16.-18. January 2026

Impro Hamburg

Synapses & Connections

CI Workshop with Cristina Crippa &

Angela-Mara Florant

16.-18. January 2026

If you want to join this great workshop, please register here.

Times:

Friday, 19:00 - 21:30

Saturday, 11:00 - 18:30 (including 2h break)

Sunday, 11:00 - 16:00 (including 1h break)

Price:

320 € - 165 € > early bird discount, if payment is received by 19.12.25

320 € - 235 € > afterwards

Sliding scale: The minimum fee is for people with a low income.

Place:

Triade Tanzforum e.V., Bernstorffstr. 117, 22767 Hamburg

Synapses & Connections

"The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.” — William James

Moving from the inside out and from the outside in, we will use dance as a tool to explore, research, and enhance our sense of presence and interaction. Through improvisation, touch, and weight sharing, we will move in solo, duets, and groups, allowing contact to move and transform us, pushing us to enter the new and the unpredictable. We will welcome an instinctive, animalistic, primordial part of ourselves that will nourish the dance and explore our nervous system regulation, discovering how Contact Improvisation can support and enhance this process.
Cristina and Angela-Mara began collaborating two years ago, researching and teaching the material shared by Nancy Stark Smith. The breadth of this exploration and the pleasure of doing it together led them to create new events to continue this journey.

Cristina and Angela-Mara began collaborating two years ago, researching and teaching the material shared by Nancy Stark Smith. The breadth of this exploration and the pleasure of doing it together led them to create new events to continue this journey.

Cristina Crippa is an interdisciplinary artist and passionate movement researcher and teacher, who lives between Italy and Ireland. After several years of research in contemporary dance, she discovered her passion for contact improvisation, improvisation, and composition while studying sculpture and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera. From that moment, her curiosity led her to shift her focus from canvas to the body in relation to others and space.

She has been practicing contact improvisation since 2010. In 2013, driven by a desire to understand the roots of contact improvisation, she traveled to Earthdance (Massachusetts, USA) to study with Nancy Stark Smith, one of the pioneers of this practice. Upon returning to Italy, she began teaching in 2014. For seven years, she led regular classes at Artichoke, a contemporary dance program in Milan, and curated workshops, jams, and events in Italy and throughout Europe.

Cristina also collaborates with Effetto Larsen, a collective that uses relational art to strengthen a sense of community. // Instagram: @cristicrips

Angela-Mara Florant had her first experience with CI during her performance arts studies in Besançon, France. Based in Hamburg, she teaches several regular contact classes, gives workshops and organizes jams and festivals - NORDTANZ Festival. Since 2015, she is co- director of the dance studio “ Triade ” in Hamburg.

In 2022, she brought to life the Contact CompanI, a dance company performing CI. When Angela-Mara is not dancing or teaching contact she is teaching corART (Pilates), directing independent theater productions, choreographing dance pieces.

Teachers that have inspired her work are: Nancy Stark Smith, Jörg Hassmann, Nita Little, Anjelika Doniy, Mirva Mäkinen, Martin Keogh, Frey Faust, Scott Wells, Andrew Hardwood, Daniel Lepkoff and more. // Instagram: @angelamaraflorant

Synapsen & Verbindungen
Von innen nach außen und von außen nach innen werden wir Tanz als Werkzeug nutzen, um unser Gefühl für Präsenz und Interaktion zu erforschen, zu untersuchen und zu verbessern. Durch Improvisation, Berührung und Gewichtsverteilung bewegen wir uns im solo, zu zweit und in Gruppen, lassen uns vom Kontakt bewegen und verwandeln. Wir wollen Neues und Unvorhersehbares wagen. Wir werden einen instinktiven, animalischen, ursprünglichen Teil von uns selbst willkommen heißen, der den Tanz nährt, und wir werden die Regulierung unseres Nervensystems erforschen und entdecken, und wie Contact Improvisation diesen Prozess unterstützen und verbessern kann.
Cristina und Angela-Mara begannen vor zwei Jahren ihre Zusammenarbeit, indem sie das von Nancy Stark Smith geteilte Material erforschten und lehrten. Die Breite dieser Forschung und die Freude daran, sie gemeinsam zu betreiben, veranlasste sie dazu, neue Veranstaltungen zu schaffen, um diese Reise fortzusetzen.