Listening to the Dance. Zurich

Join us for a day of exploring subtle listening and tuning practices that deepen your capacity to sense, respond, and move with freedom in Contact Improvisation. Whether you’re new to CI or an experienced mover, this workshop offers tools and experiences to expand your movement vocabulary, heighten your awareness, and build trust in your instincts, impulses, and intuition.

We’ll explore core principles that bring ease, availability, and playfulness into the body—building a functional understanding of CI’s underlying structures while inviting a fuller, freer physicality. Exercises will shift between solo and partner work, giving space to connect with your own body, your dance partners, and the group as a whole.

We’ll play with ideas of momentum, suspension, inertia, falling, and swinging—balancing dynamic movement with moments of stillness. By slowing down, breathing, and tuning in, we’ll notice the quiet cues: the gentle sliding of fascia indicating direction, the rhythm of a partner’s…