Get in Contact

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We are all navigating an unpredictable and uncertain world. The practice of Contact Improvisation (CI) in the series Get in Contact explores how can we be at ease with ourselves in a changeable world. How can we train our bodies, hearts and minds to move safely and bravely through the unknown? How can we cultivate ways of relating more trustful to ourselves, others, and the environment in which we live? Meeting these and related questions, you are warmly invited to join Get in Contact.

Special meeting: Playing with habits & playing with low level lifts

when & what
January – March 2025
Fridays 6pm – 8pm
1st part: class on a specific topic
2nd part: improvisation on a given score
extra: discussion of CI culture and jam guidelines in the opening circle

how
Each session begins with a short warm up, followed by a workshop focused on fundamental principles and qualities that can be developed through CI. Ample space is then given to an improvisational format open to free conscious movement, improvising and experimentation.
Get in Contact is suitable for both complete beginners as well as more experienced movers. Open-mindedness, curiosity and mutual respect are the only prerequisites for participation. It is possible to attend individual sessions or the whole series. Diversity and minorities welcome and are encouraged to join.
This winter & spring series of Get in Contact is co-organized and co-taught by Andrea Sangiacomo & Barbara van Male. Both organize as well the monthly events of the Northern Jam, with a deep dive workshop and a jam for improvising.

Language: EN/NL (depending on the needs of the group)

Info: asangiac@gmail.com
www.dhammavicaya.com

Barbara is a dancer, movement researcher and editor. She practices CI since 10 years and has a background in contemporary dance and performance projects in public space, capoeira, tango, meditation (and ballet and judo in her childhood). She joined several intensives and trainings in CI, Axis syllabus, BMC, tango and contemporary dance by renowned international teachers.

Andrea is a philosopher, meditator and mover. He has a background in Ashtanga Yoga (200h teacher training with Gregor Maehle and Monica Gauci), conscious and ecstatic dance (facilitator training with DanceTheMedicine), “Contact Beyond Contact" (facilitator level 2). He studies Contact Improvisation in the Netherlands and abroad and is currently doing a one-year CI teacher training in Freiburg.