Contact Improvisation Training

with Andrew Wass

Wednesdays, 14:00–15:30
from 02.09.2026

Intermediate/Advanced

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This weekly class is for people who already are familiar with contact improvisation and are ready to go deeper. Through structured scores, focused repetition, and close attention to the body’s mechanics, we will refine the technical skills that support a seasoned CI practice – multiple muscle tonalities, nuanced movement initiation, solo body clarity. These classes will work towards building greater fluency, range, and physical confidence.
Each session combines individual somatic work, partnering pathways, and improvisational scores designed to sharpen listening and responsiveness. Drawing on Material from Paxton’s work, developmental and somatic work, and classic CI practices, we will investigate how gravity, timing, and anatomical awareness can expand what’s possible in the dance.
Participants should expect both feedback and challenge. This is a space to train, question your habits, and discover new pathways through the known and unknown events of contact.
For dancers with existing CI experience who want more: more precision, more range, more understanding.

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About Andrew

A dancer and researcher, Andrew Wass blurs the boundaries between empirical inquiry and embodied experience. With a background in Biochemistry from UC San Diego and a PhD in Dance from Texas Woman’s University, Wass situates his inquiries in the intersection of philosophy, cognitive science, and process-oriented concert dance. He has explored and taught contemporary technique, Contact Improvisation, and Ensemble Thinking for over two decades across Europe, Asia, and the U.S. He frames movement as both a site of investigation and a generative medium, dissolving the divide between analytic method and lived sensation. Wass has performed with dance luminaries Jess Curtis, Ray Chung, Nancy Stark Smith, Nina Martin, Kirstie Simson, Ka Rustler, and Chris Aiken. An avid collaborator, he is a member of the Lower Left Performance Collective, based in Marfa, TX. His performance work has been produced at venues such as Danspace at St. Marks, Martin Gropius Bau, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for Contemporary Art, Sushi Performance and Visual Art, the Crowley Theater, and La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art.