CI Essentials: Beginner’s Workshop, introduction to Contact Improvisation (CI)

🤸‍♀️ What: An affordable, one-day, beginner-friendly Contact Improvisation workshop focusing on the core practices of classic, physics-based CI. 📅 When: 9 February 2025, 10:00-17:00 📍 Where: Leipzig, Germany, 4fT Tanzplattform, Erich-Zeigner-Allee 64 (Haus E) 📍 Google Maps https://maps.app.goo.gl/h9LeLkwYvRXhK6YP7 👥 Who: With Bettina Gro Soerensen, Olha Bershadska, and Nia Rogge 🙋‍♀️ 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: 40-60€ sliding scale: Pay what you can within the range; no one turned away for lack of funds. Early registration: 30-60€ if paid by 1 February. 📝 To register: fill in the form https://forms.gle/5SzdnhM48nmwx6jSA Description: Welcome to CI Essentials: Beginner’s Workshop, your introduction to Contact Improvisation (CI)—a playful and creative dance form centered on moving with others, physical connection, and following curiosity. CI invites movers to engage with their and their partners' bodies through the sharing weight and structure and physical listening. This is intended as a very beginner friendly workshop focusing on basics and core practices of CI. In this workshop, 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”. We also make a space for those already introduced to CI to spend some time working on core practices. No prior experience is necessary—just bring curiosity, openness, and a willingness 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/