Sept-Nov 2025 over 3 Weekends ...
Sunday 3rd August Taster Workshop + Touch Talk 12.00-15.00
How we touch is concerned with how we relate to the world, 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, I have developed through investigating how dancers touch in Contact Improvisation. In the training, we re-apply these techniques in CI partnering, contemporary phrases, somatic bodywork and composition play. The training covers themes of gravity, differentiating tone, fluidity, momentum, spirals, fascia and flight. We will embody touch in an active and receptive sense and work on developing structural bonds to support alignment, balance, expressive agency, integrity, and intimate connections with oneself and the environment. The training represents a unique opportunity to enhance both dance and communication skills and for growing empathy and compassion in how we relate to ourselves, our partners and the more than the human world.
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!
Friday 12-18.00, Saturday 10.00-17.00, Sunday 10-16.00
Listening Touch: Sept 5-7th
Light touch: Oct 31st-2nd Nov
Deep Touch: Nov 28th-30th
All at Tanzfabrik, Möckernstrasse 68, 10965 Berlin, Studio 3
Taster Workshop 3rd August 12.00-14.00 + Talk 14.15-15.00 on the Vocabulary of Touch and the findings of my PhD research about touch in Contact Improvisation. The talk is free and the workshop costs €20-25 which will be discounted for participants signing up to the full training.
Sign up below ...€600-800 Full Training €240-300 per module
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The price includes in-person teaching, resources and personal 1-to-1 feedback sessions. Full Course: €600-800, Single modules: €240-300
Deposit: €100 per module. Instalment plans can be arranged.
Thank you!
Rosalind Holgate Smith (UK) is a Dance Artist, Choreographer & Somatic Educator based in Berlin. As a CI teacher of over 15 years, she incorporates approaches from Body-Mind Centering, Skinner Release Technique, Authentic movement, martial arts and her practice of dancing outdoors, in water, with trees and with raw matter, including soil. Over the past 4 years she has been working on a PhD, investigating Touch as an encounter with Otherness and the Vocabulary of touch used in Contact, the touch training represents an outcome of this research.