Join Erica and Karthik in Auroville for a beautifully designed weekend! We will dive deep into the foundational principles of contact improvisation and examine how individual freedom & mutual dependence are relational. By expanding our awareness from skin to the space around us, we will explore how this dynamic fosters new discoveries and opens possibilities.
This collaborative workshop offers an opportunity to refine one’s technical and compositional skills within CI.
Open to all levels of experience.
Erica Rachel Kaufman has contributed to the continued development of Contact Improvisation since 1987. Interested in physics, states of consciousness and movement to unite people across borders, Erica has taught and performed CI in USA, Israel, China, Europe, and India.
Erica has collaborated with Nancy Stark Smith and the full CI founding generation on reunion gatherings with Steve Paxton to dance, discuss, ponder CI, and share time together.
Karthik is a dancer, teacher and performing artist based in Berlin. He has a Diploma in Contemporary dance(2011) from Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts and trained in various forms of contemporary dance, kalaripayattu, bharatanatyam, body conditioning, contact improvisation and instant composition. He is one of the first generation of CI practitioners from India and has worked with several dance companies, arts collectives and social organisations in India and Europe, while developing a teaching practice.
