This schedule is preliminary and probable to change.
Classes:
Plasticity and mobility
Teacher: Ilona
Pathway:
In this class, we open our bodies to fluid, plastic movement in relation to ourselves and a partner, by becoming aware of the mobility of our joints, skeleton, and body mass.
Embodied – Towards body wisdom, flow, and connection
Teacher: Iiris and Jarno
Pathway:
Through touch, hands-on work, breath, and somatic movement, we open body channels and explore receiving as an active, creative process. How does touch turn into movement, and movement into dance?
This is an embodiment practice: bringing thoughts, intuition, and experiences into the body and physical reality. When they grow roots, they can turn into agency and transformative power. Positioned as channels between earth and sky, we remain open to what wants to flow through us. Through contact improvisation, we explore weight, support, and active listening, building a bridge between inner experience and shared movement. Being seen and sharing movement amplifies the process and makes it more tangible.
Falling
Teacher: Linda
Pathway:
Falling down or falling up? Falling through the space? Falling as a letting go or falling as a direction? Enjoying the fall, the disorientation, the excitement, yet maybe also having some fear of falling completely..? Falling as a leap of trust or as a skill that takes years and years of practise..? Falling as one of the original fulcrums of exploration in CI and falling as the one guaranteed way of finding new pathways, of being surprised both on the dance floor and in life…
The creative flow in improvisation and CI
Teacher: Linda
Pathway:
How to enhance and appreciate the creative potential and the creative flow in contact improvisation and in the jam space? How to keep this co-created space alive and free to shift at all times? How to develop the skills of becoming more and more aware of the whole spacetime-universe that we are creating together – now and now and now?
Dynamic Flying
Teacher: Mirva
Pathway: Mechanics of Contact Improvisation
Together, we will investigate how to generate and receive energy, moving in and out of the floor with efficiency and clarity. Through guided exercises, you’ll develop skills in timing, counterbalance, and responsive partnering—learning how to safely enter and exit lifts while maintaining a continuous flow.
Dynamic flying invites a balance of trust and technique. We’ll work with pathways into the air, exploring how spirals, weight shifts, and directional forces can support effortless lifting and landing. Attention will be given to listening through touch, refining sensitivity so that movement emerges collaboratively rather than through force.
Living In The World As If It Were Home
Teacher: Otto
Pathway:
1st part – Gravity.
For reasons unknown to my knowledge, masses attract each other. Since the earth’s mass is so much more bigger than ours, it seems that the earth is pulling us, but we are also pulling it, our mass pulling earth’s mass.
Gravity, or weight if you will, is a force that is flowing/going down, into the earth.
We are like we are because of gravity (and bunch of other things, but gravity is a big one)
How we move in this force field, how it moves us, how it flows through us, into the earth, and how we pull the earth, and it’s support into ourselves and further.
2nd part – Reach
Imagine the smallest possible reach that you can sense/feel. Do it.
Where does it come from?
What is needed in order to reach?
What qualities “reach” request and/or opens?
Title of the classes stolen from the book by Tim Lillburn: https://www.corbelstonepress.com/product-page/living-in-the-world-as-if-it-were-home-tim-lilburn
Leaning Into Motion
Teacher: Panu
Pathway: Mechanics of Contact Improvisation
Class description
What happens when we dare to give more weight, move farther off balance, or let go of knowing exactly where we are? This class explores the core principles of Contact Improvisation through progressive exercises in weight-sharing, momentum, orientation, disorientation, and collective exploration.
“Breathing, Falling, Catching”
Teacher: Vega
Pathway: Mechanics of Contact Improvisation
Falling & catching begins with our breath. We can use our natural breath cycle to synchronize and tune in with others, while playing with gravity, momentum and the ideas of falling & flying – both in solo movement, in contact with a partner, and within the shifting dynamics of a trio.
We will begin by exploring falling on a micro-scale, gradually growing our movement towards more complex actions. Through the subtle mechanics of the ‘small dance’, we can discover fluid ways of catching ourselves and each other, using momentum, suspension, reaching, swinging and bouncing. We will explore how these principles can lead into easy rides and weight-shifts, where falling, catching and flying become part of a continuous dance.
Working with the frame of the arms and counterbalance, we will look at how body tone, alignment and positioning can create both support and lightness. We will also explore grounding through the pelvis and feet, rolling into rides, staying mobile underneath a partner, and finding soft, connected landings.
From these principles we will move towards trios, exploring how three bodies can share weight, momentum and space. How do we enter or leave? How can we catch another dancer’s trajectory, support the existing dynamic, or redirect it? We will play with spiraling, orbiting, timing, pausing and changing levels, cultivating our ability to read and respond to the constantly shifting composition.
Trios can bring a wonderful combination of challenge, playfulness and care. Sometimes we fly, sometimes we catch, sometimes we simply witness and wait. By softening, listening and staying available to what is happening in the moment, we can discover unexpected pathways and let go of fixed intentions.
I will offer clear technical exercises and principles, balanced with time for research and improvisation. The aim is to integrate the material into our dancing bodies – cultivating lightness, responsiveness and trust, while enjoying the playful possibilities of dancing together.
Getting older
Teacher: Ville
Pathway:
In this class we are getting a little bit older. But what do we do while years are passing by and the body is not the same as it used to be?
I try to find and get answers on how to practice CI in the old body way. This class provides physical skills on how to manage your passion for dancing and desires for moving experiences. We will slow down movement and simplify creativity. Time and connection in CI practice come more valuable as we are getting older. And maybe we can lab how to have healing and nourishing dances.
Key words: healing, slow creativity, connection, time-space-love, fun, skills, smallness, simplicity, leaning,
