CI Winter Jam
Jams, Labs, Coziness
3rd to 6th December 2026
Welcome to the CI Winter Jam
Jams & Labs, Talks & Silcence, Community & Nature, Sauna
3rd to 6th December 2026
We invite you to join our community for a winter gathering around our dear practice Contact Improvisation.
A space to dance, practice, research, discuss and bring ideas into movement, or movement into ideas. Daily Jams, CI Talks and CI Labs will be the thread running through our days.
Community living and care will hold our practice. Fire will warm and accompany our presence, while the surrounding nature will become part of our dance.
A time to come together, deepen our practice and celebrate the end of the year through movement, listening and community.
A moment to reflect, to share, and to set intentions for what is to come.
If we will be more than 20 people, we will rent a SAUNA for Friday and Saturday.
So please register early to make our planning easier.
Looking forward to dancing with you
Irene Pons and Jo Bruhn
The Organizers
Irene Pons
Performance, Contact Improvisation,
Authentic Movement
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She gives regular Contact Improvisation classes at SerVivo and continues to share intensives abroad, as she has in Malaysia, Thailand, France, and Spain. Her work is also shaped by inspirations and learnings from techniques like Body Weather, Authentic Movement, and The Axis Syllabus.
https://irene-pons.com/
Jo Bruhn
Dance, Performance, CI teaching
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Jo is based in SerVivo, Portugal. For nearly 20 years, CI has been his passion. His intensive work with Nancy Stark Smith laid the foundation for him to teach, explore, and integrate CI into his dance performances and his life. For almost a decade, he has been sharing his passion across Europe, inspiring people to move and connect.
www.jo-bruhn.de
Practicalities & Prices
Full Event:
Start: 16:00 Thu. 3rd December 2026
End: 14:00 Sun. 6th December 2026
Price full event:
240€
Reduced price, if you are facing financial hardships: 210€
Solidarity price, to make the event accessible for others: 270€
Including:
Accommodation in our dorm, your tent, your van or in a private room
(limited availability, extra fee).
Delicious, mostly organic, food.
schedule
Thursday 3rd December
Arrival and registration from 16:00 on
18:00 to 21:00 Opening circle and jam
21:00 Dinner
Friday & Saturday
8:00 – 9:00 Contemplative Dance Practice
9:00-10:00 Breakfast
10:30-13:00 Jam
13:00 – 16:00 Lunch and break
16:00 – 18:00 Labs and talks
18:00 – 20:00 Dinner and break
20:00 – 22:00 Jam, bodywork, sauna (?)…
Sunday
8:00 – 9:00 Contemplative Dance Practice
9:00-10:00 Breakfast
10:30-13:00 Closing jam
13:00 Lunch
15:00 Cleaning party and good bye
Optional self organized extension:
Stay until Monday morning before 10:00
Beach or nature exploration on Sunday afternoon, self managed dinner (going out or at SerVivo), stay over night (15€)
Checkout on Monday before 10am.
No breakfast possible.
Space Holders
Besides Irene and Jo, who will be holding some jams (some information above), we are happy to have these dancers in our team.
Marion Guiraud
Contact Improvisation, Contemporary Dance, Biomecanics
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For the past ten years, Marion has trained and researched movement through contemporary dance, traditional African dance, yoga, capoeira, qi gong, and Contact Improvisation. She facilitates regular classes and workshops, using biomechanics, somatics, and Contact Improvisation to explore, expand, and understand the body’s mobility—on its own, in space, and in connection with others.
Chris Gaber
Contact Improvisation, Questions and Answers
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Dancing CI for over 10 years inspired by the work of Jörg Hassmann, Daniel Werner and Heike Pourian, as well as by Bruno Caverna’s Play-Fight approach Chris now is one of SerVivo’s in-house teachers with a special interest in the social and political aspect of CI.
Contact Improvisation
is a form of improvised dancing that has been developing internationally since 1972. It involves the exploration of one’s body in relationship to others by using the fundamentals of sharing weight, touch, and movement awareness. It has evolved into a broad global community of social dancing around “jams” characterized by their welcoming attitude towards newcomers to dance, as well as long term practitioners.
CI Labs
The concept of a Contact Improvisation Laboratory is to create an open space where people can come together and explore aspects of Contact Improvisation. It is a container where we share ideas, bring questions and topics that we can discuss or dance. We try out new things, experiment, or sometimes we just dance. Participants bring their interests to the LAB and build the space through them.
During our LABS, we will have space holders, but no teachers or facilitators. There will be a proposed frame, with openness for co-creating through our interests.
CI Talks
We would like to create a space for reflection and discussion around Contact Improvisation. Similar to the CI LABS, everyone is welcome to bring questions, topics or interests to share and explore together, but without dancing.
There are many ways to do a CI talk, here two examples:
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- During the event, a paper will be available for anyone to write down a topic or question they would like to explore. When the CI Talk begins, we will look at the proposals together and decide which topics we would like to discuss.
- There will be suggested topics, a time and a frame for each talk, while leaving space for the conversation to unfold through the interests and contributions of the group.