# Event Details - **Event Name**: Kiori Kawai: Meditative CI - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 23 Aug, 2025 at 10:00 am – Wed, 27 Aug, 2025 at 04:00 pm - **Event Description**: motionlab.cologne warmly presents Kiori Kawai Cologne 23.-27.8.2028 (Optional: Friday Jam 20-23) Saturday 10-16 (optional: Saturday Jam 19-22) Sunday 10-16 Monday 10-16 Tuesday 10-16 Wednesday 10-16 Spaces are limited. Dancefloor with 220 sqm soft tatami mats. Tickets: https://pretix.eu/motionlab/kiori-082025/ Regular 200 EUR for 2 days / 400 for all 5 days Early Bird until 31.7.25 170 EUR for 2 days / 350 for all 5 days Very Early Bird until 30.6.25 140 EUR for 2 days / 300 for all 5 days (For German version scroll down) MEDITATIVE CI Kiori Kawai’s workshop will explore how the sense of physical contact affects our bodies and minds. Her approach of Contact Improvisation is as a Meditative Movement Practice. It is based on observing breath and bodily sensations, placing the awareness to every part of the body, and integrating this awareness with movement. A practitioner of meditation and improvisational movement, Kiori Kawai’s approach employs observation of conscious and unconscious choices through stillness and movement, using kinesthetic awareness as a conversation to explore connection between self and environment. Workshops often culminate in a site-specific performance as sharing and exchanging ideas with each participants’ view point. When we share time and space, what is the most vulnerable, pure, and meaningful way to present ourselves to others? In improvisational performance, our past experiences converge in the present body and mind, shaping a corrective future. This workshop will use awareness of touch to explore the connection between bodies, minds and environment. Participants will engage with environment/nature through their senses to create connection. This connection will be integrated with scored improvisation, both as an individual and as a group, creating choreographic studies to keep developing and exchanging ideas to reach performative state. KIORI KAWAI (Japanese, b. 1978) is a dance performer/choreographer, interactive installation artist and an educator. As a dance performance artist, she seeks to merge her body and coexist within nature and all environments. Started her career in New York, she has worked with Carman Moore/Skymusic Inc., Elaine Summers Dance and Film, Lincoln Center, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Brooklyn Museum, Serraves Contemporary Museum (Portugal), Mesa Arts Center (AZ), Transformation Festival (Denmark/U.S), Megaron (Athens, Greece), touring nationally and internationally. Sheʼs built up her own improvisatory movement vocabulary based on the techniques of meditation, Kinetic Awareness, Contact Improv, yoga, and various dance/movement trainings. This led her to designing interactive installations that include human body movement within kinetic sculptures. Her approach to teaching Contact Improvisation and improvisational dance performances is based on developing awareness and exploring our conscious/unconscious choices through physical interaction between self and others. She has taught at New York University-Abu Dhabi (UAE), Alpine Dance Academy/Wave Festival (CO, USA), Tinkuy (Copenhagen, Denmark), Wrong Movement Studio (Athens, Greece), New England Dance Camp (New Hampshire, USA), Transformation Festival (U.S.A-Denmark), Deakin University/Federation Square (Melbourne, Australia), Savannah Arts Academy/ Telfair Museums (GA, USA), Dancing Water (TX, USA), Azule Dance Theater (NY, USA), Rinyou Temple (Japan) and more https://www.kiorikawai.com/ ----------------------------------------------- MEDITATIVE CONTACT IMPROVISATION Wir erforschen in diesem Workshop, wie das Gefühl von Körperkontakt unseren Körper und Geist beeinflusst. Mein Ansatz der Kontaktimprovisation ist eine meditative Bewegungspraxis. Sie basiert auf der Beobachtung des Atems und der Körperempfindungen, wobei wir die Aufmerksamkeit auf jeden Teil des Körpers richten und dieses Bewusstsein in die Bewegung integrieren. Kiori Kawai, die Meditation und Bewegungsimprovisation praktiziert, beobachtet bewusste und unbewusste Entscheidungen durch Stille und Bewegung und nutzt die kinästhetische Wahrnehmung als Gespräch, um die Verbindung zwischen sich selbst und der Umwelt zu erkunden. Die Workshops führen häufig zu einer ortsspezifischen Performance, bei der die Teilnehmer ihre Ideen mit anderen teilen und austauschen. Wenn wir Zeit und Raum miteinander teilen, was ist dann die verletzlichste, reinste und sinnvollste Art, uns anderen zu präsentieren? In einer improvisierten Performance treffen sich unsere vergangenen Erfahrungen in Körper und Geist in der Gegenwart und formen eine korrigierende Zukunft. In diesem Workshop wird das Bewusstsein für Berührung genutzt, um die Verbindung zwischen Körper, Geist und Umwelt zu erforschen. Wir können uns mit unseren Sinnen auf die Umwelt/Natur einlassen, um eine Verbindung zu schaffen. Diese Verbindung wird in die Improvisation integriert, sowohl in mir als Individuum als auch in der Gruppe, um choreografische Studien zu entwickeln und Ideen auszutauschen, um einen Zustand zu erreichen. in dem wir uns zeigen mögen. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/cologne/kiori-kawai-meditative-ci/200028224937029 - **Event Categories**: workshops, health-wellness, art, meditation, entertainment, festivals, performances, theatre, yoga - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 13 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://pretix.eu/motionlab/kiori-082025/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=cologne-events ## Event venue details - **city**: Cologne - **state**: NW - **country**: Germany - **location**: Neusser Straße 26, 50670 Köln, Deutschland - **lat**: 50.95239 - **long**: 6.95739 - **full address**: Neusser Straße 26, 50670 Köln, Deutschland, Neusser Straße 26, 50670 Köln, Deutschland, Cologne, Germany ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Kiori Kawai: Meditative CI - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/3b6e0810655b1afefb462a6c83cb2631f68788ade2e64e4d0f42cf235e1e6146-rimg-w1200-h675-dc77614b-gmir?v=1755587369 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Kiori Kawai: Meditative CI being held? - **A:** Kiori Kawai: Meditative CI takes place on Sat, 23 Aug, 2025 at 10:00 am to Wed, 27 Aug, 2025 at 04:00 pm at Neusser Straße 26, 50670 Köln, Deutschland, Neusser Straße 26, 50670 Köln, Deutschland, Cologne, Germany. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Kiori Kawai: Meditative CI is ideal for curious learners, students, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Cologne, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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