Contact Improvisation at the HOP: From Trust to Creative Flow

Ever felt stuck in your head while dancing? Longing for connection that is real, fluid and alive? July's Thursdays, let's join together in our transformative journey into authentic connection, trust, and embodied creativity. 🎫 Book Your Journey : https://forms.gle/AXLBjVqAVrC1e3v47 Through 3 sessions of Contact Improvisation (CI) practice — a partner-based movement form rooted in touch, shared weight, embodied sensory, and real-time improvisation. Let's experience the joy of interbeing and mind-body integration. --------------------------------------------------------- 📍 Date, Time, Place : Thursdays 10, 17, 24 July 2025 8.45 PM – 10 PM at The Hop, Silom https://g.co/kgs/nkWqTQ7 🎟 550 THB / session 🌟🌟 1500 THB for all 3 sessions 🌟🌟 For further inquiry: IG: @conscious.move.bkk 📩 LINE: ongarius (Ong) Whatsapp: +66830345950 👕 Dresscode: Long sleeve, Trousers, Soft fabric, Bare feet ----------------------------------------------------------- For technically dancers, these sessions help you: ✨ Break out of rigid roles and overthinking 🤝 Re-connect with your own body wisdom and develop trust with any partner, even the newly met one 🪽 Move with freedom, play, and presence For curious souls who enjoy dancing, these sessions also help: 😊 Open to better sensing and understanding your own body, which is the first basic to all health aspects 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Experience another healthy perspective to relationships in life 💡 Try out co-creating atmosphere that adaptable as tackling unexpected issues that may come to life All of this, in Contact Improvisation series: From Trust to Creative Flow ---------------------------------------------------------- 🌿 Syllabus of the 3 Thursdays: 📅 Week 1 – Trusting into Support (Ong Pholchai) How to deep-listen, to shift, give and receive weight safely. How to sense gravity and release your ego into momentum and creative forces. Explore different ways of trusting yourself and supporting your partners into moving together authentically. 📅 Week 2 – Leaning into Connection (Jobs) To listen, respond, and adjust to your partner in real-time. Also becoming aware of and setting boundary a in healthy way. 📅 Week 3 – Spiral into Co-creative space (Zoe Yuchien Cheng) To awaken your spine, joints, and to discover all "possible" space to move. Also getting into the "spontaneous choice-making" state which produces co-creation beauty. With 10-20 years of international experience, all our facilitators hope support a safe, welcoming environment for your learning and self-development. All levels are welcome including beginners. Come as you are! Where we meet each other is the site of dance and discovery. “If swing teaches rhythm and connection, CI teaches how to fall, feel, and co-create the rhythm together.” - Ong Pholchai ------------------------------------------------------------- Artist bio: 👋 Ong Pholchai A movement artist and Contact Improvisation teacher known for blending technical clarity with embodied play. With a background in physics and a deep love for partner dance, Ong creates spaces where dancers feel safe to explore, surprise themselves, and move beyond perfectionism. 👋 Zoe Yu-Chien Cheng A veteran CI teacher, choreographer, and festival organizer with over 20 years of experience across Asia and the U.S. Founder of Inch Dance (2016), she’s taught at Cloud Gate Dance School (Taiwan) and performed with CHEN DANCE CENTER (New York). Now based in Bangkok, she creates site-specific performances, workshops, and festivals, weaving improvisation into community life with joy and artistry. 👋 Jobs Body Intelligence A graphic designer, developer, and CI dancer. Jobs is working around dance retreat facilitation with holistic approaches like breathing, posture, fascia, movement scores, connecting touch, and more. --------------------------------------- Open your body to sense and listen. Open your heart to feel your inner world and to relate to others. Let's connect on the dance floor!! 💖 #dance #contactimprovisation #connection #mindfulness #holistichealth #inclusivedance #bodyfulness #somaticwisdom #consciousmovement #flow #trust #boundary #creative