Association for Contact Improvisation

Body as poetic landscape

Loïs Darie — 2026-06-08T02:44:18Z

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Sunday morning classesFall 2026 session

Loïs Darie — 2026-06-08T02:17:14Z

Fall course schedule coming soon

Following ACI tradition, Sunday classes are on break until early
September

🌀Objective: The classes serve as physical and somatic preparation for the jam that follows until 4:00 pm. The content is accessible to beginners and stimulating for more experienced practitioners. In the spirit of Steve Paxton's philosophy, there is no hierarchy in Contact Improvisation: there is always something to explore and learn, regardless of level or experience.

A passionate and committed team

We have brought together teachers who are actively involved in CI practice and in the activities of the ACI.
Some bring extensive teaching experience, while others, though newer to this role, demonstrate a strong potential for transmission and facilitation.
o support pedagogical continuity, each teacher facilitates two consecutive Sundays.

💰 Rates payable in cash or by e-transfer to: intcoursdimatin@contactimpro.org
Class only: $15
Class + jam: $20
✔️ No reservation required—simply arrive 10 minutes before the class starts to complete your registration.
📩 Questions: coursdimatin@contactimpro.org

Please arrive 10 minutes before the class starts to complete your registration.

Camping in Contact

Loïs Darie — 2026-06-08T01:44:24Z

Join us for the first edition of Camping in Contact, a gathering focused on connection and practices centered around movement and Contact Improvisation, on the shores of a lake in La Mauricie National Park.
All the information is on the page FACEBOOK
and on the website: campingincontact.ca

Moment Collectives ARCS CI Pre-Summer Festival 2026

Loïs Darie — 2026-06-07T23:53:41Z

All the information about the

Event website

With teachers and artists:
Valerie Sabbah, Avery Fitzgerald, Nico Couto, Nathaniel Cancela Edsell, Benoît Lachambre, Lalaina Ravelojaona, Emanuel Guay, Mel Sirois, À Corps Consentants, Tanya Williams, Saule Ikigai, Cam Novak, Vincent-Nicolas Provencher, Andrea Muñiz, Kristen Lewis, Niku Dhillon, Shanthi Minor, Arash Khakpour, Neta Peleg Ginzburg, Emma Anders, Kio.Flo, Ariana Duclos, Jamhouse Collective (musique live) et Dena Davida (modératrice du panel).

1st edition JAM NOMADE – CI

Loïs Darie — 2026-05-12T19:41:22Z

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When Dance Flows Through Us - CI - Composition - Contemplative dance

Loïs Darie — 2026-05-03T16:44:17Z

All the information is on the page

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Global Underscore Festival

Loïs Darie — 2026-05-01T14:04:17Z

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Essential Principles, Fundamental Skills and Ensemble Work in CI

Loïs Darie — 2026-04-30T16:13:36Z

All information about the intensive course on the page

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Cost: $75.
To reserve your place send a $25 deposit by e-transfer to: a1harwood@yahoo.ca
Credit: andrew Harwood

Sunday morning classes Spring 2026 session

Loïs Darie — 2026-04-30T15:28:26Z

Spring course schedule

See course content HERE

May 3: Alessia De Salis (Bio)

Mai 10 and 17: Irina Rusu (Bio)

May 24 and 31: Ming Tsai (Bio)

🌀Objective: The classes serve as physical and somatic preparation for the jam that follows until 4:00 pm. The content is accessible to beginners and stimulating for more experienced practitioners. In the spirit of Steve Paxton's philosophy, there is no hierarchy in Contact Improvisation: there is always something to explore and learn, regardless of level or experience.

A passionate and committed team

We have brought together teachers who are actively involved in CI practice and in the activities of the ACI.
Some bring extensive teaching experience, while others, though newer to this role, demonstrate a strong potential for transmission and facilitation.
o support pedagogical continuity, each teacher facilitates two consecutive Sundays.

💰 Rates payable in cash or by e-transfer to: intcoursdimatin@contactimpro.org
Class only: $15
Class + jam: $20
✔️ No reservation required—simply arrive 10 minutes before the class starts to complete your registration.
📩 Questions: coursdimatin@contactimpro.org

Please arrive 10 minutes before the class starts to complete your registration.

Course content

Uneven territories with Alessia De Salis
This class proposes to explore the body as a territory on which we can dance and play — a living map made of mountains, valleys, plateaus, and paths to travel. The body becomes a landscape to inhabit, cross, and cartograph, rediscovering familiar pathways as well as those less explored or rarely taken.
Through play, we will revisit our relationship to the floor, to ourselves, and gradually to others. Play invites curiosity, lightness, and the freedom to not take ourselves too seriously, offering a space where movement habits can shift and soften.
We will explore both comfortable and less familiar paths, allowing playfulness and relation to emerge.
This class is open to all levels and invites everybody to explore at its own rhythm, within a shared, playful, and sensitive research space.

The listening and Fluidity on the Floor with Irina Rusu
A contact improvisation workshop focused on floor work and side‑by‑side proximity, where we explore weight, listening, and shared movement.
A space where bodies glide, breathe, and respond to one another: close to the ground, two presences discover each other, weight becomes language, breath becomes a guide, and movement emerges from trust—simple and instinctive.

Open to all levels.

The Continuity of (Re)acting with Ming Tsai
You push me gently, and I push you back. Then you pull at the bottom of my shirt, and I turn toward you. In these two workshops, I want to explore the reaction to an action, the ripple in a pond caused by a thrown stone. To use escalation ladder as our choreographer. To observe and react rather than agitate.

Sunday morning classes Winter 2026 session

Loïs Darie — 2026-04-08T01:03:00Z

Winter course schedule

See course content HERE

April 12 and 19: Saule Ikigai (Bio)

April 26: Alessia De Salis (Bio)

🌀Objective: The classes serve as physical and somatic preparation for the jam that follows until 4:00 pm. The content is accessible to beginners and stimulating for more experienced practitioners. In the spirit of Steve Paxton's philosophy, there is no hierarchy in Contact Improvisation: there is always something to explore and learn, regardless of level or experience.

A passionate and committed team

We have brought together teachers who are actively involved in CI practice and in the activities of the ACI.
Some bring extensive teaching experience, while others, though newer to this role, demonstrate a strong potential for transmission and facilitation.
o support pedagogical continuity, each teacher facilitates two consecutive Sundays.

💰 Rates payable in cash or by e-transfer to: intcoursdimatin@contactimpro.org
Class only: $15
Class + jam: $20
✔️ No reservation required—simply arrive 10 minutes before the class starts to complete your registration.
📩 Questions: coursdimatin@contactimpro.org

Please arrive 10 minutes before the class starts to complete your registration.

Course content

True & and Aware with Saule Ikigai
I invite you to explore Contact Improvisation, moving with awareness and creativity, responding to the sensations of weight, lightness, and gravity. We will seek the grounding and momentum that support our dancing structure, that of our partners, and the shared weight. Lightness and fluidity will guide our movement, freeing the dance of expectations. We will also honor the emotional space: how to enter the duet, maintain connection, and conclude with presence and care.
All of this creates a space for experimentation and play, where body and emotions dialogue, and where every gesture becomes a living exploration of oneself, the other, and the pursuit of the unexpected… Being aware in the pursuit of the true.