Constructive constraints
I often hear Contact Improvisation teachers emphasizing the importance of ‘keeping one’s own solo dance’ (variously phrased). What they...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Nov 187 min read
Multi-layered kinespheres
At a recent workshop in Vienna, Ralf Jaroschinski proposed to reflect and approach contact improvisation from the point of view of...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Nov 132 min read
Alibi
I walk. People around. A lot. But are they there? Social roles, of course, keep us apart. Everybody is playing their part. You must...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Nov 47 min read
Unfolding
I’m on my way back from another very inspiring week of the CI teacher training in Freiburg. This time the most insightful aspect emerged...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Oct 293 min read
Earthing
(The 'syllabus' for Get in Contact – a series of classes about CI, from a contemplative perspective) Contact Improvisation is not a...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Oct 116 min read
Underminding
‘Mind’ is a very loose and vague term we often use to refer to almost anything that is not immediately connected with physical...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Sep 2911 min read
Four Core Ingredients of Contact Improvisation
1. The core gesture of CI is the act of directing attention towards gravity, the earth, and one’s partner(s). 2. Doing CI requires...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Sep 274 min read
One year into movement
It has been one year or so since I started delving into free conscious movement (I’m still reluctant to use the word “dance” as it has so...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Sep 168 min read
On CI and avocados without nuts
Back again from Freiburg, this time for the first week of the CI teacher training. The topic of the week was ‘principles’. We gathered...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Sep 106 min read
Neither one nor two
I’m in Freiburg again, this time to start a year-long program about CI and how to teach it. Asking oneself how to teach a subject is one...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Aug 197 min read
Not knowing
I’m writing these notes on my way back from the 2024 Contact Improvisation Festival in Freiburg. It has been an incredible opportunity...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Jul 1512 min read
Authentic connections & CBC
How do we establish authentic connections? How do we get in touch with one another in such a way that we are both honoured in what we...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Jul 91 min read
A touch of truth
I stepped into the space trembling For answers I could not dare to Listen. The ecstatic southern Sun was sweeping the floor and you Were...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Jul 68 min read
Intimacy
What does it mean to be intimate? As most words, ‘intimacy’ brings with it a certain metaphorical gesture, even a bodily scheme. The word...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Jun 267 min read
On teaching and holding lightly
Turning 38 in a bit more than a month from now, I’m discovering that there is a truth in distinguishing different phases in life. This is...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Jun 242 min read
The Pythia’s voice
In the hot dusty noise of the summer I came to the old ruined shrine, heavy With questions, mine and of my dear ones. We are beings of...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Jun 104 min read
Two ways of holding space
When we interact in daily life, we are often in a sort of business or transaction mode: I do this, you do that; I give you X and you give...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
Jun 46 min read
Get back into your body!
It is common to hear appeals to ‘embodiment’ or complaints about being too much in your ‘thoughts’ (sometimes in your ‘head’ or ‘brain’,...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
May 269 min read
Negotiating gravity and lightness
I spend quite some time without thinking much at anything. Often when I walk, or sit, or just attend to ordinary activities, I like being...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
May 196 min read
Bitten by reality
I’ve been pondering for quite some time one of Caravaggio’s paintings, the Boy bitten by a lizard. It came to me in a flash of intuition...
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