I was challenged to write through the subject of silence. It is, to start with, a challenge made by itself. Paradox of words and no-words.

In this period I am particularly interested in observing how polarities interact with each other. Thepresence of one makes the presence of the other vivid.

Silence .moving into silence – spaces – sitting lying being – be the beginner mind : open curious – listeningobserving not knowing – no judgment

“Where we are when we don’t know where we are”, this is how Nancy Stark Smith described the space opened up by improvisation: a zone

When the invitation came to join the Contact Silence retreat, a sense of curiosity emerged in me.Dancing for me is a language. A language that

E = mc 2Did Einstein dance contact? Today at school I explained this wonderful scientific revolution condensed into a formula.When the time comes for this

Towards the upcoming winter contact silence retreat I was asked to write a “brief text about dance and silence”. Sitting down to write my text,

silently and gently getting back to touch, reclaiming contact with careAfter a long, precarious period of witnessing our own inner movements and surviving small, confined

Since our project started, we have been able to welcome five wonderful groups of dancing meditators, coping in our own way with the pandemic and

I used to think that I hate a routine and I was always running away from fixed schedules, fixed places and definite time, searching for

As I think about the next CSR, I wonder what relationship exists between the silence of the word and the silence of the body. It is

  “Tra un suono e l’altro cerco lo spazio di un gesto, sfiorando confini che da un lato sono musica dall’altro braccio, testa, gambe.” Come

When you wrap yourself up in SILENCE in nature to DANCE contact and MEDITATE incredible things start to happen! Time stretches, movements become super smooth and

After months of body silence, I found myself in a slow awakening of sensations, movements, relationships … I realized that there is a lot of

During this “new era of our global pandemic”, I do feel that the essentials of contact improvisation seem to be more relevant than ever. In

Part of the learning process for me is taking ideas/thoughts/nuggets/movements/pathways that I have gathered from teachers I have met along the way and modifying them,

“Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still for once on the face of the earth, let’s not speak in any

Finding pleasure in every movement.Connecting with the season.Harvesting thoughts,Inspirations.Moments of silence.Focused spaces where we dance.Moving from the insideTo the outside.I don’t know the next stepI

I think of silence as a way to reset the “doing / listening” system, to find a balance between action and reception. Our nervous system

In the transition from retreat to ordinary life, a sense of loss often arises and we wonder why what we have been with does not

I am happy to participate in this retreat, especially at a time like this, where the compasses have completely gone mad and the directions are

« Once a Zen Master asked a disciple: ‘Have you seen the snow leopard?”No’, replied the disciple.’Isn’t it wonderful?’ The Master asked him.from «Silence is

Here is Tomokombu at work, he will accompany us in the evening jams of the first round of the retreat. We remind you that the

What I have learned in the last 15 years of my life, thanks to Contact Improvisation and Meditation practices, seem to be the gem that

We all went trought something defintely bigger than us.We, as entire World population are facing a shared reality. At the same time each one of

Of all the different things I have done in my life so far Contact has probably ignited my playfulness more than anything else. There is