💗Start the new year dancing, playing, exploring, grounding … You are warmly invited to the Northern Jam XL edition! Come and dive into two days of contact improvisation: workshops with different focuses, movement research, bodywork sessions & jams for free dancing.
💗We are delighted to have guest teachers Sophia Steng & Claudio Pintus from Leipzig! They are such creative and versatile teachers. The other facilitators are Andrea Sangiacomo, Barbara van Male and Otto Roth.
🌟Topics
- Landing in our bodies, receiving external impulses, bodywork extended into movement practice
- Practicing with leading, following and dissolving roles
- Playing and exploring with composition, awareness of the space, of different levels
All workshops and formats are open for all levels.
🌟Dates
17 & 18 January 2026
🌟Price
Early Bird until 30 nov 2025 sliding scale € 140 – € 70
Normal from 1 december sliding scale € 160 – € 90
🌟Tickets
https://hipsy.nl/event/164587-the-northern-jam-xl-edition
🌟Schedule
- Saturday 17 January 2026
13:00-13:15 Opening circle
13:15-14:45 Workshop 1
14:45-15:00 Break 15 min
15:00-16:30 Workshop 2
16:30-17:00 Break 30 min
17:00-19:00 Jam
- Sunday 18 January 2026
10:00 Opening Circle
10:15 Workshop 3 by Claudio & Sophia
12:45-13:30 Break 45 min
13:30-17:00 Closing Jam with ending circle
🌟Location
Centrum Al Nour
Blekerstraat 17
9718 EA Groningen
About Sophia Steng
Sophia began dancing CI in Leipzig in 2012. She has a slow-paced and inclusive way of holding dance spaces. Influences of tango, contemporary and west-African dance add to her wide range of material. Besides that she also teaches classes for children and is mother of two children.
About Claudio Pintus
Claudio is a creative person with many years of experience in Ashtanga Yoga. In recent years, he has discovered an interest in contact improvisation and is fascinated by the freedom that this form of dance brings. Every week he starts with dancing and yoga, which gives him energy and new inspiration. He looks forward to sharing his interest with others.
About Andrea Sangiacomo
Andrea is a philosopher, meditator and mover. He has a background in Ashtanga Yoga (200h teacher training with Gregor Maehle and Monica Gauci), conscious and ecstatic dance (facilitator training with DanceTheMedicine), Contact-Beyond-Contact (facilitator level 2). He studies CI in the Netherlands and abroad and is currently doing a one-year CI teacher training in Freiburg.
About Barbara van Male
Barbara van Male is a dancer, movement researcher and editor. Her way into CI started from contemporary dance and performance projects in public space and site-specific works. Her practice is informed with different disciplines she trained in: capoeira, tango, meditation, (and ballet and judo from childhood). She joined several intensives and trainings in CI, Axis syllabus, BMC and contemporay dance.
About Otto Roth
Otto Roth has been dancing since 2004, exploring all kinds of styles and movement practices including contemporary dance, movement improvisation, Gaga dance, partner acrobatics and more. From 2007 he dived into CI. As a clear and versatile CI-teacher he hands practical tools, techniques and pathways into contact improvisation, with a focus on relaxation.
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