– Call for Participants
Berlin, July 4–6, 2025
Exploring ways of moving, making and talking.
We warmly invite movers, artists, and contact improvisers of all levels to join us for the K77 Summer Contact Improvisation Festival 2025 — a three-day gathering of exploration, creativity, and community. Hosted by the legendary K77 space in Berlin, the festival offers a rich blend of classes, open jams, lectures and informal encounters that invite deep exchange and shared discovery.
The program includes:
- Workshops for all experience levels – from foundational practices to advanced CI techniques
- Outdoor sessions, rooftop jams, and somatic explorations in nature
- Open jams in vibrant studio spaces and on the rooftop at sunset
- Lectures and talks on topics such as movement, mindfulness, and improvisation in art
- Community gatherings with food, conversation and a curated CI cinema night featuring short films and documentation from the community
This festival is more than a series of classes — it’s a living, breathing moment of shared presence. Whether you’re diving into Contact for the first time or seeking fresh inspiration in your practice, this space is for you.
We also welcome contributions to our community cinema night – short films, documentaries, or CI performance videos (open call).
Festival Details
Date: 4 – 6.7.2025
Location: K77 Studio, Berlin
Festival Pass: €150–250
Limited spots available
Let’s move, talk, and make — together.
Teachers:
Liz Erber is a dance and theatre artist with roots in Contact Improvisation, somatic methods and global movement practices. She taught at K77 Studio for over a decade and now co-directs KuNaKu, a space for art and community in Brandenburg. Her background includes Capoeira, folk dance, Laban/Bartenieff and performance.
www.lizerber.com, www.KuNaKu.org
Jonas Marx is a dancer, poet and musician with a background in architecture. He entered dance through Contact Improvisation, expanding into Instant Composition, Authentic Movement and Body-Mind Centering. He trained with Julyen Hamilton, Maya Carroll, Deborah Hay and others. Jonas is active in Berlin’s contact scene, performs across Europe, and contributes to the K77 studio community in multiple roles.
Vega Luukkonen I am a dancer, dance-teacher, performance-artist and bodyworker made in Finland. I studied dance- and theatre pedagogy in Helsinki, Theatre Academy of Finland (MA 2008). My dearest school in Contact Improvisation has been the Finnish contact community. Recently I’m more and more interested in details, quality, fine tuning, listening, presence—accompanied with deeper understanding of underlying principles of contact improvisation.
Javier Cura is a teacher, artist, theatre director and movement activist. He has taught and performed at international CI and theatre festivals, led social theatre projects in Italy, Morocco and Germany, and researched CI at Berlin Free University. He created The Ecological Body to explore movement, touch and connection—physically, emotionally, spiritually.
Rosalind Holgate Smith is a dance artist, educator and somatic bodyworker with a background in fine art, choreography and dance. With over 15 years of experience in Contact Improvisation, she draws from practices like Body-Mind CenteringⓇ, Authentic Movement and The Axis Syllabus. Her work explores the relationship between body, environment and otherness. She also teaches yoga and swimming through the Shaw Method.
Gosia Gajdemska is a choreographer, performer and teacher focusing on interdisciplinary body-based projects. She has practiced CI since 2009, including inclusive projects with performers of diverse abilities. She co-organized Warsaw CI Flow Festival (2012–2015) and has trained with Nancy Stark Smith, Karen Nelson and others. Since 2016, she has been connected to K77 Studio.
Katja Keya Richter is a Berlin-based choreographer, performer, stuntwoman and energy worker. Her work bridges movement, visual art and subtle energetic realms. Trained at Ernst Busch and Dartington College, she has created for Seeed, performed at HAU, and appeared in 50+ films. As a designer, foundation manager and Oracle NetSuite consultant, she weaves art, structure and transformation into one flowing practice.