Surrendering to Physics: Contact Improvisation Dance and Biomechanics for Effortless Movement

Classes: 27, 28, 29, 30 January 2026
With consecutive translation in Bulgarian during the workshop. 

Come join us for this exploration into playful movement and dance, exploring the exciting dynamics of a free-form improvisational partner dance. Contact Improvisation is a mind-body practice, developing sophisticated physical coordination and awareness of our mind-body patterns in movement and relationship. Contact Improvisation is an all-body workout, using every muscle, conditioning integrated holistic movement.  We dance surfing on waves of movement. The movement massaged our bodies and minds.

We will study functional anatomy and biomechanics to understand how to fly and fall, meeting the floor with soft, flexible bodies.  We explore how we enter and leave relationships.  We study how to move effortlessly with flexibility and adaptability.

We will explore:
- Somatic Movement
- Functional Anatomy
- Biomechanics of Movement
- Primal Movement Strategies

WHAT TO BRING:
Important! Please bring many warm layers and double layers! Long sleeves, long pants and double layers of clothing will make a happy relationship with the floor! If you sweat a lot, you can bring extra clothing to keep yourself and others warm, dry and happy!

You are welcome to join classes as your schedule permits.

Schedule
Tuesday, January 27, 6pm-9pm
Wednesday, January 28, 6pm-9pm
Thursday, January 29, 12pm-3pm
Friday, January 30, 12pm-3pm

Prices
4 classes: 90 EUR / 176,02 BGN
3 classes: 75 EUR / 146,69 BGN
2 classes 60 EUR / 117,35 BGN
1 class: 30 EUR / 58,67 BGN

Course Instructor
Chrystabel Butler brings a wide range of experience to movement and dance.  She is a certified Integrative Psychotherapist, Dance Movement Therapist, with a Masters of Counselling and Psychotherapy and a Post Graduate Diploma in Dance Movement Therapy.  She has been leading workshops in Somatic Dance and Creative Psychotherapy since 2009.   She also provides personal movement coaching through authentic movement and rehabilitative modalities.  As a certified instructor for Yoga and Pilates since 2007, she has taught rehabilitative yoga and Pilates in Australia and Japan.  With a background in competitive gymnastics, she has pursued research and teaching in various somatic dance modalities.  She has taught Contact Improvisation in UK, Japan, Bulgaria, Egypt and Australia.  Engaged with intensive study of Axis Syllabus since 2014, passionate about approaching dance through an understanding of anatomy, physics and biomechanics, she currently leads classes and workshops in Axis Syllabus Inspired Movement and Dance.

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For questions you can write to the course leader at chrystabelbutlerpsychotherapy@gmail.com.