Contact improvisation dance festivals are popping up everywhere these days. There’s always a warm community feeling and there are many who go from one contact improvisation (also known as contact improv, impro or CI) event to the next.
Here’s a calendar of contact improvisation festivals happening in Europe and nearby!
January
- Winter Snowboard & Contact Festival Slavsko, Ukraine (dates to be confirmed)
February
- Echo Echo Contact Improvisation Festival 20-27 February, Derry, Northern Ireland
- The Road Junky Sahara Contact Improv & Meditation Retreat 21-27 February, Morocco
April
- EasterImproFestival 1 – 5 April, Schönsee, Bavarian Forest
- Wroclaw Contact Improvisation Festival 30 April – 4 May, Wrocław, Poland
- Madrid Contact Improvisation Festival Madrid, Spain (dates to be confirmed)
May
- Letanec Contact Improv Festival (Pre-Summer Edition) 28 May – 5 June, Czech Republic
- Ukraine Contact Improvisation Festival Kiev, Ukraine (dates to be confirmed)
- Berlin CI Festival Berlin, Germany (dates to be confirmed)
- Berner Contact Improvisation Jam Berne, Switzerland (dates to be confirmed)
- Moving Life Contact Improvisation Festival Allgäu, Germany (dates to be confirmed)
June
- EmBODYment Contact Improvisation Festival 3 – 6 June, Traunsee, Austria
- Italy Contact Improvisation 11 – 17 June, Rivignano (Udine), Italy
- Hungarian Contact Improvisation Festival 28 June – 3 July, Három Kincs Völgye, Hungary
- Transoceanic Contact Improvisation Festival Bornholm, Denmark (dates to be confirmed)
July
- Contact Improvisation workshops at the Road Junky Festival of Creativity 3 – 11 July in the Czech Republic, along with tons of other dance, body, voice and musical workshops!
- Siberian Contact Improv Festival 1 – 10 July, Altai Mountains, Russia
- Contact Festival of Lake Ladoga 17 – 25 July, Lake Ladoga, Russia
- Desert Summer Fest (Desert Contact Almeria) 22 – 26 July, Almería, Spain
- Netherlands Contact Improvisation Festival Overveen, Netherlands (dates to be confirmed)
- Contact by the Sea Brittany, France (dates to be confirmed)
- Warsaw Flow Warsaw, Poland (dates to be confirmed)
August
- Body Love Festival 1 – 6 August, close to Berlin & Hamburg, Germany
- Emerging Hearts Contact Improvisation Dance Camp 7-12 August, Wiltshire, UK
- Freiburg Contact Festival 12-18 August, Freiburg, Germany
- Touch&Play Germany – Building Bridges Festival South Germany (dates to be confirmed)
- Cardedeu Contact Festival Cardedeu, Spain (dates to be confirmed)
- ECITE Bedford, UK (dates to be confirmed)
September
- Silent Contact Improvisation Festival Shuakhevi, Georgia (dates to be confirmed)
- Dancing Date Contact Impro Festival Tbilsi, Georgia (dates to be confirmed)
- Portugal Contact Festival Algarve, Portugal (dates to be confirmed)
- Asturias Contact Festival Asturias, Spain (dates to be confirmed)
- Moldova Contact Festival Moldova (dates to be confirmed)
October
November
- Fall in CI International Contact Gathering Fethiye, Turkey (dates to be confirmed)
- Vilnius Contact Improvisation & Performance Minifestival Vilnius, Lithuania (dates to be confirmed)
December
- Israeli Contact Festival Galilee and Tel Aviv, Israel (dates to be confirmed)