BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//socialdancer.org//Dances//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Stockholm BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Contact improvisation Copenhagen Falling in love with Falling\, wo rkshop w Vega + Mathilde @ Forsøgsstationen DTSTART:20261023T160000Z DTEND:20261025T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260907T095201Z UID:https://socialdancer.org/en/event/3028/ CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Falling in love with Falling\n23rd-25th October 2026 @ COPENHA GEN\nContact Improvisation Workshop\nwith Vega Luukkonen and Mathilde Mens ink\nfor dancers and movers with experience\nWe invite you on a journey ex ploring lifts\, flights and falling as integral parts of the dance\, disco vering greater freedom\, lightness and ease in movement.\nBy changing our relationship to falling\; learning to trust\, organize and even enjoy fall ing\, lifts and flights stop feeling like separate techniques and instead emerge naturally from the dance.\nTIME\nFriday 18:00 - 21:00\nSaturday 11: 00 - 18:00 (incl lunch break)\nSunday 10:00 - 14:00\nSunday class and jam 15:00 - 18:00\nCOST\nEarly Bird\, pay before 23rd September 850 Dkr / 115 €\nRegular Price: 1.050 Dkr / 142 €\nCommunity\, limited spots low inc ome\nTo register\, write cicopenhagen@gmail.com\nTo book your place\, mobi le pay 24339 (or get transfer-info)\nEvent by CI-CPH \n http://www.ci-cph. dk\nPRACTICAL\nFind our spacious studio in Vesterbro\, incl lounge area\, changing areas and kitchen.\nNice to bring your own food\, alternatively s hops and cafés nearby\nIn the studio :\nLong pants\, t-shirt with long sl eeves + kneepads recommended\n\n\nMORE about the WORKSHOP\nThrough release \, alignment\, body mechanics and an embodied understanding of gravity and momentum\, we cultivate a body that is both soft and organized\, allowing movement to flow with less effort and greater continuity.\nAs each dancer finds support in their own structure and in the space around them\, conta ct becomes lighter\, more responsive and spacious\, opening new possibilit ies for moving together.\nTogether we will investigate weight-sharing\, co unterbalance\, fluid lifts and seamless transitions\, allowing flights\, l andings and moments of support to emerge naturally from the dance.\nRooted in curiosity\, playfulness and care\, we offer clear technical tools whil e creating an inclusive space\, where we can experiment\, challenge oursel ves and enjoy the process of discovering new possibilities together.\nWe w ill work with the solo-body movement as well as in duets. There will be te chnical exercises\, but also plenty of time for integration and playfulnes s through dancing.\nThe workshop is designed for people with some prior ex perience with CI or solid experience in other movement diciplines. If you have quesitons\, feel invited to reach out to us.\n\n\nAbout the TEACHERS\ nVEGA LUUKKONEN\nMovement Educator\, Dancer\, Facilitator is a dancer\, pe rformance-artist & bodyworker made in Finland.\nShe studied dance & theatr e pedagogy in Helsinki at the Theatre Academy of Finland\, where she compl eted her Master´s degree in 2008. Currently she is co-hosting ROOTED IN M OTION\, 10 months modular training in Contact Improvisation in Berlin with her long-term colleague\, Hugh Stanier.\nVega is an expert in Contact Imp rovisation (CI)\, and teaches at festivals\, events & workshops across the world. She has danced Contact Improvisation since she was a teenager\, an d developed first her practice in the Finnish contact community.\nAfter he r studies she begun travel & teach internationally\, having now more than 30 years of experience with Contact Improvisation. Her movement is informe d & inspired by contemporary dance\, somatics\, aikido\, floor-work\, soft acrobatics\, partnering & developmental movement patterns.\nRecently\, sh e is more & more interested in deeper understanding of the underlying prin ciples of Contact Improvisation\, leading into fine tuning\, attention to detail\, deep listening\, and presence.\nShe seeks ways to facilitate unde rstanding of movement fundamentals\, while staying connected to our own in terest & journey of exploration\, where curiosity can stay most alive to d iscovery. Her classes are playful\, physical\, fun and creative.\nShe also works with collective scores & composition\; expanding out from duets int o trios & group-compositions\, seeing also solo-improvisation as vital par t of contact improvisation. She understands dance as a combination of tech nique & flow\; form & freedom\; being & doing.\nMATHILDE MENSINK\nDancer\, singer\, and dance teacher/facilitator.\nMathilde holds a BA in Contempor ary Dance Practices from the Iceland University of the Arts. Since graduat ing\, she has worked primarily with Contact Improvisation\, somatic practi ces\, teaching\, and facilitation.\nShe first encountered Contact Improvis ation in Copenhagen in 2013 and has returned to it ever since as a source of nourishment\, play\, community\, and curious exploration. Her work is i nformed by contemporary dance\, somatic practices and music\, alongside an ongoing interest in developing sustainable practices that integrate techn ical precision with nervous system awareness\, playfulness and creative ex pression\, ultimately inviting a greater sense of wholeness.\nShe enjoys h olding space for deep immersions\, the unknown\, and the quirky\, playful\ , wild and tender aspects of embodied experience. She has taught Contact I mprovisation in Copenhagen and Berlin and has been an active part of the i nternational CI community in Berlin. Alongside dance\, she teaches and fac ilitates movement\, music\, and somatic practices for both children and ad ults.\nContact improvisation?\nRead our guide here :\nhttps://ci-cph.dk/?p age_id=13\nMore info on CI and dance practice\nhttp://www.ci-cph.dk\nIn co llaboration w Forsøgsstationen\nhttps://www.forsoegsstationen.dk/\nFallin g in love with Falling\, workshop w Vega + Mathilde @ Forsøgsstationen \n https://www.facebook.com/events/1605616307843596/ LOCATION:Forsøgsstationen\, Sønder Boulevard 81\, Copenhagen\, Denmark URL:https://socialdancer.org/en/event/3028/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR