Purposeful Disorientation: Contact Improv Dance workshop with Ralf Jaroschinski
Schedule
Fri, 06 Feb, 2026 at 12:00 am to Sun, 08 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 am
UTC+11:00Location
Redfern Town Hall | Redfern, NS
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Purposeful Disorientation In contact improvisation it’s the direct physical connection, the contact with another dancer or several other dancers which continuously provides inspiration for a movement exploration.
It can also be experienced as an instinctive way of communicating with one another - ranging from stillness to highly energetic exchanges.
There are physical laws and forces that determine our dances’ flow and progression which we pay tribute to by practicing specific exercises that tackle gravity, inertia and momentum.
In this workshop, we’ll also train our alertness and availability in order to be more and more capable of trusting an energetic state of physical disorientation to be a creative rather than an overwhelming one.
To find balance in our dance will feel like finding balance in our lives.
We’ll have satisfying duets in the way we wish to have meaningful and fulfilling interactions with other human beings. The playful integration of movement and proximity entails truly shared moments of movement that will leave us more informed, centered, embodied, and enlivened than before.
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Location
We'll be at Redfern Townhall on the Friday: 73 Pitt St, Redfern NSW 2016.
On both the Saturday and Sundays we'll be at ESCAC, the Eastern Suburbs Community and Arts Centre: 34 Burton St, Darlinghurst NSW 2010.
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Running Times
10 to 6pm every day, with a 1.5 or 2 hour lunch break.
Doors open from 9am for a 10am start.
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Fees
$310
Supported $270
Supporting others $350
Please choose the payment scale suitable to your ability, considering that supporting others allows us to give a few scholarship tickets. If you want to attend and need financial support, please contact us.
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A little about Ralf Jaroschinski
His Contact Improvisation classes and workshops have taken place in Argentina, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, and Japan among many other countries. This year alone he'll be teaching 18 CI workshops across 7 countries.
Ralf Jaroschinski was born in Southern Germany in February of 1966 and grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was trained at the University for Music, Theater and Media in Hannover, Germany, and on a stipend by the German Academic Exchange Service in New York, USA.
For six seasons he danced as a guest in the Lower Saxonian National Ballet Company of Hannover, worked as a dancer and choreographic assistant at the German Nuremberg City Theater and as a class facilitator, rehearsal director and choreographic assistant at the National Theater in Braunschweig, Germany.
As a free-lance dancer, choreographer and contemporary dance teacher, he worked in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Mexico and the US. In 1998, he became the German Hildesheim City Theater Dance Company's artistic director and choreographer, directing its twelve dancers until July of 2002.
Jaroschinski currently facilitates workshops and classes at various dance studios, schools, festivals, universities and theaters, he also directs rehearsals and choreographs as an independent artist for several dance companies by commission in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
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For further information please contact Eamonn O'Flaherty via Messenger or at [email protected].
Disclaimer
By participating in this movement workshop, you acknowledge that all activities are undertaken at your own risk. You are responsible for your own well-being and agree to move within your personal limits. The facilitator(s) and venue are not liable for any injury, loss, or damage. Please inform the facilitator of any pre-existing conditions and consult a medical professional if needed.
By joining, you agree to these terms.
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Contact Culture
This event is run under the Not-For-Profit organisation Contact Culture, which is dedicated to spreading ‘Dance and Democracy’. It is offered with the ethic of not letting an aspiring attendee’s lack of money lead to a lack of dance.
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Useful links:
The local Contact Improvisation Dance group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/3993588900725636
Sydney events page:
https://eamonn-o-flaherty.github.io/Sydney-Contact-Improv-Dance-Community/
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Where is it happening?
Redfern Town Hall, 71 Pitt St, Redfern NSW 2016, Australia, RedfernEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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