Every Thursday 18-19:25 h right before the Contact Jam.

The class is run by our best in-house contact improvisation teachers.

Do you wish to get more familiar with the essentials of CI? Do you want to enhance your technical toolkit in your dances? Do you want to develop ways to feel safer and at the same time more daring during jams?

Join us in our weekly class to get a deeper understanding of the essentials of the practice. By learning the basic technical tools you will find an easy and smooth way to navigate through jams and find your very own joyful way on the dance floor.

We offer space and time to dive deeper into the essentials of the practice. We will share some technical tools for you to navigate through the jam and find your joyful way on the dance floor.

Welcome to your favourite playground!

Contribution for the class: €10-15

Our regular Arrábida Contact Improvisation Jam starts right after the class:

-> Every Thursday 19:30- 21:00 h

-> Contribution: €10-15

We start the jam with a guided warm up / mini workshop leading into the open jam.

Our weekly Contact Improvisation class is run by our best in-house teachers:

CHRIS:

Passionate about moving in different ways Chris came across Contact Improvisation in 2015, finding himself flabbergasted by this both vitalizing and subtle fusion of movement, dance, improvisation and somatic exploration. Lately he has found special interest in CI as a social and political practice beyond its performative, aesthetical, physical and somatic significance.  

He has been an active member of the CI community in Dresden, Germany, as teacher,  co-organizer and spaceholder, before investing his energy in SerVivo where he teaches and finds bliss and fulfillment as baker and gardener of the community.

IRENE:

Irene uses Contact Improvisation as her main practice to touch the present and embrace the unknown. With a background in Catalan folk dances, she later embraced Contact Improvisation, looking for more creativity and freedom. She has been deeply inspired by Towards, An Open Institute of Embodied Arts and Transformative Learning in Thailand, where she spent three years. Irene is more drawn to the spirit of the practice than to its form and explores how to open the space for dance to unfold, creating a state of readiness that can meet the constant change and transformation of life, and developing an awareness to expand beyond the walls.

JO:

Since 2001 Jo Bruhn dedicated his life to performing arts in various facets. In 2007, delicate encounters with Contact Improvisation began. Over time he focused often on the technical and compositional aspects of this rich dance form, attending advanced training, festivals and workshops, as well as a Contemporary Dance education at Tanzfabrik Berlin.

The intensive work with Nancy Stark Smith amongst many others ultimately gave him the foundation to teach, explore and to integrate CI into his dance performances. For almost 10 years he teaches all over Europe following his passion to bring CI to people.