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.