Practising Instability: A Contact Improvisation workshop
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This workshop explores instability as a place of practice and inquiry within Contact Improvisation. Rather than anticipating or controlling what comes next, we listen through touch, timing, pressure, and direction. Instinct appears not as something wild or chaotic, but as a refined capacity shaped by experience, attention, and choice.In the dance, instability often dissolves habit, offers surprising moments, and falling becomes information. Losing balance becomes a conversation. Risk is met not by bracing, but by softening, redirecting, or yielding into support. As grounding and weight awareness deepen, momentum begins to work with gravity rather than against it. The earth is felt as active support, allowing more freedom to shift and receive weight, to fall horizontally as well as down, and to take risks with clarity. Falling can be softened, redirected, and briefly suspended rather than collapsing.
I’m curious and alive in the dance when balance shifts and the next moment is unclear, the body responds before thought arrives. Weight drops, breath adjusts, attention sharpens. Movement is guided less by intention and more by sensing. How much risk can I take and still be relaxed enough to breathe and sense? How can I stay calm to catch, redirect or suspend as things move faster, and how can I avoid assuming what the next moment will bring as things slow down?
We will work solo, with partners, and in small groups, using touch and hands-on exploration to orient and communicate in motion.
This workshop is intended for movers with some previous experience in Contact Improvisation, and also welcomes beginners who already have a basic familiarity with the practice and wish to deepen their inquiry and refine their skills.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch with me.
etuanat@gmail.com or 0473323701
Date
Saturday 28 February 2026 10:00 AM - Sunday 1 March 2026 5:00 PM (UTC+11)Location
Dancehouse, 150 Princes St, Carlton North VIC 3054
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Practising Instability: A Contact Improvisation workshop
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