CI Explorations: seven Sunday evening class labs based in classic, physics-based CI (2.11-14.12.25)

Welcome to CI Explorations, a 7-week series of classes/labs developing and springing off of classic, physics-based CI. Contact Improvisation is a 50-year-old movement exploration and art practice, an open-ended exploration of the physics, creative possibilities, and of listening bodies moving through interdependent contact. As CI is an art practice, there is a blend of the physical, the intuitive, the intellectual: a primarily non-verbal exploration interplays with self-observation and verbal articulation. It is also an exercise in personal agency, where we encourage each other to initiate and experiment and commit to our own agency and active curiosity in a spirit of mutually supportive shared practice. The Explorations sessions blend technique, movement/lift vocabulary, and score-based research. Feedback and discussion help connect practice and understanding. We will explore fundamentals in detail: easeful weight sharing, adaptive presence, back-space awareness, 3-D falling pathways, momentum-carried lifts, and articulate work through the pelvis/center. Sessions blend technique, movement/lift vocabulary, and simple scores with short debriefs. 📅 When: 2.11 to 14.12 2025 Sundays: 18h – 20h class into 20h + open practice 📍Where: Tanzerei Flugfisch, Hinterhaus, Gustav-Adolf-Straße 45, 04105 Leipzig 📍 Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/RK1fRBzdzdCpMn7z5 👥 With Whom: Karl Frost (California/Leipzig), Deborah Manavi (Kassel/Leipzig), Olha Bershadska (Kyiv/Leipzig) and friends 🙋‍♀️ For Whom: those who already have an introduction to CI practice and techniques of weight sharing, physical listening, and adaptation. (This series works well with the CI Essentials weekends, the nearest is on Oct 25-26). 🗣 Language: English 💰 Price: 130-200€ sliding scale. Early registration: 90-200€, if paid by 11 October Pay what you can in the range, no one turned away for lack of funds 📝 To register fill in the form: https://forms.gle/LgeJX7Jq5oNShDxZ9 💻 More information: https://www.bodyresearch.org/.../contact-improvisation.../ 🔍 Details and Logistics: Schedule: 18:00 – 20:00+ About 2 hours of class flows into open practice/jam. We’ll aim to start by 18:10 to allow time for arrival and personal warm-up, flowing into led class and facilitated explorations. Closer to 20:00, we’ll end with practice/jam space, which will be somewhat open-ended. We go until at least 20:00, but with practice space available until 21:30, depending on the energy that day of the group and the host. Exactly how this work, we’ll feel out as a group. Post-class practice space is a chance to integrate what we’ve been exploring with what we already know, sometimes by holding tightly to it and diving in deeper, and sometimes by forgetting it and letting it drop into the unconscious in more open dancing. It will also be a place where we can explore other questions we have, feeding into the group conversations in later sessions. Space is limited. The related CI Essentials workshops usually fill, so early registration is recommended.