(2020 dates to be confirmed) The Contact Bucharest Festival organizers say: “Our desire is to create each year a framework for learning and practicing Contact Improvisation as an art and dance form. We invite experienced teachers and dancers to facilitate the process through intensive classes, workshops, discussions, laboratories and jam sessions structured in a detailed […] » read more

The Valencia Contact Improv Festival organizers say: “The IV VICI FEST. contents´ will unfold to guaranty enjoyment and learning, both at human and technical levels. We have planned a stimulating variety of teaching styles and a dynamic transit through different class formats. There will be space and time to benefit from the resources of the natural […] » read more

We love this one. Contact improv in the Carpathian Mountains of the Ukraine. Looks like a really cosy, intimate, special CI festival at a time of year when not much else is going on! The organisers say: ‘Seven days of contact impro jams and laboratories, snowboarding, skiing, music, bodywork, sauna singing, tea ceremonies, art and […] » read more

Dates To Be Announced What can one say about contact festivals that hasn’t already been said? You move about, you make contact with other humans, rolling on the floor happens, smiles emerge, and everyone goes home feeling rejuvenated about dancing their name. We’ll just let their video take it away: The organizers say: “We want […] » read more

Kontakt Budapest is Hungary’s biggest contact improvisation festival though they’ve yet to give out a date for this June – they indicated on the website that they will continue this summer so let’s see. The above video was to promote last year’s contact festival and if it’s a similar affair this time round then there […] » read more

Set in a little historical town in the heart of Italy, the Italy Contact Festival is where to go to connect with the Italian contact improvisation scene. There will be teachers from around the world with various backgrounds in dance, choreography, aerial acrobatics. Learn more about the Italy Contact Festival.

Skiing on skin isn’t the first image that comes to mind when make contact improvisation dance – for one thing there are no tracks left on you afterwards and you don’t fall over quite so much. At least not on purpose. The festival has a bunch of classes on unlocking the creative potential of the […] » read more