4th Contact Improvisation Essentials Workshop, Leipzig

Welcome to the 4th CI Essentials, a fundamentals-focused, beginner-friendly Contact Improvisation Workshop! Contact Improvisation is a playful and creative dance form centered on moving with others, physical connection, bio-mechanical exploration, and following curiosity. CI Essentials is a series of weekend workshops looking at core practices and fundamental techniques of classic, physics-based contact improvisation. There are many routes into contact practice and at the same time some core fundamentals. The workshops will mix novel exercises and perspectives on explorations of physical sensitivity, adaptability, weight sharing and shared creativity with useful-to-repeat mechanical CI fundamentals to deepen into core practices. They are beginner-friendly, but also of interest to experienced dancers wanting to concentrate on core practices … aimed to be useful for repeat attendance, but also open for new participants each time. 📅 When: 30/31 May, 10-17h 📍 Where: Fudoshin Aikido Dojo, Josephstraße 45, 04177 Leipzig 📍 Google Maps https://maps.app.goo.gl/F2hsQKt8LYcQ2CCU7 👥 With Whom: Olha Bershadska (Kyiv/Leipzig) Nils Dittmar (Chemnitz) Karl Frost (San Francisco, Leipzig) 🙋‍♀️ For Whom: - Beginners curious about Contact Improvisation - Those looking to explore movement, connection, and creativity -No prior experience needed—just bring your curiosity and a willingness to move! 💰 Price: 130-200 sliding scale No one turned away for lack of funds... If the lower end of the sliding scale would be too much for the moment, write and pay what you can. 📝 To register: fill in the form https://forms.gle/1fiKmTJUhiGCJ8Sw7 -- CI is a playful and creative dance form centered on moving with others, physical connection, bio-mechanical exploration, and following curiosity. CI invites movers to engage with their and their partners’ bodies through sharing weight and structure and through physical listening. It is sometimes gentle and meditative, sometimes wild and acrobatic, following the curiosities and initiatives of those exploring. This weekend is intended as a very beginner-friendly workshop focusing on basics and core practices of CI. We’ll dive into physical listening, offering and accepting support, and navigating shared balance through space and into and out of the floor. We’ll also practice some basic lifts and supports and practice working them into a flow, following a moving point of contact. The primary aim of the workshop is to help those newer to the dance to feel comfortable in the more open exploration space of a “contact jam” or in using contact-based practices in other dance contexts. For those already introduced to CI, it is an opportunity to spend some time working on the fundamentals. No prior experience is necessary—just bring curiosity, openness, and an active excitement to move and explore in physical contact! For more information on contact improvisation, what it is and its history, go to https://www.bodyresearch.org/contact-improvisation/