A dojo in martial arts is a space where the practitioners train their skills.

With the arrival of spring and summer, warm weather and dry grass, the Thursday contact classes change shape and move in an outdoor natural environment.

Outdoor contact dojo is a time space where we can focus on and experience the main technical skills that are used while we dance Contact Improvisation.

To move from a base of sensations rather than from a plan, finding ease moving off balance, sharing the weight with our dance partner, rolling point of contact, moving relating to the force of gravity, spirals, falling, flying, multidirectional awareness, mindfulness, aikido rolls, handstands are just some of the skills we will focus on.

LOCATION
The beginning location will be Tivoli park, and then can change.
If is a raining day or the ground is still wet the class can be canceled or postponed or done in another location.

TIME
The meeting time will be related to the sunlight, so the early meetings will be 17.00—18.30. 

CONTRIBUTION
The classes and research labs in contact dojo are up to your free contribution. This doesn’t mean that are free, we invite you to a conscious contribution, time and energies are spent by the facilitators to study the form and also to organize and prepare the contents.

HOW TO PARTECIPATE
If you are willing to partecipate you can write your email and you will be informed through email with Google map GPS location and time one day before the meeting.
davide.casiraghi@gmail.com

HOW TO DRESS
Come dressed with warm and comfortable clothes, the temperature is still a bit chill in the late afternoon. 
An outfit that you don't care so much if you get dirt with the grass will make your life easier.

FACILITATOR
Davide Casiraghi is a dancer, Contact Improvisation teacher and Yoga Alliance certified teacher based in Slovenia. He is exploring Contact Improvisation since 2010. His study is started in Milan and continue in Europe with the many teachers. Roberto Lun, Nita Little, Martin Keogh, Angela Dony, Nancy Stark Smith are his main influences. He see CI as a way to re-awake and enjoy fully our sensitivity and playfulness, working on trust, explore curiosity about movement principles out of daily movement patterns.
https://www.movementmeetslife.com/

WHAT IS CONTACT IMPROVISATION
Contact Improvisation is an improvised dance form based on the communication between two moving bodies that are in physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their motion: gravity, momentum, inertia. The body, in order to open to these sensations, learns to release excess muscular tension and abandon a certain quality of willfulness to experience the natural flow of movement.