total experience – of life, life within a creative environment, creating a dialogue between life and art.

The Italian CI Website

Casina Settarte is a farm- retrait center located in the suggestive country of Itria Valley between olive trees and stone houses typical from the region. Germana and Franco have the aim of creating an inspiring space for collaboration of dancers and performers coming from different country of the world. We hosted workshops with the most amazing teachers of Contact Improvisation (between the others, Nancy Stark Smith, Kirstie Simson, K. J. Holmes….)

We are a free organisation coordinated from the teacher Francis Calsolaro (www.calsolaro.it) to make research on the potential expressing emotions trough mime, paint, dance, contact improvisation and mimecare (www.mimecare.com)

spazio NU is an association of indipendent artists interested in Contact Improvisation, and other lunguages, like butoh, clown and others.
we organise Jams and workshop.
spazio NU is also a dance-physicall theatre company.

We organize jams, classes and workshops in Rome and in the countryside near Rome.

Il Centro Danza Company Blu è uno spazio per la conoscenza e lo sviluppo delle attività espressive e si pone come punto di incontro e di scambio delle nuove tendenze nella danza.
Il centro promuove un lavoro didattico a livello nazionale ed internazionale ed ospita insegnanti e coreografi di significative scuole e compagnie europee e degli Stati Uniti. Tende quindi, nella specifica programmazione delle attività didattiche, a sviluppare un equilibrio fra lo studio e la ricerca tecnica ed artistica. È uno spazio per l’apprendimento e la conoscenza di strumenti capaci di stimolare ed aiutare le persone ad elaborare una propria metodologia di studio, una propria esplorazione linguistica, filtro dell’espressione artistica.
Il “Centro Danza Company Blu” è stato nominato dalla Regione Toscana come Agenzia Formativa nel 1997


Company Blu is a meeting point for the exchange of new tendencies in dance and interdisciplinary performance.
The center promotes didactic work at a national and international level and hosts teachers and choreographers from significant European and North American schools and companies. The center tends to program classes and workshops which find a balance between technical and artistic research. It aims to stimulate dancers to acknowledge instruments and to elaborate their own methods of study and linguistic exploration, to become a filter of artistic expression.
Center Company Blu Danza was nominated as a Higher Educative Agency by the Regione Toscana in 1997.

C I jams,classes,event,festival ,,website in Tokyo & vicinity.
organized by miteinoE

we organize a jam every Saturday-afternoon (16:00h.),
with before that a class, where one of us teaches alternately (14:00h).
please check: our-calendar

email: amsterdamjam at gmail dot com

I teach a weekly class in Utrecht on wednesdays, and iregular workshops througout the country.

email:     info at Dansavontuur dot nl

Dansimprovisatie Utrecht holds classes in instant composition, improvisation in performance and release technique as well as in partnering work and contact improvisation within instant composition. Besides giving classes Dansimprovisatie Utrecht has a performance group which performs several times a year in collaboration with musicians, a choir, costume designers and others. Most of the time the performances are held on location, in a museum or on the street for example. The organisation is founded by choreographer Iris van Peppen.

SOUL is an eco-friendly centre situated in Titirangi in the lush rainforest on the west coast of Auckland.

It is created as an environmentally friendly space to pursue a holistic, artistic, integrated organic lifestyle. Enjoy weekly classes, weekend workshops, monthly programs, teacher training opportunities and lifestyle packages that support and integrate dance, art, creativity and spirituality into everyday life.

SOUL’s onsite clinic offers personalized consultations and treatments, in, remedial, relaxation and luxury massage, movement education, cranio-sacral therapy, counseling, and holistic sports training. These treatments can be used to enhance a full body-mind program or on their own for a unique, tranquil experience.

Our vision is to create an integrated approach to well-being that aligns the body, mind and spirit. Finding the essential experience of life we all seek and creating an individual, unique and diverse training system for the body, mind and spirit.

Greycoloured Shamans is a self-proclaimed association founded on 13th March 2008 with the aim to act against no action. We say a flat NO! to apathy and passiveness of those whose time is flowing through the fingers.
The first Polish Contact Improvisation website has been created to help C.I. fans to explore this form of movement and dance. The website will provide information about C.I. events, workshops and jams. We will be also organizing C.I. events, keeping you up to date with them all for contact is great fun . For all the latest news go to our Forum. Sign in and share your knowledge with us! We hope to get C.I. going in Poland. This website has been prepared for you and you are welcome to contribute!

GroundFloor Group is an advocate of young and emerging choreographers and dancers, taking up, encouraging and supporting initiatives in contemporary dance and theatre in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Since 2006 they are annually organizing TRANS-CONTACT, International Festival of Contact Improvisation. The group also produced or co-produced five contemporary dance performances between 2004-2009 and plans to open its own venue in a former brush factory in October 2009.

A collaborative research project researching the edges of Contact Improvisation.

T&P Experiment: June 18-22, 2011 : This 5-day experimental lab based research and sharing event is open for a select group (35) of CI and other related teachers, performers and organizers after application …

T&P Festival: Juni 23-27, 2011

2010: Berlin/Germany, 2011: Ibiza/Spain

ESPACIO ESFERA surge en el año 2006 como nombre de un correo electrónico desde el cual enviar y recibir información relativa al CONTACT IMPROVISATION en Mallorca.
Desde ESPACIO ESFERA se co-organizaron clases, JAMS, encuentros en distintos lugares de la isla con la intención de conectar a todas las personas interesadas en la práctica.
Un día de Julio del 2008, en el tercer piso de Carrer Sant Bonaventura, en Palma, ESPACIO ESFERA se re-organiza en forma de Asociación sin fines de lucro.

L’apetit has borned to impel Contact Improvisation and organise jams and workshops in Valencia and it’s surroundings. We will like to engage this dance and invite all dancers, musicians and artists to participate in our project so that CI will be known in our city as a way of expressing, moving and sharing.

We organize Jams every 1st saturday of the month in the Dance School Maria Carbonell (C/ Alcalde Cano Coloma, 7. 46022 VALENCIA).

Furthermore, we organize workshops-jam at the end of the month (but we change the place each time, so if you are interested, follow us in: http://lapetitcontactvalencia.wordpress.com/).

For further information: lapetit.contact.valencia@gmail.com

We are waiting for you!!

L’apetit improvisation

We have organized 2 half years monthly guided jams, some events and a contact workshop with Guy Aloni in Zaragoza.

l´mono ( http://l-mono.org ), an independent urban arts/cultural center run by a small collective. We have a beautiful dance studio, a music and a couple more studios, a exibition/concert hall, kitchen… situated in a centrical old industrial building, which due to urban planning is destinated to disappear in the not too faraway future; the dance studio is run by olaf kehler, who studied at the sndo,amsterdam; ongoin classes monday&wendsday, 20.00-23.00; other classes tba, usually contact on the last wensday of the month; main investigating focus is multidisziplinary improvisation; sometimes we have dance pieces performed, but mainly we have a lot of concerts, a lot of international and local experimental bands; with these musicians we often have a 15 min dance/music/projections improv-set before their shows; we invite all travelling artists dancers performers to pass by, maybe share work, maybe play together..
and bilbao and its surroundings are sure worth a visit : friendly and very special people, it´s famous transformation from industrial to ´cultural´city ("guggenheim-effect"),beautiful beaches with cool waves 25 min away, mountains all around…sounds like a tourist guide..haha..but it´s true..
..Nov 16 – 20, 2009 FIM-Festival of Multidisziplinary Improvisation…
check out a video :
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=T6wVSNIBmbk

myspace.com/fimbilbao

contact improvisation association from LLEIDA (CATALUNYA)
we organize events, workshops, laboratories and jams

Since 1980, a school for actors and dancers.
Contact for beginners and experts.
Contact Festival
Jam Sessions

TRANSIT is an ongoing international project with variable geographies dedicated to Improvisation and performance art

Dance Platform is a small organization devoted to promotion of contact improvisation in Ukraine. We organize events, jams and master classes for all willing to learn about CI.

Providing the space for those who explore the edges of contact improvisation, and giving the hand to the newcomers.

Movement 12 is a group of independent dance artists based in and around Brighton who curate an international programme of artist – led professional development opportunities for dance artists in a variety of spaces in the town.

The programme includes: Regular movement classes, workshops and summer schools with internationally respected performance makers and teachers; Space to try out ideas and show work in progress; And opportunities to meet, discuss and explore.

The programme creates a variety of contexts for dance artists and their collaborators to come together with others working in their fields to support, challenge and expand the work they do.

Movement 12 aims to facilitate an environment in which the focus is on process, exploration and discovery rather than on product, and on giving professional dance artists some breathing space in which to train, try things out and explore new territory.

Movement 12 12 have curated events with dance artists including:
Steve Paxton, Jonathan Burrows, Lisa Nelson, Kirstie Simson, Jeremy Nelson, Gaby Agis, Lauren Potter, Rahel Vonmoos, Marie-Gabrielle Rotie, Scott Smith, Kathy Crick, Augusto Corrieri, Andrea Buckley, Sasha Roubicek, Rachel, Krische, Matthias Sperling, Henry Montes, Gill Clarke, Theo Clinkard, John Stirk, Christian Burns, Yael Flexer and Henrietta Hale.

Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company is recognised as Northern Ireland’s leading Dance Company. It was created by Ursula Laeubli and Steve Batts in Amsterdam in 1991 and after six years of project work in Europe it relocated to Derry, Northern Ireland where it has since become a key influence in the development of dance theatre in Ireland.

Echo Echo regularly produces and tours internationally with original new performance work for an ensemble of local and international dancers. The company also has a strong commitment to developing dance as an accessible art form maintaining a busy dance education and outreach programme for people of all ages and abilities.

It is the company’s movement style and ethos that sets it apart from the crowd with influences ranging from the quirky and playful to gentle and poetic, sourcing its movement material from a very wide range of contemporary dance forms and movement practices.

Echo Echo’s team of staff, artists and volunteers has flourished in recent years, generating a diverse and exciting programme of education and performance work.

Bodysurf Scotland promotes and produces dance, movement and related arts events. Based in The Universal Hall Arts Centre, the Findhorn Foundation Community in North East Scotland, our programme covers a range of activities including trainings for professional artists, performances, screenings and workshops in a range of dance and movement practices including the 5Rhythms, contact improvisation and yoga.

Not Man Apart – Physical Theatre Ensemble (www.notmanapart.com) also hosts many different artists and projects in Los Angeles including:
LA Improv Dance Festival in Winter/Spring
Somatic Movement Arts Festival in Fall
Shakespeare Santa Monica in Summer)
Big Sur Theatre Lab in Winter
Community Workshop Series throughout the year

These festivals are explorations and celebrations of different movement styles and alternative dance techniques; perfect opportunities to visit sunny Southern California.

dedicated to the advancement and exploration of contact improv. hosting Jams, Labs and workshops in the Bay area.

Weekly Sunday jams and once-a-month classes.

Twice monthly improvisational dance sessions 1.5 – 2 hours long.
See website for schedule updates and location.

Offering Contact Improvisation Classes, Workshops, and Jams in Boulder, CO.

www.SharingWeight.com ~ * ~ www.facebook.com/SharingWeight

Tumblebones is a group of 7 people who are passionately committed to CI as a practice for exploring and expanding our humanness. Working with the principles of CI as a base for our physical practice, we incorporate elements of dance improvisation and composition, and theater. What thrills us is dancing, dancing together. We consistently explore CI, which is for us simultaneously athletic and artistic. Our “mission” is to explore the core principles of CI, to nurture our evolving friendships, and to delight in the gifts that build from dancing regularly. Moving together year after year has deepened our way of working, refined our interests, and established a container for exploring our “one wild and precious life.”

Virtual network annex for all interested in Contact Improvisation in South East Florida.
"CISeFlo" is also on Facebook

Bubbling little group of CI dancers – we bridge the University of Illinois dance community and a the vibrant pool of artists/dancers who live in Champaign-Urbana. Our Facebook Page and Group (both named Champaign Contact Improv) are the best way to contact us and find out when/where local jams are happening.

CIB supports and organizes Contact Improvisation events in Boston area:

Mon Movement Jam w/ live music, fac. by Olivier Besson 8-10 pm
Tues Jam 8-10pm
Sun Jam/class 11:30am-1:30pm
Fall Jam (Oct.)
Winter CI Festival (Feb.)
May Jam (May Memorial day weekend)
Workshops
Other events

A 25′ × 48′ dance studio with nice sprung maple floor, where classes and performances happen. It is just across the town line from Northampton, Mass, in Easthampton. It has some adjustable track lights and can make a bit of atmosphere, but isn’t really equipped as a theater. I (Christie Svane) teach “Embodying Soul through Movement, Writing and Voice” and “Movement Inventions” with Gale Turner. Nancy Stark Smith’s Underscore +- workgroup meets there, and there’s free Morning Moving, (free-form self-guided moving, can be CI)Tues 8:30-9:30a.m., Thurs. 9:30-10:30a.m..

The Zany Angels are a highly physical, wildly animated dance theatre company who enjoy sharing insightful, captivating works of performance art. They believe that everyone and anyone can be an artist and they want to show you just how it works.

The Zany Angels reveal the human element, draw the audience into stories, music, and movement we can recognize and enjoy.

They teach classes & workshops: Contact Improvisation, Authentic Movement, Zany Performance Art, Creative Sourcing, Gentle Yoga, Creative Couples, & Wellness.

The Zany Angels also rents out the WILD LIFE SANCTUARY STUDIO. Main space 800 sq feet, with entry space 300 sq ft with couch and chairs, and also extra room 90 sq ft. Also 40 chairs, various pillows and blankets. For workshops, classes, events.

EARTHDANCE is an artist-run workshop, residency, and retreat center located in the Berkshire hills of Western Massachusetts. We provide a dynamic mix of dance, somatic, and interdisciplinary arts training, with a focus on sustainable living, social justice, and community. Earthdance has been spearheading innovative arts programming, and maintaining a beautiful facility for rental groups in the Pioneer Valley for over two decades.

Our diverse, year-round programs include: dance workshops; yoga retreats; interdisciplinary, ecological and somatic art festivals & residencies; Contact Improvisation jams; ROOT, a local class series; a year-round Artist Residency Program; and our New Performance Series.

Our facilities include two large and sunny studios with maple floors, meeting space, meditation and massage rooms, 100 acres of woods, streams, trails and a wood-fired sauna.

Valerie Green and Dance Entropy, Inc., opened Green Space in November 2005. Located in Long Island City, Green Space serves the public by offering discounted services to individual artists and dance companies in a spacious 1200 sq. foot studio. Green Space's mission is to serve the Queens and general dance community by providing an affordable and welcoming environment for rehearsals, classes, and performances.

Dance Meditations and Conscious Contact Improvisation Playshops in Dallas, TX and beyond.
Events are held all around the city at hotels, rec centers and dance studios. See http://www.FeelsLikePeace.com for current schedule.

Group of Contact Improvisors in both the Burlington and Montpelier areas of Vermont that organize weekly jams and an Annual Contact Jam in Burlington.

Classes in Contact also offered.

Contact, NiA, Yoga, Feldenkrais. NVC and more