Contact Impro Tango - Serpentine Power in the Spine

weekend 6 – 7 December 2025

Movement dance workshop and an unrepeatable experience on different levels of perception. Return to the body, which is created for movement, passion and diversity.

Contact improvisation and tango are movement and dance forms that focus on the relationship with a partner, on transferring movement between partners and circulation of energy that flows between them. We will discover the spine as a source of life force and movement charge. We will awaken its serpentine qualities, abilities to move in all directions, surrender to its capacity for graceful subtlety and immediate action and experience completely new possibilities in contact with a dance partner.

We will create a richer and liberating form: open physical expression, freed from superficial rules. Dance in which natural movement possibilities are activated. From tango we will use: clarity of axis and use of spirals, mutual balancing and use of counterbalance, rhythm and melody. From contact improvisation we will study: falls, getting up, connection with the ground, rising, conscious use of centripetal and centrifugal forces, relationship of the free body to the ground.

Tango combined with contact improvisation is a range of diverse movements that are not routine or monotonous, they always come from us and are vitally important for our well-being. We learn to create a shared movement composition that transcends each of us and at the same time belongs to both of us. We both influence it and at first we allow our suggestions to overlap without harmony. Only gradually do we arrive at harmony.

The seemingly movement and physical work has a much broader scope. It allows us to understand our physical self, physical relationship with society and nature. Knowledge of biomechanics, somatics and ecology merge into the concept of Ecological Body and present movement creation as a path of knowledge, healing, communication and enrichment of one’s life experience.

No previous movement experience is required for participation and you don’t need to have a partner.

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 workshop takes place in Prague.

Most participants are signing up on their own, it is not necessary to sign up in pairs.

The workshop is intensive: Saturday and Sunday 9:30 – 17:30, and is open to everyone regardless of age or prior movement experience.

Price 177 EUR. To reserve a place, a deposit of 57 EUR must be paid.

Price 157 EUR when the deposit is paid by 26 November.