Contact Improvisation events, venues & communities
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Austria
Anti Gravity – Between Heaven and Earth, Contact in Paradise 2027, Formless Archetypes Intensive, How we move together, Nita Little Workshop, Solo & CI Tirol Festival
China
Czechia
Finland
France
Contact Improvisation Workshop with Matthieu Gaudeau in Lannion, International Contact Improvisation & Butoh Festival en Provence, 17th Edition, L'attention incarnée — Nita Little Intensive, Material for the Spine, Terra Contact
Germany
7th Contact Impro Festival Leipzig, CI Gathering Dresden, CI Residency, CI Residency Winter 2027, CI Teacher Training 2026/27 Freiburg, Contact Festival Freiburg, Contact Improvisation & Body-Mind Centering Jahresgruppe Bonn, DanceAbility Intensive with Alito Alessi, Diving Deep, Flying High, E-motions: Von der Entspannung in Ausdruck und Handlungsfähigkeit, Elske Seidel Contact Jahresgruppe Berlin, Falling & Catching, Lightness & Flying — CI Weekend with Vega Luukkonen in Jena, From Zero to Flying, Herbst-Jam 2026, Herbstjam, Irene Sposetti — Tuning Bodies, Living Contact Dance Festival, Nordtanz Festival, Rooted in Motion — Module 1: Grounding & Earth, Rooted in Motion — Module 2: Spine & Spirals, Rooted in Motion — Module 3: Falling & Catching, Rooted in Motion — Module 4: Group Awareness & Jamming Skills, Rooted in Motion — Module 5: Softness & Dynamics, Rooted in Motion — Module 6: Integration & Expansion, SummerFlow Festival, TANZT! Festival, The Connected Body in Contact, The Fulcrum – Mechanics versus Organics, The Temporal Dimension, Vega Luukkonen — Falling in Love with Trios, Well-being, Resilience and Healing
Greece
Corfu Land & Water CI Festival, Diving into the fabric of touch, Fall & Fly, Tending Soil: A CI Based Residency
India
Art Of Improvisation Residency — 11th Edition, CounterBalance Gathering, Training Ground Goa: Feldenkrais & CI
Israel
Deep Contact Retreaton, Deep Contact Retreaton, Deep Contact Retreaton, Deep Contact Retreaton, Deep Contact Retreaton, Deep Contact Retreaton, Deep Contact Retreaton, Deep Contact Retreaton, Neto Contact — Studio Weekend
Italy
Dolomite Flow, ECITE Italy 2026, Fluid Presence — The Heart, the Belly, the Brain, Gran Jam di Ferragosto (4th edition), Jamazo Italia 2026, Mediterranea CI Gathering, Movement Hunter Summer Residency, Sicily Contact Impro Retreat, Summer CI Retreat Rick Nodine, Summer Jam of Arts Festival (13th edition), Well-being, Resilience and Healing
Moldova
Netherlands
Beyond the Duet - Trios, Groups and Improvisation, Dancing the Flowing Arc with Simonetta Alessandri, Fluid Awareness in Flight – Contact Workshop with Elske Seidel, Fly like a bird, Land like a cat, From Ground to Sky – weekend Contact workshop, In Silence Contemplative CI meeting, Mystery & Mastery of Spirals - Contact Improvisation Workshop, Performance & Contact Improvisation Festival, Power to the Pelvis – Contact Improvisation Weekend Workshop, Sensing the Lift - Contact Improvisation Workshop with Noam Carmeli
Norway
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, Contact Improvisation & Body-Mind Centering® Immersion, Norway Silent Contact Retreat, Oslo Ensemble Thinking™ Festival 2026
Poland
Contact Improvisation Workshop with Tal Avni in Kraków, FRU Dance Camp 2026, In Listening We Touch
Portugal
Barriga Improvisation Camp 2026, Confluence — 9-Day CI Art Residency, Nita Little: ISSC Training on Somatic Research for (Life &) Ensemble Practice, Organic Interaction, Portugal Contact Camp 2026, Portugal Contact Festival
Slovakia
South Korea
Spain
Asturias Contact Festival, BROTA CI Retreat, Contact Impro Ibiza Festival, EMOCIE, Enramando — Jugar en Serio (XV edición), Mad Pulse — Contact Improvisation Gathering Madrid, Retiro Fuerza Sensible, Tejiendo Cuerpo 2026, The Invisible Weave – 2nd Silent Immersion
Sweden
Ecosomatic Spaces — CI Program Module 4, Gothenburg, Nordic Impro Meeting, Softening Structures — CI Program Module 5, Malmö, Thunder & Tide — CI Program Module 6, Stockholm
Thailand
Türkiye
United Kingdom
Contact Improvisation Upside Down, Edges - Practicing Places 2026, London Contact Jam, QUARTET - a Weekend of Improvisation & Collective Performance, Togethering at Spirit Horse, Training Ground: a Contact Improvisation Intensive, UK Contact Improvisation Teachers Exchange 2026, Well-being, Resilience and Healing
United States
Animal-Concocted Contact Improvisation, Camp Contact @ Burning Man, CI Fundamentals Intensive, Compositional Awareness in CI, Contact Improvisation California Campout, East Coast Jam, Fall 🍁 Jam, Falling Leaves Jam, GLACIER (Great Lakes Area Contact Improvisation Enthusiasts Retreat), Landing in Delight, Layers of Listening, Long Beach CI Festival 2027, Spiral & Root CI Training, Spiral Weekend — Berkeley, Summer CI Festival
What is Contact Improvisation?
Contact Improvisation (CI) is an improvised dance form. Two or more people move together through shared weight and momentum, rather than fixed steps or a set lead, staying connected through a rolling point of contact. Steve Paxton originated the form in 1972; Nancy Stark Smith became one of its most influential early developers, shaping much of what CI is today. It has since spread worldwide, practiced in studios, festivals, and open-air jams, as both a dance form and a somatic or movement research practice.
About CI Treasure Hunt
CI Treasure Hunt is a global directory of Contact Improvisation festivals, jams, workshops, intensives, and retreats, along with the venues, teachers, and communities behind them. The directory currently lists 152 events, 86 venues, and 283 communities across 68 countries. New: country guides that bring communities, teachers, events, and venues together in one place, starting with Sweden, Greece, Portugal and Austria.
Planning travel and want to find a jam or community wherever you go? Looking for your first jam, scouting the festival calendar for your next vacation or journey, or trying to find teachers and community near you? This is where to look.