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Andrea Sangiacomo
1 day ago13 min read
Abjure
The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.” (Luke, 4:3) My Father, today is the first Sunday of...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Mar 36 min read
How doubt can save you
We live in an immense supermarket. Everything is available, often in innumerable forms and shades. We spend most of our time walking...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Feb 82 min read
Waiting for the Easter Eve
One month has passed since what happened in Freiburg (see here ). This has been a rich month, in which I've started delving deeper into...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Jan 127 min read
The experience of the Cross
Over the past months I have occasionally pondered the meaning and impact of the Christian symbol of Jesus on the Cross. When I visit a...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Nov 24, 20246 min read
Constructive constraints
I often hear Contact Improvisation teachers emphasizing the importance of ‘keeping one’s own solo dance’ (variously phrased). What they...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Nov 18, 20247 min read
Multi-layered kinespheres
At a recent workshop in Vienna, Ralf Jaroschinski proposed to reflect and approach contact improvisation from the point of view of...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Nov 13, 20242 min read
Alibi
I walk. People around. A lot. But are they there? Social roles, of course, keep us apart. Everybody is playing their part. You must...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Nov 4, 20247 min read
Unfolding
I’m on my way back from another very inspiring week of the CI teacher training in Freiburg. This time the most insightful aspect emerged...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Oct 29, 20243 min read
Earthing
(The 'syllabus' for Get in Contact – a series of classes about CI, from a contemplative perspective) Contact Improvisation is not a...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Oct 11, 20246 min read
Underminding
‘Mind’ is a very loose and vague term we often use to refer to almost anything that is not immediately connected with physical...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Sep 29, 202411 min read
Four Core Ingredients of Contact Improvisation
1. The core gesture of CI is the act of directing attention towards gravity, the earth, and one’s partner(s). 2. Doing CI requires...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Sep 27, 20244 min read
One year into movement
It has been one year or so since I started delving into free conscious movement (I’m still reluctant to use the word “dance” as it has so...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Sep 16, 20248 min read
On CI and avocados without nuts
Back again from Freiburg, this time for the first week of the CI teacher training. The topic of the week was ‘principles’. We gathered...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Sep 10, 20246 min read
Neither one nor two
I’m in Freiburg again, this time to start a year-long program about CI and how to teach it. Asking oneself how to teach a subject is one...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Aug 19, 20247 min read
Not knowing
I’m writing these notes on my way back from the 2024 Contact Improvisation Festival in Freiburg. It has been an incredible opportunity...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Jul 15, 202412 min read
Authentic connections & CBC
How do we establish authentic connections? How do we get in touch with one another in such a way that we are both honoured in what we...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Jul 9, 20241 min read
A touch of truth
I stepped into the space trembling For answers I could not dare to Listen. The ecstatic southern Sun was sweeping the floor and you Were...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Jul 6, 20248 min read
Intimacy
What does it mean to be intimate? As most words, ‘intimacy’ brings with it a certain metaphorical gesture, even a bodily scheme. The word...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Jun 26, 20247 min read
On teaching and holding lightly
Turning 38 in a bit more than a month from now, I’m discovering that there is a truth in distinguishing different phases in life. This is...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Jun 24, 20242 min read
The Pythia’s voice
In the hot dusty noise of the summer I came to the old ruined shrine, heavy With questions, mine and of my dear ones. We are beings of...
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