Chris Aiken & Angie Hauser "Contact Impro through the lens of perception, action and imagination"

Name: Chris Aiken & Angie Hauser "Contact Impro through the lens of perception, action and imagination"
Start: 2026-01-07T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-01-11T14:00:00+01:00
Location: Dzogchen Gemeinschaft Samdrubling & Yeselling

Schedule

Wed, 07 Jan, 2026 at 02:00 pm to Sun, 11 Jan, 2026 at 02:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Dzogchen Gemeinschaft Samdrubling & Yeselling | Wien, WI

All details of the Workshop, Teachers, Performance & Application you find here:
https://www.freibewegt.at/frei-tanzen/deepening-your-praxis/

Our work seeks to inspire dancers by investigating the core principles of contact improvisation, focusing on the skillful interplay of touch, movement, and imagination.
In this workshop, dancers develop physical intelligence and emotional resonance within contact improvisation. Physical intelligence is not about specific movements but the ability to solve emergent physical or creative situations or tasks that evolve in the dancing. This manifests differently in each person and includes the ability to provide mobile support, to organize your body to be lifted, to find fluid pathways into and out of the floor, and the ability to push, yield, and pull away from your partner. It involves the capacity to lightly compose one's responses within the moment.
We work with developing perceptual acuity-- the ability to hone in on what is significant to guide your movement, and attune to ourselves, others and the environment. It includes the ability to inhibit one’s choices and to imagine beyond the sensorial moment to include questions like, “What if we tried something different?” Or, “ What is missing here?”
Chris and Angie are sought-after teachers of contact improvisation and other contemporary dance practices. For more than thirty years they have offered workshops and training intensives internationally including featured artists at the Freiburg International Festival, Impulstanz (AUS), Movement Research (NYC), Salt Spring CI Festival (CAN), Earthdance (USA), iDance (Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan), American Dance Festival (USA) and many others. They are known for their collaborative spirit, technical skill, and generous teaching.

All details of the Workshop, Teachers & Application you find here:
https://www.freibewegt.at/frei-tanzen/deepening-your-praxis/

*** PERFORMANCE 4 in 1 ***
with Chris Aiken, Eszter Gál, Angie Hauser & Sabine Parzer
and participants of the workshop
With live music by Ernó Rubrik
organiced by Sabine Parzer
Saturday 10.1.2026 at 19:00
Post Performance Jam afterwards
Samdrubling Studio
An instant composition (with lots of contact improvisation) performance event centered around the ingenuity of numbers and their compositional qualities. These award winning performers have been researching performance and Contact Improvisation for many decades and are happy to share their embodied wisdom, creative outbursts, compositional unfolding and down right fun for dance and music.
Donation based