We are offering a 10 month modular training in contact improvisation, somatic movement and improvisation. This modular training will give participants a grounding in technical aspects of Contact improvisation in awareness of an ability to explore adapt and play within the realms of movement and dance, tools to hold safe and clear spaces for your own communities and ideas to continue your own training and research moving on from the training itself.

Hugh Stanier and Vega Luukkonen have been teaching and developing their work and dance for over 10 years. Over this time they have created a clear language to their dancing and improvisation that supports and encourages people to find their own dance and research their way through the multifaceted world that is contact improvisation.

We have created this Modular training programme to more deeply communicate their approach and passion for this fascinating dance form and provide students with a solid grounding in the fundamentals of Contact Improvisation and provide them with tools to continue on after the training with their own research and development.

We believe that the practice of contact improvisation is a deeply complex multi-layered discipline that weaves its way into your life. The form deals with so many modalities and ways of interacting with yourself, with another and with a group and can present a mirror for opening up perspectives into how we choose to live our lives.

In one moment the practice can feel purely physical and technical - studying bio-mechanics and how the bodies can roll spiral, fall, roll and fly together - in another moment, the stillness of meeting someone in touch can feel deeply therapeutic and soothing, at other times the experience of being in a jam space gives one a wonderful sense of interconnected community rarely experienced in our modern world.

It’s this multifaceted experience of moving oneself and the group that we will share throughout this training program. Bringing together intense physical practice, supportive nourishing, touch and community building skills to create a truly unique program that at the end of it will leave you with the tools to share the practice, build your own community and nourish yourself and others with this fascinatingly complex movement practice.