Contact Improv Tango Jam
Saturday 12 April 2025
18:00 – 19:30
Evening dance gathering for all who love contact improvisation and tango. The jam is opened by Javier Cura. You’ll experience movement freedom and discover what it means to ignite in dance. The atmosphere will be great and playful.
Contact improvisation and tango represent a range of diverse movements that are neither routine nor monotonous and are vital for our well-being. They also provide an opportunity to use touch as a tool of communication. They expand the perception of oneself and the other. They allow us to be creative, playful, and grounded while seeking a path to unison.
No experience is needed with these techniques and no partner is required. We will explore dance as organic effective movement. We will nourish the flow of movement between us and our partners. Create together a movement composition that transcends each of us while belonging to us both. We both influence it initially without order and only gradually do we arrive at harmony.
Javier Cura (Argentina)
Javier Cura is a teacher, visual artist, theater director and movement trainer who has admirably made a name for himself in the field of movement and dance. He has created many performances in Argentina, Colombia, USA, Italy, Germany and Indonesia. At the international level, he teaches contact tango, physical theater and contact improvisation. He is a great dancer who awakens an irresistible desire to move, dance and express with movement.
As a visionary and movement activist, he encourages all who are willing to listen to him to take care of their own vital movement needs. He believes that the all-round diverse movement we reintegrate into our lives has a huge impact on our emotional, physical and mental health, as well as on the ecology of the planet. He is currently working on the „Ecological Body“ project in collaboration with a UN environmental researcher.
“The main goal of my work is to encourage the student to find connections between: an objective view of the body; (physical elements, body scheme: axis, lines of force, center of gravity, anatomy, etc.) subjective understanding of the body (emotional, expressive, creative consciousness and self-perceived body image) and the body in relation to the other; (its community, social and spiritual nature). In each workshop, participants are able to link learned physical activities with their personal creative expression and re-own them. Whatever the participants perceive and experience in the transient context of the workshop can be and often is transferred to the outside world, to their personal social context. It enriches the dance of everyday life. „
The jam takes place in Prague.
No need to sign up as a couple. The jam is open to everyone regardless of age or movement experience.
Time 18:00 – 19:30
Price 300 CZK
