Name: CI, a Question // Workshop with Andrew Wass
Start: 2026-03-07T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-03-07T17:30:00+01:00
Location: Villa Wigman

$CI, a Question \/\/ Workshop with Andrew Wass$

Contact Improvisation developed out of questioning, questioning the mandatory space between bodies, questioning what is supposed to happen in every moment of movement.
Beginning with the solo body we will explore specificity to increase the potential for the duet sourcing Material for the Spine, Re:Wire, and developmental movement. Concepts such as momentum, duration, repetition, speed, and loft will be investigated from the solo perspective. Shifting our perspective to the duet, we will look at the duet through a variety of conceptual trios, such as core/floor/contact, roll/pivot/slide/, push/pull/pause, etc.
By consciously and rigorously examining the triads, we achieve an un/conscious clarity within the chaos of the dance.
The workshop will shift into more open investigations by drawing on questions and ideas from Daniel Lepkoff’s essay, Contact Improvisation: A Question, such as:
What do you need to know?
Which of these surfaces offers support?
Where am I able to go?
To prepare for and survive the surprises of Contact Improvisation meet the moment with senses open and perceptions stretching and compose your own response.
This spontaneous physical material can be viewed as danced composition the reflexes take over, and the rest is history.
Where is down?
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Andrew Wass has been investigating Contact Improvisation for over 20 years and taught at festivals, studios, and universities in Europe, Asia, and the United States.
His performance work has been shown in San Diego, LA, San Francisco, Marfa, Tijuana, Berlin, Seattle, Tokyo, and New York.
He has performed with CI notables such as Jess Curtis, Scott Wells, Nina Martin, Chris Aiken, Ray Chung, Ka Rustler, and Nancy Stark Smith.
A member of the performance collective, Lower Left. A member of the Lower Left Performance Collective, he graduated from the MA SoDA program at the Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum für Tanz Berlin, and completed his PhD in Dance through Texas Woman’s University. Areas of research include the connections between philosophy, cognitive science, improvised dancing and the development of theory through the juxtaposition of practices.

Time
10.00 - 13.00 // 15.00 - 17.30
Jam 19.00 - 21.30
Costs
60€ - 90€ // sliding scale
Location
Villa Wigman
Bautznerstr 107
01099 Dresden
Registration
[email protected]
https://www.lottejirka.de/workshops/andrewwass