CONTACT IMPROVISATION TRAINING (En/Fr)

GRAVITATIONAL RELATIONSHIP / THE DYNAMICS OF EFFORT

TO BE CONFIRMED SOON! Stages donnés principalement en anglais avec une facilitation en français à la demande. 


From historical scores to free explorations in contact with a partner (or more), you will be given tips on timing, dynamics and muscular tone. Technically speaking, this workshop brings together principles of :

  • PHYSICS : vectors, momentum, pendulums, speed, mass, levers, waves, rotations, falls, centripetal and centrifugal forces, compressions, supports, self-sustained and resilient structures;
  • AND ANATOMY : bodily systems (perception, bones, muscles, cardio-vascular, digestive), optimal bones alignment, muscular tone, proprioception, kinesthesia.

But wait, you don't need a Phd to join in !You will discover them through direct experience. 

This is why I put a very deep care on pedagogy  without spoiling your personnal eureka moment! So you will be invited and progressively equiped for enjoying your own investigation and progress. Not only you'll get more skills but also more dance vocabulary.


GOALS 

  • To fully engage the body-mind through weight sharing 
  • To create more emptiness, more void, more openess in the dance 
  • A better coordination in order to avoid collapsing, over contraction and back pain
  • A embodied knowledge of anatomy of movement
  • Passing from exploration to improvisation and conscious composition
  • A deeper knowledge of C.I. as a form that impacted contemporary dance aestetics and politics
  • Building a Consent Culture 


LEVELS

  • Beginners and experienced dancers are all welcome!
  • We believe empowerment in training comes from diversity.
  • Please, contact me if there are personnal things or needs I should know before the workshop. 


ARE YOU NEW TO CONTEMPORARY DANCE AND CONTACT IMPROVISATION?

If you want to train your coordination and fluidity weekly in order to feel at ease in the C.I. workshop, I highly recommend to attend the  Contemporary Dance Technique class (18 > 19:20, on Wednesdays). 

This class is designed to work first in contact with yourself and the ground. A good starting point before working in contact with someone else.

Through floorwork and usual contemporary dance sequences, you ll get more confidence and learn how to get a precise bodily communication. You also learn how to engage a better relationship with the ground, your first partner before any other human.

Agility, fluidity and body alignment form the perfect cocktail for clarity and freedom in Contact Improvisation.

So let's get all the tips and train!


MORE INFO ABOUT THIS CLASS


PRACTICAL INFOS

  • ALWAYS SEND A CONFIRMATION AT LEAST 3 DAYS BEFORE WORKSHOP (limited number of spots): Contact me here or there 00 32 492 69 04 23
  • AGENDA : FROM NOVEMBER 2026 - JUNE 2027 TO BE CONFIRMED SOON
  • WHERE : To be confirmed
  • PRICES : Half day :  ..  Full Day : ..


REGISTER 


CONSENT & SAFETY 

This workshop is designed for people who want to STUDY dance. The exercices are precisely delimited. The points and types of contact are clearly defined each time.

You are free at anytime to ask me a non-contact option when you see something in the proposal that might put you in a too big discomfort. Challenges are encouraged but not by crossing your boundaries!

Exploration of a proposal opens up the relationship to freedom to investigate but also to trial and error  and sometimes to unclear feelings. This is part of the learning process where the not-knowing is the main vehicle.... but not the only one. In my class, I also teach clarity and communication.

Please, take care of yourself and take the time needed to feel what is correct or not. It is also possible at anytime to just watch and learn from witnessing.