This festival started from the idea that "Contact improvisation has been a performance form since its inception" (Steve Paxton).
Over time, CI events and festivals around the world have brought the attention on social, philosophical, therapeutic, somatic, ecological, developmental, lifestyle, educational and other implications and questions that came out organically from this practice.
In Romania Contact Improvisation is still at its inception, so we would like to focus our event on CI as art and dance form for improvisation and performance practice. If you resonate with this approach or miss it in your CI experience, we will be happy to have you with us.
Our schedule includes CI intensive classes, movement technique and real time composition practices, interdisciplinary activities (video making). Watching and being part of performances before and during the festival is part of our didactic intention - how can you apply what you are learning here, in your own dance/artistic practice? This requires from participants full engagement in the programme and prior registration. The registration is available 4 months before the festival and closes 2 weeks before it starts.
We have invited internationally renowned teachers to facilitate, support and be part of this active learning process. They will be teaching classes dedicated to performers and dancers that are searching for new sources of inspiration in their dance practice but also classes for beginners and all curious human beings that want to explore their poetic side.
We offer the option of attending separately to each 3 parts, plus to all the performances before and during the festival. But we do not offer the option of partial participation inside each part.