**Cultivating Presence**

Contact Improv Workshop

1 - 3 October 2025

This workshop will be very different from my other programs.

It is not about technique, skills, physics or acrobatics.

It is about magic… magic which happens when we are present in the moment.

Though when we look closer this magic becomes technique, but of different kind:

We polish our attention.
We look for the unknown.
We silence our mind.
We learn to surprise ourselves.
We dive into fractal of our perception fining endless novelty in nuances of our sensation.    

Wherever you are are in your contact improv journey: in the very beginning  or already advanced pretty far - this workshop will open the doors of perception and grant new depth to your dance.

Timings

1 & 2 nd 3 to 6 pm

3rd October 2 to 5 pm

Early bird price 1,7 m

(Till 20th September)

Regular price 2,1 m

Registration form:

https://forms.gle/Wq7HJEoxtMhgYsAU7

Bio:

Ivan Gurianov - facilitator of contact improvisation since 2018, teacher & co-organiser of international Contact Improvisation programs, performer, multidisciplinary artist.
As a child Ivan practiced acrobatics & football.
From 2005 was practicing yoga & meditation. At the same time, Ivan started to learn different schools of western and eastern philosophy and spiritual teachings. Since 2007 to 2009 studied martial arts. Ivan has been trained in different modern dance styles: butoh, hip-hop, popping, house, jazz funk, contemporary dance, tango.
Other movement practices that he studied: Ideokinesis, Axis Syllabus & Movement Culture, Flow Arts & Physical Theatre.
For the first time Ivan encountered contact improvisation in 2013, and has been teaching contact improvisation since 2018. He has been facilitating Contact Improvisation in Russia, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Hong Kong & South Korea and organizing international courses and residencies.

From 2021 facilitating Contact Improvisation in Water.