6-week course : Contact Improvisation : Stroud

A new Sunday evening course from April to May 2026 in a beautiful hall in Stroud

Both beginners and experienced dancers can learn this course together

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What is Contact Improvisation?

Movement Research excerpt:

“Contact Improvisation (CI) is a dance of improvising/partnering based on physics of touch, weight, balance, momentum, stillness, flow, resistance, and perceptual play

We will learn specific lifts and rolls and practice developmental patterns, body puzzles and forms

We will create duet dances that are dynamic and alive in the moment, becoming more tuned to centre, subtleties of touch, direction, and intention, and improvising”

Have a little watch of this video to get a sense of what it could look like!

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This course is especially created for participants to progress through the 6 weeks together, but it is also flexible enough that you can connect the dots if you drop-in or have missed a class.

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Dates: Sundays 12th, 19th, 26th April, then 10th, 17th, 24th May (no class on 3rd May)

Time: 5:30pm – 7:00pm

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Price:

All 6 classes for £60 (£10 each)

3 class bundle for £39 (£13 each)

Drop-in £16

For more info on booking the whole 6-week course or a 3-week bundle, please email jan.lee.uk@gmail.com

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Location: Maypole Hall, Stratford Rd, Paganhill, Stroud GL5 4AN

Venue is accessible. There are some parking spots just outside, and on the nearby roads. Buses stop directly outside the venue.

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About the teacher Jan-Ming Lee

Jan-Ming’s love of contact improvisation began 20 years ago. Since then, she has been nurtured and challenged by its creativity and contradictions of freedom, risk and play. Amongst many things, she is informed by her ancestral healing practice, an ongoing study of Chinese Daoist internal energy arts, somatic bodywork, Afro-Brazilian martial art of Capoeira, and trauma-informed approaches advocating choice, consent, equity, compassion and pleasure. She has a background as a performance artist/facilitator in dance, music and physical theatre, and is a practicing somatic bodyworker certified in The Pantarei Approach.