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.
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.