Sept-Dec 2025 : 3 Weekend Modules ...
How we touch is concerned with how we relate to the environment, how receptive we are to our feelings, energy and emotions and how we communicate our needs, limits and desires.
The Touch Training introduces a vocabulary of Listening, Light and Deep touch techniques, designed to expand your knowledge and deepen your skills in Contact Improvisation, Partnering, Somatic Bodywork, Contemporary Dance and Instant Composition. We will embody touch globally, cultivate receptivity and develop outward reaching, structural bonds to enhance alignment, balance and expressive agency. We will explore themes of gravity, fluidity, porosity, momentum, spirals, fascia and flight. The training represents a unique opportunity to enhance both dance and communication skills and for growing empathy in how we relate to ourselves, our partners and the more than the human world. It is for curious movers, looking for transformative interactions and to enhance their skills in dance, movement research and somatic communication.
The Touch Training is taught over 3 weekend modules, you can choose to join one weekend, or sign-up for the progressive journey- highly recommended!
Listening Touch: 5-7th September
Light Touch: 31st October-2nd November
Deep Touch: 5-7th December
Times: Fridays 12-17.00, Saturdays and Sundays 10.00-17.00
All at Tanzfabrik, Möckernstrasse 68, 10965 Berlin, Studio 3 and 4
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The price includes in-person teaching, resources and personal 1-to-1 feedback sessions. Full Course: €600-800, Single modules: €230-300
Deposit: €100 per module. Instalment plans can be arranged.
The cost is on a sliding scale to support the participation of those that cannot afford it.
Thank you!
Rosalind Holgate Smith (UK) is a Dance Artist, Choreographer and Somatic Educator based in Berlin. In her teaching she incorporates approaches from Body-Mind Centering, Skinner Release Technique, Authentic movement, martial arts and her extensive practice of dancing outdoors, in water and with soil, rocks and trees. The vocabulary of touch taught in the CI touch training represent an outcome of Rosalind's recent PhD research in which she investigated how dancers touch in Contact Improvisation and how touch enables encounters with Otherness. During the training she will share a talk on this dance research.