Dance, Movement, and CI Events in Ottawa/Gatineau

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Updated December 08 2024 – Mis à jour le 08 décembre 2024

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Contact Improv Dance Jam at Earthdance – Ian! and Karen, photo and Photoshop by Moti

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Ian! and Eva in Burlington VT Hello, Ottawa/Gatineau area dancers and movers.

Events Near Ottawa/Gatineau/Wakefield/Lanark/CarletonPlaceIndexup to index

Events in or originating from the local Ottawa/Gatineau/Wakefield/Lanark/CarletonPlace Region

Events that recur weekly or monthly show only the nearest upcoming event or two. Follow the link for future events.

>> Weekly Events <<Indexup to index

The events in this section recur weekly, with some exceptions. Check the official event page to make sure the event is scheduled on the day you want to attend.

Saturdays at 11:15am – Contact Improvisation Class and Dance Jam

If you’re new to Contact Improvisation Dance, attend the free CI Basics class/jam on December 7 below.

CI dancers who have already taken a CI Basics class in Ottawa are welcome to attend any of our weekly CI jams running every Saturday until December 21 2024.

Sundays at 10:15am – Dance to Nature (outdoors) with Alana

This dance takes place mostly weekly, outdoors at Mooney’s Bay, all year round. See the facebook: Dance to Nature group or contact Alana O’Donnell for current information. Some Sundays have no facilitated dances.

The grassy dance area is not very friendly to wheelchairs, though there are paved paths adjacent. Accessible city washrooms are available in the main building at Mooney’s Bay.

Mondays at 7pm – bilingual Biodanza with Anne Marie Riel

Warning: The facebook events may incorrectly include some days where there are no dances. Read the text to know which days those are.

Come and join the dance! The evening is bilingual English/French.

  • Biodanza Weekly drop-in on most Mondays 7pm-9:15pm until December 16
  • Centre Jules-Desbiens, 109 Wright Street (at Leduc), Gatineau.
  • Elevator entrance on the right; free parking around the building.
  • OCTranspo and STO buses nearby (Terrasses de la Chaudière).
  • For information: Anne-Marie Riel 450-266-4511 or 613-316-8118
  • Biodanza presque chaque lundi à 19h00 jusqu’au 16 décembre
  • Viens danser la joie d’être vivant, vivante!
  • La permission d’être pleinement soi.
  • La Biodanza est une pratique qui s’adresse à tout le monde.
  • Danser la vie, c’est prendre du temps pour retrouver le meilleur de soi.
  • Danser la vie, c’est entrer dans la simplicité et le plaisir des liens humains.
  • Danser la vie, c’est offrir au monde la qualité de ma présence aimante.
  • À la joie de vous accueillir pour danser ensemble!
  • Bienvenue à tous et à toutes!
  • Au Centre Jules-Desbiens à Gatineau (Hull) 109 rue Wright (coin Leduc) au rez-de-chaussée
  • Ascenseur disponible à droite de l’édifice – stationnement gratuit autour de l’édifice
  • Pour informations: Anne-Marie Riel 450-266-4511 ou 613-316-8118 facebook: Anne Marie Riel
Biodanza Canada

mercredis à 19h00 – Biodanza en français avec Isabelle Burnier

Biodanza en français avec facebook: Biodanza Isabelle Burnier:

MERCREDI Cours MULTINIVEAUX
Ouvert à toutes et à tous
SE MOUVOIR ET S’ÉMOUVOIR

Bouger et se sentir profondément vivant dans l’ici et maintenant, c’est cesser de vivre au passé ou au conditionnel. Habiter nos gestes par le mouvement ému grâce à la musique et au groupe, c’est retrouver une joie existentielle, un émerveillement naturel.

  • Session du 4 septembre au 18 décembre
  • ouvert à toutes et à tous (langue français)
  • Noter que la soirée ne sera pas bilingue.

Le cours multiniveaux est ouvert à toute personne qui désire découvrir la Biodanza ou s’investir dans une pratique régulière. Pas besoin d’inscription, présentez-vous à partir de 18h30 à la salle. Le cours commence à 19h.

Biodanza Canada

December 8 at 12:30pm – Somatic Qigong with Naomi SparrowIndexup to index

This event has no online site on which to post updates, so you have to contact Naomi Sparrow to make sure that there are no last-minute changes.

Somatic Qigong: The Sea of Marrow and the 18 Luohan

Please register before attending by messaging or emailing Naomi Sparrow

Greetings!
I’ll be teaching three Somatic Qigong workshops this autumn.
Everyone Welcome, no experience necessary!
Finding ease and playfulness in our movement practices
All ages, levels of experience and ability welcome.
Special Welcome is to New People; we love fresh faces and energy.
Also Special Welcome extended to Folks we haven’t SEEN in a long time…We missed you!
🌿🌿🌿🏵️ 🌿🌿🌿

Through this series, we’ve been learning movements from the 18 Luohan. In the last workshop we learned the 8 Brocades, which are rooted in the first 8 movements of the 18 Luohan. Together we’ll review and discuss the movements we’ve learned so far. New people: don’t worry! You can jump in! I promise it won’t be overwhelming!

The structural focus in this workshop will be on the dynamics of weight shift in the body. How does the upper body ride the lower body through the dynamic movement of the pelvis? How can gentle weight-shift movements facilitate flow through the pelvis and related structures? How does this movement support digestion, elimination, deep rest, and creative process?

In the first Somatic Qigong workshop we looked at how to allow movement to happen naturally and why that is so important when practicing Forms such as Qigong. In the second workshop we explored the spine, the curves of the ribs and movements that help with back tension.

In the third, we inhabited the shoulder girdle and found ways to ease neck and shoulder tension. In the fourth workshop we encountered the space around the heart and we felt the rise and fall of the heart on the diaphragm.

In this fifth and final workshop of the series we will focus on tension in the pelvis and lower back. How do organs and Yin meridians affect the posture and movement of the pelvis?

This workshop will not take a particularly structural approach, rather we will find the marrow in the pelvis and approach the Sea of Marrow as an energy that flows through the pelvis, spine, and nervous system.

….Come and move with us to see what the heck I mean by that!!

The Sea of Marrow:
How do we move while generating energy?
How is energy generated, moved and stored in the body?
Can you sense energy moving in your body as you move, rest and breathe?
What blocks the flow of energy in your body?
What supports you to open the flow up and let it move you?
I hope to see you Sunday and if the flow takes you elsewhere…Have the day you most need to have!

NO PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE NECESSARY with either Body-Mind Centering or Qigong. Bring an open mind, a journal… bring a friend if you like! Bring something to write/draw with and wear comfy clothes!

Somatic Qigong

December 14 at 6:30pm – Winter Solstice Dance with Anne PitmanIndexup to index

On Saturday December 14 adults can dance the season with Anne Pitman at the Dovercourt Recreation Centre 411 Dovercourt Ave., Ottawa.

Dance from darkness to light, as we celebrate Winter Solstice in a warm, welcoming community. We’ll move through free dance to circle dance, embracing the rhythm of the season and connection in beeswax candlelight.

Each season, mark your life.
Dance from darkness to light, in a welcoming community ritual.
Dance your rhythm and the rhythm of the season.
Circle dances and free-form dances.
No dance experience necessary.
All adults welcome.
6:30pm to 9pm

Dance the Seasons of the Year – Take time out of your busy life to dance your aliveness, your life and honour the turning of the wheel. No dance experience is necessary. Dance your rhythm and the rhythm of the season. Play with movement and stillness, free-form dances and traditional circle dances, invigorated by world music and warm community spirit. All of nature: Honour earth, air, water, fire and space – everything that surrounds you, is also in you. Connect with these natural elements and find their qualities of groundedness, inspiration, flow and passion in you and in your life. Dance in the season with open arms.

For more information, click on the link above or contact Anne Pitman 613-807-1424
(This location and washrooms are wheelchair accessible.)
Winter Solstice Dance

December 14 at 7pm – Community Contact Improvisation Dance Jam with ValerieIndexup to index

⭐️⭐️⭐️ 3 hours Community CI jam on Saturday evening December 14, 7-10 pm at ODD lead by contact improv teacher Valerie Sabbah from Montreal.

Save the date! More details to come. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

ODD/CDC Ottawa Dance Directive The ODD/CDC studio is fully accessible, with a large accessible washroom on the same floor as the dance space.

December 15 at 10:15am – Dance Temple Ecstatic Dance with KatieIndexup to index

Ecstatic dance is an immersive free-form movement guided by a musical journey intentionally crafted to induce healing and self-discovery. This journey follows a wave-like progression: it begins with gentle rhythms, builds to a vibrant climax, and softly descends into tranquility. It’s an inclusive practice where no prior dance experience or partner is required—only an openness to explore personal expression within a supportive environment.

This dance happens on Sundays approximately every two weeks until at least December 15 2024. See the links to Katie’s Dance Temple Ottawa and Katie Bigras’ events under Links to Various Local Dance/Movement Pages

Venue: Churchill Seniors Recreation Centre, 345 Richmond Rd., Ottawa
This location is wheelchair accessible with an accessible washroom.
Dance Temple Ecstatic Dance

December 19 at 7:30pm – Ecstatic Dance at Rosemount HallIndexup to index

These Thursday evening Ecstatic Dances usually take place on the first and third Thursdays of each month at the Rosemount Orange Hall at 41 Rosemount Avenue in Ottawa. Different people run these events, each with their own facebook sites, so you have to look in multiple places to find out the details. The start times aren’t always the same; check online before you head out. The events are only visible on The Facebook; there is no public web page. Try looking in all these places for the upcoming events:

The Rosemount Orange Hall is not accessible; there are many steps up to the dance floor and the washroom is too small for a wheelchair.

Ecstatic Dance

January 3 at 7pm – Dances of Universal PeaceIndexup to index

We welcome you to our Dances of Universal Peace.

We will dance at the First United Church in the Westboro neighborhood of Ottawa. You are invited to dance for peace – bring a friend! The Dances of Universal Peace are a 40 year old tradition of dancing to simple chants from a variety of the world’s religions in a simple and peaceful moving meditation. Newcomers are happily welcomed. No previous experience or dance partner needed. All dances and movements are learned on the spot. A donation will be requested (Suggested $10.) No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Our leaders and musicians team includes Marlene Neufeld, Bob Neufeld, Pat Kerr and Yves St-Pierre.

This location is wheelchair accessible with an accessible washroom.

Dances of Universal Peace

January 15 at 5:15pm – Contact Improvisation Jam with Anne-MarieIndexup to index

Welcome to the first of many weekly Wednesday Contact Improv Jam Nights in Ottawa at the Routhier Community Centre. Ticket details are not yet available from [Anne-Marie)(annemava@hotmail.com). Contact her for more information.

Contact improv (CI) is the dance of physics, where we experience the joy of dancing in contact with others while experimenting with gravity, weight sharing, rolling, falling, and flying. We will be open jamming to an exquisite music playlist on a sprung dance floor! The jam is open to all levels. There is no class, so it is strongly encouraged that you have some CI experience before attending. Note: You must be 18 years of age or older to participate.

This location is wheelchair accessible with an accessible washroom.

Contact Improvisation Dance Jam

January 19 at 12 noon – Contemporary Dance Workshop in RupertIndexup to index

A local event for the dance-curious and dance-joyous communities of Wakefield, Rupert and beyond. This Workshop is hosted by local dance artist Emily Rudenberg (Ballet du Village) with classes taught by a guest artist. Each class will include time for networking.

Venue: Rupert Hall, 24 Chemin Shouldice, La Pêche, QC J0X 1A0, Canada

Contemporary Dance

February 1 at 11:15am – Free Contact Improvisation Basics Class & JamIndexup to index

Ian!, Anne-Marie(up), and Marcia Free CI Basics class and dance jam open to everyone on Saturday February 1 at 11:15am. All Welcome! No experience necessary! We teach you everything.

The accessible, community-run Ottawa/Gatineau Contact Improvisation Dance classes and jams run a free all-welcome CI Basics class and dance jam at 11:15am on Saturday February 1 open to everyone, especially people new to CI dance. Follow this link for details on time, location, and what to wear: Contact Improv Dance Basics.

CI dancers who have already taken a CI Basics class in Ottawa are welcome to attend any of our weekly CI jams running weekly every Saturday at 11:5am until December 21 2024 and then resuming weekly again on January 11 2025.

ODD/CDC Ottawa Dance Directive The ODD/CDC studio is fully accessible, with a large accessible washroom on the same floor as the dance space.

CI Dancers at the Ottawa CI dance jam: Ken, Kia, Isabelle, Barbara, Anne-Marie(up), Ian!, Marcia

Outside Ottawa/Gatineau/Wakefield/Lanark/CarletonPlaceIndexup to index

Events outside the local Ottawa/Gatineau/Wakefield/Lanark/CarletonPlace Region

Contact Ian Allen about car pooling from Ottawa to some of the above dance events.

Earthdance MA: December 27 2024 – January 1 2025 – Earthdance Winter CI JamIndexup to index

Registration is open! Register early – this jam fills up quickly.

The Winter Jam is one of the four main Earthdance seasonal jams. It often has around 100-140 participants, is open to all movement levels and backgrounds. We will be offering classes on embodied consent and CI fundamentals. We are excited to offer up to 10 FULL JAM Equity & Access Discounts to individuals who have a financial need.

Contact Ian Allen about car pooling from Ottawa to this event.

Earthdance

Field Center VT: January 16–19 2025 – Contact Improv January JamIndexup to index

Classic Thursday-Sunday Contact/Collective Improvisation Jam at The Field Center! Classes, labs, and open jams. Workshops with Jennifer Nugent and Shira Yaziv!

Breakfast, lunch and dinner provided. Dancing, sunbathing, swimming, sauna, rigor and relaxation…

The Field Center is in south-central Vermont near Rockingham / Bellows Falls / Brockways Mills.

The Field Center

Earthdance MA: April 3–6 2025 – Earthdance Spring CI JamIndexup to index

The Spring Jam is one of the four main Earthdance seasonal jams.
It is open to all movement levels and backgrounds.
Details to be announced.

Contact Ian Allen about car pooling from Ottawa to this event.

Earthdance

Toronto: April 18–20 2025 – ORCJ: Ontario Regional Contact JamIndexup to index

ORCJ ORCJ is back live and in person for the first time since 2019. We welcome beginners and newcomers and all levels of dance experience. See dozens and dozens and dozens of your bestest dancing friends from all over the world!

If you register early enough, we will feed you an on-premises catered vegan lunch every day!

ORCJ Toronto – National Ballet School

Earthdance MA: June 28–July 5 2025 – Earthdance Summer CI JamIndexup to index

The Summer Jam is one of the four main Earthdance seasonal jams.
This jam is also known as the July 4th jam.
It is open to all movement levels and backgrounds.
Details to be announced.

Contact Ian Allen about car pooling from Ottawa to this event.

Earthdance

Tolland MA: July 30–August 10 2025 – DNE Summer Dance CampIndexup to index

DNE Summer Dance Camp Dance New England Summer Dance Camp Wednesday July 30 through Sunday August 10 2025.

NOTICE: The DNE web site may not be updated yet and still show old information from 2024.

Up to eleven days of dance, movement, drumming, yoga, workshops, food, and clothing-optional private swimming in the woods of Camp Timber Trails outside of Tolland in south-western Massachusetts. On-site all-ages daytime child care is included in the event fee so that parents may attend workshops. A camp schedule is available (may not be updated yet for 2025).

Contact Ian Allen about car pooling from Ottawa to this event.

DNE Summer Dance Camp at Camp Timber Trails near Tolland MA
DNE Summer Dance Camp at Camp Timber Trails near Tolland MA

Earthdance MA: October 16–19 2025 – Earthdance Fall CI JamIndexup to index

The Fall Jam is one of the four main Earthdance seasonal jams.
It is open to all movement levels and backgrounds.
Details to be announced.

Contact Ian Allen about car pooling from Ottawa to this event.

Earthdance

Earthdance MA: December 27 2025–January 1 2026 – Earthdance Winter CI JamIndexup to index

The Winter Jam is one of the four main Earthdance seasonal jams.
This jam is also known as the New Year’s Jam.
It is open to all movement levels and backgrounds.
It usually sells out by USA Thanksgiving.
Details to be announced.

Contact Ian Allen about car pooling from Ottawa to this event.

Earthdance

Recurring Events Outside the Ottawa/Gatineau RegionIndexup to index

Recurring Events outside the local Ottawa/Gatineau/Wakefield/Lanark/CarletonPlace Region

Some of these events changed during the pandemic. If the listing below seems out-of-date, please contact the organizers.

Picton ON: Barefoot Groove Tonic Free Form DanceIndexup to index

facebook: Groove Tonic PEC hosts a weekly barefoot, free-form movement and dance event in Picton (Prince Edward County).

For wheelchair and washroom accessibility information, contact the organizer.

Peterborough ON: Contact Improvisation and other DanceIndexup to index

Dear contact dancers (or those who want to do contact improvisation!), Suzanne and Opal are continuing to host Contact dance Jams in Peterborough, after a summer hiatus. Details are below. Please feel free to share widely! Contact Improvisation is movement inspired by the spontaneous interaction between two people playing with weight, momentum and gravity. Beginners welcome! Contact Dance Jam is hosted the 4th Sunday of the month (with some exceptions - see below).

We will start with just an hour and a silent jam and we can consider expansion, depending on interest. Mark your calendars!

We have created guidelines to foster a culture of consent. Please review them (your feedback welcome, if you have any). We ask people to sign that they will abide by them.

This location is wheelchair accessible with an accessible washroom.

For other Peterborough dance events, e.g. Ecstatic Dance, see Dance Your Bones

Cobourg ON: Monthly Ecstatic Dance with JustineIndexup to index

Ecstatic Dance Cobourg

Our mission: to invite pure, unabashed self-expression through movement, in a warm, permissive, nonjudgmental space. NOTE: the capacity of our space is limited to 65 people; therefore, please register ahead so that you can ensure you have a spot.

This is a dance intended for all bodies, and St. Peter’s Church is an accessible space with an elevator. There are no “moves” or “steps,” but rather just an invitation to do what feels right. This kind of dance can look like anything – it can be big, small, upright, or lying down. As long as you are moving and breathing, you are doing it right.

Cobourg Ecstatic Dance

Montréal QC: Biodanza and Authentic Movement with Catherine Fabiola LessardIndexup to index

Catherine Lessard Dance and celebrate – Danser, se rassembler, célébrer, s’émerveiller …

Classes in Biodanza and Authentic Movement in and near Montréal with Catherine Fabiola Lessard

Currently (October 2024) only the French pages are up-to-date. The English pages still date from 2021.

Biodanza Canada

Montréal QC: 5Rhythms Classes with Amy DhindsaIndexup to index

I recall always dancing. A tiny, faded 3×3 photograph of me in traditional garb with hair in plaits doubled over, age 4, in my village in India, shows me dancing (and caught self-consciously!). I’ve tried many forms of movement and 5Rhythms® is my home-coming. 5Rhythms® is free-form movement meditation, in every class we dance through the five energies/rhythms of Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, and Stillness®. There is a vast ever-changing inner landscape of our bodies and psyches for us to be fascinated by and navigate with curiosity. Certified at the Waves level of this practice, philosophy, and perspective, you can find out about my classes here. As an accredited 5Rhythms® teacher, all class and workshop hours with me count towards teacher training prerequisites.

I produce workshops where I invite teachers to Montreal/Ottawa to share their wisdom, experience, perspective, and learnings. Upcoming workshops can be found here.

Montréal QC: 5Rhythms Classes with Erik IversenIndexup to index

Freeing the Creative Spirit Teaching people to experience the pulsating sensual energy inside them and awakening their connection to flowing breath, rooted feet and a centered alive pelvis – reach up, root down, live in the heart center. Visit https://www.erik.iversen.ca/ or https://www.5rhythms.com/teachers/Erik+Iversen or contact Erik Iversen for more information. (For wheelchair and washroom accessibility information, contact Erik.)

Erik Iversen 5Rhythms

Montréal QC: 5Rhythms Classes with Lynne AdamsIndexup to index

Dance a weekly Thursday night 5Rhythms class with Lynne Adams in Montréal. (For wheelchair and washroom accessibility information, contact Lynne.)

Lynne Adams 5Rhythms

Montréal QC: Ecstatic DancesIndexup to index

  1. facebook: Communauté Soirée danse Extatique
  2. Plein Soleil Soirée danse Extatique   Instagram: Plein Soleil   facebook: Plein Soleil
Ecstatic Dance Montréal

Bas-Saint-Laurent QC: Contact Improvisation Bas-Saint-LaurentIndexup to index

facebook: Contact Improvisation Bas-Saint-Laurent

Groupe pour faciliter l’épanouissement de la communauté de contact impro dans la région. Cours, jams, covoiturage vers des activités ailleurs au Québec, etc.

Québec QC: Contact Improvisation, Communauté de QuébecIndexup to index

facebook: Contact Improvisation de la ville de Québec

Bienvenue à tous. Les jams de Contact improvisation seront annoncés dans le groupe par le biais d’évènements. Consultez la publication épinglée pour plus d’information.

Sherbrooke QC: Biodanza with Yves LégerIndexup to index

Classes are facilitated in French (with possible English translation on request): Biodanza Sherbrooke: français and Sherbrook Biodanza: English (The English pages may not be updated; use the French pages!)

Biodanza Canada

Recurring Online Dance/Movement EventsIndexup to index

Online Rise & Shine ShakeIndexup to index

Shake! Mornings, afternoons, and evenings

Rise&Shine Shake

Saturdays 12:45pm – Online CI-Inspired Weekly Score & Jam: Beyond SaudadeIndexup to index

Beyond Saudade

Beyond Saudade

Mondays 9:30pm – Online DJ Sillydelic Dance FamilyIndexup to index

Wednesdays 8:30pm – bioLUMINosity Online Trance DanceIndexup to index

facebook: ~bioLUMINosity®~ Edge of Trance dance, meditation, playground.

Online Dance ClassesIndexup to index

Lasqueti Leviathan Studio

Quotations and poetry about danceIndexup to index

Rumi on DancingIndexup to index

Ottawa CI Dance
Dancing is not just getting up painlessly,
like a leaf blown on the wind;
dancing is when you tear your heart out
and rise out of your body
to hang suspended between the worlds.

Jewel Mathieson opening excerpt from We Have Come to Be DancedIndexup to index

Ian! and Eva in Burlington VT
We have come to be danced
not the pretty dance
not the pretty pretty, pick me, pick me dance
but the claw our way back into the belly
of the sacred, sensual animal dance
the unhinged, unplugged, cat is out of its box dance
the holding the precious moment in the palms
of our hands and feet dance
[…]

Steve Paxton explains the initiation of contact improvisationIndexup to index

Ottawa CI Dance – Alexis and Ken If people ask me how to Contact Improvise, I simply say, “Start small” or, “Start small for a long time.”

After fifty years of all this, I realize I should have said,

“Go beyond small to the place where no message is being given. Start there. Let small be the first of the pleasures to come.”

Accept the first perturbation of that emptiness as the focus of the next moments. It is not a dance about you, or your partner. It is a dance about its movement.

Martha Graham on being an artistIndexup to index

Ontario Regional Contact Jam There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. … No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

T.S.Eliot excerpt from Burnt Norton from Four QuartetsIndexup to index

[…] I cannot say where…
At the still point of the turning world.
Neither flesh or fleshless;
Neither from nor towards;
at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement.
And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered.
Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline.
Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance,
and there is only the dance.
I can only say, there we have been: but I cannot say where.
And I cannot say, how long, for that is to place it in time.
[…]

Mary Oliver opening excerpt from Wild GeeseIndexup to index

Contact Improv in Montréal
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
[…]

Hanna Poikonen tells how dancers listen attentivelyIndexup to index

Contact Improv in Montréal Dancers who pursue graceful movement must practice being aware of their bodies and being aware of wordless communication. These skills are particularly important today, when we spend so much time sitting and in virtual realities. Our way of life has taken us further from our own physical experiences and the understanding of the wordless emotional messages of others. For example, contact improvisation makes the dancers listen attentively to the body of their partner. Touch is known to reduce pain, fear and anxiety.

Contact Improvisation – Alexis and Ken in Ottawa

EMail Subscription ManagementIndexup to index

Contact Improv Dance Jam at Earthdance – Ian! and Eva, photo by John Barrett
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