Collaborative Power of Contact Improvisation is a week-long invitation to practice CI while sharing survival skills. We understand that much of the world is overwhelmed by power dynamics and domination, and we want to respond by sharing power and engaging in relational ways of being. Inspired by The Love Makers Company, we use the question: What can we do together that we can't do alone? to challenge ourselves in our dances and create micropolitical responses together.
This year, we are joined by Makisig Akid and Anya Cloud (The Love Makers Company), who will guide us through practical and fantastical queer collective survival skills centered on love, towards collective flourishing. Together, we will explore ways of approaching touch and improvisation where agency is not negotiated, but respected and supported.
The event will be structured with workshops in the morning, labs in the afternoon and jams in the evening, with open spaces for co-creation throughout the week.
Practical information :
Arrival: Monday, August 3rd between 2pm and 6pm. Departure: Monday, August 10th after breakfast.
Prices:
Solidarity rate for BIPOC participants : €315. We offer a reduced rate for Black, Indigenous, or People of Color—those who experience being perceived as non-white and face discrimination based on this. We recognize that BIPOC people who pass as white also experience discrimination and erasure, and we would like to extend this rate to everyone; we are working with limited resources and hope you understand.
Actual cost : €430 for the week, including food, accommodation and access to all studios and activities.
Supporter rate : €450–€600 or more. If you have access to financial benefits, we encourage you to be honest with yourself. Financial solidarity is what makes this event accessible; by paying more, you directly enable others to participate.
Full scholarship : Depending on the number of applications and supporting contributions, we hope to be able to offer 1 or 2 fully funded places. If this becomes possible, we will open applications by mid-June.
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ITALYCONTACTFEST 2026 💙🧡💜
3rd - 24th June
We are so happy to announce the AMAZING Teachers Team that will guide us into researching and dancing Contact Improvisation
from the 12th to the 18th june:
Contact Improvisation FEST week! 🧡
Intensive Teachers:
Anya Cloud
Bari Kim
Afternoon Classes Teachers:
Bryce Kasson
Rosalind Holgate Smith
Jesus Alonso
Vega Lukkonen
The festival will be hosted by @progettogaiaterra
Registrations open soon!
Stay Tuned, and prepare your travel!
This year festival will be a very special one🧡
#contactimprovisation #contactimprov #contactimprovisación #gravitylovers
Dear friends and community 💛
As you may know, my dear collaborator Serena and I have been working on putting together CMIX. The Claremont Movement Improv Exchange.
We’re so excited to take on this endeavor, especially amidst everything happening in the world right now. For me personally, this project feels deeply meaningful. As someone coming from Iran and not always having had access to inclusive dance spaces, I feel really called to put my energy into creating something tangible: a space where people can move, connect, and feel a sense of belonging.
This is my way of channeling energy into something rooted in care, community, and creativity.
I would truly love for you to join us 🫶
ITALYCONTACTFEST 2026
CONTACT IMPROVISATION FEST
12th - 18th June 2026
The amazing teachers team that will guide us into this week where we will dive deep into researching Contact Improvisation from different point of view!
INTENSIVE TEACHERS
Anya Cloud @anya.cloud
Bari Kim @bari.dance
CLASSES TEACHERS
Bryce Kasson
Risalind Holgate Smith @rosalindholgatesmith
Jesus Alonso @_.jesusalonso._
Vega Luukkonen @luukkonenvega
To find more informations about teachers, material and schedule visit our website
REGISTRATIONS ARE OPEN
SAVE YOUR SPOT!
Looking forward to dance and meet you all at @progettogaiaterra ⭐️
ICF TEAM
@weis_leilani@leonardolambruschini@mario__ghezzi@nica_andrea_portavia
#contactimprovisation #contatimprov #contactfestival #improvisation #bodies
ITALYCONTACTFEST 2026
We can't wait for this amazing edition with a special teachers team!
Here our Intensive Teachers:
SOMATIC into CI 💙
Alicia Grayson
Michele Marchesani
CONTACT IMPROVISATION FEST🧡
Anya Cloud
Bari Kim
Contact Improvisation into PERFORMANCE💜
Jules Beckman
Steve Batts
Looking forward to meet you all❤️
Prepare your travel registrations open soon!
ICF TEAM
Leilani Leonardo Mario Nica
The Love Makers Company at Dock 11 Theatre Berlin, November 27, 28, 29, 30 at 7:30pm Makisig Akin, stevie Gunter, Eric Geiger, Anya Cloud Photos by @diethild_m
𝘼𝙣 𝙊𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙆𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙇𝙞𝙛𝙚
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙮 / 𝙈𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙜 𝘼𝙠𝙞𝙣, 𝘼𝙣𝙮𝙖 𝘾𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙙, 𝙀𝙧𝙞𝙘 𝙂𝙚𝙞𝙜𝙚𝙧, 𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙚 𝙂𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧
➞ 27. / 28. / 29. / 30. November / 19:30
With strength, tenderness and the potential of threes, as well as through physical retraining of reflexes, images of queer collaboration are created. Bodies connect and set in motion an intertwining with gentle, precarious collisions and risky touching strategies.
With time and calm, possible reactions are processed and the physical, emotional and relational effects are traced in order to get closer to the truth.
In the face of cultural, social and political setbacks, this work is a passionate call to action by the community, as well as an exercise in survival, a balm and a hymn to queer love in equal measure.
#dock11 #dockart
