Organize your own Satellite Event - use this form to propose one! Include the Satellite Events logo on your web pages!

CI36 SATELLITE EVENTS are activities associated with CI36, taking place during 2008, and framed and conducted by people around the world.

CI36 wants to encourage YOU to join the international gathering of practitioners, teachers, students, performers and founders in the form of a Satellite Event by creating companion celebrations wherever you are!

(See the maps of currently registered CI36 events around the world!)

Even if you are coming to the CI36 Celebration at Juniata College, you can still help organize a CI36 Satellite Event. Communities, schools, and dance companies worldwide will join CI36 by creating companion celebrations. These events take place throughout 2008 and many will happen simultaneously with the CI36 Celebration at Juniata College June 12-18.

There are 2 different kinds of Satellite Events in the worldwide CI36 celebration - plain Satellite Events and Mulit-Site Events. You can participate in as many of either kind of event as you want, and propose your own.

Your Proposal

We invite you to create your own celebration for the CI36 birthday, anywhere in the world. These events can take place throughout 2008 and/or happen simultaneously with the celebration at Juniata College June 12-18. They might take the form of a: Group Stand, Performance, Lecture, Video Showing, or a structure that you invent. Any existing event (jam, festival) can also be named CI36 Satellite Event. We are excited and intrigued to see the various forms these events will take.

To propose an event, use this form to describe it to the event curators, Daniela Schwartz and Eckhard Mueller. They will get back to you about the proposal as soon as they can. People conducting and participating in satellite events can use the CI36 community site to coordinate and document their events. See our instructions for details about using such a group. 

Multi-Site Events

We at Juniata College will celebrate the existence of 36 years of Contact Improvisation with three special events on the weekend of June 14/15. These events are open for simultaneous worldwide participation. You can join one of these Multi-Site satellite events by organizing a group in your home town and coordinating your group's time with the central groups at Juniata. The Worldwide Meeting Planner will help you to find the coordinating time.  As soon as you are determined to organize one of these events, please register your group using the event proposal form, and making sure to identify the Multi-Site Event that your local group is joining.

(click the event titles or "+" signs for details)

A Global Underscore - Saturday June 14, 2008 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM EST

Nancy Stark Smith will be facilitating the Underscore at Juniata College on Saturday June 14 at 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM (EST - New York time).

Nancy will also give a talk about the Underscore on Friday June 13. This talk will be videotaped and put on the CI36 website through the weekend under the Satellite Events page for those who wish to review or to discover the phases of the practice.

Please join the Global Underscore Solstice group on the Community Site, to share your harvest, drawings, etc.

Global Underscore Solstice

The Paris Underscore Solstice team has been organizing an annual global Underscore near the summer solstice for the last 8 years. This year, CI36 is happy to join the circle. The Paris Underscore Solstice team will continue to coordinate the event, and CI36 will keep you informed of the progress on our website. 

For more info, or to join the practice, contact the Paris Underscore Solstice team directly at:  underscoresolstice(at)yahoo.fr - and, below for more details:

Invitation letter from the Paris Underscore Solstice team

Hello dear friends from everywhere,

We are happy that the 8th edition of the "Global Underscore Solstice" will take place as part of the CI36 celebration events, precisely, during the week-end of June 14th and 15th. 

The "Global Underscore Solstice", an “aware” circle around the earth at the solstice time, is a support to connect, in a common practice/language to improvise together at the same time even far away from each other. This "language" is the Underscore.

This year, the schedule should be:

• Northampton, Pennsylvania and NY time: saturday 14th june, from 11am to 3pm
• Paris time: saturday 14th june, from 5 pm to 9 pm
• Japan, Australia, New Zealand : sunday 15th june, at night.
  

We do hope that you are willing to join the adventure again, or for the first time!  If so, please contact us at: underscoresolstice(at)yahoo(dot)fr

We will need a first answer before May the 28th ; and after we will ask you for an engagement-confirmation before June 3th.  As usual, we will need the name of the coordinator of each group: it'll be easier to communicate. And after June 3th, we will send all the final details.

Again we would like to remind you that we prefer to keep the Underscore Solstice with people that know the Underscore (“Full Score Practice”). However, in an effort to include others who are not as familiar with the Underscore, or cannot organize people to join them, there are three possible levels of participation one can choose from in joining this practice.

To help, here is a description of the three forms of participation:

1. Full Score Practice:
   

   You are a community of dancers in which every dancer present is a part of a serious exploration of the ideas/perceptions/principles operating in Nancy’s Underscore (and behind that, in her work (and your own work) with Contact Improvisation). This probably means that several of you have studied and/or practiced the Underscore with Nancy directly. Since the event, for you, is about practicing the Underscore, even 1 or 2 dancers who are not familiar with her work will change the quality of the practice. Please feel free to set limits based on experience (for example: someone experienced in the Underscore can go over the score with one or two people beforehand, and they can join depending on the size of the group), and to contact us with any questions...

2. Modified Score/Jam:
   

   You are a community of dancers who have various levels of experience with Contact Improvisation and with Nancy’s work. You may have one person who has studied with Nancy , but in general your experience as a group is in  “jamming” and exploring improvisation. You might feel more resonance with a more open participation. For example, you might open and close with the small dance, and in the dancing section, you warm-up individually, circulate a bit, find a first partner for a contact improvisation dance, and then move into an “Open Jam” format. You might even end together at the "Final Resolution" time, take sometime for personal reflection, rest, or warm-down, and then have a circle of sharing at the end. The circle might not necessarily be a “Harvest” in terms of the perceptions of Nancy’s score, but would be a rich way of sharing your experience.

3. Satellite:
   

   You want to participate but are unable to for many reasons: you are alone, you have an obligation, etc. You might join us for the opening and/or closing Small Dance (both would be great!) to sort of “click-in” to sense the dancing, and to give your support. You know enough about the small dance to be able to explore it deeply for that brief shared time.

We are extremely happy to renovate our yearly meeting with all of you, such a special occasion to be connected and dance together all over our planet!!!

Do not hesitate to write us and thanks in advance for the support and the cooperation each of you will certainly bring.

Looking forward to have news from you, lots of love from the Parisian team: Claire, Marika, Aline & Olivier

Please contact us at: underscoresolstice(at)yahoo.fr

The Intercontinental 36-hour Pass the Dance - starting Saturday June 14, 2008, 12:00 Noon (EST)

Saturday, June 14, 2008, 12 pm (noon, EST, New York time)
until Monday, June 16, 2008, 12 am (Sunday midnight)

Welcome to CI36’s 36-hour Pass-the-Dance in honor of Contact Improvisation’s 36th Birthday.

The 36-hour Pass-the-Dance at CI36:

Normally, a Pass-the-Dance round robin might last for an hour or two in the context of a class or jam. In 1997 at CI25—the 25th anniversary celebration for Contact Improvisation, with over 200 people from around the world attending—we made a special Pass-the-Dance that lasted for 25 hours in honor of CI’s 25th year. This simple form had a power and resonance that went beyond what any of us expected. And so we’re doing it again, at CI36, for 36 hours!  (You can click the image on the right to see readable copies of the CI25 Pass-the-Dance log pages -- thanks to Contact Quarterly, these copies are from Vol 23:1, Winter/Spring 98)

What is Pass-the-Dance?

One continuous contact improvisation with an unbroken stream of partners replacing one another in “round robin” style: A-B, B-C, C-D, D-E… The length of each duo is determined by the entrance of the next dancer.

The image:

The image of an eternal flame: a dance kept alive over the years and continents, passed from body to body in a continuous chain.

How we’ll do it at CI36:

Instructions:

1. The first duet will begin at noon on Saturday, June 14, during the Opening Stand of the Global Underscore Solstice.

2. There will be three colored wristbands: one worn by each of the Pass-the-Dance dancers, the other wristband waiting in a pre-decided place in the studio, along with the Pass-the-Dance “log book.” In a roomful of dancers, you will know the Pass-the-Dance duo by these colored wristbands.

3. To enter the dance:
   
   • First become a witness, write or draw in the “log book” if desired.
   • Before entering the dance, sign into the log book with the time you’re entering, your name, country, and first CI teacher.
   • Put the third colored wristband on and enter the dance with the last person who went in.
     
4. Dance until you’re replaced. (If there are no witnesses waiting “on deck” to enter, find someone to join the dance. You might find a replacement witness before you enter the dance. We hope that everyone will enter the dance at some point.)
   
5. Return your wristband to the special spot. Feel free to write in the log book, witness, or carry on with your jamming elsewhere in the space.
   

Keep checking in with the dance at regular intervals during the 36 hours to make sure to keep the flame alive. You’re welcome to go in more than once, giving priority to those who haven’t gone in yet.

The INTERCONTINENTAL 36-hour PASS-THE-DANCE

- starting Saturday June 14, 2008, 12:00 Noon (EST)

We invite you to be part of the Intercontinental 36-hour Pass-the-Dance with groups in each Continent dancing for 6 hours. North America, Australia, Asia, Europe, Africa and South America will be taking part of this event.

You can organize a group to join all or a part of this event.

The CI36 Celebration group at Juniata College will hold a continuous 36-hour Pass-the-Dance from Saturday, June 14, 2008, 12 pm (noon, EST, New York time) until Monday, June 16, 2008, 12 am (Sunday midnight)

You can use the Worldwide Meeting Planner to translate the times (EST - USA/New York) to your local times, to coordinate.

• 12:00 PM (Noon) (EST). Mid-day Saturday June 14, North America starts ; pass the dance to:
  
• 6 hours later 6:00 PM (EST) Australia starts; pass the dance to:
• 12 hours later 12:00 AM (Midnight) (EST) Asia starts; pass the dance to:
• 18 hours later 6:00 AM (EST) Europe starts; pass the dance to:
• 24 hours later 12:00 PM (Noon) (EST) Africa starts; pass the dance to:
• 30 hours later 6:00 PM (EST) South America starts; arriving to the end simultaneously with Juniata at 12:00 AM (Midnight) (EST) Sunday June 15.
  

Join us! Communities around the world will be creating their own simultaneous six, or thirty-six hour Pass-the-Dance to join in with the celebration. If you have one in your community, let us know by filling up the Event Proposal Form and making sure to identify the Multi-Site Event that your local group is joining. A list and a map will be created and will be shown on this webpage.

Join the 36-hour Pass-the-Dance group on the Community Site to share your writings, photos, videos, etc, for and from the event!

Flame on!

CI36 Satellite Events curators, Daniela Schwartz and Eckhard Mueller, satellite.events(at)yahoo.com

A 36-minute worldwide Stand (small dance) - Sunday June 15, 2008, 12:00 noon (EST)

In celebration of Contact Improvisation’s 36th birthday, CI36 invites contactors around the world to join us in a 36-minute “small dance of standing” on Sunday, June 15, 12 pm (noon)–12:36 pm (EST, New York time). Feel free to join us for all or any part of it.

To facilitate your community’s practice of Steve Paxton’s “small dance of standing,” we have gathered some materials here:

• some tips from longtime contactor Karen Nelson for leading a stand

• an edited transcription of Steve Paxton leading a stand (reprinted from Contact Quarterly’s CI Sourcebook), with notes added recently by Steve for CI36

Enjoy!

Join us by filling in the Event Proposal Form and making sure to identify the Multi-Site Event that you or your local group is joining. Your event will be added to the list on this web page and the appropriate global satellite events maps.

Join the 36-minute Stand group on the community site to share your writings, photos, videos, etc, from the event!

Instructions for LEADING A STAND [from Karen Nelson]:

I’ve been asked, because of my fondness for “the stand,” to write an introduction/instruction on how to lead this practice on the occasion of CI36’s 36-minute stand to be led on-site by Steve Paxton (the originator of the practice and of Contact Improvisation) for others around the world who will be joining via a Satellite event.

Assuming you are using Steve’s transcript from the CI Sourcebook (included here):

How to lead a stand:

It’s helpful to understand the influence that experience with “the stand” can have in allowing the freedom of dancing with another person. It is a very formal practice that trains awareness to watch sensations like: status of balance, falling, cause and effect of reflexive movement through the skeleton, natural breathing, heartbeat, circulation, thoughts, and emotions. It’s the “active” stillness practice in contact, where—in the privacy of our own body-mind—we can prepare awareness of our reflexes to meet another dancer’s reflexes in the unpredictable atmosphere of a dance.

Steve’s simple instructions, for example, to “make the smallest stretch even smaller,” invite us to repeatedly experience infinite impressions of mind and body with the question: where exactly is all this happening, this time, now?

Dive deep into your experience of doing very little. Let go into your skeletal balance. Relax as much as possible without collapsing. Feel gravity and feel the support of the earth coming back up through your bones. Rest, do nothing. Notice sensations. Let go of knowing. Do nothing for a long time. Dance from that place.

[Karen Nelson, Goldendale, WA]

 

Individual Satellite Events Around The World

There will be satellite events happening during 2008 at individual sites around the world, before, during, and after the main CI36 event. The pending events are listed in chronological order immediately below, followed by the Satellite Events which have already happened.

(click the event titles or "+" signs for details; all dates are 2008 unless otherwise noted)

August 4-10, 2008, Freiburg, Germany: contactfestival Freiburg

The 9th international contactfestival Freiburg, Germany will happen August 4-10, 2008. It will include 5 intensives with international master teachers, many classes and one2one sessions with about 50 international teachers labs, different jams, live music, performances, .... As a 36 birthday celebration we will have a 36h pass the dance residential event for 250 participants including full board and easy accommodation. Registration starts 1st of April and fills up very soon more infos www.contactfestival.de

September 14-21, Cologne, Germany: Daily Contact Cologne

One Week to have simple possibilities to dance CI at home, in Vans, Trains, Outdoor etc. Try to dance 3 hours and 36 minute this week. Or get 36 Dances for the golden CI-Medal.

See ContactImpro Köln-Bonn.

September 26-28, Banyoles, Girona, Spain: Arlequi CI JAM

We invite you to celebrate the 36th anniversary of Contact Improvisation, with a Residencial Weekend Jam, in the wonderful location of ARLEQUI, in Banyoles, Girona, Spain.

Arlequi has hosted the 1st Contact Improvisation ws in Spain in 1984.
We could’nt imagine a better place to gather, celebrate and dance the existence of this dance form with a group of 50 movers.

Organizers : Eckhard Müller + Daniela Schwartz

Dates : 26th- 28th September 2008.
Arrival after 17h on the 26th.
Leaving from 15h on 28th.

JAM fee: 90€ before 22.08.08. after:110€

A Pre-Jam Intensive Workshops to deepen into the form’s core and a Residential Weekend Jam to immerse into it’s practice.

More info: Arlequi Jam page or the Arlequi Jam CI36 community group

October 15-19, Charles Town, W.VA., USA: Fall East Coast (USA) Jam

Welcoming all experience levels, the East Coast Contact Improv Jam includes lots of open dancing, facilitated warm-ups, an evening of performance, two dance spaces, shared lodging, luscious vegetarian meals, sauna, wide vistas, lots of beautiful spaces to explore, outside and in. It happens at Claymont Court, a 150 year old estate that's now a 350-acre retreat center nestled in the Shenandoah Valley of West Virginia. Near Harper's Ferry, it is 60 miles from Washington, DC, yet offers a quiet retreat in which to explore, dance, create and find new inspirations for movement and growth.

Another East Coast Jam (list above) happens at the same place in the Spring.

See the Fall Jam web page web page for details and registration info.

Some Individual Satellite Events Have Already Happened

(click the event titles or "+" signs for details) 

January 7-13,  Rio de Janeiro, Brasil:  January 7-13 2008, Rio de Janeiro: Contact in Rio

First C.I. Festival of Rio de Janeiro, January 7-13 2008.

A great meeting with teachers from Israel, Germany, Sweden, Argentina and, of course, many cities of Brasil. About 100 people came to classes, performances, videos and every day jams, including one at Ipanema beach.

You already can see photos and some videos at our website: www.contactinrio.multiply.com, and see the contact in Rio group on the ci36 community site!

See you there, looking forward to 2009 festival, to receive contacters from all over the world!

January 7-11, Santiago, Chile:  International CI Meeting

Encuentro Internacional de Danza Contact Improvisación in Santiago de Chile from January 7-11

• intensive with Daniela Schwartz and Eckhard Mueller (France)
• classes with Chilean teachers Cristian Espejo, Alejandro Cáceres, Paula Sacur, Daniela Marini, Rocío Rivera Marchevsky
• historical talk including Fall After Newton video
• lecture demonstration Contact Improvisation
• evening jams

The full program and descriptions are available at www.encuentro-ci.blogspot.com

February 4-7, Mar Del Plata, Argentina:  Semana del Contact

Semana del Contact in Mar del Plata, Argentina happened February 4-8, 2008. It included two intensives - one for all levels with Gabi Morales (Argentina), and one for advanced level with Daniela Schwartz and Eckhard Mueller (France).  There were 45 participants from Argentina and elsewhere, jams every night, etc. More info at semanadelcontact (at) gmail (dot) com

March 28-30, Milan, Italy: 14th INTERNATIONAL JAM - CONTACT IMPROVISATION

See the Il Cortile Website for full details!

REGISTRATION only by international postal moneyorder (no Eurocheque) addressed to:
ANNA GIACOMINI VIA G. AMENDOLA, 4/8 20090 - SEGRATE (MILANO)ITALIA.
INFORMATIONS: ContactArt c/o Associazione art.cult. Il Cortile via G.Garibaldi, 30 20017 Rho (Milano) Italia
CI36 Community contact page: il cortile
  Il Cortile Website (email address on lower right)
Anna Giacomini tel. +39 3807117997 Laura Banfi tel. +39 3498436046
Nadia Pedrazzini tel. +39 3487998337 Roberto Lun tel. +39 3477309944

April 9-13, Charles Town, West Virginia, USA: Spring East Coast (USA) Jam

Welcoming all experience levels, the East Coast Contact Improv Jam includes lots of open dancing, facilitated warm-ups, an evening of performance, two dance spaces, shared lodging, luscious vegetarian meals, sauna, wide vistas, lots of beautiful spaces to explore, outside and in. It happens at Claymont Court, a 150 year old estate that's now a 350-acre retreat center nestled in the Shenandoah Valley of West Virginia. Near Harper's Ferry, it is 60 miles from Washington, DC, yet offers a quiet retreat in which to explore, dance, create and find new inspirations for movement and growth.

Another East Coast Jam (listed below) happens at the same place in the Fall.

See the Spring Jam web page web page for details and registration info.

April 25, Santiago, Chile: Trayecto 3.6 km

An idea that came out to celebrate the CI 36, was Trayecto 3.6 km. The proposal was to form a group of people and dance with contact improvisation over 3.6 kilometers in the city. Following a route that crossed many important streets of downtown. The route began in the Huerfanos bridge and concluded in the peatonal Condell bridge.

All were invited to participate, the only requirement was to attend the previous call in which we did specify the route to cross, the exposition of the passage, the slogans and all the doubts that arised at that moment.

It was not needed to have experience in Contact, just being open to receive the proposal and to live it altogether.

The event took place on April 25^th at 4 pm.

For more information about what happened visit www.encuentro-ci.blogspot.com

April 29 - May 6, Tyumen, Russia:  Days of Improvisation and Performance in Siberia

April 29 - May 6, 2008

1. Photo-exhibition "CI ang Performance"
2. Master-classes Gesine Daniels and Caroline Waters
3. Performance
4. Jam
   

For more info, contact Alexandr Ivanov's via his ci36 community profile page , the english translation of the event page (thanks to babelfish), or the Days of Improvisation page in russian.

April 30 - May 1, Cologne, Germany: Jam into May

Enjoy dancing with live-music in the studio, jumping over the flames on the fireplace, eating and drinking (we create our own buffet). Next day having breakfast, dancing, moving, swimming. Cologne, Germany.

See the Jam into May web page for more info.

May 22-26,  Moab, Utah, USA:  Moab Jam

The Annual Moab Jam is in Moab, Utah, USA -- Memorial Day weekend, May 22-May 26, 2008.

Join an international group of dancers for jamming, classes, labs, discussions, and performance, You can even dance outside in the spectacular Utah red rock desert. Classes with Kirstie Simson and other jam hosts. (Jam space always available during other activities.) It is an amazing dance adventure, and we will celebrate the 36 anniversary of Contact Improvisation with joyful dancing and open-hearted community.

See www.moabjam.com for all the information.
dance(at)moabjam(dot)com     Gretchen Spiro

May 24-25, Toulouse, France: weekend jam in toulouse (sw france) 24 25 may

• When
  Saturday 2 pm to Sunday night
  
• Where:
  In an aikido dojo not far from Toulouse Matabiau train station.
  «Le Dojo» - 15, boulevard de la Gare - 31500 Toulouse.
  
• Contribution:
  30 €
  
• Food and lodging:
  There will be a permanent buffet (rather than common meals at fixed times). We provide drinks and snacks, up to you to bring along more substantial fare. On Sundays there is very nice market nearby and the dojo has a basic kitchen.There is the possibility of sleeping in the dojo if necessary (bring a sleeping bag).
  
• Guided periods:
  There will be a common warmup at the beginning (so be on time) and two other guided moments (to refocus and if necessary restart the jam) during the weekend. These one hour microworkshops will be led by teachers from outside Toulouse.
  
• Music:
  There will be a lot of silence, to enable us to perceive the rhythms of the body and the dance. But there will also be music. If you play an instrument and are motivated to play, welcome!
  
• Registration:
  Daniel +33 (0)5.34.51.96.10. / danielmang(at)gmail(dot)com

May 23-25, Lignano Sabbiadoro (Udine), Italy:  Adriatic Jam!

One of the most beautiful summer resorts on the Adriatic Sea is waiting for you! Sea, sun, nature, poetry and a lot of dance are the ingredients that make up this Jam. Forget stress and traffic: Here you will ride a bicycle to get to the different sites!! Children are welcome!

Schedule: Please be here by Friday at 6.00 p.m. The Jam will end around 5.30 p.m. on Sunday.

Location: Lignano Sabbiadoro, Palazzetto dello Sport, Viale Europa, www.lignano.it

Fee till May 5th: 110 euro, After May 5th, 20 euros will be added to the fee.

Accommodations are in apartments near the park with a swimming pool!! (Please bring a sleeping bag and a towel.)

Traditionally on Saturday evening we dance poetry! We will invite local poets to share their work, but please bring your own texts in your language for us to improvise upon if you'd like!

For more info contact Debora Sbaiz, via www.deborasbaiz.it Tel. 00 39 0431 422147

May 23-26, Cambridge, MA, USA: Boston May Jam

The 17th annual Boston "May Jam"... 3 full days of contact improvisation. Artists-in-residence Joerg and Pen (Dale) Hassman, on their way to CI36, will be on hand to lead warm-ups, structures and otherwise inspire our dancing! Friday evening "welcome" jam, Saturday evening contact jam (adults only) and Sunday evening movement improv jam (with live music for all ages) are open to the public. Breakfast and lunch provided Saturday, Sunday, Monday. Please join us for Boston's CI36 satellite event. Details on our website: http://contactimprovboston.com

June 1, Karlsruhe, Germany: 1day jam Karlsruhe/Germany 36Cent

1st of June 2008

oneday JAM in Karlsruhe - to celebrate 36 years of Contact Improvisation - the Jam will cost 36 cent, will have at least 36 people, we will have at least 36 dances and if you are 36 years old you will get a surprise!

If you pass by Karlsruhe - just drop in when ever you want - we would be happy to dance with you!

Warmly
Barbara, Tereza, Gunnar, Tina & Torsten (The KA-JAM TEAM)

For details: The Karlsruhe CI36 Group Page

June 5-9, Lake Ainsworth, Lennox Head, NSW, Australia: Australian CI Convergence -ACIC08

Proudly supported by NORPA, acic08 is the fourth annual Australian Contact Improvisation Convergence.. From all over Australia, New Zealand and beyond, participants converge and indulge in 5 days of Contact Improvisation (CI) jamming, classes, discussion, and more, in a relaxing and invigorating beachside location.

This year, acic08 is dedicated to providing not only classes and workshops lead by some of Australia's most experienced CI practitioners, but also to facilitate the time and space for each participant to guide themselves through the event be it with self-directed inquiry, shared investigations, or just plenty of dancing! Favourite activities will return, including the live music jam, the performance night and the Underscore. The convergence continues to support and enrich CI culture in Australia and beyond, for individuals and communities alike.

Also this year, acic08 will host a special event to celebrate CI36, as well as helping to organise the Australian community to participate within the mutli-site events of the CI36 weekend.

Lake Ainsworth Sport and Recreation Centre is nestled metres Seven Mile Beach, beside the tea-tree freshwater lake. Dance on the sprung timber floor of the stadium hall, amongst the trees, on the beach, or in the water! Residential participants stay in comfortable dormitory accommodation with ensuite bathrooms, and continental breakfast is provided each morning beside the beach.

Lunch and dinner are delicious mostly-organic, vegetarian cuisine, cooked onsite by sought-after local chefs Anthea Amore and Casper Brace. Meal times take place beside the beach and under the stars; perfect fuel for 5 days of dancing and getting to know your dance partners!

See the ACIC08 site for more details.

June 6-9, between tel aviv & Jerusalem, Isarel: Festival "The Bodyways Celebration"

The Bodyways Celebration

We are celebrating the existance of 36 years of Contact Improvisation by having a CI36 celebration jam

The alternative, unusual and skilled teachers and performers from the bodyways website collective invite curious people to meet, move and learn, face to face in expressive ways with the body.

For four days and four nights in the new Vertigo Village, in the beautiful "Emek Haella", between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. There will be a packed schedule of workshops, performances, jams and dancing in a magical place in the midst of the desert. Workshops will come in a variety of color-- for beginners and experienced movers, and children (of all ages).

Dance * Movement * Contact * Improvisation * Theater (physical, action theater, pantomime) * Yoga * Belly dancing * Thai Chi * Chi Kong * Buto * Chinese Marshal Arts * Acrobatics * Dreams and movement * Rio Abierto * Authentic movement * art of Touch * Shiatsu * workshops in nature ... and more, held by well known teachers each in their respective fields.

The Vertigo Dance Company will perform Birth of the Phoenix' An eco-dance performance about the dialogue between humans and the environment.

For more information, visit the Bodyways Celebration site

June 6-7, Valparaiso, Chile: Festejos en Contacto, Trayecto Cerro Abajo

We celebrate the 36th Birthday of Contact Improvisation:

 

June 6: a 3h and 6 minute Jam in the Esceanlborde studio in Aldunate 1672 / Valparaíso from 20hs to 23:06

 

June 7: Festejos en Contacto, Trayecto Cerro Abajo
from 12:00 midday to 2 pm.

This city is a port and is full of hills. People live up in the hills and every day they go up and down: to the work, to the dance studio to do their things, ... so we gone a do a dance contact jam going from the paseo yugolsavo up the hill, and do a way up and down to finish near by the see.

Satellite Events organized by Escenalborde, Artes escénicas contemporáneas.
guest: Florencia Martinelli (Uruguay)

http://ci36community.ning.com/profile/florenciamartinelli,
http://encuentro-ci.blogspot.com/,
http://www.escenalborde.cl/

June 7, 10 AM to 8 PM, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA:  Philly Satellite Jam

Come to CI36 a day early and Jam with us in Philadelphia, PA, only 90 minutes away from Juniata!

When: June 7th, 10 a.m. - 8 p.m
Where: Mascher Space Cooperative 155 Cecil B. Moore Ave. 2B Philadelphia, PA. 19122

• 10 AM - 1 PM: Class with Leah Stein
• 1 PM - 2 PM: Lunch (provided)
• 2 PM - 6 PM: Jam
• 6 PM - 8 PM: Live music jam

Click here for full event details and registration information.

June 7-8, Rho, Italy: Italian COORDINATION Meeting

We are going to party Contact Improvisation's birthday with two days meeting including jam, 36 minutes small dance, short performances, forum about CI situation in Italy. We are asking all Italian organizers, performers, teachers to join and cooperate in building up the event.

Our aim would be to try and create a network among the italian contact improvisation realities.

The satellite event is a work in progress....

June 7-8, Moscow, Russia: MiniFestival of CI and Performance

The miniFestivals includes two days of CI classes with teachers from Mosvow, Saint-Petersburg and Ukrain. As well we will have performance laboratories, morning and evening jams.

The event is open for participants of all levels. It is held to support the celebration of the 36th anniversary of CI and introduce the big festival in Moscow, 13-20 June 2008.

See the Moscow Minifestival website for more info.

June 8-12, Schellsburg, PA (1 hour from CI36), USA: Wild Meadows Contact Improvisation Intensive

Explore Contact Improvisation through somatic modalities, site specific work and as a performance form with jams each night and space to reflect and discuss CI, in the spirit of celebrating CI36.

Members of SPAN: Spontaneous Performing Artists Network, a national group of improvising artists, come together in a lab environment to deepen our research into multiple approaches of Contact Improvisation.

Located at Wild Meadows Farm and surrounded by 200 acres of secluded mountain ranges and fertile valleys near the Allegheny Mountains, the intensive will provide ample opportunities to nurture, expand and challenge your Contact Improvisation practice.

Activities will include classes in Contact Improvisation, improvisational performance, developing site specific approaches, The Feldenkrais Method®, the Bartenieff Fundamentals, Six Viewpoints and Authentic Movement.

Visit The Wild Meadows Event Site for details.

June 8, Chicago, IL, USA: Extended Chicago Jam

In honor of ci36 and with a nod as well to the 30th anniversary of the Chicago jam, itself, the jam will be extended by an extra hour and a half. Please, join us if you are within easy driving distance of Chicago. Happy dancing, and happy birthday, CI!

http://glacierdancer.com

June 8-14, Berlin/Stolzenhagen, Germany Engaging in a week long practice in CI

Come and celebrate the 36th Birthday of Contact Improvisation in Stolzenhagen (Berlin countryside), Germany.. Our vision is to dedicate the week of the 8-14th June 2008 to practising, celebrating and engaging in Contact Improvisation together.

Instead of a workshop event, we would like this CI36 Satellite festival to be a place of sharing and collaboration. With registration being limited to 50 people it will be personal and open for everybody to offer and share their individual investment. We plan to have one simple class daily, to schedule 3 afternoon meetings for facilitated study intensives, and apart from that to have time for jamming, and other spontaneous events! Due to the structure of this celebration participation is for experienced Contact Practitioners only.

We will meet on Gut Stolzenhagen, a place in the countryside about 2 hours northeast from Berlin. More info about the premises on www.ponderosa-dance.de

Please note that we are looking for proposals and facilitators for Study Intensives.

We are looking forward to welcome and dance with you! Christine Mauch, Maxine Saborowski, Nina Wehnert, Ka Rustler and Stephanie Maher

Contact: ci36satellite_de(at)web(dot)de
More Info: www.ponderosa-dance.de

June 11, Mélisey, Bourgogne, FRANCE: MADE in France - French/US Contact Improv exchange

A Contact Jam led by Jules Beckman & Fanny Soriano (cie libertivore) and Liz Claire (cie Au Cul du Loup) as part of MADE in France, a Franco-US study abroad program for dance & design, accredited by Washington University in St. Louis.  For details about MADE in France, see www.made-in-france.us; and for details on the dance studio in Bourgogne where we'll be dancing, see www.champsmelisey.com; for other details about the CI36 MADE in France jam or how to get there, contact Liz Claire via email (lizclaire (at) nyu(dot)edu). Closest train station: Gare de Tonnerre.

For more info, see the MADE-in-France website.

June 11-15, Grenoble, France: 36 mille et une Jams

13th-15th June 2008 : Birthday week-end jam

A big jam with possibilities to participate to the Global Underscore, the 36 hour pass the dance, and the 36 minute worldwide stand.

And to many other 'rendez-vous'..

Opening circle at 8.36! pm on Friday

Ending with the small dance at 6.36 pm on Sunday

The week-end will be preceded with:

11th of June 08: Performance day with various perfromances and talks on CI - Starting at 5.36! pm on Wedneday and followed by a jam

12th and 13th of June 08: Small French speaking CI teacher meeting - A 2 day gathering happening in French, investigating our practice and its language..

Details will be available on the website in the beginning of May

the 'team': Fanny Tanous, Christelle Casse, Etienne Eymard-Duvernay, Jean Marc Petit, Patrice Couillez, Emeline N'Guyen, Isabelle Uski

Contact via the CI36 Grenoble website

June 12-15, Steckborn, Schloss Glarisegg, Switzerland:  jam am see, glarisegg ci

jam at the lake, June 12-15 2008, at this very nice place -castle glarisegg- at the country side with beach at the lake! we will join the CI36 with a still dance and an underscore, there will be warm ups, a workshop for all levels in the morning of the first day, live music, study labs, silent jam, blind date.

The meals are biological and vegetarian.

more info:
www.schloss-glarisegg.ch/index.php?id=325

June 12-18, 2008, Birklehof, Hinterzarten, Black Forest, Germany:  metamorphosis

METAMORPHOSIS: This event will take place at the original black forest jam site. The girls of a dance class will develop a short movement sequence on June 12. This sequence will be passed on to a friend, who passes it on to another friend, who passes it to yet another friend. The sequence has to be taught while the partner is blindfolded. By June 18 there should be 5 totally different movement sequences having originated from one sequence and having been changed by passing on from student to student. On the last day we'd like to perform the changed sequences together with the original.

If you'd like to hear more about this project, contact Martin Zeidler, martin(dot)zeidler(at)breisnet-online(dot)de.

June 13-15, Napoli, Italia: Under Gravity

NAPLES, Italy June 13-15 2008
UNDER GRAVITY
CI36 satellite events
contact improvisation and jam

Danza Flux organizes three days of contact improvisation and jam, videoCI and
   performance
to take part in

contact improvisation's 36th Birthday Celebration

for details visit: Danza Flux

June 13-15, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa: Reunion Jam

An event to draw together people throughout South Africa that have been involved in teaching, facilitating, choreographing or simply jamming during the last decade, including especially many ex-students and working colleagues of contact improvisation specialists Samantha Pienaar and Lanon Carl Prigge. The event will include evening jams, daily theme-based intensives, lecture-demonstrations and video showings. For more info: www.kontaekt.com or http://ci36community.ning.com/profile­/HeadOverHeels

This event is also part of the 36-hour Pass-the-dance multi-site event.

June 13-15, London, United Kingdom: London Satellite Jam

Weekend Jam at Chisenhale Dance Space in London

Friday: 1800 - 2100 workshop with Kirstie Simson and Christian Burns

Saturday: Jamming to include warm up with Kathy Crick, live music, global underscore, led bodywork...

Sunday: Jamming to include warm up with Tamara Ashley, live music, 36-minute worldwide stand, performance platform, round robin....

Info: London Satellite Jam group on the CI36 community site

June 13, 18.00 - 21.00 Uhr, Bochum, Germany: CI36-Dance Together

CI36 SATELLITE EVENT am Freitag, dem 13. Juni von 18.00 - 21.00 Uhr

im Zentrum für Tanz und Bewegung Bochum

18.00 - 19.00 Uhr Einführung und warm-up mit Gabriela Jüttner, Bochum und Rolf Schulz, Essen.
Anschließend Jam

Herzliche Einladung an alle CI Interessierten und FreundInnen, Erfahrungen kein Hindernis, Wasser mitbringen, Tee und Geburtstagskuchen vorhanden, Raumspende gerne. Anmeldung fein, aber kein Muß.

Wir freuen uns auf einen wunderbaren Tanzabend

Gabriela und Rolf

June 13-15, Hamburg, Germany: CI 36 Satellite in Triade, Hamburg

We invite you to 3 events in Triade Hamburg, to celebrate CI36 in 3 different ways:

CI Performance Workshop with Heilke Bruns and Stina K. Bollmann

• Friday, 13.6. 18:30 - 21:30
• Saturday, 14.6. 11:00 - 18:00; including
  Performance: 14.6. 17:30 at "Tanzboden" of Altonale/Neue Grosse Bergstrasse/Goetheplatz
• Saturday 14.6. 21:00 Uhr: Contact Lounge
  with videos, drinks, snacks and talks, incl. "historical" videos (Fall after Newton, Chute) and more, personal material of Elske Seidel, Stina K. Bollmann/Contact17 and Heilke Bruns. You can bring your own videos, memories and experiences to share.
• Sunday 15.6, 18:00 Uhr
  CI36 Global 36 Minute Stand, afterwards Jam

all 3 single events will happen in triade except: Performance

more info at the webpage www.triade-hamburg.de

June 13, Taipei, Taiwan: Celebration Jam in Taipei

We join the celebration!

(Door opens at 2:30.)

* Please dress comfortably and bring your own water and towel.

June 14-15, Toronto, Canada: The Luminat'eau CI36 Worldwide Stand

Luminat'eau takes over Harbourfront Centre at Toronto's waterfront as part of the citywide Luminato festival. At 12:00pm on Sunday June 15th, join other contact improvers from around the world in Neptune's Cove, the tent venue at the heart of the Luminat'eau. For 36 minutes jam with fellow dancers in celebration of 36 years of Contact Improv dance. Then stay the afternoon for Kaeja d'Dance's coreographed Improv show at 3:15pm.

June 14, Freiburg, Germany: Satellite Spring Contact Jam, Freiburg

This years Spring Jam in the heart of Freiburg will be part of the worldwide CI36 Celebration. It includes a lot of open space for YOUR creativity (bring your instruments). After the warm up we will do an underscore, in the evening we are supported by percussionist Eckart Stehlin. More info see webpage www.move-freiburg.de

June 14, Geneve, Swiss: Geneve Satellite Jam

Join us for a jam-picnic

http://www.tuena.ch/contact_improvisation/links.htm

June 14-15, Vilnius, Lithuania: Contact Vilnius: Jam into Baltics

We invite you to bring a gift for contact improvisation together with us in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of Europe, in the capital of Lithuania!

We will refresh our CI basics and start celebration with the Global Underscore practise, that will bring us into Contact with Vilnius, Jams and 36 minute worldwide stand.

To register/for inquiries: +370 614 37287 (Tadas) or improv_lt (eta) yahoo.com

More information: http://www.blogas.lt/contactimprov/382671/

June 14, Vienna, Austria: Community Saturday CI 36

Inivitatation for the Community Saturday june 14

CI 36 world wide celebration

36 min small dance, jam etc..., 

for details see http://rollingpoint.blogs.sonance.net

June 14, Santa Fe City, Argentina: Class + 36 minutes small dance + jam

On saturday 14 we'll dance for 360 minutes. We'll start we a contact class from 3:30pm to 6:30pm, then continue with a welcome circle and a 36 minutes small dance that will lead us to the jam until 9:30pm.

http://ci36community.ning.com/group/contactinsantafe

June 14, Neuquen, Argentina: 36 CI Neuquen

Celebrando 36 años de vida...

June 14-15, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Jam 36 h - 36 años. Bs As

Junto a varias ciudades del mundo Buenos Aires tambien festejará los 36 años de CI con un:
"PASANDO la DANZA de 36 hs."

June 14-15, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil: JAMaraton in Rio

A 21 hours Jam Maraton, with live music, fruits and grains tuning body-mind-souls across the globe through the dance!

June 14-15, Brighton, East Sussex: Motion, Mass and Orbit - Workshop and Celebration Jam

A day long workshop led by Kirstie Simson, Charlie Morrissey and Christian Burns - followed by a jam on Saturday evening and during Sunday close by the sea. Come and be the apple! Come and celebrate with us!

http://www.charliemorrissey.com

June 14-15, Delft, Netherlands: Dans Nu! CI36 Satellite Event

To celebrate the CI 36th birthday we will participate in the intercontinental 36th Pass the Dance and the Global Underscore at Zaal49 Delft, The Netherlands

Saturday: 16.00 - 22.00: We will start celebration with the Global Underscore, include warm up, partnering and introduction to the practice with Miriam Stärk.
Sunday: 10.00 - 18.00: We will join the 36th Pass the Dance with a silent jam, blind date, round robin. Warm up, introduction to the scores and final bodywork: Miriam Stärk

Please check our webpage for details: www.dansnu.nl

June 14-16, Cordoba, Argentina: Cordoba Danza

Celebramos el 36 aniversario Danzando 36 horas y 36 minutos de pequeña danza, en simultaneo, comenzando el dia 14 de junio a partir de las 13 hs (hora Argentina). En la localidad de San Marcos Sierras, provincia de Cordoba.

 

June 14-15, Santiago, Chile: Santiago de Chile baila las 36hs

Santiago de Chile will pass the dance for the whole 36hs !

http://encuentro-ci.blogspot.com/

June 14-15, Santiago, Chile: Santiago de Chile baila las 36hs

Santiago de Chile will pass the dance for the whole 36hs !

http://encuentro-ci.blogspot.com/

June 14-15, Rosario, Argentina: Rosario danza 36 años de contact

Rosario, Argentina joining the 36 hs Pass-the-Dance!

http://cobai.blogspot.com/

June 14-15, Barcelona, Spain: 6 hours Jam

On Saturday 14 of June we are going to celebrate the last jam of this academic year. This day we have three reasons to celebrate:

• The 36 aniversary of Contact Improvisation (CI-36), which is celebrated all over the world with many satellite events
• The summer solstice, which is celebrated all over the world with a global practice of “Underscore” (of Nancy Stark Smith)
• Our last jam of this season

We would like to leave this jam open, without any guided warm-up.

 

We will start with an open circle at 20:00, where each one of you is invited to share, and will finish at 2:00 with a closing circle.

As a suggestion, we would like to invite you to enter to the jam with the support that the structure of the "underscore" gives.

June 15, Kiev, Ukraine: CI36 Individual and Global 36 Minute Stand

In celebration of Contact Improvisation’s 36th birthday we will join a 36-minute “small dance of standing” .

http://groups.google.com/group/my_contact

June 15, Necochea., Pcia Buenos Aires, Argentine: Quequen River Dance

We will gather at noon (12:00) to begin with the small dance at 13:00 hs (Argentina Time) to 13:36 PM and then we will have a little jam at the shores of the Quequen River and its beautifull Landscapes.

For more info: http://ci36community.ning.com/profile/veronicaChoperena

June 15, Brussels, Belgium: Birthday Jam at Brussels

Brussels 36th Birthday Jam!

We shall dance this afternoon to celebrate CI 36th birthday.

For more info, see http://www.freewebs.com/jambrussels

June 15, Cologne, Germany: 36h Pass The Dance, Cologne, 12:00 to 6:00 PM

We will participate in the intercontinental 36h Pass the Dance at Wachsfabrik Cologne.

Please check our webpage for details.

June 15, Mar del Plata, Argentina: celebracion en el club!

La CI36 celebración es un momento para honrar a la Improvisación de Contacto - con seis días de fiestas que reconoce la historia de IC, actuales participación en la investigación y la práctica, y considerar la trayectoria de la forma en el futuro.

Esta histórica celebración será un medio para frotar hombros (literalmente) a cientos de profesionales, instigadores, y los partidarios de Improvisación de Contacto en todo el mundo. MAR DEL PLATA CELEBRACIÓN EN EL CLUB DEL TEATRO, RIVADAVIA 3422 JAM | PROYECCIONES | FESTEJOS DOMINGO 15 DE JUNIO DE 18 A 00hs.

http://improvisaciondecontacto.tripod.com

June 15, Madrid, Spain: 36th Happy Birthday from Madrid

QUÉ HAREMOS:

JAM PAUTADA EN LA CALLE. DURARÁ 36 MINUTOS COMO GUIÑO AL “36 CUMPLEAÑOS” Y COMO SE HARÁ SIMULTÁNEAMENTE EN OTRAS PARTES DEL MUNDO.

June 15, Omsk, Russia: Asian 6-hour Part of the Intercontinental 36-hour Pass-the-Dance

At Sunday morning we'll come in our Stage and we'll join to Universal Dance...

http://ci36community.ning.com/group/floksomsk

June 15, Tokyo, Japan: Jam in Tokyo

We will join the celebration of CI36 from Japan island. This will be a jam with the pass dance and with the small dance.

June 19-26, Plainfield, MA, USA: InterContintental Contact: A Post-CI36 Exchange

InterContinental Contact: A Post-CI36 Exchange
Thursday afternoon, June 19 - Thursday afternoon, June 26
Attendance Options: Full 7 Days, First 3 Days, Last 4 Days, or come for a single day

Featuring: K.J. Holmes - United States, Martin Hughes - Australia, Ray Chung - United States, Pen Dale - Australia/Germany, Joerg Hassman - Germany, Leilani Weis - Italy, Daniella Schwartz - Argentina/France, Eckhard Muller - Germany/France, Ulla Makinen, Ronja Verkasalo, & Mirva Makinen - Finland, & others

Part 1: Friday (6/20) - Sunday (6/22): The World Wide Web of Contact: Three full days of classes, jams, and discussion groups with many of the teachers and participants from CI36.

Part 2: Monday (6/23) - Thursday (6/26): The Deep Exploration: Participants may choose to either take an intensive workshop with K.J. Holmes and Ray Chung or engage in a facilitated Lab Group.

Registration/Information at http://www.earthdance.net/programs/intercontinental08.htm. Travel directly from CI36 is also available. Visit our website above for more information.

June 21-29, Orvieto, Italy: Zipfest08, Summer Solstice Jam and International Contact festival

Zipfest08: is the annual Contact Improvisation festival in Italy. To celebrate the summer solstice, the festival opens its ninth edition with a weekend of Jam, starting Saturday June 21st through Sunday June 22nd, a White Night Jam! Fifteen guest artists, from all over the world, will animate the city, from early morning till late at night, in a calendar with jams, performances and concerts, intensive workshops and labs on Contact Improvisation.

The international guests: Nita Little, invited to Italy for the first time, as well as Keith Hennessy for the first time in Italy, Giorgio Convertito, Sara Simeoni, Rossella Fiumi, Jens Biedermann, Adalisa Menghini, Alessia Scala, Jacky Miredin, Isabelle Uski, Yanael Plumet, the musicians Michele Rabbia, Marko Timlin, Barnaby O'Rorke Tree, and the Zen monk Luigi Mario, teacher of Tai Chi Chuan and free climbing.

For links and more information, see the ZIPFest08 Group Page at the CI36 Community site.

June 22, Basel, Switzerland: Basler Jam

Birthday Jam

The contact jam in Basel exist since 7 years. The jam is regular once a month on sunday.

We will dedicate the jam on 22. of june to the CI36 anniversary.

We will inform all the people of the jam about CI36 anniversary give them a little lecture about the development of CI and do a birthday contact improvisation with 36 balloons. After we will eat a fat birthday cake made with swiss chockolade, on it 36 candles.

And certainly singing all together happy birthday......... :-) !!!!!!!!

http://www.evawidmann.ch

June 22, Amsterdam, Netherlands: ci36 jam and birthday party

A special jam for ci36, in which we'll start with a stand. There will also be a spce to watch some of the early ci-videos. We'll have some food and drinks in the end.

Please come and join if you're happening to pass through here!

http://www.geocities.com/amsterdamjam/

June 26-29, Budapest, Hungary: Budapest Satellite Project

Kontakt Budapest 7th International Improvisation Festival's NEW event: Budapest Satellite Project - 26th - 29th of June, 2008.

This year we have a NEW series of events during 2008 and Budapest Satellite will be a unique opportunity to study, practice, discuss, perform, watch, deepen, taste, enter the form of Contact Improvisation. We invited a wonderful teachers staff from Hungary and abroad! Young generation of teachers and masters of CI! The Budapest Satellite project will be organized from the 26th to the 29th of June at the SÍN Art Center. The program will offer intensive workshops, open classes (for beginners and for advanced contacters), led warm ups before jams, looots of dancing and talking/sharing on the history and present of CI. There will be live music and silence.

We plan to start the first jam on the 26th of June with the 36 minutes small dance to join the celebration. Our event is open for all abilities and we hope to gather many participants from Hungary and from the neighbor countries.

We plan to organize a second event in the fall (november 2008) in collaboration with Trafó Contemporary Art House and the Workshop Foundation. That event will focus more on performance and the interaction between the audience, besides offering classes and jams.

See the Kontakt Budapest festival site for details, or contact Ester Gal directly.

July 3-8, Berkeley, CA, USA: West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival

WCCIF 2008 - The 20th Anniversary celebration, July 3 - 8, 2008!

This year's theme - Transformation: Honoring Our Roots, Dancing Into The Future - will enliven and inform all of the classes, labs, discussions, performances and jams. This year's 3 Thematic Tracks are: Extreme Physicality, Somatics, and Performance. ONLINE REGISTRATION IS OPEN NOW! Early registration deadline is May 15th - register now! 40 classes with 28 amazing teachers, jams, labs, discussions and performances. Please visit www.wccif.com for more info.

July 12-13, Berlin, Germany: CI36 Contact Kontext - Symposium and Workshops

CI 36 Satellite “ContactKontext“ – Symposium

12.7._Sa_12 h-open end

Intensive Practice_DieterHeitkamp | “History and Politics East and West in ContactImprovisation”_Panel Discussion_Keith Hennessy, Peter Pleyer, Andrea Keiz, Dieter Heitkamp, Heike Albrecht a.o. | Open Jam

13.7._So_ab 12 h

Intensive Practice_Kathleen Hermesdorf & Albert Mathias | “The OlympicsofContact”_FelixRuckert | Lecturesand Discussion | “Schule der Sensibilitaet”_Lecture Performance_Dieter Heitkamp & Guests: Katja Cheraneva, Michael Gambacurta, Andrea Keiz, Norbert Pape, Antje Schur, Aljoscha Zinflou

Participation Fee total: 85,- / 70,-€_Tickets available for individual events | Intensive Practice: Limited number of participants_Application until 1.7.2008 / Info: ausbildung index | Presented byTanzfabrikBerlin in Cooperation with HochschuluebergreifendesZentrum Tanz- Pilotprojekt Tanzplan Berlin, Ponderosa e.V., JessCurtis/Gravity | Gefoerdert durch das Nationale Performance Netzwerk

www.contactencyclopedia.net

July 12-20, Pushchino, Moscow Province, Russia: International CI and Performance Festival

The 3rd International Contact Improvisation and Performance Festival in Moscow will happen 12-20 July, 2008. This year the location of the festival is going to be a beautiful little town south of Moscow. We will again have a well-organized team of wonderful teachers from Europe and Russia. The program will offer intensive workshops, classes (for beginners and for advanced contacters), led warm ups before jams, structured and open jams, labs and performances.

For details: http://contactfestival.ru

July 25-27, Berne, Switzerland: Berner Contact Improvisation Jam

This is our annual jam in Berne - this year will be the 15. edition! Jamming, meeting, eating, swimming in the wonderful river next to the jam space ... for 3 days with a score jam to start at Friday afternoon. Special events according to CI36 will take place.

More info: http://www.contactimprovisation.ch

August 1-2, Bern, Switzerland: 1.-August-Jam in Berne

In Switzerland 1. of August is the National Celebration Day - in the evening we will have a Jam with a cold buffet created by all participants and of course lots of jamming. A short event during the jam connected to CI36 is planned.

More info: http://www.contactimprovisation.ch

We will be adding new events and resources as they arrive - please check back often!