CI, a question – March 7, Dresden, Germany
Kinetic Composing/ Contact Improvisation and Ensemble Thinking™ – May 30 and 31
R.A.R.E – June 20th and 21st, Cologne, Germany
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CI,
a question

7.3.2026

Times
10.00 – 13.00 // 15.00 – 17.30
Jam 19.00 – 21.30

Costs
60€ – 90€ // sliding scale

Location
Villa Wigman
Bautznerstr 107
01099 Dresden

Contact Improvisation developed out of questioning, questioning the mandatory space between bodies, questioning what is supposed to happen in every moment of movement. Beginning with the solo body we will explore specificity to increase the potential for the duet sourcing Material for the Spine, Re:Wire,
and developmental movement. Concepts such as momentum, duration, repetition, speed, and loft will be investigated from the solo perspective. Shifting our perspective to the duet, we will look at the duet through a variety of conceptual trios, such as core/floor/contact, roll/pivot/slide/, push/pull/pause, etc.
By consciously and rigorously examining the triads, we achieve an un/conscious clarity within the chaos of the dance.

The workshop will shift into more open investigations by drawing on questions and ideas from Daniel Lepkoff’s essay, Contact Improvisation: A Question, such as:

What do you need to know?
Which of these surfaces offers support?
Where am I able to go?To prepare for and survive the surprises of Contact Improvisation meet the moment with senses open and perceptions stretching and compose your own response.
This spontaneous physical material can be viewed as danced composition the reflexes take over, and the rest is history.
Where is down?

Registration – https://www.lottejirka.de/workshops/andrewwass

KINETIC COMPOSING
Contact Improvisation and Ensemble Thinking™

A performance lab
with Lower Left Artists Andrew Wass and Karen Høybakk Mikalsen

The morning sessions, facilitated by Andrew, will begin with Paxton’s Material for the Spine to help us awaken and sink into movement arising from the center. Transitioning outwards we will dive into the space between intention and action by investigating triadic processes. These simple, yet rich, processes will clarify our choices in the moment, allowing us to springboard beyond the moment.

During the afternoon sessions, guided by Karen and Andrew, we will practice creating improvised movement compositions together. Approaching the time in the studio as a laboratory, we will use the scores of Ensemble Thinking™ to research collaboration, awareness, power, and choice. By practicing different (physical) perspectives, experimenting with shape, space, time, and CI, and articulating our observations and experiences, we broaden our range of awareness and movement, empower individual choice-making, and increase capacity for shared clarity and collective engagement.

This performance lab is intended for people who are interested in contact / group improvisation and are comfortable being viewed and viewing others while engaging in embodied investigations.

for more info on Ensemble Thinking – ensemblethinking.org

Dates: May 30 and 31, 2026
Times: 10:00-13:00 / break / 14:00-17:00
Location: PRAXIS Oslo, Vestre Elvebakke 10, 0182 Oslo

Cost:
Full workshop:
1600 NOK Early-bird before April 15
2100 NOK after April 15

Only mornings/afternoons:
900 NOK Early-bird before April 15
1100 NOK after April 15

Registration: email info@livingmovement.no telling us if you will do the whole workshop, just the mornings (CI), or just the afternoons (ET). Once you are registered, you will receive information for payment. Registration is binding.

R.A.R.E.
repetition as resourceful experimentation

20.-21.6.2026
Cologne, Neusser Str. 26

Just as we can never step in the same river twice, we can never do the same movement twice.

Sourcing practices such as Martin’s ReWire Movement States, Overlie’s Viewpoints, Paxton’s Material for the Spine, and Dilley’s perceptual practices, we will consciously engage with repetition to uncover what is rare, unusual, hidden within our dancing.

We will repeat these practices on several layers, corporeal, spatial, and conceptual, possibly using them differently than originally intended. Starting with the solo body, we will sink into our somatic perceptions. These perceptions will provide the base from which we will repeat actions and thoughts, using our habits to expand our movement potential.

Moving outwards towards touch and weight, we will repeat known pathways as sources of experimentation, discovering the unknown within the known. A third layer of the workshop will focus utilizing the somatic, touch, and weight to develop webs of connections throughout the whole dancing space.

Sunday morning Lecture into Jam
What is improvisation? What is choreography? Binaries are everywhere, useful for their simplicity, but they often lead to limitations in thinking, perception, and action. Mixing academic citations with unplanned yet habituated movement, Andrew Wass will perform/ discuss/ question the binary of choreography and improvisation in relation to movement, leading (maybe) to a greater understanding and range of possibility of improvising with and in contact.

register by following this link

———-PAST PERFORMANCE LABS———-

Somatics of Space

17th and 18th of January 2026
Warsaw, Poland

Ensemble Thinking (ET) is a system of collaborative group performance practices that refine the individual’s ability to perceive, initiate, and support collective action. Contact Improvisation is the simultaneous exploration, experimentation, and execution of the location, duration, and operation of surface(s) between two or more bodies. ET and CI can be seen as two poles of a spectrum, wherein lies much potential.

Starting with technical solo material, this workshop will oscillate between ET and CI scores. One goal of this workshop is to uncover the ensemble within the solo and the duet. Another goal is investigate how the duet and the solo can give focus to the ensemble. Through this oscillation, we will blur the boundaries of composition, somatics, performance, and observation.

R.I.D.E.

research into dynamic events

>> CI Workshop with Andrew Wass & Caterina Mocciola <<

>> When <<
December 6th–7th, 2025

>> Where <<
AIEP – Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan

>> What <<
Andrew and Caterina’s work draws from a shared language of Contact Improvisation, Composition, Viewpoints, and Contemporary Dance. Since 2017, they have been collaborating as a duo: co-creating choreographic and performative material, teaching across Europe, and cultivating a shared artistic practice.
We invite you to explore and research our shared practice material.
In this workshop, we will practice a range of dynamic events and un/known pathways—some small and fine, others more robust and effortful. These partner pathways will serve as departure points for improvising in contact.
We will investigate the ride-ness and lift-ness of each dynamic event, and the improvisational potential within both.

>> Guiding Questions <<
– How can we use what we know, to create something we don’t know?
– Can confusion provide fertile ground for understanding and extending improvisation?
– How can we balance momentary ambitions with expansive curiosity?

>> Structure <<
We will start with scored solo improvisations, then move into technical solo skills. After practicing known pathways, we will layer in these solo skills—improvising our way into, out of, and during the dynamic events.

>> Schedule <<
10:00–13:00
14:30–17:30

>> Level <<
This workshop is intended for people with solid CI experience.
Please be comfortable with:
Inversions
Falling into your back space
Level changes
Taking and giving full weight

>> Cost <<
Full price: €150
Early bird: €120 (until November 10th)

>> Participant Hospitality Discount <<
To make the organization smoother and more accessible, we invite local participants to consider hosting. Hosts will receive a €10 per night accommodation contribution, paid directly by the guest. This model has worked well in the past and supports a welcoming community atmosphere.

>> Performance <<
Of the Concrete and the Abstract
by Caterina Mocciola & Andrew Wass
Friday, December 5th – Evening
Donation-based (suggested: €10) – Included for workshop participants

>> Registration <<
Fill out the registration form https://forms.gle/9FPBs3yYx36qv3Gh8
Your spot is confirmed upon payment of a €50 deposit.

S.P.I.N.E

somatic potential is never ending

The soma senses simultaneously it itself and its location in space. The direction of movement, of force, of head-tail relationships and so on affect the soma’s aesthetic moment and its movement potential. Beginning with variations on Paxton’s Material for the Spine, this workshop investigate how interior techniques flow outwards to shared weight and group composition, i.e. jamming. Barbara Dilley’s perceptual practices will provide a bridge outwards towards Nina Martin’s Ensemble Thinking work. By applying these processes equally to the solo body, the weighted body, and the ensemble mind, we will expand the potential of the soma as a source of inspiration, experimentation, and composition.

This workshop is intended for people with an ongoing movement practice, who are comfortable with the basic concepts of contact improvisation. Hand-ons work, observing each other, and inviting observation will be a part of this workshop.

PROGRAM
FRIDAY 31st Oct
Workshop kl 18-21
SATURDAY 1st Nov
Workshop kl 11-18 (incl lunch break)
SUNDAY 5th Oct
Workshop kl 11-14
warm-up into open floor jam kl 15-18

CONTRIBUTION
All weekend workshops incl. Sunday jam Dkr 900
Single sessions :
Friday workshop Dkr 250
Saturday workshop Dkr 500
Sunday workshop Dkr 250
Sunday jam/open floor Dkr 100

SIGN UP
to book your place, mobilepay to Ci-Cph #24339.
Kindly write name, email and date/s of particpation.
Questions or for alternative payment-options, write to
✶ cicopenhagen@gmail.com
Your participation is confirmed when we receive payment.
If workshop is full, we refund, and put you on waiting list.

PRACTICAL:
Forsøgsstationen @ Sønder Boulevard 81, Vesterbro
– doors open 15 min before, and close during workshop time.

– wear comfortable and clean cloth, long pants, long sleeves
– nice to bring additional layers and dry clothes
– nice to bring kneepads

– if you like, bring food and drinks to share after dancing

More info on CI and dance practice
http://www.ci-cph.dk

Workshop in collaboration w Forsøgsstationen
https://www.forsoegsstationen.dk/

Material for the Spine

Intended for people familiar with CI, this workshop will look at some of the movement patterns of Steve Paxton’s Material for the Spine. Combining hands on partner work with solo exploration, we will examine the waves, spirals, and crescents vertically and horizontally. By approaching the material slowly and with attention to detail, this workshop will provide clarity of what the spine is doing when dancing. The clearer our intention is with our spines, the greater range for improvising we have when dancing.

Member Price: 25€
Non-Member Price: 31.25€

register here or simply show up.

Ensemble Thinking at dance ranch marfa

Marfa Live Arts
presents Lower Left Performance Collective

August 4-8, 2025

This performance lab is a rigorous investigation of the relationship between the self and the group in an art-making context. The workshop is intended to provide dedicated spaces for collective/individual learning and exploration. We use this time in Marfa to work, investigate, and collectively widen compositional, sensorial, and performance skills. Using Ensemble Thinking, ReWire Movement States, and Contact Improvisation as points of departure, we will investigate the intra-relationships of the solo body, the weighted body and the ensemble.The days consist of two blocks of time in the studio. The performance lab will end with a performance that is open to the public.

Location: Marfa TX
USO Building
302 S Highland Ave, Marfa, TX 79843, United States

Cost:
400$ Early Bird rate until July 4th
450$ there after
Refund Policy:
if you ask for a refund before July 18, we keep 50$ handling fee
between July 18-July 25, we keep half of the fee
after July 25, no refund, but you can find someone to take your place

Register: Email a short bio, paragraph about your artistic process, and contact info to lowerleftcollective@gmail.com
Payment: Venmo @Nina-Martin-9 with note – Marfa Dance

Schedule
Morning sessions:10-1pm
Lunch: 1 – 2:30
Afternoon sessions: 2:30-5pm

Free pilates mat class mornings: 9-9:50, open to the public
Performance July 5 5 – 6 pm, open to the public
Performance July 8, 5 – 6 pm open to public

Form, Freiheit, und Flow

in Contact Improvisation und Tango Argentino

Eine praktische Forschungsreise mit Andrew Wass und Thomas Rieser

22. März 2025
14-18 Uhr
im Nou Mitte

Chausseestrasse 102 2. Obergeschoß, Seitenflügel, 10115 Berlin

Teil 1 * Bewegungs-Rhythmen und Musikaliät

Teil 2 * Welche Regeln bringen in die Bewegung und Erfahrung, wann nimmt Flow zu viel Platz ein, wo blockiert eine starre Form die Freiheit

Teil 3 * freier Tango Jam gefolgt von freiem Contact Jam

Vorkenntnisse in Contact Impro und/oder Tango sind nicht erforderlich und auch nicht hinderlich. Du nimmst als Single an diesem Workshop teil. Alle bewegen zusammen. Du kannst an einzelnen und/oder allen Teilen teilnehmen. Die Unterrichtssprachen sind Deutsch und Englisch.

Early Birds 30-50€
All the other Birds 40-60€
“Bring a friend!”-Birds 60-100€ für 2 Teilnehmende

Alle Infos & Anmeldung bei Thomas – thomas@noutango.berlin 

Principle/Form

March 16, 2025
15:00 – 19:00

Every principle can be generate multiple forms.
Every form embodies multiple principles.

Part workshop, part laboratory, this workshop will explore nuances and facets of different partnering pathways. We will attune into ourselves, gravity, and partners using foundational principles of contact improvisation. My intention for this workshop is to deconstruct several forms so that people new-ish to CI can gain familiarity with them. We will practice individual partnering pathways, linking them in various sequences, and then improving the through, around, and between them. This will enable us to flow through the 3 stages of improvisation: listening, flowing, improvising.

Fee:
30€ member price
40€ non-member price

register here

and here is the Facebook event

Triadic Technologies – 18.1.2025, Hamburg, Germany

We know what we do and we do it together – TRIADIC TECHNOLOGIES IN SOLO, DUET, AND BEYOND – Contact Improvisation Workshop & Performance into Jam with Andrew Wass, Christos Litsios and Natascha Golubtsova

Ort: Triade Tanzforum, Bernstorffstraße 117, 22767 Hamburg (im Hinterhof)
Zeit: 18.01.2025, 11:00-21:30
Workshop: Andrew Wass
Performance: Andrew Wass, Christos Litsios, Natascha Golubtsova
Hosts: Natascha Golubtsova, Christos Litsios

*Tanzlevel: erste bis viel Erfahrung mit CI (erste Erfahrung z.B. nach Absolute Anfängers)

An diesem besonderen Samstag laden wir Euch herzlich ein, mit uns für einen ganzen Tag in die Praxis der Contact Improvisation (CI) einzutauchen. Über den Tag hinweg hält unser Gastlehrer Andrew Wass einen 5-stündigen Workshop, in dem er sein Material mit uns teilt. Nach einem eindrucksreichen Workshop folgt eine künstlerische Performance Night, bei der wir den Ursprung der CI als performative Bewegungsrecherche zelebrieren. Wir beginnen mit einem Solo von Andrew, gefolgt von einem Trio zwischen Andrew, Christos und Natascha. Danach öffnet sich der Tanzraum für eine CI Jam, bei der alle mitmachen können. Es wird genug Raum und Zeit geben, um anzukommen, etwas Neues zu lernen, für fokussiertes freies Tanzen und ein entspanntes Ausklingen danach.

Andrew über seinen Workshop
Der Workshop beginnt mit Solokörpertechniken, wie Paxtons “Material for the Spine“ und Methoden der Bewegungsentwicklung, um unser Bewegungspotenzial zu wecken und zu erweitern. Wir bewegen uns vom inneren Kern nach Außen und üben uns darin, unsere Absichten und Handlungen, mit Hilfe einfacher (und doch komplexer) konzeptioneller Triaden auszurichten. Ganz nach dem Prinzip “Wenn du weißt, was du tust, kannst du tun, was du willst.” (Moshe Feldenkrais). Am Nachmittag bereichern wir das Duett mit Werkzeugen des “Ensemble Thinking”, um so mit dem gesamten Raum zu improvisieren und eine Komposition zu erschaffen.

Die Performances
“8”
Ein Solo, das die Wahrnehmung von Zeit, Schwerkraft und die Auswirkungen der Wahrnehmung hinterfragt.

“C.A.N.”
Eine triadische Untersuchung von drei Spektren – Choreografie-Improvisation, Solo-Trio, Körper-Text. Getanzt von Christos Litsios, Andrew Wass und Natascha Golubtsova und in Echtzeit von Andrew Wass erzählt, fragt sich dieses Trio, was CI ist, was Performance ist und was es bedeutet, im Moment zu sein.

Ablauf
Workshop
11:00-14:00 Uhr Workshop Teil 1
14:00-15:30 Uhr Mittagspause
15:30-18:00 Uhr Workshop Teil 2
18:00-19:00 Uhr Pause
Performance into Jam
19:00-19:30 Uhr Performance
19:30-21:30 Uhr CI Jam

Fragen & Anmeldung
Bitte melde Dich über das folgende Google-Formular an(Kein Google Account nötig!):
https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLSd5jtqMlpg…/viewform…
Bei Fragen schreibe uns eine E-Mail an:
moving3poetry@gmail.com

Aufgrund begrenzter Platzzahl ist eine vorherige Anmeldung notwendig!

Bezahlung
Workshop (inkl. Performance into Jam)
Beitrag: 90€ Early Bird bis zum 06.01.25; Regulär 130€
Bring-a-Friend Early Bird zusammen bis zum 06.01.25 160€; Regulär zusammen 240€
Performance into Jam
15€ Early Bird bis zum 06.01.25; Regulär 25€
Bring-a-Friend Early Bird zusammen bis zum 06.01.25 20€

Wenn die Höhe des Beitrags für Dich ein Thema ist, sprich uns gerne an.
Der Early-Bird Preis muss bis Ende des Tages 06.01.25 überwiesen sein.
Bei Nicht-Teilnahme kann der überwiesene Betrag nicht erstattet werden.

Thresh Holding Times

– 28.12.2024-1.1.2025, Skanderbørg, Denmark

A five day immersion into CI, Body-Mind Centering® and Silence

Taking our practice into the New Year

A mini-CI-festival created around silence
The idea to Thresh-holding Times evolved out of a wish to create a frame of silence and focus around the practice of CI, taking a smaller group of around 50 dancers on a journey where we deepen our practice together, as a group.

Therefore, we don´t offer many workshops with many different teachers to choose from, but instead the same two teachers are offering an Intensive each, building on to each other and over several days, so the whole group of dancers are taking the same journey, deepening a shared language around specific themes, with time to finding and exploring their own questions and curiosities each.

We will integrate whitnessing and Contemplative Dance Practice, and on New Years Eve, we will take it into complete silence (no talking), moving-transitioning into the New Year from a Place of Silence.

Teachers:
Ka Rustler
Andrew Wass
Nicky Wisser

organic vegetarian and vegan food with focus on simpel, seasonal, tasty and nourishing

location:
Audonicon in Skanderborg, with inspiring shapes and colours offers ideal surroundings for diving deep into silence and into our practice

Graphic Interventions – 29.11-1.12.2024, Warsaw, Poland

Movement fuels thoughts. Thoughts give rise to words. Words influence movement. The cycle continues. Using paper, pens, and following simple scores, we will create simple line drawing, de/re/construct words to open up more possibilities for improvising with/in contact.

Each session will begin with physical solo practices, drawing on Material for the Spine, faux somatics, and a collated set of floor work I call the 90’s. The solo practices will be filtered through conceptual triads, to get us out of our bodies and into our heads. These triads will lead us into improvising in/with contact.

Moving towards the paper and pen, we will create different graphical representations of the triads to highlight and move through our physical/mental limitations. The permutational generation of acronyms is another avenue of exploration to find more improvising with/in contact.

Participants should have a firm understanding of CI fundamentals. Be open to watching and being watched; reflecting, sweating, and thinking.

Re:Wiring the Ensemble

July 13, 2024
11:15-16:45
Studio 2
Kunstquartier Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2
10997 Berlin

The workshop will start with Re:Wire to settle into ourselves, finding all the nooks and crannies of possibility. With great intentionality we will oscillate between low and high levels of ambition. Riding the waves of movement, we will observe these movements as we create them, allowing them to unfold as the moment desires. Transitioning outwards we will explore and experiment with the balance between solo desire and ensemble ambition; between solo ambition and ensemble desire.

Some guiding questions
How can the ensemble support the solo dance, providing structures to extend what an individual can do?
How can the solo inspire and animate the ensemble and vice versa?
How can the solo be an ensemble?
How can the ensemble be a single unit?

This workshop is for people interested in improvising, composing in the moment, real-time composition, instant choreography, etc. There will be floorwork, possibly contact with other people, and observation of each other’s dancing.

55€-70€
register by emailing Andrew Wass: wasscubed@gmail.com
you will receive bank details to wire money to save your spot.

Doors open at 11. We begin promptly at 11:15.

The Ground Game

a technical somatic approach to CI – May 4th and 5th
The aim of this workshop is to provide tools/pathways/concepts to increase specificity and potential in low verticality CI. Beginning with Steve Paxton’s Material for the Spine and developmental movement, we will look at technical pathways for the solo body. Expanding our attention outwards to partnering pathways, we will investigate how the solo body patterns enrich the duet work. Shifting gears, we will approach the solo and the duet from a somatic perspective, sourcing material from Body Mind Centering® to expand our solo awareness and challenge our habits. Using the BMC tools we will look in detail at the anatomy of the foot and then use it as our primary focus in both solo and partner dancing. Some of the basic developmental patterns might also appear in order to add another layer of understanding to our use of lower limbs.

This workshop is intended for people who have some familiarity with CI and are looking to increase technical solo awareness and low-level dynamic weight sharing possibilities.

Facilitated by Andrzej Woźniak and Andrew Wass

May 4th 2024
15:00 – 19:30
May 5th 2024
15:00 – 18:45
Wallstraße 32
10179 Berlin

Marameo Members: 96€, early bird 84€ (until April 20th)
Non-Members: 120€, early bird 105€ (until April 20th)

S.P.A. Practices

Somatic Performance Awareness Practices – facilitated by Andrew Wass and Kelly Dalrymple-Wass

Wednesdays 12:45 – 14:30

February 14, 21, 28 and March 6, 13

K77 – Kastanienallee 77 10435 Berlin

5 sessions – 60-80€

R.I.D.E. in CH

With Andrew Wass & Caterina Mocciola

23rd Feb – 25th Feb 2024 in Uster, CH

Workshop Description
We will practice a range of dynamic events, un/known pathways. Some klein and fine, others more robust and effortful. These partner pathways will serve as points of departure for improvising in contact. We will investigate the ride-ness and lift-ness of each dynamic event and the improvisatory potential within either facet.

Several questions will guide our research. How can we use what
we know to create something we don’t know? Can confusion provide fertile ground for understanding and extending the improvisation? How can we balance momentary ambitions with expansive curiosity?
Starting with scored solo improvisations, we will transition to technical solo skills. After practicing known pathways, we will layer in the solo skills, improvising our way into, out of, and during the dynamic events.
This workshop is intended for people with a good amount of CI experience. Please be comfortable with inversions, falling into your back space, level change, taking and giving full weight.

Warning: Muscle exertion and occasional bruising might occur

Logistics:
23. Feb Friday 3:00 pm Registration
3:15 pm Arriving/ Jam
break
6:00 pm – 8:30pm Class

24. Feb Sat 10:00 am – 5:30 pm
class and lunch break

25. Feb Sun 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
class and lunch break
Cost: CHF 350.00 – 270.00

any questions?

contact@dancedot.org

Material for the Spine

Intended for people familiar with CI, this workshop will look at some of the movement patterns of Steve Paxton’s Material for the Spine. Combining hands on partner work with solo exploration, we will examine the waves, spirals, and crescents vertically and horizontally. By approaching the material slowly and with attention to detail, this workshop will provide clarity of what the spine is doing when dancing. The clearer our intention is with our spines, the greater range for improvising we have when dancing.

Sunday, March 10th, 2024
15:00-18:30
members: 25€
non-member: 35€

more info about Material for the Spine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CntWmA1YTw