3 weeks of Contact Improvisation
Aegina, Greece
Cradled in the Dance Yurt, we will dive deep into BODY as the Sea holds us, a breath away.
Six renowned international teachers come to share their latest CI research. The format is simple: each week is taught by two teachers, and you can come to all three weeks or any of them.
We will be a small, intimate group of 20 people and share life together in the big old house of Oikia. Open space in the evenings for jams, film screenings, discussions and sharings around the fireplace.
Come, Join us!
Week 1
Linda Bufali
Katja Mustonen
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you can come for 1, 2 or 3 weeks
Linda Bufali
Katja Mustonen
Linda Bufali
Linda Bufali
Linda Bufali
Linda Bufali
Week 1
January 4-9
Linda Bufali
Linda met C.I. in 1998 during a physical theatre course. Fascinated by it, she began a long learning process that continues to this day.
Since 2008 she has been teaching extensively in Italy and abroad as well as organising events such as the Italy Contact Camp.
To Linda, teaching means feeding her own research and satisfying the need to contribute to and support that of others. She believes CI to be an extraordinary, powerful and healthy Revolution that starts from us, from our bodies.
“Life is movement, moving in two accelerates awareness.”
MUTABLE, MUTUAL, VULNERABLE
Linda brings us back to the original question:
What happens while I dance in contact with another person, with the earth, and with gravity?
This proposal aims to open a space of observation within the dance itself, its movement, and its physicality.
The creative chaos; where multiple states of attention coexist: listening, responding, leading, following, emergency, emerge, merge.
We stay with and dance everything that precedes fluidity, softness, and aesthetics.
Mutable, mutual, and vulnerable.
Katja Mustonen
Katja Mustonen is a dancer, teacher and choreographer from Finland. She graduated as a dancer in 2004, and for the past 20 years she has traveled around the globe working with dance.
In dance, she is interested in the holistic performer, where strong physicality is joined with active imagination, energy work and embodied wisdom. Her special strength is in Contact Improvisation, partnering and improvisation, but she is versatile within dance depending on the context as a performer, maker and teacher.
ALWAYS MORE THAN ONE
We will slide, roll, jump and collide in and out of contact with the idea of always more than one.
Materials will alternate between solo, duo, trio and group-scores. We use touch to orient and negotiate relations within time, space and bodies to cultivate the dynamics of the present.
We play with tasks that require multitasking/-focus to move beyond habitual responses.
Exploring always more than one invites us to discover and deepen strategies for the unknown and engage with spontaneous dancing together with others.
“To move is always to activate the time of the event, to feel-with the varying velocities of time’s multiple rhythms. Time, moving us, moving time.”
*The name of the workshop is borrowed from a book by Erin Mannings ”Always More Than One: Individuation’s Dance. This is her quote.
Week 1
January 4-9
Linda Bufali
Linda met C.I. in 1998 during a physical theatre course. Fascinated by it, she began a long learning process that continues to this day.
Since 2008 she has been teaching extensively in Italy and abroad as well as organising events such as the Italy Contact Camp.
To Linda, teaching means feeding her own research and satisfying the need to contribute to and support that of others. She believes CI to be an extraordinary, powerful and healthy Revolution that starts from us, from our bodies.
“Life is movement, moving in two accelerates awareness.”
MUTABLE, MUTUAL, VULNERABLE
Linda brings us back to the original question:
What happens while I dance in contact with another person, with the earth, and with gravity?
This proposal aims to open a space of observation within the dance itself, its movement, and its physicality.
The creative chaos; where multiple states of attention coexist: listening, responding, leading, following, emergency, emerge, merge.
We stay with and dance everything that precedes fluidity, softness, and aesthetics.
Mutable, mutual, and vulnerable.
Katja Mustonen
Katja Mustonen is a dancer, teacher and choreographer from Finland. She graduated as a dancer in 2004, and for the past 20 years she has traveled around the globe working with dance.
In dance, she is interested in the holistic performer, where strong physicality is joined with active imagination, energy work and embodied wisdom. Her special strength is in Contact Improvisation, partnering and improvisation, but she is versatile within dance depending on the context as a performer, maker and teacher.
ALWAYS MORE THAN ONE
We will slide, roll, jump and collide in and out of contact with the idea of always more than one.
Materials will alternate between solo, duo, trio and group-scores. We use touch to orient and negotiate relations within time, space and bodies to cultivate the dynamics of the present.
We play with tasks that require multitasking/-focus to move beyond habitual responses.
Exploring always more than one invites us to discover and deepen strategies for the unknown and engage with spontaneous dancing together with others.
“To move is always to activate the time of the event, to feel-with the varying velocities of time’s multiple rhythms. Time, moving us, moving time.”
*The name of the workshop is borrowed from a book by Erin Mannings ”Always More Than One: Individuation’s Dance. This is her quote.
Week 2
January 11-16
Kostas Gerardos
Kostas is a Greek dancer, choreographer, and educator with over three decades of experience in contemporary dance and performance. Alongside his choreographic career, he has taught contemporary dance, Contact Improvisation, composition, and performance in professional schools and universities in Greece and abroad. His teaching draws on decades of research into natural movement, anatomy, gravity, and momentum, and studying these basic principles of human movement lead also to the development of his Flow in Motion method.
Holding and Carrying
How can we support another body’s weight without straining our own?
How does a simple “hold” transform into a fluid, continuous dance?
“Holding and Carrying” is an intensive workshop dedicated to the art of Lifting and Supporting within the practice of Contact Improvisation. Throughout this workshop, we will shift our focus away from muscular effort and toward the smart use of skeletal alignment, gravity, momentum, and breath.
We will explore how to offer a safe, stable base (holding) and how to transport (carrying) our partner through space while maintaining the organic flow of the improvisation.
Johan Nilsson
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Week 3
January 18-23
Kira Kirsch
Kira Kirsch is a movement artist, educator, researcher, curator, and community weaver based at Lake Studios Berlin. For over 20 years, she has developed collaborative approaches to movement through the Axis Syllabus, somatic practice, and Contact Improvisation, teaching internationally and cultivating spaces for embodied learning.
The Body Orchestra is Kira Kirsch’s evolving movement practice, emerging from more than twenty years of research in dance pedagogy, biomechanics, somatic inquiry, Contact Improvisation and contemporary dance.
The Body Orchestra
Axis Syllabus – Somatics – Contact Improvisation
Sit. Lie down. Stand. Move. Listen. Breath plays the scales of tissue tone. Fluids ebb and flow. Bones whisper their grand time scale shape shifts. Fascia conducts forces through elastic reverberations and a wave like movement in your spine is singing of an omnipresent pulse. Together all these rhythms form an incredible dynamic polyphonic system. An orchestra responding to gravity, touch, music, space and one another with sheer endless variations.
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Aegina, Greece
The Dance Yurt is part of Oikia Karapanou etc.
Structure of our Programme
The program unfolds over three weeks in January 2027, structured as three 6-day intensives.
Each week stands on its own, while also weaving into a larger journey.
You can join for one, two, or all three weeks, depending on your availability and desire for depth.
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What will you learn ?
Designed for beginners, the dance courses introduce the fundamentals in a supportive, non-judgmental space. It’s a place to explore, make mistakes, and leave each class feeling accomplished. You’ll start with the essentials: body awareness, spatial understanding, group dynamics, modern dance principles, posture, and musicality. As the course progresses, you’ll dive deeper into dance techniques, including floorwork and the balance between softness and strength.