Practicing instability

Name: Practicing instability
Start: 2026-02-28T00:00:00+11:00
End: 2026-03-02T07:00:00+11:00
Location: Dancehouse, Melbourne Australia

Schedule

Sat, 28 Feb, 2026 at 12:00 am to Mon, 02 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 am

UTC+11:00

Location

Dancehouse, Melbourne Australia | Melbourne, VI

Practising Instability
This workshop explores instability as a place of practice and inquiry within Contact Improvisation. Rather than anticipating or controlling what comes next, we listen through touch, timing, pressure, and direction. Instinct appears not as something wild or chaotic, but as a refined capacity shaped by experience, attention, and choice.
In the dance, instability often dissolves habit, offers possibilities, falling becomes a part of the conversation. Risk is met not by bracing or holding, but by softening, redirecting, or yielding into support. As grounding and weight awareness deepen, momentum begins to work with gravity rather than against it. The earth is felt as active support, allowing more freedom to shift and receive weight, to fall horizontally as well as down, and to take risks with clarity. Falling can be softened, redirected, and briefly suspended rather than collapsing.
I’m curious and alive in the dance when weight shifts are easily available and the next moment is unknown. Movement is guided less by intention and more by sensing. How much risk can I take and still be relaxed enough to breathe and sense? How can I stay calm to catch, redirect or suspend as things move faster, and how can I avoid assuming what the next moment will bring as things slow down?
We will work solo, with partners, and in small groups, using touch and hands-on exploration to orient and communicate in motion.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch with me.
[email protected] or 0473323701

SCHEDUALE
Sat: 10 am - 5 pm. We will break for an aprox 90 min lunch.
Sun: 10 am - 5:00 pm. We will break for an aprox 60 min lunch.
LOCATIONS
Dancehouse, 150 Princes St, Carlton North VIC 3054
INVESTMENT
$200 early birds (before Feb 10)
$250 normal
$220 consession
$280 supporting others
(This extra payment helps fund people who can't afford the concession fee.)

If you are experiencing financial challenges and want to join, please get in touch.
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BOOKING
https://www.trybooking.com/DJADM
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CONTACT
[email protected]
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RESPONSIBILITY AGREEMENT
Please note: By attending, participants are asked to agree to the following statement:
"In attending this workshop I take full responsibility for my own health and wellbeing. I acknowledge the nature of the workshop involves proposals to participate in exercises and movements that may be new to me. I recognise that the proposals are simply offers to try, and I take full responsibility to participate only within my own capacity as I see fit at the time. I acknowledge that the workshop facilitator has no liability for any injuries that may occur during this workshop"
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CANCELLATION POLICY
If you need to cancel more than one week before the workshop begins, a 10% processing fee will apply.
Cancellations within one week of the workshop will receive a 50% refund.
If the workshop is cancelled, or if you are unable to attend due to COVID-related circumstances, you will receive a full refund.
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ABOUT ANAT
Since first discovering Contact Improvisation over 20 years ago, it has remained a deep source of inspiration, curiosity, and personal growth. Over the years, I’ve been dancing, teaching, learning, performing, and organizing within the CI community.
For me, movement exploration is a practice of presence a meeting of body, heart, and mind in a holistic perception.. Alongside my work as a trained Dance Movement Therapist.
My movement background starts in gymnastics and into contemporary dance, improvisation, Contact Improvisation, yoga, capoeira, Pilates, Authentic Movement, the Ilan Lev Method, and more.