Art of Improvisation Residency 9th Edition

Focused training and research of Contact Improvisation, movement, and performance

3rd November -  16th December 2023

Arambol, Goa, India

OUR VISION

The vision of InContact is to build and expand the Contact Improvisation practice in India.

We are dedicated to rooting the CI practice in the fundamentals established by the first generation instigators of CI, while at the same time giving space to the imagination of alternate outcomes by engaging in other movement improvisation disciplines. We oscillate between the commitment to the initial scope of CI as improvised movement research and environment for integration and further experimenting, rethinking, exploring, labbing, and questioning of the form.

Bringing the Indian perspective to practicing improvisation in India, we strongly acknowledge connections and ground the practice in existing needs and relationships of the Indian community. India is a fertile ground for stretching the expectations as the quickly changing, unpredictable environment embodies the spirit of being in the unknown and responding to what arises. In coherence with the circumstances, we place improvisation at the heart of our practice. What we offer is the possibility to look into all aspects of improvisation as a practice on and off the dance space - the residency evolves as a dynamic practice that takes shape in the process, according to all that are present co-creating the space .

Simultaneously, we create the space of the Residency as an international, multi-layered space for exchange, learning, practice, and co-creation that is welcoming for all people. We believe in the strength of diverse demographics, abilities, and experiences. We believe that the ground of Contact Improvisation can be an attempt to create the ground for the meeting, co-existing, and co-creating between diverse groups.

THE PROGRAM

This year the program of Art of Improvisation residency provides extended intensives with diverse teachers, who share different and uniquely individual approaches towards the art of CI and movement improvisation practices.The expertise of artists with background in Contact Improvisation, contemporary dance, somatic practices, and more provides multitude of ways to enter the practice of improvisation. The Residency provides a solid structure of focused practice and open space for integration and individual process. The process is accompanied by laboratories, open sessions, and regular evening jams organised by the local CI community.

Details of the intensives will be announced soon!

PART 1

3-12th November

Finding the ground and roots of the practice and opening to the potentiality of its expansion.

PART 2

15-25th November

Going deeper in - inner work and healing aspects of CI practice.

PART 3

1-16th December

Expanding horizons: Togetherness, Ensemble, Space

CONTACT

WA +91 987236669