Spiral & Root: Earthdance Professional CI Training Jan 6-26 2025

SAVE THE DATE! Welcome to Spiral & Root: Earthdance’s Professional Contact Improvisation Training. For those who are longing for a deep and durational dive into CI research, pedagogy, and professional training, you’re invited to gather with us for three weeks from January 6th through 26th, 2025. With nine teachers from Europe, North & South America, and the Middle East representing some of the highest quality of CI instruction available, this one-of-a kind professional training promises to deliver a container for the continuation of targeted and passionate CI research. WHO IS THIS FOR? 🌿 Spiral & Root is a place of meeting and dialogue between elders and newer generations of dancers, facilitating the continued development and evolution of CI. In addition to developing and refining the necessary technical skills for practicing and facilitating CI, this training will likewise focus on career development and for those who wish to further their professional tools, networks, and offerings. This intensive is especially valuable for those who wish to further integrate CI training and research into their careers and practices of community building. Further, there will also be opportunities for dialogue and inquiry around the original values and intentions of CI. THE VENUE 🌱 As the oldest intentional community founded on Contact Improv, it’s only natural that Earthdance has long been host to some of the most comprehensive and rigorous trainings for teachers and dedicated practitioners of CI. Since its founding in 1986, Earthdance has been committed to a spirit of improvisation and heart-centered community through CI-informed movement practices and research. As CI and notions of community have evolved and developed further, Earthdance has likewise adapted and integrated the changes that have cohered, playing host to countless jams and trainings that further progress the dance form. WHY IS THIS A "PROFESSIONAL" TRAINING 🌿 There has been some rich discussion and questioning of the term ‘professional’ in the title of the intensive. In the end, we are deciding to keep it, and, to also make it clear that we are using the term to mean the support of participants’ professional development and resourcefulness as teachers, facilitators, and organizers, as opposed to any sort of certification process or top-down bestowing of credentials or authority. APPLYING TO PARTICIPATE 🌱 In order to participate in the Spiral and Root Intensive, we require all participants to have a certain degree of skill and experience with Contact Improv and related modalities in order to ensure that everyone has the capacity to fully take part and reasonably integrate the material. If you are a beginner to CI, this might not be the right time to commit to such a training. If you are intermediate to advanced level, then you should be fine. In order to assess if this is the right time for you to participate, we require all participants to fill out an application through our website before registering. After doing so, we will respond with an invitation and registration link. If we’re unsure if this is right for you, we will reach out to you and invite you to have a conversation with us so that we can better determine the way forward. MORE DETAILS 🌿 https://www.earthdance.net/spiral-root-earthdance-professional-ci-training/