​Float~in contact improvisation festival is a pilot project in Slovakia. Our wish is to place our country on the European map of contact improvisation and create another space where people from different backgrounds can study CI together on the many levels that this dance form could offer. Our intention is to connect the international CI community with the forming and growing CI community in Slovakia.

 

Our main vision is to offer an inclusive space for all dancers with different experience, different levels (including newbies) or different gifts and thus provide a safe space in which we are all equal. We would like to offer a festival which is like a vivid organism that needs its every part to make a whole, where every part is as valuable as the most visible one. We warmly welcome all those who are only at the beginning of their journey with CI as well as those who have already come a long way with this form of dance. May we together co-create a safe space where we can share, explore, sense and feel.

 

An important part of this vision is also to connect with nature and restore the touch with the elements and this is something  our beautiful country can offer. Therefore, we are very happy to create conditions for researching CI on land and in water. On land which helps us to find our ground and anchor ourselves, and in water which helps us to release, let go and so float~in the world where we would be not afraid to touch, where we recognize and communicate our boundaries, where the perception of the wisdom of our bodies is a priority, where we are open to unexpected, where we share respect, practice support and care for each other.

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FLOAT~IN is kids and pets friendly festival :)