This is a 3-day contact Improvisation Practitioners exchange, in the beautiful Eden Studios Berlin from Dec 4-6 2026.Co-creating a peer-led gathering for experienced CI practitioners, teachers and musicians to explore collective attention, improvisation, and composition through shared research, dancing and reflection.
How do we cultivate attention beyond the duet? How do we dance with the space at large? What qualities of attention support emergent phenomena?
Emergence is a three-day, peer-led exchange for experienced Contact Improvisation practitioners and teachers to explore the intersections of collective attention, composition, and improvisation.
Held between jam and laboratory, the gathering creates space for embodied research, collective improvisation, and shared discourse. We come together not to follow a predetermined method, but to bring our questions, practices, and perspectives into a common field of inquiry.
What happens when our attention extends beyond our immediate partner? How do we sense and respond to the shifting relationships between bodies, space, and the collective? What conditions allow compositions to emerge, and how might our individual choices influence the unfolding of a larger whole?
Through shared movement inquiries, experimentation, and reflection, we will investigate how we attend, relate, and compose together. Each participant brings their experience and curiosity to the exchange, contributing to a process shaped by the group and by what emerges in the moment.
Emergence is an invitation to deepen our practice, challenge our habitual ways of attending, and explore the possibilities of dancing as a collective intelligence.
Schedule:
Friday December 4th:
10-11h30 Warm up and jam
12- 14h Lab
Lunch
15h30- 17h30 Lab
18h-20h30 Public jam
Saturday December 5th:
10-11h30 Warm up and jam
12- 14h Lab
Lunch
15h30- 17h30 Lab
18h-20h30 Public jam
Sunday December 6th:
10-11h Warm up and jam
11h30- 13h Open table
Lunch
14-16h Public Jam
Pricing:
Whole event including Jams: 60 Euros
Day Price including Jam: 25 Euros
Open Jam: 10-15 Euros
This is NOT a drop in event, except for the jams, if you are interested in attending, please complete this registration form.