Name: Global Underscore - Copenhagen
Start: 2026-06-20T14:30:00+02:00
End: 2026-06-20T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Dansekapellet

🌎 𝙅𝙊𝙄𝙉 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙂𝙇𝙊𝘽𝘼𝙇 𝙐𝙉𝘿𝙀𝙍𝙎𝘾𝙊𝙍𝙀 𝙄𝙉 𝘾𝙊𝙋𝙀𝙉𝙃𝘼𝙂𝙀𝙉 🌎
– A Global Celebration of Movement, Connection, and Expanding Practices

📅 𝘿𝘼𝙏𝙀 :
Saturday, June 20th

🕰️ 𝙏𝙄𝙈𝙀 :
Arriving to space: 14:30
Introduction to the Form: 14:45 – 15:45
Main Event: 16:00 – 20:00

📍 𝙇𝙊𝘾𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉 :
Kuppelsalen i Dansekapellet
Bispebjerg Torv 1, 2400 København NV
https://maps.app.goo.gl/aHJEm5QTRCu5CizMA

The Global Underscore is a special event in the world of Contact Improvisation, inspired by the pioneering work of Nancy Stark Smith. Introduced in the early 1990s, the Underscore is a structure for exploring the form in a deep, continuous, and collective way.
The Underscore is not just a regular jam, but a journey - an unfolding landscape of movement, touch, attention, and presence. It offers a shared framework while leaving space for individual experience, allowing the group to move together through subtle states of awareness and connection.

🌱 This year, we are opening a new chapter.
For the first time in Copenhagen, we are experimentally expanding the Global Underscore towards a dialogue with integrated dance practices. In collaboration with Integrated Dance DK, we are exploring how the Underscore can become more accessible and responsive to dancers with diverse bodies, perceptions, and experiences.
This is an invitation into a shared research:
How does the Underscore shift when we widen who it is for?
What new qualities of attention, communication, and movement can emerge?

🌐 𝙋𝙍𝙀-𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙉𝙏 𝘾𝙊𝙇𝙇𝘼𝘽𝙊𝙍𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉𝙎
In the weeks leading up to the Global Underscore, there will be serveral oppotunities to get to know and dive deeper into the practice.
- Thursdays Inclusive CI Jam as a preparation and shared inquiry offered by Integrated Dance DK
- Fridays Focus Jams and other exploration of the Underscore offered by Dance Share
- Sundays Underscore-inspired introdutions at the Sunday-jam offered by CI Copenhagen
These activities are part of a broader intention: to gently prepare the ground for a more inclusive and interconnected event of the Global Underscore.
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Whether you're new to Contact Improvisation or an experienced practitioner, you are welcome. However, we recommend that this is not your very first CI experience, as no guidance will be given during the main Global Underscore.
If you have not participated in the Underscore before, please join the introduction from 14:45 to 15:45.
This year especially, we invite participants to come with curiosity, patience, and care - for themselves and for the diversity within the group.
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We come together, move together, and continue the evolving legacy of Nancy Stark Smith - while opening space for new voices, bodies, and ways of sensing.
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𝙍𝙀𝙂𝙄𝙎𝙏𝙍𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉 :
Please register in advance by contacting Anne.
You can reach out via Messenger, phone or WhatsApp (+45 60176962), or email at [email protected]. Payment is required before the event.
𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐞: 200 DKK
If you’re experiencing financial difficulties, please don’t let that prevent you from joining the dance, reach out to us.

𝙋𝙍𝘼𝘾𝙏𝙄𝘾𝘼𝙇 :
- space opens at 14:30
- introduction from 14:45 to 15:45
- Global Underscore from 16:00 to 20:00
(we begin and end the Underscore together, so be aware to participate for the whole event)
- bring an extra set of clean and comfortable, long sleeved clothes, knee pads if needed
- bring a journal and pen
- please bring your favorite snack to share (there will be some chocolate, dates and fruits)

If you have questions, feel free to reach out.
We are excited to dance with you

Anne Vejen & Agata Rutkowska

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