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Colours In Contact offers a platform to explore open dynamic expression and connection through dance. Our minds? Our hearts?

At Colours in Contact, you are invited to explore your experience of body and movement through Contact Improvisation while remaining conscious of others, in all our differences, with love and curiosity. These differences may include but are not be limited to race, gender, culture, dance experience, athletic ability, neural differences and body type. Which Is to say, with great enthusiasm, we will practice asking ourselves: What do our bodies have to say today? How can we approach this with the utmost respect and care and learn to listen to what is present? Join us for this musical dance evening, make new connections and have fun! Weekly Wednesday & Saturday schedule:
- 6pm doors open
- 6:10-7:10pm dance lab
- 7:10-8:50pm Open dance jam with music
- 8:50pm closing circle

Location: 805 Dovercourt Road, top floor

Access considerations: Not wheelchair accessible

Parking: Free parking available along neighbouring streets

Cost: $15-$25 sliding scale

Level: All levels welcome, no experience necessary. Beginners and beginners’ mindsets are welcome! ABOUT CONTACT IMPROV: Contact Improvisation (CI) is a partner/solo/group-improvised dance style developed in 1972 by Steve Paxton and Nancy Stark Smith, heavily influenced by Aikido and Modern dance. Due to the open-ended nature of the dance, each new dancer can add to this pot of creativity. This has lead to various influences weaving in and out of the form. Some of those influences include but are not limited to Tango, Zen, Zouk, Contemporary, Ballet, Hip Hop, Qi Gong, Capoeira, Ballroom, Salsa and the list goes on. This is the beauty of CI: it can offer such an open fertile ground for exploration in expression and movement. Your voice in this dance is what will drive the creative freedom possible at Colours in Contact.

10/28/2026

Hamilton, you were so lovely to dance with! 🥹

We’re feeling incredibly grateful for the beginner contact improv workshop that we got to share with the Hamilton community! 😇

Together, we explored weight-sharing, connection, trust, self-expression and even some lifts! What made the evening especially memorable was the group itself - everyone was so warm, eager to explore and open to trying something new. We felt so welcomed, and it was such a joy to move and learn together!

A huge thank you to Andrew Bray-Energy Awaken, Reiki, Meditation, Studio Events studio for hosting us, and to Shalom Tzvi Shore for inviting Colours in Contact to Hamilton and helping make this happen 💜

We love seeing new communities come together through movement, curiosity and connection, and we can’t wait to come back for the next one!

Hamilton, until next time! ✨

10/27/2026

🌀 Looking for a dance space where you can move freely, connect with others and explore what’s possible beyond traditional dance?

At Colours in Contact, we celebrate diversity, creativity and the many different ways we can move together ✨

Come join us this Wednesday for an all-levels contact improv class followed by an open jam! For the class, we’ll be exploring nonverbal boundaries through movement, creating opportunities to tune into ourselves and communicate beyond words.

Whether you’re completely new to contact improv or have been dancing for years, you’re welcome. There is no choreography or pressure to perform.

🌱 Come as you are. Move at your own pace. Discover something new.

Wednesday, October 28
Class: 6:30-7:15 pm
Jam: 7:30-9 pm
805 Dovercourt Rd, top floor

DM us if you have questions, we’d love to dance with you! 🙌

10/26/2026

There’s something special about a community that keeps showing up for each other 💜

Contact improv is about movement, connection and exploring what’s possible together. But at Colours in Contact, it’s also about everything that happens 𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 the dance.

It’s the dinners we share, the conversations that continue after the jam and the ways we show up for each other through life’s ups and downs. We practice communication, boundaries and care. We learn, grow, make mistakes and discover new ways of relating to ourselves and each other.

Yesterday was Deep’s last jam with us for a while, and these photos from the past week capture a little of what community means to us 🥹 Celebrating one another, marking transitions and reminding each other that our presence matters.

We don’t always get it right, but we keep showing up, learning and making room for each other. Because the people we meet on the dance floor become so much more than dance partners. They become friends, teachers, mirrors and people who walk alongside us as we grow.

🌀 Join us! Wednesdays 6:30-9 pm, and Sundays 3-5 pm at the Dovercourt House. Whether you’re new to contact improv or have been dancing for years, you’re welcome!

Interested in cultivating communities like this? We’re launching a 6-month facilitator program in 2027 for dance teachers, facilitators and community builders. DM us to learn more 💜

Come dance with us. Come find your people 💫

10/20/2026

There’s room for your way of moving here 💜

You can follow a little curiosity, take your time, see where a shared dance takes you, or pause and feel where you want to go next. We love that we can share a dance without needing to have the same idea of where it’s going, and find something together that neither of us would have thought of alone.

Come move with us this Wednesday at the Dovercourt House 🌱

We’ll begin at 6:30 pm with a gentle warm-up: some stretching, contact improv warm-up exercises, and time to attune to ourselves and each other before moving into the jam. We’ll dance until 9 pm.

✨ AND AFTER THE JAM… we’re keeping the studio open a little longer, so you’re welcome to stay!

A little choose-your-own-adventure time: grab some food nearby and bring it back to eat with us, keep dancing with others, enjoy some movement on your own, or just settle in and hang out. Sometimes 9 comes around and we’re still enjoying being together in the studio. Let’s give ourselves a little more room for that 🙌

We’ll aim to wrap up around 10:30 pm.

WEDNESDAY JAM
October 21 • Warm-up at 6:30 pm • Jam from 7:15-9 pm • Hang out until around 10:30 pm • Dovercourt House, top floor

✨ Beginners welcome ✨

10/19/2026

🎉 Hamilton + surrounding areas, come move with us! 💜

Curious about contact improvisation? Come join Colours in Contact for a two-hour beginner workshop where we’ll explore movement, connection, play, and creativity through dancing with others.

Together, we’ll explore the playfulness and creativity of moving with others - discovering how we can listen, respond and find new possibilities through partnered movement. There’s so much to discover when we get curious, experiment and let movement unfold together 🌀

Come meet new people, connect with community, and discover the joy, playfulness, and creativity that contact improv can bring.

🌱 BEGINNER CONTACT IMPROV WORKSHOP
Monday, October 26
7:30-9:30 pm
529 Barton St E, Hamilton
Register via link in bio

Please arrive a little early so we can get settled and start on time.

Registration is required, so be sure to save your spot!

Bring a friend, spread the word and come explore with us. We’d love to meet you!

💃 In collaboration with Hamilton Conscious Collective

10/17/2026

What if you gave yourself permission to be your own muse? 🌱✨

To follow your curiosity.
To move in ways that feel good to you.
To discover what brings you joy, without worrying about how it looks or whether you’re doing it right.

There’s so much of ourselves waiting to be discovered when we give ourselves the space to play, explore, and listen to what feels alive within us 💜

And that’s something we love about contact improv. You don’t need to arrive with a particular skill, a certain way of moving or even an idea of what you’re going to do.

You get to discover it as you go. With others, through connection, through the unexpected little moments that emerge when we move together.

If you’ve been curious about trying contact improv, we’d love for you to come experience it for yourself. No dance experience needed!

Join us this Sunday for our Contact Improv Jam! 🙌

Sunday, October 18
805 Dovercourt Rd, top floor • 3-5 pm

Come play. Come explore. Come surprise yourself 🤩

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805 Dovercourt Road
Toronto, ON
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