Fall into Contact

A CI Training Intensive with Karthik Rajmohan and Andrew WassDates
19.09.2026, 15:00–20:0010.10.2026, 15:00–20:0007.11.2026, 15:00–20:0005.12.2026, 15:00–20:00
FormatClosed group for all four sessions. A closed group allows us to build trust, develop the skills together, and allows for more personalized feedback. Participants should be comfortable with the rolling connection, giving and receiving weight, inversions, and the unknown.
LevelIntermediate
Participation Fee240€ marameo members300€ non-members
This intensive invites practitioners of contact improvisation into a sustained and rigorous investigation of the principles at the heart of the form. Over four Saturdays, you will guided through technical solo material drawn from practices such as Steve Paxton’s Material for the Spine, using the architecture of the axial body as a foundation – attending to the spine’s capacity for initiation, yielding, and response, and how that intelligence radiates outward through the limbs and into shared space. Solo body work will serve as preparation for contact and as a practice in its own right.We will then move into practices to build a strong foundation for partnering, acquiring new vocabulary, and fully inhabit known pathways: lifts, falls, rides, and the transitions between them. How to initiate, ride through, and extend ideas through movement. The goal is for improvisation to feel less random and more like a fluid, real-time creative conversation.The aim of this series is to develop a grounded and conscious sense of self leading to a safer space within the dynamic possibilities of dance. From this foundation, the space becomes safer through caution, competence and awareness. Over time, this supports your progression toward more technical fluency, compositional thinking, and the capacity for collective decision-making within the dance.Throughout the series there will be moments of watching and being watched, of offering and receiving feedback, of developing the witness as an active practice alongside the dancing. The last session will close with a lo-tech, no-tech showing: an informal, unadorned presentation of the work as it has developed, followed by an open jam.
Karthik Rajmohan & Andrew WassKarthik Rajmohan and Andrew Wass are dancers, educators, and researchers working at the intersection of Contact Improvisation, embodied practice, and real-time composition.
Karthik Rajmohan is a dancer and movement educator. With a Diploma in dance(Attakkalari, Bangalore) he has a background spanning classical and contemporary forms, martial arts, and somatic practices. His work centers on Contact Improvisation and Instant Composition, through which he explores play, musicality, and relational awareness. He has been instrumental in growing the form across diverse artistic and community contexts in India and Europe. His teaching emphasizes accessibility, physical clarity, and the joy of shared movement.
Andrew Wass is a dancer and researcher whose work bridges embodied experience and analytical inquiry. With a PhD in Dance and a background in biochemistry, his research integrates cognitive science, phenomenology, and philosophy to investigate decision-making in the moment of action. He has taught, performed, and published internationally for over two decades. His collaborators include leading figures in Contact Improvisation, and his work has been presented at major international venues.Together, they offer a practice that combines somatic awareness with compositional rigor – inviting participants into a nuanced exploration of Contact Improvisation, listening, and ensemble awareness.photos by Simon Bürgel and Marion Boriss