In contact improvisation, as in any other partner dance or partner movement form, communication goes through the body and perception is vital. Perceiving your own body and dance, perceiving your partner’s body and structure, and perceiving where you are together. Taking risks from a place of connection. Surrendering into the moving unknown, because you ‘know’ where you and your partner are. Perception is related to body awareness as well as to your senses.

In this workshop we want to spice up our ability to perceive ourselves, our moving body and each other, in order to gain more trust, flow and groundedness in our dances. We will work with games, principles and approaches inspired by movement methods like Ido Portal Movement Culture and Fighting Monkey, and let them meet Contact Improvisation to integrate them directly into partnerwork in motion. Some moments we will zoom into the layer of the bones and muscles. Other moments connective tissue will guide our journey. We will play, explore, dance, challenge each other, go blind and discover.