FROM ZERO TO FLYING with Scott Wells (USA)

Name: FROM ZERO TO FLYING with Scott Wells (USA)
Start: 2026-05-15T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-05-17T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Kontakt Budapest Stúdió

Schedule

Fri, 15 May, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Sun, 17 May, 2026 at 04:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Kontakt Budapest Stúdió | Budapest, BU

FROM ZERO TO FLYING with Scott Wells (USA)
A somatic based approach to Contact and Flying
We will start with contact practices in which sensation and proprioception lead to refined skills.
We will work with physics and somatics that support freedom of flight and expression. (Pleasure <---> Technique, Somatics ---> Acrobatics).
Zero as in developmental patterns at birth. Zero as cellular touch. We will practice flying, catching, landing, fluid acrobatics, deft manoeuvres. For the acrobatics everyone will work at their own level and will learn best by building group safety and trust. I aim to connect the work to somatic knowledge. For example, Jumping ≠ Flying because jumping is muscular action, whereas flying is in the bones and is affected greatly by emotions and attitude.
We will be doing favourite Contact Improvisation exercises and current curiosities: created and learned over the decades investigation and indulgence.
BIO
Scott Wells has been practicing contact improv for 40 years, teaching for 30 and directs an award winning dance company in San Francisco. He has created works for skateboarders, for boxers and choreographed West Side Story for Sonoma State University. Scott has twice received the Izzie (San Francisco’s most prestigious dance award) for Outstanding Choreography. Scott has toured to Europe for the last 25 years teaching and performing in festivals in Moscow, Barcelona, Budapest, Berlin, Vienna, Zagreb, Bucharest and Ankara to name a few. He has an MFA in Dance, has been practicing Alexander Technique for thirty years, BMC for 15 and has studied a variety of counselling and bodywork practices. His current research passions are Eyebody practice, moving from the organs and contact improvisation.
PRESS
“Scott Wells...has a dizzying abundance of pure dance-making talent“ Rachel Howard, SF Examiner "Wells has become over the last fifteen years the Paul Taylor of Contact Improv — that is, the first to make dances in this idiom that are deeply musical, somehow "normal," imaginative, witty, often hilarious, sometimes fierce.” Paul Parrish, Danceviewtimes "Come for the Thrills, Stay for the Artistry." Allan Ulrich, Voice of Dance "Sproing! Once you adjust to the notion that very fit people are supposed to be bouncing off walls and flying in your face, you can relax and let them (Wells and dancers) do their thing, which is an electrifying style of contact improvisation" SF Weekly

ℹ️ All Levels, but basic ci or contemporary dance experience recommended.
🎥 Videólinkek:
https://vimeo.com/1112068788
https://vimeo.com/790875855
https://vimeo.com/263768098

📅 MIKOR?
Május 15-17. 2026
Péntek: 6-9pm
Szombat 10am-5pm
Vasárnap: 10am-4pm

📍 HOL?
Kontakt Budapest Studio
FREEDOM, Freeszfe Ház
Szabolcs u. 27. 2. emelet
Budapest, 1134

💶 ÁRAK
📅 Nagyon Early Bird - regisztráció és előleg fizetés 2026.02.10. előtt
47.000 Ft / 125 EUR
⏰ Early Bird – regisztráció és előleg fizetés 2026.04.10. előtt
57.000 Ft / 150 EUR
📅 2026.03.01. utáni foglalás esetén
67.000 Ft / 175 EUR
💰Szociális (kedvezményes): 47.000 Ft / 125 EUR
🎓 Profik / Táncosok / Tanárok
40.000 HUF / 105 EUR
ℹ️ Minden foglalás esetén 15.000 Ft / 40 EUR vissza nem térítendő előleg fizetendő. Ezt a Kontakt Budapest egyéb rendezvényein készpénzben tudod befizetni.

📝 JELENTKEZÉS
A regisztrációhoz kérjük, töltsd ki ezt a Form-ot: https://forms.gle/K9Kv6nvN2FvFPpX26
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Info in English:
📅 WHEN?
15-17 May 2026
FRI: 6-9pm
SAT: 10am-5pm
SUN: 10am-4pm
📍 WHERE?
Kontakt Budapest Studio
FREEDOM, Freeszfe House
Szabolcs u. 27. 2nd floor
Budapest, 1134, Hungary
💶 WORKSHOP FEES:
⏰ Very Early Bird – before 10/02/2026
47,000 HUF / 125 EUR
⏰ Early Bird – before 10/04/2026
57,000 HUF / 150 EUR
📅 Bookings after 10/04/2026
67,000 HUF / 175 EUR
💰 Social (concessions): 47,000 HUF / 125 EUR
🎓 Professionals / Dancers / Teachers
40,000 HUF / 100 EUR
ℹ️ A non-refundable deposit of HUF 15,000 / 40 EUR is required for all bookings. To be paid in cash at Kontakt Budapest events.
For registration, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/K9Kv6nvN2FvFPpX26

Organization - Juli Gabor, Lipka Peter: [email protected]
Don’t hesitate to write me if you have any QUESTIONS!