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 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
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
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
- 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
- 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 Festival of Lake Ladoga 13-21 July, Lake Ladoga, Russia
- Catalonian Contact Festival 26 July-1 August, Cardedeu, Spain
- Contact Meets Contemporary 29 July-4 August, Göttingen, Germany
August
- 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
- Oceans and Flow Açores 10-17 September, São Miguel Island, Portugal
October
- Contact Festival Austria TBA, Austria (2019 dates to be confirmed)
November
December
- Israeli Contact Festival TBA, Israel (2019 dates to be confirmed)
