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Constructive constraints
I often hear Contact Improvisation teachers emphasizing the importance of ‘keeping one’s own solo dance’ (variously phrased). What they...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Nov 24, 20246 min read
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Multi-layered kinespheres
At a recent workshop in Vienna, Ralf Jaroschinski proposed to reflect and approach contact improvisation from the point of view of...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Nov 18, 20247 min read
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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...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Nov 4, 20247 min read
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Underminding
‘Mind’ is a very loose and vague term we often use to refer to almost anything that is not immediately connected with physical...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Oct 11, 20246 min read
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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...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Sep 29, 202411 min read
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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...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Sep 10, 20246 min read
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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...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Aug 19, 20247 min read
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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...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Jul 15, 202412 min read
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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...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Jun 26, 20247 min read
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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...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Jun 10, 20244 min read
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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’,...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Jun 4, 20246 min read
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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...
Andrea Sangiacomo
May 26, 20249 min read
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The soft revolution of Contact Improvisation
Over the past four months I’ve been discovering and experimenting with Contact Improvisation (CI). I’m primarily interested not so much...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Apr 22, 20249 min read
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On Romantic Love
I’ve heard from a student that it would be interesting to discuss how Buddhist teachings can shed light on romantic love. This is a...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Apr 8, 20247 min read
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What is freedom?
Freedom is not the power of choosing what I want. There is no such a power. First, because it’s not up to me to decide what I can want (I...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Mar 22, 20244 min read
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Les Folies d'Espagne
I—don’t know. But you: Will you dare to dance Les Folies d’Espagne? I—can endure the pace Of waiting and waning Slowly into silences, and...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Mar 17, 20241 min read
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Contact meditation
We know and experience reality by getting in touch with it. This figurative way of speech is taken quite literally in the discourses of...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Mar 8, 20245 min read
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A somatic biography
I became interested in contemplative practices six years ago. For some reason, it didn’t remain a side hobby, but quickly became the...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Feb 25, 202412 min read
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Not arrows
Blindfolded by our little stories We roam prisoners of petty desires. Afraid of falling, we forgot how to Stand on earth and roll, and...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Feb 20, 20241 min read
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Take it
Did you hear? The future is sold out. I wanted to give you my smartest words. But it will take ages for them to Paint even a rough...
Andrea Sangiacomo
Feb 17, 20241 min read
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