Becoming Dandelions through Contact Improvisation

Name: Becoming Dandelions through Contact Improvisation
Start: 2026-01-10T13:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-01-10T16:00:00+01:00
Location: Szabolcs utca 27, Budapest 1134, Magyarország

Schedule

Sat Jan 10 2026 at 01:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Szabolcs utca 27, Budapest 1134, Magyarország | Budapest, BU

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This workshop is co-facilitated by Arash Khakpour and Viktória Kaslik (bios below).
This is a meeting place for our heart-body, through contact improvisation. Dandelions nourish the kinship network through their interconnectedness and entangled systems of generosity. Dandelion’s spirit of receptivity and independence inspires the direction of our exploration within the practice of Contact Improvisation. In this workshop, we approach the dance as a vehicle for us to reflect on our lives, and a way to meet the parts of us that were unreachable before. Contact principles, such as reaching, leaning, modulating, internal expansion, weight-sharing and falling together, that we share as part of the practice, become the doorways to our personal research. We use these doorways to cultivate softness, deeper listening and a graceful ability to respond in the moment.
By tasting the dandelion root tea, we invite the participants to indulge in the sensorial relation with the plant and in dancing with the other. Through inviting the spirit of Dandelion as a third partner in the dance, Viktória and Arash facilitate a new space of discovery to identify, dance with, and maybe even integrate the untouched parts of ourselves. Through giving attention and inviting the unconscious internal tendencies that we carry and allowing them to become conscious, we envision a future that allows for the integration of new relational ways of becoming.
We are committed to a space of kindness, care and compassion where people are encouraged to participate in a way that feels comfortable for them.
We ask for your commitment to playfulness, mystery, the unknown, and reverence for this workshop.
This workshop is designed for intermediate to advanced practitioners of movement, dance and contact improvisation.
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What to expect in this workshop:
- Gentle meditations,
- Movement improvisation in solo format and contact improvisation in duet, trio, and group formats,
- Verbal sharing in small groups and the whole group
- Drinking dandelion root tea
The workshop is based on the book by Viktória titled “Dandelion Feast. A protocol to eliminate legal waste from Earth bodies”
The workshop is hosted by the new Kontakt Budapest Studio: Freedom.
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Prices:
- Early-bird: 15.555Ft until January 1st.
- Regular price 16.666 Ft After January 2nd.
Please contact us if paying for this workshop is a challenge and you feel a strong pull to attend this workshop.
For registration, please email Viktória at [email protected]
to receive the bank transfer details.
The workshop is limited to 15 people only.
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Book design & logo: Graphic design: Edyta Majewska - Rosińska
Photo: Flavia Mash
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Viktória Kaslik (HU) is a family & systemic constellation facilitator, jurist and artist. She explores nature-sourced laws through systemic constellations, shamanic work, research, writing, legal rituals, and artistic collaborations.
https://viktoriakaslik.com/
Arash Khakpour (آرش خاکپور) is a dancer, choreographer and facilitator from Tehran and based in the Coast Salish Territory (colonially know as Vancouver, Canada). Arash has been practicing dance and performance for the past 16 years and has been a company member and part of the EDAM Contact Improvisation ensemble since 2017.
In 2018 he was mentored by Raïna von Waldenburg on presence and embodiment based on Grotowski method. In 2023 he completed a mentorship project with Benoît Lachambre on deepening his performance and facilitation practice. Most recently, Arash was one of nineteen participants in ‘the Mystery School of Choreography’ in Lisbon directed by Meg Stuart and Ana Rocha.
He invests in and tends to the nuances of prejudices in the body as a way of inviting the unconscious to the conscious, and as a doorway to embrace the unknown emotions. He sees dance as a process of emotional and spiritual discoveries and a mode of transformation. He works with dance as a language that researches the human condition through mythical, historical, social, political and animistic interpretations.
As a first-generation immigrant, he continuously considers what healing he can bring to the land and communities he works with. He is building a culture of relationality and reciprocity that celebrates the multiplicity of presences and approaches. He is the co-founder and artistic director of the dance-theatre-film company The Biting School (alongside his brother Aryo Khakpour).
https://www.bitingschool.com/