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 6-12 January, Slavsko, Ukraine
- The Road Junky Sahara Contact Improv & Meditation Retreat 12-18 January, Morocco
February
- The Road Junky Sahara meditation & contact improv retreat 2-8 February, Morocco – couldn’t make it in January? Join us a heart-opening week in the Sahara Desert with meditation in the mornings and contact improvisation dance in the afternoons.
March
- Fuerteventure Contact Festival 7-13 March, Lajares, Canary Islands, Spain
April
- Madrid Contact Improvisation Festival 3-6 April, Madrid, Spain
- EasterImproFestival 9-13 April, Göttingen, Germany
- Wroclaw Contact Improvisation Festival 22-26 April, Wrocław, Poland
May
- Ukraine Contact Improvisation Festival 1-8 May, Kiev, Ukraine
- Berlin CI Festival 20-24 May, Berlin, Germany
- Echo Echo Contact Improvisation Festival 24-31 May, Derry, Northern Ireland
- Berner Contact Improvisation Jam 29 May – 1 June, Berne, Switzerland
- Moving Life Contact Improvisation Festival 30 May – 2 June, Allgäu, Germany
June
- Italian Festival of Contact Improvisation 1-7 June, Amelia (Umbria), Italy
- EmBODYment Contact Improvisation Festival 11-14 June, Traunsee, Austria
- Hungarian Contact Improvisation Festival 23-28 June, Három Kincs Völgye, Hungary
- Contact Improvisation workshops at the Road Junky Festival of Creativity 26 June – 6 July in the Czech Republic, along with tons of other dance, body, voice and musical workshops!
- Transoceanic Contact Improvisation Festival 29 June-5 July, Bornholm, Denmark
July
- Siberian Contact Improv Festival 1-10 July, Altai Mountains, Russia
- Netherlands Contact Improvisation Festival 7-12 July, Overveen, Netherlands
- Contact Festival of Lake Ladoga 18-25 July, Lake Ladoga, Russia
- Desert Contact Almeria 22-26 July, Almería, Spain
- Body Love Festival 23-28 July, close to Berlin & Hamburg, Germany
- Contact by the Sea 25-31 July, Brittany, France
- Warsaw Flow 7-14 July, Warsaw, Poland (dates to be confirmed)
August
- Contact Meets Contemporary 2-8 August, Göttingen, Germany
- Catalonian Contact Festival 6-12 August, Cardedeu, Spain
- Freiburg Contact Festival 13-19 August, Freiburg, Germany
- Touch&Play Germany – Building Bridges Festival 20-28 August, South Germany
- ECITE 22-30 August, Bedford, UK
- Russian Festival of Contact Improvisation in Jam’s Format Moscow, Russia (dates to be confirmed)
September
- Letanec Contact Improv Festival 3-14 September, Czech Republic
- Portugal Contact Festival 14-20 September, Algarve, Portugal
- Silent Contact Improvisation Festival 21-27 September, Shuakhevi, Georgia
- Dancing Date Contact Impro Festival 28 September – 4 October
- Asturias Contact Festival Asturias, Spain (dates to be confirmed)
- Moldova CI and Performance Festival Moldova (dates to be confirmed)
October
November
- Fall in CI International Contact Gathering 1-8 November, Fethiye, Turkey
- Lithuanian Contact Improv Mini-Festival Vilnius, Lithuania (dates to be confirmed)
December
- Israeli Contact Festival 24-29 December 2019, Galilee and Tel Aviv, Israel
