I often hear Contact Improvisation teachers emphasizing the importance of ‘keeping one’s own solo dance’ (variously phrased). What they...

At a recent workshop in Vienna, Ralf Jaroschinski proposed to reflect and approach contact improvisation from the point of view of...

I walk. People around. A lot. But are they there? Social roles, of course, keep us apart. Everybody is playing their part. You must...

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...

‘Mind’ is a very loose and vague term we often use to refer to almost anything that is not immediately connected with physical...

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...

Back again from Freiburg, this time for the first week of the CI teacher training. The topic of the week was ‘principles’. We gathered...

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...

I’m writing these notes on my way back from the 2024 Contact Improvisation Festival in Freiburg. It has been an incredible opportunity...

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...

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...

What does it mean to be intimate? As most words, ‘intimacy’ brings with it a certain metaphorical gesture, even a bodily scheme. The word...

When we interact in daily life, we are often in a sort of business or transaction mode: I do this, you do that; I give you X and you give...

It is common to hear appeals to ‘embodiment’ or complaints about being too much in your ‘thoughts’ (sometimes in your ‘head’ or ‘brain’,...

I spend quite some time without thinking much at anything. Often when I walk, or sit, or just attend to ordinary activities, I like being...

I’ve been pondering for quite some time one of Caravaggio’s paintings, the Boy bitten by a lizard. It came to me in a flash of intuition...

The bell tower points like a finger To the empty sky. Where are all the stars? I have been many things and none Has lasted. Does...

Over the past four months I’ve been discovering and experimenting with Contact Improvisation (CI). I’m primarily interested not so much...

The body: still warm and seemingly alive. Like the morning bed remembering still Dreams and fancies of the past night. The body: still...

Freedom is not the power of choosing what I want. There is no such a power. First, because it’s not up to me to decide what I can want (I...