2026-2027 Yearly workshops training in Contact Improvisation
DEEP DIVE INTO CI – ONE YEAR PROGRAM OF 7 WEEKENDS
Sep 2026 until May 2027 -
This year, we will be opening a special training program for people who wish to dive deeper into Contact Improvisation: 7 intensive weekends modules.
This year training is meant for people with experience in Contact Improvisation who wants to share and explore this art form, with like minded/body people. (Minimum requirement or experience – at least a year of practice – weekly classes, workshops, jams)
The wish and intention behind this program are to create a strong group that progresses together through the material.
15 places will be reserved for people who wish to join the full program.
If you cannot join the full program, you can still participate in a single or multiple module workshops by signing up for them.
The dates of the seven modules for 2026-2027 prograrm.
1 – 10-11 October – Earth to Sky
2 – 14-15 November – Fluid awareness in flight – (Guest teacher) Elske Seidel
3 – 23-24 January (2027) – It is all in the Center
4 – 20-21 February (2027) – Dancing the Flowing Arc – (Guest teacher) Simonetta Alessandri
5 – 20-21 March (2027) – Spirals are forever
6 – 17-18 April (2027) – Sensing the Lift – (Guest teacher) Noam Carmeli
7 – 22-23 May (2027) – Beyond the duet
Place:
Studio Belcampo in Amsterdam, Hannie Dankbaarpassage 33.
Time schedule:
Saturday – 13:00-19:30 – with an hour break.
Sunday – 10:00-17:00 – with an hour break.
Open Jam – free for program participants – Friday 19:30-22:00
INVESTMENT:
7 modules with a total of 100 teaching & dancing hours.
Normal price –
Low income – €1120 till €1260 high income.
Early birds (first 6 places – FULLY BOOKED)
Low income – €1050 till €1190 high income.
Payment can be done in instalments.
For full description of each module see below for the links.
To join the full-year program please fill out the registration form below, stating that you will be joining the full program.
Once received and reviewed your aplication, we will contact you, and only then will your place be secured.
If you wish to join a single Module workshop – state in the registration form which Modules you wish to sign in.
10-11 October - earth to sky - grounding to flying
In this workshop, we will start from the ground – the first, and one of the best partners we have. We will learn how to truly ground ourselves and to connect in a few different ways to gravity and the floor.
From the ground, we will gather strength and connect to a clear quality of core movement. By pushing from the core, we will shift our attention toward becoming light, soft, and smooth, learning how to fly over our under-dancer with ease.
We will learn how to invite and how to listen for an invitation for a lift, as well as how to catch one – or how to disconnect from the ground without our partner noticing.
Soft, slow, and smooth movement patterns will help us adapt and support our own structure and the shared dance with our partner. From there, we can move into faster and more challenging patterns with ease and without fear responses.
Registration form for this specific workshop – Click Here
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14-15 Nov - FLUID AWARENESS IN FLIGHT - Elske Seidel
In this workshop, we will play with essential physical states and core movement principles, exploring what supports us in arriving at a body that is relaxed, available, and ready to respond. We will meet our responsive body as a vital state, deeply rooted in early movement development and serving as both a source and a doorway into improvisation.
We will explore technical aspects of Contact Improvisation alongside somatic work – sensing and understanding movement from within – cultivating awareness, clarity, and deep learning. Key ingredients include the Falling Body, Following Through, Moving Support and Alignment, Spherical Space, and the interplay of spirals through all levels.
We will inquire into how to follow through in both low and high flying with a relaxed body, how to adapt tone as the dance shifts, how to organize awareness in moments of disorientation, and how to land while allowing falling weight to continue into the improvisation.
Through sharing my work, I aim to offer inspiration and practical tools that support individual growth and ease as we improvise and play together in this workshop and beyond.
Registration form for this specific workshop – Click Here
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23-24 JAN 2027 - IT IS ALL in THE CENTER
In this module workshop, we will focus on our pelvis. We will aim to connect to our center of gravity, center of mass, and the beautiful butterfly-shaped bones that comprise our pelvis.
We will learn to move through and with the pelvis, gaining a deeper and embodied understanding of it. Once this level is reached, we will play with lifting and being lifted from the pelvis and center, all the way to shoulder level – seeing the shoulder girdle as a structure of lightness and support.
Connecting our center of gravity with the center of levitation (the area around the chest bone) can create a strong sensory feeling of lightness and strength. Combining both centers with another person creates a feeling of one body. By the end of the workshop, we will explore how to safely fly on a partner and how to feel secure and grounded while riding this flow as one body.
Registration form for this specific workshop – Click Here
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20-21 FEB 2027 - Dancing the Flowing Arc - Simonetta Alessandri
The ability to shift between states, focus, and awareness is central to both the Feldenkrais Method and Contact Improvisation. In Feldenkrais, we cultivate awareness by sensing and honouring the body’s intelligence, allowing attention to pendulate between parts of the body and the whole, and supporting a re-patterning of movement toward ease and pleasure.
In Contact Improvisation, this pendulation moves between engagement with our partners and awareness of our own body, supporting conscious choice, curiosity, and personal boundaries. Through this lens, we will revisit CI vocabularies related to shifting weight and the relationship between centre and periphery while lifting, supporting, moving through space, and sharing weight.
We will explore how oscillation between states nourishes the flowing arc of the dance in duets, trios, and group configurations – opening space for grounded and delicate physical conversation, and deeper physical and energetic engagement.
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20-21 March 2027 - SPIRALS ARE FOREVER
Spirals are one of the key aspects of Contact Improvisation and of movement in general. They can be found throughout all living systems – from the double helix of our DNA to our habitual patterns, movement organization, and structural building.
In this workshop, we will learn to recognize and harness spiral organization as a fundamental support for movement. By deepening our understanding of spirals, we will build a stronger, more fluid, and more adaptable way of moving. We will discover hidden pathways that often lie dormant in the body and, once awakened, can open new possibilities and elevate the dance.
Spirals are among the strongest and most efficient movement forms in the body, allowing energy to travel from the center outward and from the ground upward. They support continuity, connection, and ease, guiding us from the earth into space – inviting us to spiral our way toward the sky.
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17-18 April 2027 - Sensing the Lift - Noam Carmeli
In this workshop, we will explore the balance between stability and mobility, discovering how their interplay supports fluid, organic acrobatic movement. Through somatic awareness and biomechanical clarity, we will refine how we sense, organize, and communicate through the body.
From this foundation, we will explore different forms of lifts, clarifying the roles of flyer and base and learning how to use the musculoskeletal system so that lifting unfolds with ease. Structured practice will support the integration of these principles, allowing them to reappear naturally within improvisation.
Individual research and shared work in pairs and groups will bridge somatic awareness and acrobatic exploration – integrating softness and strength, passivity and activity, sensation and action.
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22-23 may 2027 - BEYOND THE DUET - TRIO & GROUPs
In this special workshop, we will take time to expand our Contact Improvisation duets by adding one or more additional partners. We will explore how to play, ground, and fly with one partner, and then how these principles shift and evolve when dancing in trios and other group formations.
Most dancers are accustomed to working primarily in duets, where weight, momentum, and movement pathways are shared between two bodies. When an additional body enters the dance, new layers of listening, timing, spatial awareness, and responsibility emerge, inviting us to constantly adjust, balance, and re-organize our choices.
Building on the rich experiences of previous editions, this workshop aims to deepen our understanding of multi-body dancing as a playful, dynamic, and creative extension of the form. As one participant beautifully described it – “all the cool stuff you can add to a jam.”
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