Contact Improvisation Around the World
Contact Improvisation is a small, scattered, wonderfully international practice, and it isn't always easy to know where to look, whether you're landing somewhere new or getting to know the scene where you already live. Each guide covers one country: how CI took root there, the communities and teachers we've found, and what's coming up.
6 countries so far, with more on the way.
Contact Improvisation in Austria
Austria's Contact Improvisation scene runs through city-based communities in Vienna, Graz, Innsbruck, Linz and Salzburg, several of them decades old.
Read the guide →Contact Improvisation in Germany
Contact Improvisation reached Germany in the late 1970s, when Christine Vilardo, alongside Jacalyn Carley, began offering public workshops in West Berlin before Tanzfabrik Berlin's founding in 1978...
Read the guide →Contact Improvisation in Greece
Contact Improvisation's roots in Greece reach back to Konstantinos Mihos, who first read a description of the practice while living in Athens in 1980, then trained with choreographers in New York a...
Read the guide →Contact Improvisation in Portugal
Contact Improvisation's roots in Portugal trace to Isabel Valverde, who practiced the form for over 20 years across Amsterdam, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Riverside before returning to Lisbon i...
Read the guide →Contact Improvisation in Sweden
Sweden's Contact Improvisation scene centers on the Stockholm–Gothenburg–Malmö triangle, with active outposts in Järna, home to a Waldorf/anthroposophic community that has long hosted movement arts...
Read the guide →Contact Improvisation in the United States
Contact Improvisation began here.
Read the guide →Help us cover your country
This list keeps growing. If your country isn't here yet, or you know its scene better than we do, we'd love the help. Every country page has an open Ambassador spot for someone willing to keep it accurate as things change.