Contact Improvisation Cape Town

Regular classes in Cape Town

• Every Monday 19:15-21:15 at Observatory Community Centre (R150 cash)

  - Regular Monday evening classes

  - Upstairs in the Room 2 - second room on the left

  - Entrance & parking on Rawson Rd

  - Wear comfortable clothing: t-shirt and long pants

  - Classes taught by Thalia Laric with regular guest teachers

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Facilitator Training

I recently hosted a facilitator training for a group of dancers in our community. It has been a wonderful lab of discussion and study developing facilitation skills specific to CI. I will be travelling from May-October 2024, during which time the Monday evening classes will be taught by Philip van Zyl, Andrew van Diemen, Francesca Annenberg, Olivia Gardy, Dave Gardner, Adam Salmon, Tossie van Tonder and Nico Athene.

My Contact Improvisation background

I have been holding regular classes, workshops and jams in Cape Town for about 10 years and it’s amazing to witness our community growing.

I started dancing Contact Improvisation in 2008 with Jori Snell and Lucia Walker. They were my first teachers, and important initiators of the CI scene in Cape Town. I started teaching CI in Makhanda in 2011 while studying at Rhodes University, and since 2014 have been teaching in Cape Town. I have also taught regular classes in Amsterdam when I was living there 2019-2022. I regularly travel to study and dance at CI festivals around the world.

I have studied Contact Improvisation with Nancy Stark Smith at Earthdance, Massachusetts, and this has been fundamental to my teaching practice. Other influential teachers from whom I have learned include Kirstie Simson, Julyen Hamilton, Karen Nelson, Scott Wells, Martin Keogh, Melcom Manning, Jess Curtis, Mirva Mäkinen, Katja Mustonen, Otto Akkanen, Sebas van Wetten, Tom Goldhand, Roman Singh, Serafima Darova and many more.