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Contact Improvisation is very many-sided thing. It has many different layers of understanding and dancing. It hasn't rules, it hasn't the word "correct". But it has different views and approaches to the understanding of the essence of the movement and interaction. We think CI not as dogma but as live developing system.

4 intensive will be present by teachers from 4 countries:

Steve Batts (Ireland)
Ester Momblant Ribas (Spain)
Alexandra Soshnikova and Sergey Golovnya (Moldova)
Ekaterina Basalaeva (Russia)

Every teacher will share their discoveries, experience and vision.
And all of you will be able take things which interesting and close exactly for you.

Though Ci is spontaneous form of the dance by definition, this dance becomes more rich when we deeply learn principles of CI. This is common principles, developed to provide safety, to open possibilities for search of interesting motions, new ways for interaction with partner and world. This is a way to discover new qualities in yourself and to break down barriers.

"These easy exercises and feelings gradually introduce to the sphere organic motion of body, become comfortable for body, and you’ve got possibility to expression the grand essential energy of the body. These methods are develop adroitness, balance for use it in dynamic work, in physical disorientation, and for safe work, if you are rely upon only your instinct of self-preservation and survival." (D.Lepkoff)

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This part of festival will be devote to search new forms and ways for make contact improvisation more rich and interesting. It is attempt to return for start of CI. When Steve Paxton create CI, he use many different techniques, like as acrobatic, yoga, aikido, tai czi, dance styles and other. We think, if will doing it too, we will dance and understand more from CI.

The aim of this classes is examination other systems work with body and mind for improvement contact dance. This part of program will takes many get-to-know classes like: Yoga, Tai chi, Qigong, LUBKI, Butoh, body-work techniques, authentic motion, somatic.

This program will be prepared by teachers from different Russian cities.

We want to invite you to go with us deep to search new souses of inspiration, for enrichment your CI-dance. Maybe, it will be start for you own search, which will include your own knowns and experience.

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Research laboratory – that isn’t class, it's joint research defined topic by people, for whom this topic is interesting. We will have a possibility to work in small groups, and after we will share results to each other.

- This is an opportunity to make an inquiry about something interesting for you and to find a like-minded people
- This is an opportunity for everybody to share with their own discoveries
- This is an opportunity to learn from each other

Themes of laboratories can be different, e.g.:
- CI technique
- performance
- CI in animate nature
etc.

If you have ideas but you are not ready to be facilitator – our curators will help you to organize research process.

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This part of program will be realized with a wishes and powers of participants.
This is a possibility to find like-minded people for realization of your ideas. The aim of this program is creation of product in the format of performance, photo- and video-dance.

Creative studio is practical and constructive format.
Every person will have a possibility to prepared topic, which interesting for him or join to topic of other person. This is a possibility to find like-minded persons for working together, for realization any art idea. Bring photo- and video cameras, ideas...
Our curators will help you with advice and organization, but each group may working independently and planning time for meetings.

This year also there will be "project program"at the festival. This program will be completely aimed at the creation of product. Professional photographers and video-artists will be invited for work in this program.
You can take part in these projects as well.

If you are ready to sharing your ideas now — write to us! We are opened for discussions.

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Jam – is open dancing space, where people who like dance contact improvisation, free motion, can meeting each over and changing information and experience.
Jam – is practice of CI, live cooperation.

Jam, like free space for improvisation dance – is good continuous for the lesson, place for experiment, investigation and combined art.
For persons, who dance CI – jam is time, when they can use Technique knowledges, which they take on a lessons. For person who comes on Jam in a first time – it is good possibility too see it and try to dance.
On Jams different experience of persons – that is not problem, it is supplementary possibility.

Every Jam will be unique and inimitable.
Jams will be "silent", "loud", "blind", with live music, and others.

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This part of program will be introduced by following formats:


Video demonstrations

Here we will watch dance movies and movies about CI from teacher’s archives. We think, it will be combined viewing, discussions and exchange opinions. We hope, this material will be good occasion for the discussions and discoveries.
If you has video-materials, which you want to show – take it with you.


Discussions

At any time you may announce a topic for discussion which interesting for you and gather people, who also are interested in this topic. Our curators will help you in organization.


Circles

It is special organized space for exchange impressions of day among persons. It is possibility to share personal discoveries and observations, ask questions, discuss important moments.

The aim of the circle – is integration of experience from the practice lessons, possibility to make some summary, and preparing new focuses of attention for the next days.