Contact Improvisation

Contact Improvisation dance is liberating, creative and fun. It’s about exploring movement, balance, weight, physical contact and communication, involving two or more persons at the time.

Contact Improvisation is an improvised dance form 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, 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.

Alertness is developed 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.

I see CI as a way to re-awake and enjoy fully our sensitivity and playfulness, working on trust, explore curiosity about movement principles out of daily movement patterns.

Contact Classes in Ljubljana

They will start at the end of September and will be co-taught with Daniele Mariuz.
Further info is coming soon.

The CI classes in Ljubljana for the season 2020-2021 will be at the Ex Stena, in Parmova Ulica, 25.

Contact Improvisation workshops in Trieste

For further info, you have a look at www.dancinghouse.it or contact Marta Zacchingna.

The first workshop will be on 20 September 2020.

One to one classes

On request, I can offer one to one CI classes focused on your specific needs.

Resources

Guidelines for the jams

These are the guidelines that we use on Sunday Contact Jams in Slovenia.

Guidelines for Musicians during the jams

These ideas have been written to clarify what are the needs of the dancers during a Contact Improvisation Jam.
The musicians are books to experiment spontaneously with musical forms and ideas to seek, during the dance, a continuous symbiotic exchange with the dancers.
Each influencing the other and vice versa.
Guidelines for musicians >