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An invitation to return to the fundamentals of contact improvisation.
A day or an afternoon to inhabit gravity, play with our weight, vary the ways we carry one another, and expand what we rely on for support. A dive into doing within non-doing, that is, into the possibility of letting action emerge from the shifting balance of the forces moving through us. Action then unfolds without any intention to master it: it attunes itself to the world rather than commanding it. In this dynamic of self-regulation, the body, the duo, and the jam become sensitive systems, where each variation in support, dynamics, or intention informs the next. Listening to shared movement, contact becomes a sensitive language, woven from attention, curiosity, and play. Open to everyone. DATES & VENUES: Nov 9, 2025, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.: gymnase Cour des lions, table tennis room on the 3rd floor Dec 7, 2025, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.: gymnase Breguet, dance room on the 2nd floor Jan 11, 2026, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.: gymnase Breguet, dance room on the 2nd floor Feb 8, 2026, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.: gymnase Breguet, dance room on the 2nd floor March 8, 2026, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.: gymnase Cour des lions, dance room on the 2nd floor April 19, 2026, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.: gymnase Breguet, dance room on the 2nd floor June 14, 2026, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.: gymnase Breguet, dance room on the 2nd floor THE TEACHER: Catherine Kych has danced since early childhood. Classical dance has been her guiding thread, but in search of spaces for freedom, play, and sharing, she immersed herself in contact improvisation in 2007. She became passionate about this non-normative practice, which offered the possibility of encountering “others” first through touch and movement, then through words, and of building and deconstructing the world with them. Along the way, she acquired various tools to deepen her dance and facilitation practices: training in “Dance and Movement Therapy” (including tools from perceptual psychopedagogy and Danis Bois’s fasciatherapy), the D.U. “Dance and Somatic Education” from Paris VIII, and training in Explicitation Interviewing, which turned out to be the tool she had been missing to support dancers in putting their experiences into words. Since then, she has been an active member of GREX ( www.grex2.com ), the research group on explicitation founded by Pierre Vermersch. The D.U. “Medicine, Meditation and Neuroscience” from Strasbourg complemented her practical and theoretical knowledge of attention, particularly in meditative practices. Catherine also trained in Ericksonian hypnosis in an effort to better understand the links between imagination, perception, language, and relationship, and how they influence the mechanisms of creation, learning, and change. For many years, Catherine has taught and organized contact improvisation workshops and festivals within the association “L’œil et la main,” of which she is one of the founding members. Depending on invitations, she also leads contact improvisation workshops and master classes in conservatories, CDCN, the CND, and international festivals such as the one in Freiburg.
Price: RATES 4-hour workshop: €32 per single workshop or 2 workshops on the 10-workshop card + membership Full-day workshop: €50 per single workshop or 3 workshops on the 10-workshop card + membership
Source: paris.fr — photo: © Catherine Kych, based on a photo by Roxane Fechner