WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

This workshop explores three entangled modes of contact improvisation drawn from our practice: contact, composition, and performance. Each mode offers a distinct yet overlapping lens. Contact as a space for sensing and observing the materiality of the contact body. Composition as the emergence and shaping of dancing in real time. Performance as a heightened awareness for attending to the improvisation.

We work with an approach of irreverent intentions. For us, this is the generative tension between a commitment to detail, alongside a willingness to disrupt it. Intentionality brings the rigour, the precision, the loyalty to the moment. Irreverence brings the openness, the weird and giving less f**ks in the dance. How to stay with what is happening, and also to let it skew, slip, undo? 

Drawing on over a decade of collaborative research, Emily and Joey share tools from their long-term duet practice. They will offer scores and situations for solo and partnering work, as well as group improvisations, where dancing becomes a site for experimentation.

Participant Limits apply.

DATES & VENUE

Sat 16 & Sun 17 May 2026  
10am - 5.15pm each day

Dancehouse, Melbourne
150 Princes Street, Carlton North VIC 3054
 

COST

$235 unwaged  |  $265 part-waged  |  $295 full waged
** $30 earlybird discount will apply, if payment made by Fri 24 May 2026
If you are experiencing financial difficulty, please discuss fee amounts with Emily or Joey.

If you would like to discuss the workshop or suitability, please reach out.

Ticket Transfer & Cancellation Policy, see below
 

ARTISTS BIO

Melbourne based improvisation duo [ two for now ], comprises of Emily Bowman and Joey Lehrer. They have collectively four decades worth of CI experience. They have a research based practice in Melbourne, where they dance, perform, and teach CI together. They are respected teachers, having both taught and performed CI extensively across Australia, as well as around the world such as New Zealand, Malaysia, Germany, United States, Canada, Japan and India. They enjoy creating a sense of playful focus, a space for exploration and fun, where improvisation does not get lost in concepts or skill. 

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Ticket Transfer & Cancellation Policy

Ticket Transfer Policy:
• Tickets are not-transferable. You cannot sell your ticket to another person.

Ticket Cancellation Policy:
• If a cancellation is received more than 7 days before the commencement of the workshop, payment will be refunded, minus a $20 cancellation fee.
• If a cancellation is received less than 7 days before the commencement of the workshop, half of the workshop payment will be refunded.
• If a cancellation is received less than 24 hours before the commencement of a workshop, no refund of workshop payment will be given.
• If we cancel any workshop a full refund will be given.

Contact Details

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