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
- The Road Junky Sahara Contact Improv & Meditation Retreat 20-26 January, Morocco
February
- Skiing on Skin 10-16 February, Karjaan Kisakeskus, Finland
- The Road Junky Sahara meditation & contact improv retreat 17-23 February, Morocco
March
- Fuerteventure Contact Festival 2-8 March, Lajares, Canary Islands, Spain
April
- Madrid Contact Improvisation Festival 12-15 April, Madrid, Spain
- Easter Improvisation Festival 18-22 April, Göttingen, Germany
- Valencia Contact Improv Festival 18-22 April, Valencia, Spain
- Wroclaw Contact Improvisation Festival 26 April – 1 May
May
- Ukraine Contact Improvisation Festival 5-12 May, Kiev, Ukraine
- Contact Camp Ukraine 6-26 May, Slavsko, Ukraine
- Echo Echo Contact Improvisation Festival 24-31 May, Derry, Northern Ireland
- Berlin CI Festival 29 May-2 June, Berlin, Germany
- Moving Life Contact Improvisation Festival 30 May – 2 June, Germany
June
- Italy Festival of Contact Improvisation 2-8 June, Umbria, Italy
- Berne Bejam 6-10 June, Berne, Switzerland
- Contact Bucharest Festival 14-23 June, Bucharest, Romania
- EmBODYment Contact Improvisation Festival 20-23 June, Austria
- Hungarian Contact Improvisation Festival 25-30 June, Három Kincs Völgye, Hungary
- Contact Improvisation workshops at the Road Junky Festival of Creativity 21 June – 1 July in the Czech Republic, along with tons of other dance, body, voice and musical workshops!
July
- Transoceanic Contact Improvisation Festival 1-7 July, Bornholm, Denmark
- Warsaw Flow 7-14 July, Warsaw, Poland
- Siberian Contact Improv Festival 30 June-9 July, Altai Mountains, Russia
- The Thousand and One 8-14 July, Grenoble area, France
- ECITE 12-19 July, Ukraine
- Contact by the Sea 13-17 July, Brittany, France
- Contact Festival of Lake Ladoga 13-21 July, Lake Ladoga, Russia
- Netherlands Contact Improvisation Festival 16-21 July, Holland
- Body Love Festival 18-23 July, Germany
- Desert Contact Almeria 24-28 July, Spain
- Catalonian Contact Festival 26 July-1 August, Cardedeu, Spain
- Contact Meets Contemporary 29 July-4 August, Göttingen, Germany
August
- Touch and Play Festival 1-7 August, Germany
- Freiburg Contact Festival 8-14 August, Freiburg, Germany
- Festival of Contact Improvisation in Jam’s Format 21-26 August, Moscow, Russia
September
- Portugal Contact Festival 9-14 September, Algarve, Portugal
- Asturias Contact Festival 9-18 September, Asturias, Spain
- Moldova CI and Performance Festival 16-22 September, Moldova
- Silent Contact Improvisation Festival, 23-29 September, Georgia
October
- Contact Festival Austria TBA, Austria (2019 dates to be confirmed)
November
- Fall in CI International Contact Gathering 3-11 November, Fethiye, Turkey
- Lithuanian Contact Improv Mini-Festival 22-24 November, Vilnius, Lithuania
December
- Israeli Contact Festival 24-29 December, Galilee and Tel Aviv, Israel
