Hello my dear contact people!
Is there any contact improvisation in Albania or neighbouring countries except Greece or Italy obviously.

When CI was accepted into the modern dance sphere of study, practice and performance it did not require a system that certified teachers of the form -- an "Open Source" format.

In my early years of study I assumed that you learned the "basic" language from classes and teachers, so that you were able to join "jams". The problem for me, is that I did this backwards. I stumbled onto a jam without knowing anything and had what can only be described as an almost religious experience on the first try. So, I had already demonstrated that my body somehow "knew it". ( it would take me years and years of practice to match the skill I had on my first try...mysteriously) I went on to dance with hundreds of others over the next 40 years and with certain new people, I would learn after dancing with them that they too "knew it" in a way that also seemed innate.

I became very disillusioned with teachers and classes early on because there was no way to know whether that instruction was going to be helpful or a waste of time, money and attention (the product of not having certification) -- more than anything, the instruction often seemed silly.... to me, nothing ever offered in a class was better than what I could learn from just challenging myself to dance with people that I didn't think I would have a good dance with at an open jam. The rumors of certain "rock star" teachers being sex pests increased my skepticism.

What I came to understand is that it took practice to get consistently good at it. I see a need for the CI community to normalize those that want to prioritize jamming over classes and workshops. To establish jam spaces that invite ALL somatic dialogues and create equity in the participants rather than personality driven jams that seem to exist to promote classes and workshops- that run the risk of banning participants for angering the host, or being a pool from which to take advantage of young new dancers.

Who else sees the need to expand the understanding of “open source” from being reduced to that which ONLY allows anyone to hold classes to “open source” can mean creating jams that reject "expert” “teachers in favor of prioritizing jams that move the form into something as revolutionary and radical as a co-creative learning environments?

CI Training with Andrew Wass

Wednesdays 14:00-15:30

starting 02.09.2026

Intermediate/Advanced

LOCATION
marameo, e.V.
Wallstrasse 32 10179 Berlin, Germany
U2, Märkisches Museum
U8, Heinrich Heine Strasse

This weekly class is for people who already are familiar with contact improvisation and are ready to go deeper. Through structured scores, focused repetition, and close attention to the body’s mechanics, we will refine the technical skills that support a seasoned CI practice – multiple muscle tonalities, nuanced movement initiation, solo body clarity. These classes will work towards building greater fluency, range, and physical confidence.

Each session combines individual somatic work, partnering pathways, and improvisational scores designed to sharpen listening and responsiveness. Drawing on Material from Paxton’s work, developmental and somatic work, and classic CI practices, we will investigate how gravity, timing, and anatomical awareness can expand what’s possible in the dance.

Participants should expect both feedback and challenge. This is a space to train, question your habits, and discover new pathways through the known and unknown events of contact.

For dancers with existing CI experience who want more: more precision, more range, more understanding.

Members register here!

Not a member yet? Arrive 10 minutes before class to get your trial session, or use our contact form to reserve your spot!

Why is Contact improvisation so fascinating and exciting when you’re in it, but can be difficult to get into?

CI is a Multi-Plex practice. It combines multiple different disciplines that are complex, intertwined and entangled through each other. 

It’s about presence, connection to yourself and moving your own body. It’s about exploring the physics of sharing weight with another body/other body bodies. 

It’s about sharing space with a whole group of people, noticing group dynamics and playing with them. It’s a sociological experiment. through exploring interaction without verbal language.

Listening.  Moving. Connecting. 

It combines many elements that are missing in our modern society and everyday interactions.  

We are facing an epidemic of loneliness, disconnection and separation, we are often overwhelmed through too much stimulation and opposition on so many levels. 

Contact Improvisation can seem like an antidote to all of these things.  

But because it encompasses so many different approaches & topics it can also seem very challenging to start because it asks so much of us in one moment. it asks us to go towards the opposite of what the whole of the world is currently telling us to do. It is very hard to begin. 

it is an act of anarchy to listen to yourself and choose to connect to humans through touch and movement and presence. 

From Helsinki to Kunming, from Uruguay to Taiwan: contact improvisation doesn't take a summer break. The spread of CI festivals this year shows how decentralized and global the practice has become.

This is a snapshot of the community-sourced, continuously updated map of Contact Improvisation festivals & intensives (4+ days) from the CI Treasure Hunt project. Corrections, missing events, or regional additions are especially welcome.

Current snapshot: 122 upcoming events across 33 countries

June

🇵🇹 Jun 1–7 — Mirva Mäkinen CI Training, Algarve 🎓
🇵🇹 Jun 1–21 — Horizons CI Research Camp, Quinta Ten Chi
🇩🇪 Jun 3–7 — A Berlin CI Camp, Berlin
🇮🇹 Jun 3–24 — Italy Contact Fest, Gaia Terra
🇩🇪 Jun 4–7 — Jam Festival Regensburg, Regensburg
🇨🇭 Jun 4–7 — Contact Festival Glarisegg
🇪🇸 Jun 4–7 — Cuerpo Expansivo, Granada
🇺🇸 Jun 4–7 — Diving into the Fabric of Touch, WildHeart Center
🇨🇦 Jun 6–18 — Moment Collectives ARCS Festival, Montréal
🇹🇭 Jun 7–30 — To begin with the act of giving, Chiang Dao
🇺🇸 Jun 8–12 — CI +/- Festival, Portland OR
🇫🇷 Jun 8–14 — Visibly Unstable CI Intensive, Dordogne
🇫🇮 Jun 10–14 — Midnight Sun CI Festival, Helsinki
🇺🇸 Jun 12–15 — Southwest CI Jam, New Mexico
🇨🇦 Jun 14–27 — CI Intensive, Lasqueti Island
🇬🇷 Jun 15–20 — Well-being, Resilience and Healing, Aegina Island
🇲🇾 Jun 15–21 — Contact Festival Kuala Lumpur
🇦🇷 Jun 18–21 — Invernal, Argentina
🇦🇺 Jun 18–22 — Falling Together, Roelands Village
🇮🇹 Jun 22–28 — The Humble Body, Italy
🇬🇧 Jun 22–29 — Emerging Hearts CI Dance Camp, near Frome
🇩🇪 Jun 24–28 — Liquid Space & Grounded Base, Barnin
🇮🇹 Jun 24–28 — Salento in Contact, Nardó
🇨🇳 Jun 24–30 — Silent Contact Retreat, Kunming
🇺🇸 Jun 25–Jul 5 — Summer Jam 40th Anniversary, Earthdance
🇨🇴 Jun 26–Jul 5 — Encuentro de CI en Colombia, Villa de Leyva
🇧🇪 Jun 30–Jul 5 — Silent Contact Belgium, Retie
🇺🇾 Jun 30–Jul 5 — Jamaso, Montevideo
🇵🇱 Jun 30–Jul 5 — Sensational Bodies in Action, Studio Burdąg

July

🇨🇦 Jul 1–4 — Victoria CI Festival, BC
🇺🇸 Jul 1–5 — West Coast CI JAM, Berkeley
🇪🇸 Jul 2–5 — Intensive Becky Siegel & KDM, Spain
🇮🇹 Jul 2–9 — 4 Elements Retreat, Italy
🇪🇸 Jul 6–12 — Brinca Galicia Contact Festival, near Lugo
🇸🇪 Jul 6–12 — Brännö Sommarjam
🇩🇪 Jul 7–12 — Windberg Contact Festival, near Erfurt
🇵🇹 Jul 7–14 — RIGPA Silent Contact Retreat, Sintra
🇹🇭 Jul 8–Aug 5 — Inspiral CI Intensive Workshop, Chiang Dao
🇺🇦 Jul 8–12 — Dancefulness, Ukraine
🇹🇼 Jul 9–17 — CI Workshop, Taiwan
🇸🇪 Jul 10–15 — Sweden Contact Fest, Ytterjärna
🇵🇱 Jul 11–19 — Warsaw Flow
🇵🇱 Jul 11–19 — Wild Side Residency, Poland
🇩🇪 Jul 13–19 — Finding the Sparkle Intensive, Ponderosa
🇩🇪 Jul 14–17 — 4-day Midday Jam, Berlin
🇳🇱 Jul 14–19 — Netherlands Contact Festival, Nijmegen
🇭🇺 Jul 14–28 — Kontaktland, Bátonyterenye
🇪🇸 Jul 16–19 — Focus Contact Retreat, Spain
🇬🇷 Jul 17–31 — CI Camp Greece, Liveloula
🇫🇷 Jul 18–24 — Au bout du monde CI Festival, Plouguerneau
🇫🇷 Jul 18–24 — CI Provence Festival, France
🇩🇪 Jul 18–24 — Summer Intensive Jörg Hassmann, Berlin
🇩🇪 Jul 20–24 — Marameo CI Festival, Berlin
🇮🇹 Jul 20–26 — Spinal Creatures, Italy
🇪🇸 Jul 21–26 — Dive into the Dance³, Llanes
🇺🇸 Jul 22–26 — Jam on Orcas Island, USA
🇩🇪 Jul 23–26 — JamJam Festival, Germany
🇮🇹 Jul 23–29 — Refining Focus, Italy
🇬🇧 Jul 24–28 — Dragon Orchard Jam, Putley
🇨🇦 Jul 24–Aug 2 — Salt Spring CI Festival
🇪🇸 Jul 27–Aug 2 — Inmersiones CI Festival, Vizcaya
🇩🇪 Jul 29–Aug 2 — CI Silent Retreat, Black Forest
🇨🇭 Jul 29–Aug 2 — Adrian Russi Intensive, Switzerland
🇵🇱 Jul 29–Aug 6 — CI Retreat Poland
🇬🇧 Jul 30–Aug 3 — Togethering at Beech Hill, Cheshire
🇭🇷 Jul 30–Aug 9 — CI Camp Croatia, Rovinj

August

🇫🇷 Aug 1–7 — SphereS Festival, near Lyon
🇩🇪 Aug 3–9 — Contact Impro Festival Stuttgart
🇫🇷 Aug 3–10 — Queer Collaborative Power of CI, Larret en Mouvement
🇫🇮 Aug 4–9 — Salty Skin CI Festival, near Turku
🇩🇪 Aug 4–9 — TanzTageTempelhof, Crailsheim
🇸🇰 Aug 9–14 — Float-In CI Festival, Lučenec
🇫🇷 Aug 10–23 — Terra Contact, Roussillon Conflent
🇳🇴 Aug 12–15 — Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, Nordmarka
🇵🇱 Aug 12–16 — FRU Dance Camp, near Lublin
🇩🇪 Aug 13–19 — Contact Festival Freiburg
🇬🇷 Aug 15–22 — Fall & Fly, Corfu
🇳🇴 Aug 16–22 — Norway Silent Contact Retreat, Nordmarka
🇫🇷 Aug 17–22 — Material for the Spine, Cabasse
🇩🇪 Aug 20–23 — Living Contact Dance Festival, Hof Ruckhardtshausen
🇪🇸 Aug 20–26 — Asturias Contact Festival, Lourenzá
🇨🇿 Aug 20–Sep 5 — Létanec CI Festival, Trstenice
🇦🇹 Aug 21–28 — Solo & CI Tirol Festival, Innsbruck
🇸🇪 Aug 22–26 — Nordic Impro Meeting, near Stockholm
🇮🇹 Aug 22–30 — Movement Hunter Summer Residency, Ancona
🇮🇹 Aug 24–30 — Summer CI Retreat Rick Nodine, Gaia Terra
🇮🇹 Aug 24–30 — Fluid Presence, Il Mulino
🇮🇹 Aug 25–30 — Kirstie Simson & Charlie Brittain, Genova
🇳🇱 Aug 26–30 — Fly like a bird, Land like a cat, Amsterdam
🇩🇪 Aug 26–30 — Rooted in Motion Module 1, Berlin 🎓
🇬🇷 Aug 27–Sep 2 — Corfu Land & Water CI Festival
🇺🇸 Aug 30–Sep 7 — Camp Contact @ Burning Man
🇮🇩 Aug 30–Sep 17 — Seamless Intensive, Bali

September

🇮🇹 Sep 1–7 — ECITE, San Casciano in Val di Pesa
🇩🇪 Sep 3–6 — TANZT! Festival, Ökodorf Sieben Linden
🇬🇷 Sep 6–9 — Diving into the fabric of touch, Corfu
🇺🇸 Sep 10–13 — CI Fundamentals Intensive, Rutherfordton NC
🇺🇸 Sep 10–13 — Compositional Awareness in CI, Earthdance
🇩🇪 Sep 11–Jun 6 2027 — Elske Seidel Contact Jahresgruppe, Berlin 🎓
🇨🇦 Sep 13–26 — CI Workshop & Jam, Lasqueti Island
🇵🇹 Sep 14–19 — Portugal Contact Festival, Algarve
🇩🇪 Sep 20–26 — Diving Deep, Flying High, Ponderosa
🇩🇪 Sep 21–27 — CI Gathering Dresden
🇩🇪 Sep 22–27 — Well-being, Resilience and Healing, Berlin
🇳🇱 Sep 22–27 — In Silence Contemplative CI Meeting, Naarden

October

🇦🇺 Oct 2–5 — Australian Contact Festival, Lennox Head NSW
🇪🇸 Oct 7–12 — Contact Impro Ibiza Festival
🇪🇸 Oct 8–13 — EMOCIE, Almería
🇨🇭 Oct 9–12 — Principles and Practice, Uster
🇺🇸 Oct 9–12 — Landing in Delight, Vashon Island WA
🇺🇸 Oct 9–18 — CI California Campout, North Fork CA
🇩🇪 Oct 14–18 — Rooted in Motion Module 2, Berlin 🎓
🇺🇸 Oct 14–18 — East Coast Jam, Charles Town WV
🇩🇪 Oct 20–25 — Nordtanz Festival, Stade
🇮🇹 Oct 20–25 — Mediterranea CI Gathering, Femminamorta
🇩🇪 Oct 21–25 — CI Festival Leipzig
🇺🇸 Oct 22–26 — Falling Leaves Jam, Earthdance
🇮🇹 Oct 25–28 — Dolomite Flow, Lichtenstern
🇩🇪 Oct 29–Nov 1 — Herbstjam, Freiburg

November

🇹🇭 Nov 8–Dec 20 — Heart Plexus, Chiang Dao

December

🇵🇪 Dec 12–19 — Encuentro CI, Valle Sagrado de los Incas
🇩🇪 Dec 16–20 — Rooted in Motion Module 3, Berlin 🎓

This snapshot of the list is not exhaustive or official, just a living attempt to map CI gatherings across the world. A more detailed, continuously updated version (with links and 230+ CI communities) exists in the project's Telegram group.

If you know of festivals, camps, retreats or intensives (4+ days) that are missing, feel free to share them in the comments. I’m especially interested in corrections or missing events, especially in remote locations, this is still very much work in progress.

I've been thinking about why cameras in jams feel so off to me.

There's this thing that happens the moment someone pulls out a phone or sets up a tripod. The energy shifts. People start performing instead of just being in it. The dance becomes about how it looks rather than how it feels, and suddenly you're dancing for an audience that isn't even in the room yet. Actually I am disturbed by someone fumbling on their phone even when they don't film.

CI is supposed to be about sensation, presence, the thing that only exists between two people in that exact moment. Filming it feels like trying to bottle something that evaporates the second you try to capture it.

But then I also get that we need some way to share what this practice is. And maybe avoiding cameras means we're also avoiding seeing our own patterns or blind spots in our movement?

I'm genuinely torn on this. What's your experience with cameras in CI spaces? Do they change how you dance? And is a video ever actually able to show what the dance really is, or is it always just a shadow of the thing itself?

There are different interpretations of what "contact improvisation" is.

Some hold CI to be something radically open-ended and reject any idea of there being any skills that make one a better dancer.

Others hold to the idea that CI is a specific art practice with foundational skills.

As my PhD adviser was fond of saying, some discussions produce more heat than light, so I'd like to hear from people who do believe there is something specific, that there are skills that build on each other, where you have to understand A before you can learn B, where you need to understand B and C before you learn D, etc. These would be "vertical" skill sets, as opposed to "horizontal skill sets" which to a much lesser degree need peculiar foundations in order to develop.

What are basic skills?
What are more advanced skills that build on these basics?
What possibilities are opened up with these skills?

--

I wrote the following some years ago. I mostly still agree, although i would write it differently now. If you have time and interest to read it, what do you think?

https://www.bodyresearch.org/contact-improvisation/skill-levels/

Over the last years, a small but growing number of podcasts and audio conversations around Contact Improvisation have emerged, exploring practice, history, embodiment and lived experience. I’ve been collecting a few of them and wanted to share what I’ve found so far.

Podcasts and series connected to CI:

• Faces of CI (Aalia Hashem): conversations with CI teachers and practitioners from around the globe
• Material for the Brain (Matan Levkowich): movement research, embodiment, cognition and communication
• Points of Contact (Eric Nordstrom & Carolyn Stuart): reflective conversations around CI practice and teaching
• Good Choices (Sabine Parzer): conversation series exploring dance, somatics, CI and related practices

Individual episodes and related conversations:

• Movement Is My Constant: conversation with Tom Goldhand on touch, trust and transformation through CI
• The Thinking Practitioner: interview with Alicia Grayson on CI and bodywork
• Pillow Voices (Jacob’s Pillow): interview with Steve Paxton
• act/re/act Podcast: conversation with Ann Cooper Albright on improvisation and CI
• The Embodiment Coaching Podcast: conversation with David Leung on movement and CI

One thing I keep noticing is how CI moves between oral transmission, workshops, jams and other forms of documentation and practice. These recordings feel like an important extension of that living culture.

I’m curious how this looks from other perspectives.

What are you listening to?

Are there other podcasts, recorded talks, lectures, YouTube conversations or local language resources that feel important or inspiring in your practice?

I’d love to keep building this list together.

CI Festivals & Intensives 2026 — May Edition (105 events, 34 countries)

The festival season is picking up. Here's the May edition of the CI Treasure Hunt festival list with 105 gatherings across 34 countries, for anyone planning their 2026 CI travels.

The list is community-sourced and continuously updated. CI Treasure Hunt also tracks 200+ CI communities worldwide if you're looking for your local scene.

LATE APRIL

🇦🇷 Apr 30–May 4 — Serranito Otoño, San Marcos Sierras
🇨🇴 Apr 30–May 4 — Jam de la Montaña, Villa de Leyva

MAY

🇯🇵 May 2–5 — Tokyo CI Festival
🇮🇩 May 2–7 — Bali Silent Contact Retreat
🇮🇳 May 4–10 — The Body I Live In, Dharamkot
🇵🇹 May 6–10 — CI & Ecosomatics, Quinta Fonte dos Passos
🇮🇹 May 6–10 — Keep Material Alive, Tuscany
🇳🇱 May 7–10 — CI Jam Festival, Texel
🇰🇷 May 7–20 — Fluids of Nature Residency, Busan
🇦🇹 May 11–17 — Contact in Paradise, near Vienna
🇮🇹 May 12–16 — Sicily Contact Impro Retreat, Catania
🇵🇹 May 13–18 — Forms that Invite the Formless, Sintra
🇩🇪 May 14–17 — Long Jam Leipzig
🇩🇪 May 14–17 — CI Practice Retreat, Barnin
🇸🇪 May 14–17 — Floating on Flesh, Stockholm
🇩🇪 May 14–17 — Body & Heart Festival, Freiburg
🇵🇹 May 18–24 — CI Nature Journey, Alentejo
🇮🇹 May 21–24 — Spring Jam of Arts, Rome
🇺🇸 May 21–25 — Camp Contact @ Playa del Fuego, Tamaqua PA
🇲🇽 May 21–26 — Savia CI & Somatic Movement Festival, Chalmita
🇩🇪 May 22–25 — Pfingstjam, Oderberg
🇧🇪 May 22–25 — CI Weekend & Work Exchange, Meerle
🇨🇭 May 22–25 — Berner CI Jam
🇰🇷 May 25–Jun 1 — Tuning into Spherical Forces Residency, Busan
🇵🇹 May 26–31 — Contact Time @ SerVivo, Palmela
🇵🇹 May 31–Jun 5 — Returning to the Body, Alentejo

JUNE

🇵🇹 Jun 1–7 — Mirva Mäkinen CI Training, Algarve 🎓
🇵🇹 Jun 1–21 — Horizons CI Research Camp, Quinta Ten Chi
🇩🇪 Jun 3–7 — A Berlin CI Camp
🇮🇹 Jun 3–24 — Italy Contact Fest, Gaia Terra
🇩🇪 Jun 4–7 — Jam Festival Regensburg
🇨🇭 Jun 4–7 — Contact Festival Glarisegg
🇪🇸 Jun 4–7 — Cuerpo Expansivo, Granada
🇹🇭 Jun 7–30 — To begin with the act of giving, Chiang Dao
🇺🇸 Jun 8–12 — CI +/- Festival, Portland OR
🇫🇷 Jun 8–14 — Visibly Unstable CI Intensive, Dordogne
🇫🇮 Jun 10–14 — Midnight Sun CI Festival, Helsinki
🇨🇦 Jun 14–27 — CI Intensive, Lasqueti Island
🇬🇷 Jun 15–20 — Well-being, Resilience and Healing, Aegina Island
🇲🇾 Jun 15–21 — Contact Festival Kuala Lumpur
🇦🇺 Jun 18–22 — Falling Together, Roelands Village WA
🇬🇧 Jun 22–29 — Emerging Hearts CI Dance Camp, near Frome
🇩🇪 Jun 24–28 — Liquid Space & Grounded Base, Barnin
🇮🇹 Jun 24–28 — Salento in Contact, Nardó
🇺🇸 Jun 25–Jul 5 — Summer Jam 40th Anniversary, Earthdance
🇨🇴 Jun 26–Jul 5 — Encuentro de CI en Colombia, Villa de Leyva
🇺🇾 Jun 30–Jul 5 — Jamaso, Montevideo
🇵🇱 Jun 30–Jul 5 — Sensational Bodies in Action, Studio Burdąg

JULY

🇺🇸 Jul 1–5 — West Coast CI JAM, Berkeley
🇨🇦 Jul 2–5 — Victoria CI Festival, BC
🇪🇸 Jul 6–12 — Brinca Galicia Contact Festival, near Lugo
🇩🇪 Jul 7–12 — Windberg Contact Festival, near Erfurt
🇵🇹 Jul 7–14 — RIGPA Silent Contact Retreat, Sintra
🇹🇭 Jul 8–Aug 5 — Inspiral CI Intensive Workshop, Chiang Dao
🇩🇪 Jul 9–13 — Body Love Festival, Klingemühle
🇸🇪 Jul 10–15 — Sweden Contact Fest, Ytterjärna
🇵🇱 Jul 11–19 — Warsaw Flow
🇩🇪 Jul 13–19 — Finding the Sparkle Intensive, Ponderosa
🇩🇪 Jul 14–17 — 4-day Midday Jam, Berlin
🇳🇱 Jul 14–19 — Netherlands Contact Festival, Nijmegen
🇭🇺 Jul 14–28 — Kontaktland, Bátonyterenye
🇬🇷 Jul 17–31 — CI Camp Greece, Liveloula
🇫🇷 Jul 18–24 — Au bout du monde CI Festival, Plouguerneau
🇩🇪 Jul 18–24 — Summer Intensive Jörg Hassmann, Berlin
🇪🇸 Jul 21–26 — Dive into the Dance³, Llanes
🇬🇧 Jul 24–28 — Dragon Orchard Jam, Putley
🇨🇦 Jul 24–Aug 2 — Salt Spring CI Festival
🇪🇸 Jul 27–Aug 2 — Inmersiones CI Festival, Vizcaya
🇩🇪 Jul 29–Aug 2 — CI Silent Retreat, Black Forest
🇬🇧 Jul 30–Aug 3 — Togethering at Beech Hill, Cheshire
🇭🇷 Jul 30–Aug 9 — CI Camp Croatia, Rovinj

AUGUST

🇫🇷 Aug 1–7 — SphereS Festival, near Lyon
🇩🇪 Aug 3–9 — Contact Impro Festival Stuttgart
🇫🇮 Aug 4–9 — Salty Skin CI Festival, near Turku
🇸🇰 Aug 9–14 — Float-In CI Festival, Ružiná
🇫🇷 Aug 10–23 — Terra Contact, Roussillon Conflent
🇵🇱 Aug 12–16 — FRU Dance Camp, near Lublin
🇩🇪 Aug 13–19 — Contact Festival Freiburg
🇬🇷 Aug 15–22 — Fall & Fly, Corfu
🇳🇴 Aug 16–22 — Norway Silent Contact Retreat, Nordmarka
🇫🇷 Aug 18–24 — CI Festival en Provence, Rustrel
🇩🇪 Aug 20–23 — Living Contact Dance Festival, Hof Ruckhardtshausen
🇨🇿 Aug 20–Sep 5 — Létanec CI Festival, Trstenice
🇦🇹 Aug 21–28 — Solo & CI Tirol Festival, Innsbruck
🇮🇹 Aug 24–30 — Summer CI Retreat Rick Nodine, Gaia Terra
🇳🇱 Aug 26–30 — Fly like a bird, Land like a cat, Amsterdam
🇩🇪 Aug 26–30 — Rooted in Motion Module 1, Berlin 🎓
🇬🇷 Aug 27–Sep 2 — Corfu Land & Water CI Festival
🇺🇸 Aug 30–Sep 7 — Camp Contact @ Burning Man

SEPTEMBER

🇩🇪 Sep 3–6 — TANZT! Festival, Ökodorf Sieben Linden
🇺🇸 Sep 10–13 — CI Fundamentals Intensive, Rutherfordton NC
🇺🇸 Sep 10–13 — Compositional Awareness in CI, Earthdance
🇨🇦 Sep 13–26 — CI Workshop & Jam, Lasqueti Island
🇵🇹 Sep 14–19 — Portugal Contact Festival, Algarve
🇩🇪 Sep 22–27 — Well-being, Resilience and Healing, Berlin

OCTOBER

🇦🇺 Oct 2–5 — Australian Contact Festival, Lennox Head NSW
🇪🇸 Oct 7–12 — Contact Impro Ibiza Festival
🇨🇭 Oct 9–12 — Principles and Practice, Uster
🇺🇸 Oct 9–18 — CI California Campout, North Fork CA
🇩🇪 Oct 14–18 — Rooted in Motion Module 2, Berlin 🎓
🇩🇪 Oct 21–25 — CI Festival Leipzig
🇺🇸 Oct 22–26 — Falling Leaves Jam, Earthdance

NOVEMBER

🇹🇭 Nov 8–Dec 20 — Heart Plexus, Chiang Dao

DECEMBER

🇵🇪 Dec 12–19 — Encuentro CI, Valle Sagrado de los Incas
🇩🇪 Dec 16–20 — Rooted in Motion Module 3, Berlin 🎓

This list is community-sourced and continuously evolving.
Know a festival, intensive, or retreat (4+ days) that's missing? Drop it in the comments.

Full list + directory of local CI groups: join CI Treasure Hunt → t.me/citreasurehunt

How were the dancing, the atmosphere and the discussions different than they are today?

CI is a form of contemporary dance.

Or put differently, all dance styles have classical aspects and contemporary aspects.

Or put differently again, contemporary dance refers to solo body movements.

By labeling CI as something different than contemporary leads to an ossification of CI, and thusly we forget that CI started as a question, as an investigation of what is mandatory in the moment.

Posting this April Edition of our CI Festival & Intensive list now because Easter/Semana Santa is already next week!

What's new since the last edition:
The list has grown significantly, especially in regions that were underrepresented before. South America (Argentina, Chile, Colombia), Asia (Thailand, South Korea), and more European events have been added. We're now tracking 80+ events across 28 countries for 2026.

Project update for CI Treasure Hunt
We also just launched Regional Topics in the CI Treasure Hunt Telegram group, dedicated spaces for shorter workshops (2–3 days), CI in unexpected locations, and travel questions by region (EMEA / Asia-Pacific / Americas). If you're looking for something beyond the big festivals, check it out.

APRIL (Easter week is particularly packed!🐣)
🇩🇪 Apr 1–5 — Rooted in Motion Module 5, Berlin
🇪🇸 Apr 2–5 — Connect Contact Festival, Algodonales
🇪🇸 Apr 2–5 — Espiral CI Lab JAM, Asturias
🇦🇷 Apr 2–5 — JamBA Festival de CI, Buenos Aires
🇨🇱 Apr 2–5 — Rari Baila, Linares
🇨🇴 Apr 2–5 — Corporalidades en Tránsito, near Bogotá
🇩🇪 Apr 2–6 — Osterimprofestival, Schönsee
🇫🇷 Apr 3–6 — Ritualize our dances, Cabasse
🇹🇭 Apr 3–11 — The Art of Fine Distinctions, Koh Phangan
🇲🇽 Apr 9–23 — Contact and Flow, Bacalar
🇹🇭 Apr 14–19 — Dancing in the World of Quantum, Koh Phangan
🇬🇧 Apr 15–19 — Dancing into Wholeness, Findhorn Ecovillage
🇺🇸 Apr 16–19 — Spring Jam, Earthdance
🇩🇪 Apr 16–20 — Frühlings Jam, Sommerecke
🇰🇷 Apr 23–26 — States of Tonality, Seoul
🇦🇷 Apr 25–May 3 — Regeneración Afectiva, Misiones
🇯🇵 Apr 26–29 — R.I.D.E @ CI Camp 2026, Nishiawakura
🇪🇸 Apr 29–May 3 — Danzas Mayas, Cáceres

MAY
🇯🇵 May 2–5 — Tokyo CI Festival
🇮🇩 May 2–7 — Bali Silent Contact Retreat
🇵🇹 May 6–10 — CI & Ecosomatics, Quinta Fonte dos Passos
🇮🇹 May 6–10 — Keep Material Alive, Tuscany
🇰🇷 May 7–20 — Fluids of Nature Residency, Busan
🇦🇹 May 11–17 — Contact in Paradise, near Vienna
🇮🇹 May 12–16 — Sicily Contact Impro Retreat, Catania
🇵🇹 May 13–18 — Forms that Invite the Formless, Sintra
🇩🇪 May 14–17 — Long Jam Leipzig
🇩🇪 May 14–17 — CI Practice Retreat, Barnin
🇵🇹 May 18–24 — CI Nature Journey, Alentejo
🇮🇹 May 21–24 — Spring Jam of Arts, Rome 🇺🇸 May 21–25 — Camp Contact @ Playa del Fuego, Tamaqua PA
🇲🇽 May 21–26 — Savia CI & Somatic Movement Festival, Chalmita
🇩🇪 May 22–25 — Pfingstjam, Oderberg
🇰🇷 May 25–Jun 1 — Tuning into Spherical Forces Residency, Busan
🇵🇹 May 26–31 — Contact Time @ SerVivo, Palmela
🇵🇹 May 31–Jun 5 — Returning to the Body, Alentejo

JUNE
🇵🇹 Jun 1–7 — Mirva Mäkinen CI Training, Algarve
🇵🇹 Jun 1–21 — Horizons CI Research Camp, Quinta Ten Chi
🇮🇹 Jun 3–24 — Italy Contact Fest, Gaia Terra
🇩🇪 Jun 4–7 — Jam Festival Regensburg
🇨🇭 Jun 4–7 — Contact Festival Glarisegg
🇹🇭 Jun 7–30 — To begin with the act of giving, Chiang Dao
🇺🇸 Jun 8–12 — CI +/- Festival, Portland OR
🇫🇷 Jun 8–14 — Visibly Unstable CI Intensive, Dordogne
🇦🇺 Jun 18–22 — Falling Together, Roelands Village WA
🇬🇧 Jun 22–29 — Emerging Hearts CI Dance Camp, near Frome
🇩🇪 Jun 24–28 — Liquid Space & Grounded Base, Barnin
🇮🇹 Jun 24–28 — Salento in Contact, Nardó
🇺🇸 Jun 25–Jul 5 — Summer Jam 40th Anniversary, Earthdance
🇨🇴 Jun 26–Jul 5 — Encuentro de CI en Colombia, Villa de Leyva
🇺🇾 Jun 30–Jul 5 — Jamaso, Montevideo
🇵🇱 Jun 30–Jul 5 — Sensational Bodies in Action, Studio Burdąg

JULY
🇺🇸 Jul 1–5 — West Coast CI JAM, Berkeley CA
🇨🇦 Jul 2–5 — Victoria CI Festival, BC
🇪🇸 Jul 6–12 — Brinca Galicia Contact Festival, near Lugo
🇩🇪 Jul 7–12 — Windberg Contact Festival, near Erfurt
🇵🇹 Jul 7–14 — RIGPA Silent Contact Retreat, Sintra
🇹🇭 Jul 8–Aug 5 — Inspiral CI Intensive Workshop, Chiang Dao
🇩🇪 Jul 9–13 — Body Love Festival, Klingemühle
🇸🇪 Jul 10–15 — Sweden Contact Fest, Ytterjärna
🇵🇱 Jul 11–19 — Warsaw Flow
🇩🇪 Jul 13–19 — Finding the Sparkle Intensive, Ponderosa
🇳🇱 Jul 14–19 — Netherlands Contact Festival, Nijmegen
🇭🇺 Jul 14–28 — Kontaktland, Bátonyterenye
🇩🇪 Jul 18–24 — Summer Intensive Jörg Hassmann, Berlin
🇪🇸 Jul 21–26 — Dive into the Dance³, Llanes
🇨🇦 Jul 24–Aug 2 — Salt Spring CI Festival, Salt Spring Island
🇪🇸 Jul 27–Aug 2 — Inmersiones CI Festival, Vizcaya
🇩🇪 Jul 29–Aug 2 — CI Silent Retreat, Black Forest

AUGUST
🇫🇷 Aug 1–7 — SphereS Festival, near Lyon
🇩🇪 Aug 13–19 — Contact Festival Freiburg
🇬🇷 Aug 15–22 — Fall & Fly, Corfu
🇳🇴 Aug 16–22 — Norway Silent Contact Retreat, Nordmarka
🇫🇷 Aug 18–24 — CI Festival en Provence, Rustrel
🇬🇷 Aug 27–Sep 2 — Corfu Land & Water CI Festival
🇺🇸 Aug 30–Sep 7 — Camp Contact @ Burning Man

SEPTEMBER
🇺🇸 Sep 10–13 — CI Fundamentals Intensive, Rutherfordton NC
🇺🇸 Sep 10–13 — Compositional Awareness in CI, Earthdance
🇵🇹 Sep 14–19 — Portugal Contact Festival, Algarve

OCTOBER
🇦🇺 Oct 2–5 — Australian Contact Festival, Lennox Head NSW
🇪🇸 Oct 7–12 — Contact Impro Ibiza Festival
🇺🇸 Oct 9–18 — CI California Campout, North Fork CA
🇩🇪 Oct 21–25 — CI Festival Leipzig
🇺🇸 Oct 22–26 — Falling Leaves Jam, Earthdance

NOVEMBER
🇹🇭 Nov 8–Dec 20 — Heart Plexus, Chiang Dao

DECEMBER
🇵🇪 Dec 12–19 — Encuentro CI, Valle Sagrado de los Incas

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Hello! I'm working on starting a CI class + jam situation and I'm looking for any resources that have direct descriptions of different activities or lessons to bring to a class.

I've been on Youtube and have found some interesting ideas, but I feel like there are a lot of vague explorations that were maybe enjoyable for the attendees, but are difficult to replicate. Lots of "watch me dance and I vaguely explain things that are happening" types of videos rather than clear concepts for the class to work on.

I have a handful of things that I've picked up from classes I've attended, but I'm still fairly new at around two years of experience. I'm focusing on getting more experienced people involved, but I may have to lead classes out of necessity. I have a decent grasp of fundamentals at this point, but leading people through them is a different story.

Any help would be appreciated! Even if it's just one of your favorite activities that you remember from a class you took.

Hello everyone,

I've danced contact improvisation for a few years, and can't help but see that I, as a sort of outsider, view CI differently than the posts here and the facilitators at the events. Which isn't to say someone is wrong, it is more an observation.

CI has helped me a lot in getting in contact with my physical body, reduce pain and find ways to increase mobility. Sure. But to me, I am more aware of the inner/social explorations that have happened in these rooms. Where rather difficult emotions surface, and glide like a wave of intensity through the dance. However, it has always felt like my social-awareness, emotional awareness is highly secondary to spatial and bodily awareness.

To me, CI is definitely also a distinct, and valuable, form of "psychodrama" - or more simply, a mix of social, bodily and spatial awareness, added with a primal form of connecting. Despite this, I have yet to experience that these experiences are talked about and framed in this way. Working on drawing boundaries, in various ways, is a rather difficult task, and is the issue in all sorts of psychological ailments - though in CI it is presented as this sort of 'just be yourself' non-issue, that people just figure out. Though, the line between 'what happens at the impro' and social dynamics has never been drawn.

Rather, the things I have touched upon with people are not only 'socially acceptable' emotions like curiosity, interest, playfulness, warmth, care and openness. No, there are a lot of anger, frustration, sorrow, anxiety, fear, despair - not to mention sexual desire.

It seems odd to me that CI is so hands-on physically, while at the same time so hands-off around the social/internal/emotional dynamics. Yes, we are bodies, but we don't 'stop' being full-human beings just because we walk into a room. My theory so far is that many of the people who facilitate these events are Sensors (term from MBTI). What I mean is that they are very in tune with the physical, concrete reality. Whereas me, and other Intuitives, notice all the things happening on the fringes, between the lines and are more connected to the unseen in a different sense.
And while that might explain it, and so it does make sense to me that this is how it works, it also irks me. Not only because of wasted potential, of community, of connection, depth and progress - but more so because I see that it is rather reckless, ungrounded and not really congruous;
The principles of CI do not apply more generally in how we interact with each other, but only when we dance. Though, if they are good principles, aren't they also good to apply outside the dance, and is it really that odd to address the link between the two?

The rules in CI are not to put a lot of weight on people, without being certain it works, not locking joints, being sensitive to people wanting out of a dance, not talk and "It is a non-sexual space". Okay. But what about emotional weight, what about trauma, what about wounds? What about the topics, the radioactive social topics and dynamics we are exploring? Are there any rules there.
Is it because CI is so fringe, so frowned upon in general, that the idea is to not make it more "complicated" by talking about anything psychological, emotional or socially relevant?

To me CI has been liberating, and opened ways towards alternative ways to interact both with men and women, more generally. However, is that by design, or just a by-product? Because I don't quite understand why there isn't as much focus on the underlying dynamics, as the concrete bodily ones. The former is screaming to me each time I go to a jam, but it is never addressed directly.

Over the past months I've been collecting international Contact Improvisation events that are worth traveling for: festivals, camps, trainings, intensives, long jams (4+ days each).

The list grew out of CI Treasure Hunt, a community project helping traveling dancers find local CI groups worldwide. So far we've gathered 120+ communities in 40+ countries, and now this festival list to help plan your CI travels.

Here is the current 2026 international CI event list:

Contact Improvisation Festivals & Intensives 2026

MARCH

🇹🇭 Mar 10–20 — Water & Land CI Festival, Koh Chang
🇺🇸 Mar 15–20 — 41st Breitenbush Jam, near Portland, OR
🇪🇸 Mar 22–26 — COMP CI & Contemporary Dance Camp, Gran Canaria
🇯🇵 Mar 27–Apr 5 — humble CI Gathering, Kagoshima

APRIL

🇪🇸 Apr 2–5 — Connect Contact Festival, Algodonales
🇪🇸 Apr 2–5 — Espiral CI Lab JAM, Asturias
🇩🇪 Apr 2–6 — Osterimprofestival, Schönsee
🇲🇽 Apr 9–23 — Contact and Flow, Bacalar
🇬🇧 Apr 15-19 — Dancing into Wholeness CI Retreat, Findhorn Ecovillage, Scotland
🇺🇸 Apr 16–19 — Earthdance Spring Jam, Plainfield, MA
🇯🇵 Apr 26–29 — R.I.D.E @ CI Camp 2026, Nishiawakura

MAY

🇵🇹 May 6–10 — CI & Ecosomatics, Quinta Fonte dos Passos
🇦🇹 May 11–17 — Contact in Paradise, near Vienna
🇮🇹 May 12–16 — Sicily Contact Impro Retreat, Catania
🇵🇹 May 13–18 — Forms that Invite the Formless, Sintra
🇩🇪 May 14–17 — Long Jam Leipzig
🇩🇪 May 14–17 — CI Practice Retreat, Barnin
🇲🇽 May 21–26 — Savia CI & Somatic Movement Festival, Chalmita
🇩🇪 May 22–25 — Pfingstjam, Oderberg
🇵🇹 May 26–31 — Contact Time @ SerVivo, Palmela

JUNE

🇵🇹 Jun 1–7 — Mirva Mäkinen CI Training, Algarve
🇵🇹 Jun 1–21 — Horizons CI Research Camp, Quinta Ten Chi
🇮🇹 Jun 3–24 — Italy Contact Fest, Gaia Terra
🇩🇪 Jun 4–7 — Jam Festival Regensburg
🇺🇸 Jun 8–12 — CI +/- Festival, Portland, OR
🇫🇷 Jun 8–14 — Visibly Unstable CI Intensive, Dordogne
🇦🇺 Jun 18–22 — Falling Together, Roelands Village, WA
🇬🇧 Jun 22–29 — Emerging Hearts CI Dance Camp, near Frome
🇩🇪 Jun 24–28 — Liquid Space & Grounded Base, Barnin
🇨🇴 Jun 26–Jul 5 — Encuentro de CI en Colombia, Villa de Leyva

JULY

🇺🇸 Jul 1–5 — West Coast CI JAM, Berkeley, CA
🇨🇦 Jul 2–5 — Victoria CI Festival, BC
🇩🇪 Jul 7–12 — Windberg Contact Festival, near Erfurt
🇵🇹 Jul 7–14 — RIGPA Silent Contact Retreat, Sintra
🇩🇪 Jul 9–13 — Body Love Festival, Klingemühle
🇩🇪 Jul 13–19 — Finding the Sparkle CI Intensive, Ponderosa
🇳🇱 Jul 14–19 — Netherlands Contact Festival, Nijmegen
🇭🇺 Jul 14–28 — Kontaktland Hungarian CI Festival, Bátonyterenye
🇩🇪 Jul 18-24 — CI Summer Intensive Jörg Hassmann, Berlin
🇪🇸 Jul 21–26 — Dive into the Dance³, Llanes
🇨🇦 Jul 24–Aug 2 — Salt Spring CI Festival, Salt Spring Island
🇩🇪 Jul 29–Aug 2 — CI Silent Retreat, Black Forest

AUGUST

🇩🇪 Aug 13–19 — Contact Festival Freiburg
🇬🇷 Aug 15–22 — Fall & Fly, Corfu
🇬🇷 Aug 27–Sep 2 — Corfu Land & Water CI Festival

SEPTEMBER

🇺🇸 Sep 10-13 — CI Fundamentals Intensive, Rutherfordton, NC
🇵🇹 Sep 14–19 — Portugal Contact Festival, Algarve

OCTOBER

🇦🇺 Oct 2–5 — Australian Contact Festival, Lennox Head, NSW
🇺🇸 Oct 9–18 — CI California Campout, North Fork, CA
🇩🇪 Oct 21–25 — CI Festival Leipzig

What's missing?

Do you know other CI festivals, intensives, or long jams (4+ days) that should be on this list? Drop them in the comments and I'll add them to the next edition.

For event links and more CI communities worldwide, check out CI Treasure Hunt (Telegram search or subreddit sidebar).

I would assert that the accumulated knowledge and skill in CI has decayed since the mid 90s. I think there is some variance around this from location to location (for example Argentina or the scene in Vancouver around Peter Bingham (RIP), but i think this is the general rule. I believe that this is because of an increasing avoidance of clear and directive teaching of knowledge/skills/techniques. Instead there has been an increase in open ended "personal exploration" facilitation which mostly is about giving people permissions and or altered frames where they do their own personal unguided learning.

I think some of the latter is important, but the phobia of the former has led to these skills disappearing from what i feel was their peak in the mid 90s. I don't just mean ability to do tricks, although this includes that. I also mean ability to be articulate and precise in exploration with more moment to moment mechanical and sensory awareness. I regularly teach things that were taught in the first workshop i took in the 1980s and people think i am teaching something "advanced".

I'm curious if others have observations, experiences, desires around this.

Here is an excellent article generally on the subject and the plague of "student centered learning" which has degraded western education...

https://barbaraoakley.substack.com/p/the-teaching-method-that-cant-fail

I stumbled upon a text by Karl Frost on the physical dangers of contact improvisation (https://www.bodyresearch.org/contact-improvisation-and-injury/), while I was recently actually researching the long-term emotional and philosophical implications of dancing CI for an extended period of time.

And since then a question has been bugging me that I can't get out of my head:

What are the long-term effects of lifting people on the cartilage in the knees and hips?

Older people generally suffer from cartilage degeneration, even without lifting people maybe 45 times per week (assuming an average of three jams or classes with 15 lifts each). That would make a staggering number of 2,340 lifts per year or 70,200 over 30 years of dancing (but maybe these number are even low for serious practitioners?).

But like horses are not built to carry people all their life, maybe we're not made for carrying twice our weight too? Not even talking about lifting heavier dancers, and how this weight is concentrated unnaturally at times in specific points, namely the cartilage (or maybe also other risky parts of the body?).

Sometimes I work on alignment, and when I lift a dancer on my hips, I purposely try to stack my leg bones over each other, so that I can relax as many of my leg muscles as possible. While this feels efficient and "easy" in the moment, thinking about cartilage, I question whether this isn't actually quite risky long-term, and muscle activity in the legs actually protects the cartilage in the knee and hip joints?

It doesn't help that I know a longtime dancer who had a hip replacement surgery in the last years...

Also Karl mentions: "The number of long term contactors who have had reconstructive surgery to hips or knees is disturbing."

I am no doctor and haven't looked into all the technical and anatomical details yet, but I'd love to hear from this community, especially longtime practitioners, PTs, and bodyworkers about their thoughts and experiences.

And how would you look at this from a biotensegrity point of view? Is the "bone-stacking" we learn actually counter-productive to a healthy tensegrity system?

I heard that cartilage is actually quite resilient to linear pressure (compression), so are the unpredictable shear forces in CI movement the real 'joint killers' (especially when carrying weight)?

How do you adjust your dancing/training to decrease long-term risk?

Keeping Contact Improvisation Awake

An essay by Karthik Rajmohan

On Rigor, Responsibility, and the Radical Potential of the Form

Contact Improvisation was born as a radical proposition.

Emerging in the early 1970s through the experiments of Steve Paxton and others, it destabilized dominant dance hierarchies. It displaced spectacle with sensation, virtuosity with shared weight, choreography with emergent composition. It questioned who gets to lift, who gets to lead, who gets to be seen. It treated falling not as failure, but as research. It proposed touch as a site of intelligence rather than decoration.

It was not simply a new technique.

It was a reorientation of value.

And yet, like any radical form, Contact Improvisation risks softening over time. What begins as investigation can become habit. What begins as disruption can become comfort.

Today, CI is often practiced as a social gathering, a therapeutic release, or an open, pressure-free environment. These dimensions are not inherently problematic. They are part of the ecosystem of the form.

But Contact Improvisation is more than a soft landing.

At its core, it is a rigorous physical and compositional research practice.

The mechanics of CI are sophisticated: momentum, counterbalance, spirals, skeletal alignment, reflexes, yielding, redirection of force, falling as strategy, touch as information. To practice CI deeply requires technical literacy. Not virtuosity in the classical sense, but fluency in physical principles. The form is grounded in biomechanics and relational physics. When this rigor is neglected, the practice does not become freer — it becomes vague.

The radicality of Contact Improvisation was never about the absence of skill. It was about redistributing access to embodied intelligence.

CI challenges conventional notions of virtuosity. Skill is not measured by how high one jumps or how many turns one executes, but by one’s capacity to listen through the skin, to negotiate weight responsibly, to compose in real time, to remain present within unpredictability. Virtuosity becomes relational.

In this sense, Contact Improvisation is not a refuge from intensity.

It is a laboratory for it.

It confronts dancers with habit — kinetic habits, aesthetic habits, social habits. It exposes patterns of dominance and avoidance. It reveals how we manage risk, how we meet force, how we yield or resist. Every point of contact is a negotiation. Every lift is an ethical exchange. Every fall is a shared decision.

The dance is never individual.

In CI, movement ripples. A small shift of weight reorganizes the entire duet. A choice made without clarity reverberates through the field. There is no neutral action. The practice therefore carries responsibility — not moralism, but awareness of consequence.

To take Contact Improvisation seriously is not to make it rigid. It is to keep it awake.

Freedom in CI is structured by physics.

Openness is sustained by skill.

Experimentation requires discipline.

Without these, the form risks collapsing into familiarity. With them, it remains a site of research — into embodiment, relationality, and collective composition.

If Contact Improvisation is to retain its radical potential, it must continue to challenge its practitioners. It must ask for attention sharpened enough to transform sensation into information, and information into choice. It must invite dancers to refine their craft, to question their assumptions, and to expand their compositional awareness.

This is not about superiority or exclusion. It is about refusing complacency. It is about tending to the artistic fire of the form.

Contact Improvisation does not need to become harder.

It needs to remain investigative.

It needs practitioners willing to engage it as an art form, not only an atmosphere.

To practice CI rigorously is to honor its lineage — not by preserving it unchanged, but by evolving it with integrity.

The task is simple and demanding at once:

Keep the form alive.

Keep it precise.

Keep it radical.

Keep it awake.

What do you notice in the space between movements, bodies, posts?

I don’t remember exactly where this idea comes from but I’ve heard for many years that a sign of an experienced dancer is that one can have a satisfying dance with anyone regardless of their skill level.

I’m curious if folks here find this to be the case, and if so, how you go about cultivating this capacity to have satisfying dances with anyone?