Programme

Movement as
Encounter.

Our offerings combine bodywork, social practice and artistic exploration — open to anyone who is curious.

Our Core Format

Monday Class

At a Glance
What
Contact Improvisation — open workshop
When
Every Monday, 17:45 – 19:15
Where
Orpheumgasse 11, 8020 Graz
Cost
Donation-based
For
Everyone — with or without prior experience
Come by

What to Expect

Contact Improvisation is the playful exploration of gravity, balance and touch. There are no fixed steps, no choreography and no pressure to perform — just you, the space and the people in it.

You learn to share and release weight, to listen through touch and to become more aware of your body. Along the way, you naturally regulate your nervous system, practise communicating boundaries and develop a fine sense for yourself and those around you.

Each session begins with a guided warm-up and flows into an open jam — a free dance time where anything can happen: stillness, movement, encounter.

“You don’t need any dance experience. Just comfortable clothing, curiosity and the willingness to try something new.”

Current Projects

What’s Happening Now

Funded Beginners

Bewegungsrevolution

Contact Improvisation for everyone

A free 6-week programme for people with no movement experience at all. Funded by the Bewegungsrevolution initiative and ASVÖ — because access to artistic body practice shouldn’t be a question of money or prior experience.

Over six progressive sessions, you explore the foundations of Contact Improvisation: body awareness, sharing weight, falling and catching, touch as communication. The block culminates in a public showing — a lecture-performance in the We Just Met format, making the artistic research process visible for an audience.

11 May – 15 June 2026
Orpheumgasse 11, Graz
Free of charge
6 weeks, 6 sessions

Outlook

What’s Coming Next

Projects we’re currently developing or planning. Something is taking shape here.

Performance / Lecture

We Just Met / First Encounter

Making the social physics of dance visible

A format where a narrator freezes the dancers during a Contact Improvisation session — and explains to the audience what is happening on a physical and social level. Gravity, trust, boundaries: the invisible physics of encounter becomes readable.

Our attempt to make Contact Improvisation accessible to an audience that has never heard of it.

Outdoor / Summer

Moving in the Park

Free Contact Improvisation in Graz parks

Dance under the open sky — low-threshold, free and visible to all. Contact Improvisation out of the studio and into public space. Because movement shouldn’t be a luxury.

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Invitation

Come by.

You don’t need any experience, just comfortable clothing and curiosity. Every Monday, 17:45, Orpheumgasse 11, Graz.

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