Leilani Weis dedicated to the analysis of her own and others movement, she feels the dance deeply. She devotes herself to teaching and the creation of dance pieces. She believes in the creative cooperation with others from where she nourishes her art.

Miguel Gomes part of the contact dancers, artists and creators of Barcelona. Dragqueen and stiltswalker who has been dancing for over 30 years. He is deeply interested in the rituality of performance. Friend of his friends.

Leilani Weis and Miguel Gomes meet in Barcelona in year 2000 researching Contact Improvisation with other dancers. They create and performe at various festivals, events and where part of the firsts Jams in that city. Since 2015 they have been dancing and creating together, traveling teaching and performing CI and Contactango.

Class theme: Ritualizing Contact Improvisation?
What if we could live the performance space as a space for ritual, where your dancing becomes an offer for the goddess. Where every little gesture becomes the expression of the joy of being alive. We will explore the physics and mystics aspects of performance.

Ruslan Baranov - at a certain period of his life made a choice in favor of in-depth CI practice. And now for 18 years already he is devoted to this work. During this time he has introduced, inspired and taught to improvise and contact many people. He believes that you should share with others the best you have, you know and you can do. And as among everything he tried to do, CI is the one he does the best, likes and feels happy about doing it, he continues to share this joy, knowledge, experience and dance with other people in every possible way: festivals, classes, workshops , labs, creative projects, performances, jams and ordinary human communication.

Marina Baranova - a constant source of inspiration and a muse for her husband

Class Theme: focus
What is primary? Egg or chicken? Body or consciousness? The answer to the second question is more obvious. With the help of consciousness, we can control our body. But do we listen to the body? Do we take care of it? Do we pay attention to the sensations and condition of our body during any actions? Our body is a good guide in what we do right and what not. We just need to return our attention to what is happening to us and then we will feel the taste of every micro movement, feel its quality, density, fullness, heaviness or lightness, tension or release, stupidity or justification. We will have a wealth of choices: what we want to stay with, what to pass, what to delay, what to refuse, and what to agree with. This will manifest the creative component of the game with a wealth of opportunities and all kinds of choices. And what is here about contact? Everything. After all, CI is a physical meeting of two or more bodies. And when our attention is focused on the kinesthetic sphere of communication more than visual, everything changes. This is the secret. That's what we're gonna do.

Benno Voorham is an international performer, choreographer and teacher from Holland, living in Stockholm since 1995. Since his graduation in 1986 from the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam he has worked internationally as an independent dance-artist, directing his own work as well as collaborating with others in both set and improvised pieces. Together with Sybrig Dokter he started LAVA-Dansproduktion, an international operating association for dance, based in Stockholm. He is an acclaimed international teacher of Contact Improvisation and Compositional Improvisation. In both his teaching and performance work, he is interested in exploring the creative and narrative potentials of the human body.

Class Theme: The singing body

In this workshop we will focus on how we relate to music when we improvise. Developing and fine-tuning a sense of musicality in our dancing that is in dialogue with the music we hear. Listening to the sound of silence will be an important practice to prepare for the perception of the world of music.