Her many years of personal focused movement inquiry; stepping into contact improvisation through the body of Authentic Movement has yielded a rich landscape of work investigating CI as a relational awareness practice, a laboratory to witness and re-awaken attachment preferences and as a ritual space where the dance is the creative metaphor transforming and feeding life.

Read about Kim Nelson’s & Lindsay Sworski’s Deepening The Dance workshop
Read about Kim Nelson’s & Lindsay Sworski’s Relational Awareness Practice workshop

She is one of the Core organizing members of the thriving Boulder Contact Lab, where she facilitates community growth and depth in dancing, and co-authored the lab “Guidelines”, intended to bring more consciousness to the shadow aspects of CI (recently featured in Contact Quarterly.) She danced and studied for many years with the Lower Left Performance Collective community, has practiced Authentic Movement in various places in various ways, and makes most of her money loving people for a living, as a bodyworker. She is currently a student of the Hakomi method of experiential psychotherapy, and the Diamond Approach to inner realization.

Read about Kim Nelson’s & Lindsay Sworski’s Deepening The Dance workshop
Read about Kim Nelson’s & Lindsay Sworski’s Relational Awareness Practice workshop

Please join us as we explore the magic chemistry of Contact Improvisation and Authentic Movement. In this workshop we will track between inner and outer, self and other, body and soul – as we open to the dance that dances us! Here we will explore making love with impermanence, physically embodying the unknown, letting go of what we think Contact Improvisation looks like, what we think should happen, and who we think we are. Transcending its classification as a sport or an art, we invite you to enter CI as an awareness practice in relationship, a way to live. Join us beyond objectification, where dancers become living subjects, pulsing with awareness, filled with volition, articulating their wisdom, and having the time of their lives.

We will imbue CI with with essential elements of Authentic Movement: ritual space, cultivation of inward presence, listening and waiting for our inner impulses, clear tracking and articulation of our experience in the dance, and opening to seeing/sensing the other, just as they see and sense us. This workshop is great for CI beginners navigating how to stay connected to their truth in the wilderness of a CI jam, and perfect for experienced dancers who are longing to bring their full human selves into their dance.

Read Kim Nelson’s Biography
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Move and be moved along the continuum of creative impulse between self and other, inner to outer awareness. This laboratory/workshop draws from the essence of Authentic Movement to practice and strengthen subjectivity. Subjectivity is explored in Authentic Movement through deep inner listening and cultivating patience in waiting to follow an impulse to move or open to being moved. It is from this state of awareness that we surrender to what we think we need to get out of the relationship and drop into the gift of nuanced complexity of being in relationship. As in the form of Authentic Movement, one will be asked to track their experience as closely as possible. It is through this tracking of physical, sensory, emotional, cognitive and spiritual experience that we are deeply practicing mindfulness of relationship and engaging our subjectivities in that experience of tracking. After the moving period, movers will come together to share their experience of being a subject in relationship. Movers will be encouraged to track and speak as clearly as they can only of their experience in the movement, whether in solo practice or in relationship with other movers. It is this practice of speaking from “I” statements and speaking of only knowing one’s own experience that helps to cultivate a sense of linkage of experience among differentiation of selves(Siegel).

Read Kim Nelson’s Biography
Read Lindsay Sworski’s Biography

His current interest is in exploring C.I. as a therapeutic vehicle for individual & social healing & transformation. Alongside dancing he regularly makes music for C.I. jams, combining voice, keyboards & live electronics to generate entirely unique, often beautiful, sometimes unsettling & occasionally funny soundscapes. (www.williamwoolf.co.uk)

Read about William Woolf’s three lab proposals

From 1990 till 1994 while living in Japanhe he was a was member of Anzu Furukawa’s Butoh-Group “Dance Butter Tokio”. From Junko Ikeda He learned “Ikeda Shizen Taisoo” (natural movement). He further produced his own pieces and was working as an actor and presenter for TV and radio.

From 1995 till 1998 he worked in Hannover at the theatre “Commedia Futura” as a trainer, actor, director and choreographer. He has done many different dance and theatre productions in Germany and abroad.

Since 1998 he is back in Köln and working there as a bodywork teacher as well as a dancer and director. He recently created his own work called “Body in Crisis”.

Read about Gregor Weber’s Inner Journey workshop

Without perception there is no communication, the contact arises at the edge, though we can find the expression of the moment by the dialog with another body. By dancing we turn into story-tellers whose bodies create an affair of the between, clasped by moments of spirituality.

Gregor Weber and delta RA’i descend from Butoh dance and developed an inner voyage approach to improvised dance and contact through their Contact Field Research.

We will use simple Contact Improvisation techniques together with the expressive form of Butoh to create a scurrile dialog in feeling fields.
We will examine these fields by taking positions, expressing feelings, jumping into emotions. We will also become aware that a little taste of dominance and submission will make us more playful.…

Read Gregor Weber’s biography
Read delta RA’i's biography

“Sat is sacred pure existence, free from all slavery, free from everything.
This definitive freedom comes by some delicate and devoted practices of the yogic discipline in everyday life”
bks Iyengar

Read about Flor Gamma & Federico Finamore’s Workshop

Contact Festival close to Barcelona:
Contact Festival Ibiza
Flow Improvisation Festival, Ibiza, Spain
Improvisation Festival Grenada

Contact Festival “Skiing On Skin”, Finland
Zipfest Orvieto, Italy
Improvisation Festival Istanbul

Contact Improvisation Festival, Moscow, Russia
Contact Improvisation Festival, Kiev, Ukraine
Contact Improvisation Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania
Trans Contact Festival in Romania
Siberian Contact Improvisation Festival
Contact Improvisation Festival, Budapest, Hungary

West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival, USA
Sierra Contact Festival, USA
Contact Improvisation Festival in Rio, Brazil
Australian Contact Improvisation Convergence
ECITE

World Link Sites:
www.contactimprov.net/
www.contactimprov.com/

Resources:
Contact Quarterly
Proximity Magazine
Open source database for CI
Wiki BDSM
Wiki Tantra

Teachers Sites:
Daniel Mang
Keith Hennessy
Jess Curtis
etc. see profiles