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Contact Improvisation: advanced training (January-March)

Start Wed 28 January '26
19:00 - 21:00

5 sessions

Prices

Basic price: € 95
All prices

Location R7
New Yorkstraat 7
9000 Gent

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Language & teacher(s) Dutch/English

Through movement research - playing, exploring, dancing, individually, and with partners - we explore both the small movements within our bodies and the grand movements of our bodies throughout the studio.

We explore how we can create platforms for partners to surf on, and how we can find these platforms with others. We allow ourselves to be carried along by the dance and deepen our skills to maintain physical contact along the way. We learn more about supporting, carrying, surprising, (adjusting) direction, listening, and so on. We engage with gravity and explore how our connective tissue can be an anchor for communication.

Sometimes we work playfully from self-imposed limitations, other times we linger on a single task to explore new possibilities. We work both individually and with partners.

The result of these training sessions: a more intelligent body, capable of initiating and responding authentically. Speed ​​and flow, high and low, become a natural consequence as greater awareness grows at all levels of our movement.

Practical

Bring a bottle of water for in between dances.

Please note: this series takes place biweekly! This means there are always two weeks between each lesson.

Level of experience

Level 3: you already attended several CI courses at WISPER (or you built CI experience and skills during several workshops, festivals, jams or courses elsewhere) and are ready to take it a step further.
You definitely need these integrated skills to participate:
- be able to move smoothly through space levels, down and back up
- having a feel for, while traveling together, carrying your dance partner(s) and being carried by them, for supporting and being supported in the same time.

Sessions

  • Wed 28 January '26
    19:00 - 21:00
    R7 - danszaal
  • Wed 11 February '26
    19:00 - 21:00
    R7 - danszaal
  • Wed 25 February '26
    19:00 - 21:00
    R7 - danszaal
  • Wed 11 March '26
    19:00 - 21:00
    R7 - danszaal
  • Wed 25 March '26
    19:00 - 21:00
    R7 - danszaal

Location(s)

Prices

  • Better world price
    € 105 Choose this price and contribute to the course of someone who can’t afford it without help. How wonderful is that?
  • Basic price
    € 95 Covers the cost of your course. Nothing less, nothing more.
  • Reduced price
    € 76 If money is tight (right now).
  • Social discount UiTPAS Ghent
    € 19 (max 6 / year) only for Ghent citizens

Teacher

Mileen Borgonjon

Mileen coordinates the dance program for WISPER in Ghent and Antwerp. She is a dancer, performer…
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