News

  • April 15: Schedule update

    Please see updated festival structure and schedule, it's now more refined and totally great.

  • April 12: Accommodation info

    Please contact Ivanka, ivannasm (@) gmail.com, if you want us to help you with accommodation.

  • April 2: Message to our participants

    Thanks to all participants who had prepaid by 1st of April. Warmly welcome to our Festival! At the moment we are busy with booking the apartments in the downtown (not far from the festival spaces) for you. All necessary information will be sent to you soon in a separate letter.

    The registration has not been closed yet, as weve got 10 more places available. You still have a chance!!!

  • March 9: Registration for Mirva Makinen and Ray Chung is closed! Classes are full, thanks a lot!

About

Dear Friends all over the world!

We invite you to the second International Festival of Contact Improvisation in Kiev!

As before and we hope it will stay in future, our festival will take on 1st-7th of May, the most beautiful month in a year, in Kiev (Ukraine). 7 days of dancing, friendly and relaxing atmosphere, 12 wonderful teachers from different countries giving 3 classes each of them, jams, performances, strolls, meeting new people and amazing discoveries are waiting for you.

This time the price of the festival will also include accommodation

We will organize for you apartments located not far from our dance spaces so that you could dance freely until night.

There are lots of places nearby where you can have a tasty and not expensive meal.

You will not need to pay for public transport as all our dance spaces are located close to each other.

As before, we are planning to receive 108 participants, so please hurry up with registration which will start on 1st of February.

We are glad to meet you at our fest this year!

Teachers

We'll have classes of the following teachers:

  • Ray Chung (USA)
  • Ezster Gal (Hungary)
  • Otto Akkanen (Finland)
  • Brenton Cheng (USA)
  • Adrian Russi (Switherland)
  • Mirva Makinen (Finland)
  • Benno Voorham (Sweden/The Netherlands)
  • Ekaterina Basalaeva (Russia)
  • Eckhard Muller (Germany/France)
  • Daniela Schwartz (Argentina/France)
  • Ester Momblant Ribas (Spain)
  • Lior Ophir (Israel)
  • Katia Basalaeva (Russia)
  • Pawel Janiszewski (Poland)

Honored guests

As previous time, we invite 12 honored guests who have contributed a lot into development of our festival and of CI in Ukraine:

  • Sergey Golovnya
  • Alexandra Soshnikova
  • Leilani Weis
  • Karl Frost
  • Charlie Morrissey
  • Martin Keogh
  • Marina Pavlenko
  • Katri Luukkonen
  • Marta Mrozinska
  • Olga Sorokina
  • Petra G.Gothard
  • Kristina Lukina

You may find complete program and description of each class on Teachers page