Archive 2025

16th INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL WARSAW CI FLOW

Falling with grace, landing into the unknown…

In 2025, we invited you to explore how Contact Improvisation deepened our capacity for listening, strengthened community, and fostered ease in change.

We began with listening – tuning into sensation, space, and each other, refining our ability to be present with what unfolded. Through shared weight and shifting dynamics, we discovered how to offer and receive support, meeting the moment with care.

From this foundation, resilience grew—not as rigid strength or control but as the ability to move fluidly with change. In CI, every fall is not the end of a thread, but the beginning of a new one – a step into the unknown, where trust, adaptability, and mutual support emerge through movement. In falling, we find grace; in landing, we expand our horizons. CI teaches us that navigating the unexpected is not only possible but deeply nourishing.

It was an exploration of movement, trust, and the art of landing into the unknown.

INVITED ARTISTS

Adrian Russi invited us into an intensive dedicated to listening – to the body, space, and encounters – as a key skill for Contact Improvisation. By exploring perception, dynamics, and strength, we developed freedom of movement, moving from attentive encounters to wild, technically challenging dances. At the same time, free jamming allowed us to follow the moment and find dances full of grace and vitality.

Thomas Kampe offered a somatic intensive. Integrating the Feldenkrais® method with Contact Improvisation, we focused on body awareness, gravity, and touch. Through duet explorations of movement, we developed coordination, lightness, and spontaneity in dance. His work invites us to somatically listen to ourselves, deepen our relationship with gravity, and discover new movement possibilities.

Finally, Inna Falkova led a labbing intensive about the experience of war and peace, life and death, their polarisation, and transformation. We explored how the conscious experiencing of these dimensions could become a space for growth, strength, and maturity, rather than unconsciously reproducing destructive patterns. Her invitation is to explore together through movement, searching for the potential inherent not only in the individual but also in the community and collective intelligence.

The festival also accompanied the European Contact Improvisation Teachers Exchange, which took place between 14 and 20 July.

MORNING INTENSIVES

LISTENING: body – space – encounter | Adrian Russi

JUST BEFORE | Inna Falkova

GRAVITY MOVES: Feldenkrais and Contact Improvisation | Thomas Kampe

CI WORKSHOPS AND LABS

MORNING PRACTICE | Kamila Zięba

CI SKILLS: GROUNDING AND FLOWING | Marta Iucci

BLENDING FORCES | Paweł Kubiak and Daniel Rojasanta

FINDING COMMON GROUND | Christina Dohr

SOFT EDGES | Maja Miśta

CI & Performance: HOW TO COMPOSE FALLING MASSES? | Natascha Golubtsova

POETRY IN MOTION | Rosa Valentina Martino

JAM TUNINGS – Presence and Performance | Paweł Kubiak and Daniel Rojasanta

OPEN EVENTS

PLAYS AND TUMBLES | Pawel Konior

SENSITIVE EXPLORATION – about group process in dance | Hanna Jurczak

PANEL DISCUSSION: HOLDING THE UNKNOWN – contact improvisation as a practice of resilience and being together | Panellists: Inna Falkova, Adrian Russi, Thomas Kampe; Moderator: Klara Łucznik

ECITE 2025 Open jam

ECITE 2025 Performative mode