SOS Skiing On Skin FINLAND 9. - 15. February 2025 Contact Improvisation Festival

WELCOME Dear fellow CI dancers, Warm welcome to the 13th Skiing on Skin – Contact Improvisation Festival ! https://www.contactfestival.fi/ All the information you need, you will find from our webpage above We are a group of 17 Finnish CI teachers. Many of us are also dear friends and colleagues for well over 20 years. This year we have in SOS team : Annukka, Iiris, Ilona, Jarno, Kaisa, Katri, Linda, Malcolm, Mirva, Otto, Panu, Petri, Ronja, Samuli, Terhi, Ulla, Ville. We gladly and enthusiastically inform you that we are continuing to create this festival, precious for many of you – we have heard – and for us too. There is so much love and curiosity for the exploration and research of this form, and for the warm wintery family-like togetherness – surrounded by fresh, pure, silently magical Finnish nature – that we just couldn’t hold off creating the SOS once again, for all of us to deeply enjoy. We had a 5 year pause in organizing the SOS, in order to recharge and renew our passion.This year we feel ready, ripe and refueled to collectively birth the dear and long-awaited 13th SOS. The spirit of the festival is as follows : We aim to offer our freshest findings of what we feel passionate about in our own explorations with CI. Some of us are drawn to study anatomical details or to perfect technical skills. Some adore the precision in weight sharing. Some focus more on deep listening through touch. Some love to play. For some it’s about the nourishing quality of human connection. For some it is about the mystery of the universe. Some are lively lovers of dynamic flying, jumping and bumping. And some seem more like eternal explorers of hyper-slow and meditative micro-movements. Some are going for the unknown, and some just love to repeat the same same in different ways. No matter what is each one’s calling and personal interest, together we are creating and enjoying a rich offering of a variety of perspectives towards our common love, the ever-present creative meeting point, the dance of Contact Improvisation. So, we would like to invite you to dance with us ! Please come and share your dance and contribute to the co-creation of a fulfilling festival atmosphere through your way of being, moving and dancing. Let’s share the deep and mysterious meaning of dancing together in these unprecedented and apocalyptic times. With all this we like to say that we would be very happy to see you again! ..or to see you for the first time! ..or, why not, to see us all like for the first time ever, like never before 🙂 Some practicalities which are good to know : The festival is created in a non-profit spirit. Basically we create it just out of love for the CI, for each other, and for the evolving community. Our shared dance is the thing which makes us rich. This is how many of us choose to continue to believe 🙂 All the money you pay for participating goes in its totality to cover the basic necessities of the festival. Good news! We have found a new home for the SOS. It is a sports center, located 1,5 hours from Helsinki, with great facilities for dancing and winter sports, such as skiing, and also for dipping in the ice-cold lake, swimming in an indoor pool and having a sauna. You can read more about the center here: https://vierumaki.fi/en If you have any questions please reach out. We are looking forward to seeing you and to dancing with you! Warm wishes from the SOS 2025 team : Annukka, Iiris, Ilona, Jarno, Kaisa, Katri, Linda, Malcolm, Mirva, Otto, Panu, Petri, Ronja, Samuli, Terhi, Ulla, Ville.