Cacao Contact Improvisation Explorations

Name: Cacao Contact Improvisation Explorations
Start: 2025-10-17T19:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-17T22:00:00+02:00
Location: Tagensvej 85C, 2200, København, Hovedstaden

Schedule

Fri Oct 17 2025 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Tagensvej 85C, 2200, København, Hovedstaden | Copenhagen , SK

We invite you to join us when we open our space under the skylights at VIRKELIG for a soft Friday landing with CACAO AND CONTACT IMPROVISATION.
The focus is on exploring contact and flow through a listening touch, which is the core of our alexander technique work.
🤎 We invite you to explore listening touch and conscious contact work in the framework of cacao and contact improvisation dancing.
🤎 We love cacao for its delicious taste and its sensation-enhancing effects. We will be serving a raw cacao from Bolivia that is wild-harvested in the rainforest.
🤎 On these evenings Contact Improvisation dancing is explored as a playground for listening touch, internal flow, external co-creation and social interaction.
PROGRAM
19.00 doors open and cacao is served
19.30-20.30 cacao contact listening touch introduction and guided warm up
20.30-22.00 jam/open dance floor
22.00 good night
ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE AND LISTENING TOUCH
Alexander Technique is a type of bodywork that applies a listening quality in hands-on touch, which allows the nervous systems to communicate through contact.
The contact can help bring awareness to subtle internal sensations and to the constant interplay happening between body and awareness within yourself and with other bodies.
With the listening touch as the main tool we can direct our attention either inwards or outwards.
Inwards to listening to subtle internal sensations, and outwards to organizing and structuring the mechanical body into coordinated movements.
Alexander Technique reveals that there is little to be taken for granted about bodily experiences.
Bodily sensations are multifarious and plastic - they can be uncovered, amplified, explored and articulated through conscious, intentional work.
The magic lies in the simple listening touch!

CONTACT IMPROVISATION
Contact Improvisation, also known as CI, is an improvised dance form, originated by Steve Paxton in the 1970’s in the US, that is now practiced all over the globe.
In Contact Improvisation touch and weight-sharing are central drivers of exploring movement.
By bringing an awareness of ‘listening touch’ into our CI-practice we can curiously investigate where the impulse to move comes from.

WHAT TO EXPECT
This is a social playground for Contact Improvisation.
We provide a space, serve cacao and give a guided warm up and introduction to listening touch. The rest is co-created by the participants. All levels of experience are welcome.

PRICES
160 dkk - but you can also use a prepaid ticket package ('klippekort'). Check out our homepage virkelig.nu for prices etc.!