CI Essentials: Beginner’s Workshop, Introduction to Contact Improvisation (CI)

Name: CI Essentials: Beginner’s Workshop, Introduction to Contact Improvisation (CI)
Start: 2025-05-10T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-05-11T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Fudoshin Dojo Leipzig - Philippe Orban

Schedule

Sat, 10 May, 2025 at 10:00 am to Sun, 11 May, 2025 at 05:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Fudoshin Dojo Leipzig - Philippe Orban | Leipzig, SN

🤸‍♀️ What: an affordable, beginner-friendly contact improvisation workshop focusing on core practices of classic, physics-based CI
📅 When: 10-11 May, 10-17h
📍 Where: Fudoshin Aikido Dojo, Josephstraße 45, 04177 Leipzig
📍 Google Maps https://maps.app.goo.gl/F2hsQKt8LYcQ2CCU7
👥 With Whom: Olha Bershadska (Kyiv/Leipzig), Daniela Ciccolini (Buenos Aires/Leipzig), Laura Bein (Weimar/Leipzig), Deborah Manavi (Kassel/Leipzig)
🙋‍♀️ For Whom:
- Beginners curious about Contact Improvisation
- Those looking to explore movement, connection, and creativity
-No prior experience needed—just bring your curiosity and a willingness to move!
💰 Price:
120-200e sliding scale. Pay what you can in the range, no one turned away for lack of funds
Early registration: 80-200e if paid by 1 April
📝 To register: fill in the form https://forms.gle/pu6WYK8SoFZbsc4Y9
Description:
Welcome to CI Essentials: Beginner’s Workshop, an introduction to Contact Improvisation (CI)!
CI is a playful and creative dance form centered on moving with others, physical connection, bio-mechanical exploration, and following curiosity.
CI invites movers to engage with their and their partners’ bodies through sharing weight and structure and through physical listening. It is sometimes gentle and meditative, sometimes wild and acrobatic, following the curiosities and initiatives of those exploring.
This weekend is intended as a very beginner friendly workshop focusing on basics and core practices of CI. We’ll dive into physical listening, offering and accepting support, and navigating shared balance through space and into and out of the floor. We’ll also practice some basic lifts and supports and practice working them into a flow, following a moving point of contact.
The primary aim of the workshop is to help those newer to the dance to feel comfortable in the more open exploration space of a “contact jam” or in using contact-based practices in other dance contexts. For those already introduced to CI, it is an opportunity to spend some time working on the fundamentals.
No prior experience is necessary—just bring curiosity, openness, and an active excitement to move and explore in physical contact!
For more information on contact improvisation, what it is and its history, go to https://www.bodyresearch.org/contact-improvisation/