DIMENSIONS OF IMAGINATION. Arash Khakpour : a contact-improvisation invitation
Schedule
Fri Jan 30 2026 at 06:00 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
5333 Casgrain Studio 1107, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H2T 1X3 | Montreal, QC
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Moment Collectives & Valerie Sabbah present : 🌀DIMENSIONS OF IMAGINATION
a contact-improvisation invitation into our dreaming agile bodies of shared perception
A workshop created and facilitated by Arash Khakpour
📍 Date-Time-Location:
Friday, January 30th, 2026 : 6:00–9:00 PM
Moment Collectives @ Proto Studio
5333 Casgrain, Studio 1107 (11th floor)
Montreal — Laurier Metro Station
🌀 About DIMENSIONS OF IMAGINATION
In this workshop, we will bring the value of agility and tactility to awaken our inner CATS. We will work on conscious duetting by using rolling point, sloughing, bridging, yielding, anchoring, pressure modulation, internal expansion and weight-sharing to sharpen our physical awareness and dexterity.
We will explore how the physical skillsets can expand through indulging in the range of our senses, the energetic circumferences of our bones, noticing emotions and tapping into imagination. Can imagination guide us to inhabit our bodies of knowledge and generosity?
This leads us into dreaming the body and the extensions of our bodies as a way of expanding the physical body. CAN THE HEART AS AN ORGAN PLAY A PART IN LINKING US AND OUR DANCING TOGETHER?
This workshop will invite us to dive into perceptual possibilities, awakening and developing our imagination as a way of bridging the unconscious to the conscious. CAN IMAGINATION GUIDE US TO DREAM OUR ANCIENT BODIES OF OTHERWORLDLY WISDOM?
We will work on enhancing personal suppleness and virtuosity through short improvisational duets, tuning into the perception within the group, and utilizing the group’s intelligence.
Arash Khakpour آرش خاکپور (he/him)
Cultivator, Choreographer, Facilitator, Dancer
Co-Founder, Co-Artistic Director and Operations Lead | The Biting School
🌐 Website: The Biting School : http://www.bitingschool.com
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arashkhakpour8/
🌀 Registration :
✨ Limited to 25 participants — please pre-register soon!
✨ This class is intended for Intermediate / Advanced practitioners and is open to movers with previous experience in CI.
✨ These sessions will especially resonate with dancers who carry an ongoing relationship to Contact-Improvisation — those who regularly return to the practice and wish to deepen their journey.
📩 To clarify whether this workshop meets you where you are in your current practice, please write me : [email protected]
📍Date-Time & Location :
Friday, January 30th, 2026
5:30 to 6:00PM : Arrival
6:00–9:00 PM : Please use the arrival time to be ready to start together at 6:00PM
Moment Collectives @ Proto Studio
5333 Casgrain, Montreal , Studio 1107 (11th floor)
Laurier Metro Station
💲 Price & Registration
Sliding scale → $50–$75
➡️ Payment via e-transfer to: [email protected]
🏠 Out-of-town dancers :
If you’re traveling to Montreal to attend this workshop and need housing, feel free to write to me — I’ll do my best to help arrange something within the community.
🌿 About Arash Khakpour
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 co-artistic director of the dance-theatre-film company The Biting School (alongside his brother Aryo Khakpour).
Arash Khakpour آرش خاکپور (he/him)
Cultivator, Choreographer, Facilitator, Dancer
Co-Founder, Co-Artistic Director and Operations Lead | The Biting School
🌐 Website: The Biting School : http://www.bitingschool.com
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arashkhakpour8/
Photo credit : Dayna Szyndrowski
https://www.daynaszyndrowski.com
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