BIO
I am a community pedagogue (MA), peace educator, and practitioner of contact improvisation since 2001. My background in drama pedagogy, nonviolent communication, and peace education informs my facilitation — approaches that invite empathy, listening, and connection. For me, contact improvisation is a way to cultivate aliveness, awareness, and peaceful relations, both within ourselves and with others. I currently work as a peace educator and expert at the Peace Union of Finland.
Dancing with Nature
Contact Improvisation Class: Dancing with Nature
Teacher: Annukka
Level: open level
This class explores the concept of nature through movement, imagination, and contact improvisation. Rather than seeing nature as something separate from ourselves, we will approach it as something that flows through our bodies and to which we are intimately connected.
Weather permitting, we may begin—or even hold the entire class—outdoors, dancing in the snow or on a frozen lake.
Our focus is on attuning to and being affected by other beings while staying true to our own nature. We will allow our imagination, movement, and the quality of our dancing to be inspired and shaped by the nature we encounter, both within ourselves and around us.
Through this exploration, we aim to let our bodies and our encounters dance in response to the living world, opening space for inspiration, connection, and movement that is alive.