Name: Cellular Touch & Flying
Start: 2026-05-22T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-05-24T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Dzogchen Gemeinschaft Samdrubling & Yeselling

Cellular touch & Flying
Contact improv / flying maneuvers / fluid acrobatics
We will start with contact practices in which sensation and proprioception lead to refined skills. We will work with physics and somatics that support freedom of flight and expression. (Pleasure ↔ Technique; Somatics → Acrobatics)
Aerial aspects of contact improvisation: flying, catching, landing, fluid acrobatics, deft maneuvers. For the acrobatics. Everyone will work at their own level and will learn best by building group safety and trust. We will practice integrating the flying and acrobatics
into the contact flow. That is: aerial interactions that increase the contact.
We’ll do some of my favourite contact exercises and current curiosities. Created or learned over the decades investigation and indulgence.
BIO
Scott Wells has been practicing contact improv for 40 years, teaching for 30 and directs an award winning dance company in San Francisco. He has created works for skateboarders, for boxers and choreographed West Side Story for Sonoma State University. Scott has twice received the Izzie (San Francisco’s most prestigious dance award) for Outstanding Choreography. Scott has toured to Europe for the last 25 years teaching and performing in festivals in Moscow, Barcelona, Budapest, Berlin, Vienna, Zagreb, Bucharest and Ankara to name a few. He has an MFA in Dance, has been practicing Alexander Technique for thirty years, BMC for 15 and has studied a variety of counselling and bodywork practices. His current research passions are Eyebody practice, moving from the organs and contact improvisation.

PRESS
“Scott Wells...has a dizzying abundance of pure dance-making talent“ Rachel Howard, SF Examiner "Wells has become over the last fifteen years the Paul Taylor of Contact Improv — that is, the first to make dances in this idiom that are deeply musical, somehow "normal," imaginative, witty, often hilarious, sometimes fierce.” Paul Parrish, Danceviewtimes "Come for the Thrills, Stay for the Artistry." Allan Ulrich, Voice of Dance "Sproing! Once you adjust to the notion that very fit people are supposed to be bouncing off walls and flying in your face, you can relax and let them (Wells and dancers) do their thing, which is an electrifying style of contact improvisation" SF Weekly
Video Links:
https://vimeo.com/1112068788
https://vimeo.com/790875855
https://vimeo.com/263768098

📅 WHEN?
22-24 May 2026
FRI: 6-9pm
SAT: 10am-6pm
SUN: 10am-4pm
📍 WHERE?
Samdrubling Studio
Friedrich-Kaiser-Gasse 74
Vienna, 1160, Austria

💰 WORKSHOP FEES:
⏰ Very Early Bird – signup and pay deposit before 20/02/2026
200 EUR
⏰ Early Bird – signup and pay deposit before 20/04/2026
250 EUR
📅 Bookings after 20/04/2026
300 EUR / Social 250 EUR
🎓 Professionals / Dancers / Teachers
220 EUR
ℹ️ A non-refundable deposit of 50 EUR is required for all bookings.
ℹ️Sleeping is possible in the studio for 15 EUR/ night, if you need this, you can indicate it in the sign up form.
📝 REGISTRATION
To register, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/a4i2je8n4D5atS7DA
Here you’ll also find important information, payment details, and space to ask questions.
📧 For additional inquiries, contact the organiser on messenger or via mail: [email protected]
🗣️ The workshop will be held in English!