CI Treasure Hunt

11/02/2026

Here's the winter update of the CI Treasure Hunt event list: Contact Improvisation festivals, trainings and intensives worldwide, 4 days or longer, November to February.

A lot has changed since the last list: weekly jams and classes can now be listed too, the site has grown from 159 to over 400 upcoming events in 39 countries, there are over 900 teacher and organizer profiles linked to their events, and local communities can keep their own listings up to date.

Below are the events of four days or more: 78 events in 28 countries, with the New Year's gatherings in their own section. If you'd rather get a few highlights in your inbox, the monthly newsletter picks one event from each continent: citreasurehunt.com/newsletter

T = trainings, modules and professional programs
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NOVEMBER
🇮🇳 Nov 1–Dec 19, Art of Improvisation Residency, 11th Edition, Arambol Goa
🇫🇷 Nov 2–8, Dance is Every Moment with Nita Little, Saint-Yrieix-sous-Aixe
🇩🇪 Nov 2–8, Movement Artisans, Introductory Module, Berlin (T)
🇨🇦 Nov 3–6, Creating Improvised Performance with Kirstie Simson, Montreal
🇪🇬 Nov 5–8, CI Workshop with Giulio Piazzi, Cairo
🇦🇺 Nov 5–8, ReWoven Residential Retreat, Whitebridge NSW
🇨🇭 Nov 6–Feb 7, Winter Intensive in CI, Uster (T)
🇵🇹 Nov 9–15, Organic Interaction, Palmela
🇹🇭 Nov 10–24, Gravitude, CI Intensive Workshop, Chiang Dao
🇺🇸 Nov 11–16, Layers of Listening, Field Center VT
🇦🇷 Nov 19–29, Permanencia Contactera, Buenos Aires
🇹🇭 Nov 25–30, Into Contact Forest Lab, Chiang Mai
🇳🇱 Nov 26–29, Performance and CI Festival, Helvoirt
🇧🇷 Nov 26–29, Chapada Diamantina Regional Gathering, Vale do Capão
🇺🇸 Nov 26–29, Gratitude COCO Jam, Earthdance
🇬🇧 Nov 26–30, Winter Warmer Festival, Somerset
🇪🇸 Nov 29–Dec 4, Resonance Dance Camp, Gran Canaria
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DECEMBER
🇹🇭 Dec 1–21, Silent Conversations, Deep Listening Creative Laboratory, Chiang Dao
🇮🇱 Dec 2–5, CI Village, Israel CI Convention, Netiv HaLamed-Heh
🇵🇹 Dec 3–6, CI Winter Jam at SerVivo, Palmela
🇮🇱 Dec 8–12, CI City, Tel Aviv Week, Israel CI Convention
🇩🇪 Dec 11–20, CI and Singing Residency, Sommerecke
🇵🇪 Dec 12–19, Encuentro de CI, Valle Sagrado de los Incas
🇮🇩 Dec 12–20, Physical Forces and How to Fall in Love with Them, Ubud
🇩🇪 Dec 16–20, Rooted in Motion Module 3, Berlin (T)
🇦🇷 Dec 16–22, 14th Convivencia Oceánica, Chapadmalal
🇩🇪 Dec 20–23, Winter CI Camp, Berlin
🇨🇭 Dec 27–30, Im Feld der Möglichkeiten II with Adrian Russi, Bern
🇩🇪 Dec 29–Jan 10, Movement Artisans Module 1, Berlin (T)
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NEW YEAR'S
🇩🇪 Dec 26–Jan 1, Jam Festival Bremen
🇫🇷 Dec 26–Jan 3, CI New Year's Eve, Prieuré de Marcevol
🇪🇸 Dec 27–31, Barcelona New Year Dance Festival
🇮🇸 Dec 27–Jan 1, New Year's Dance Festival, Laugarás
🇮🇹 Dec 27–Jan 5, Winter Jam of Arts, Bracciano
🇨🇭 Dec 28–Jan 1, New Year CI Festival, Basel
🇨🇿 Dec 28–Jan 2, New Year Contemplative Contact Retreat, Skalka
🇵🇹 Dec 28–Jan 2, New Year's CI Festival, Sobral de Monte Agraço
🇩🇪 Dec 29–Jan 1, Silvester Contact Jam, Freiburg
🇬🇧 Dec 29–Jan 2, Emerging Hearts New Year's Jam, Totnes
🇧🇷 Dec 30–Jan 9, CelebraCIón, Garopaba
🇺🇸 Dec 31–Jan 3, New Year's CI Fest, Bellingham WA
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JANUARY
🇹🇼 Jan 1–5, Riding Momentum with Hugh Stanier, Kaohsiung
🇩🇪 Jan 2–5, Like Clouds with Dino Spiri, Berlin
🇩🇪 Jan 2–5, Discovering Your Own Dance with Robin Berkelmans, Freiburg
🇩🇪 Jan 2–8, Listening, Winter Intensive with Jörg Hassmann, Berlin
🇮🇳 Jan 4–13, Training Ground Goa, Feldenkrais and CI, Arambol (T)
🇬🇷 Jan 4–23, Dance Yurt, CI Winter Program, Aegina
🇵🇹 Jan 5–10, New Year's CI Retreat, Sobral de Monte Agraço
🇹🇭 Jan 5–27, Heart Plexus, Chiang Dao
🇩🇪 Jan 6–10, Deepening into Enquiry, Freiburg
🇧🇷 Jan 7–17, Contact in Natura, Vale do Capão
🇺🇸 Jan 8–29, Spiral and Root CI Training, Earthdance (T)
🇩🇪 Jan 9–12, 4-Day Jam Berlin
🇧🇷 Jan 11–17, EIMCILA, Latin American CI Teachers' Meeting, Garopaba
🇮🇳 Jan 14–24, CounterBalance Gathering, Arambol Goa
🇺🇸 Jan 15–18, Long Beach CI Festival, CA
🇩🇪 Jan 16–Feb 7, Deep Dive Winter Intensive with Ulli Wittemann, Schönsee
🇩🇪 Jan 16–Feb 13, CI Residency Winter, Sommerecke
🇩🇪 Jan 16–May 30, CI Intensive Training, Freiburg (T)
🇲🇽 Jan 18–28, La Manzana de Paxton, Mazunte
🇧🇷 Jan 20–24, 18º Encontro Internacional de CI, São Paulo
🇫🇷 Jan 21–24, The Invisible Weave, Silent Immersion, French Pyrenees
🇩🇪 Jan 21–24, Stillness and Liquidity with Jörg Hassmann, Prien am Chiemsee
🇮🇳 Jan 23–29, India Contact Festival, Ahmedabad
🇹🇭 Jan 26–30, Root and Wind with Bari Kim, Koh Phangan
🇧🇷 Jan 27–31, 13º Encontro de CI no Litoral, Caraguatatuba
🇿🇦 Jan 29–Feb 4, Contact Festival South Africa, Stanford
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FEBRUARY
🇹🇭 Feb 1–14, Focused Jams, Weeks 1 and 2, Koh Phangan
🇮🇳 Feb 4–9, Expedition into the Now 2, Hampi
🇩🇪 Feb 9–14, International Festival of CI and Tango, Wuppertal
🇩🇪 Feb 11–14, Gravitating to Joy with Defne Erdur, Cologne
🇮🇩 Feb 15–22, Momentum Contact Facilitator Training, Ubud (T)
🇫🇮 Feb 16–21, Skiing On Skin, Solvalla, Espoo
🇩🇪 Feb 18–22, Winter-Jam, Sommerecke
🇹🇭 Feb 18–28, The Body Orchestra with Kira Kirsch, Koh Phangan
🇦🇹 Feb 19–23, The Roots and Heart of CI, Vienna
🇨🇷 Feb 20–27, Embodied Ecologies, 13th Annual CI Retreat, Cahuita
🇩🇪 Feb 24–28, Rooted in Motion Module 4, Berlin (T)
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Missing something? Tell me in the comments, or add it yourself on the website.

All events with dates, prices and teachers, plus weekend workshops and weekly jams: citreasurehunt.com

10/20/2026

📬 Our October newsletter is out: three months of CI Treasure Hunt in one read.

From festivals to your weekly jam: weekly jams, classes and one-day workshops can now be listed. Communities have moved onto the website, where the people who run them keep them up to date. The teacher directory has grown to 850+ teachers and organizers, and you can now follow along in regional event groups for Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific, plus our first group beyond CI, for Water Dance.

And a warm welcome to Mila Silva, who has joined the team! ❤️

Coming in the next issue, around November 1: the CI festivals of November and December, including the New Year's gatherings.

👉 Read it and subscribe on our website, under Newsletter, or tap "Sign up" on our page.

10/19/2026

Country guides for Contact Improvisation 🌍

For 11 countries there is now a page with what we know so far: a short history, plus the communities, teachers, venues and upcoming events we have found.

🇫🇷 France (new): citreasurehunt.com/france
🇬🇧 United Kingdom (new): citreasurehunt.com/united-kingdom
🇮🇹 Italy: citreasurehunt.com/italy
🇪🇸 Spain: citreasurehunt.com/spain
🇨🇿 Czechia: citreasurehunt.com/czech-republic
🇩🇪 Germany: citreasurehunt.com/germany
🇺🇸 United States: citreasurehunt.com/united-states
🇦🇹 Austria: citreasurehunt.com/austria
🇵🇹 Portugal: citreasurehunt.com/portugal
🇬🇷 Greece: citreasurehunt.com/greece
🇸🇪 Sweden: citreasurehunt.com/sweden

All pages: citreasurehunt.com/countries

The history sections are a start, built from what we could find in writing, and they have gaps. If you know earlier workshops, people or places in your country, spot something wrong, or know a group that's missing, comment here or send me a message.

Next up are countries in the Americas, then Asia and the Pacific. If you dance there and know your local scene or its history, we'd love your help with those pages, please reach out!

Contact Improvisation country by country: how the practice took root in each place, and the communities, teachers, events, and venues to find there today.

10/14/2026

New on citreasurehunt.com: Your local CI scene

Until now, the site has mostly been about the festivals, intensives and retreats we travel for. Now it also covers what happens at home, every week.

🔁 Jams & classes
You can now add recurring events. Sign in, add the first date, and choose how it repeats: every week, every two weeks, or on specific dates. Each date gets its own listing, while recurring events are grouped together in the calendar.
👉 https://citreasurehunt.com/events/new

👥 Communities
Add your local CI group, jam series, collective or other community resource so dancers passing through can discover the local scene. No sign-in needed. Already listed? Use "Suggest an edit" or add a photo to your community page.
👉 https://citreasurehunt.com/communities/new

🏠 Venues
Know a studio or space that hosts CI? You can now suggest it through a form. Sign-in required.
👉 https://citreasurehunt.com/venues/new

🧑‍🏫 Teachers
Find who teaches near you or where you are traveling. If you teach, your profile may already be there: claim it to edit it yourself, or create yours.
👉 https://citreasurehunt.com/teachers

🗓 New calendar filter
You can now filter events by length: one day, a weekend (2–3 days), up to a week (4–7 days), or longer.

Everything now lives on the website. The old Airtable forms and listings have been retired.

If you spot any errors or have suggestions, please let me know!

PS: Want to share events yourself? Our Facebook groups are open for posts:
Festivals, intensives & retreats (4+ days): https://www.facebook.com/groups/citreasurehunt
Europe, Middle East & Africa (2+ days): https://www.facebook.com/groups/citreasurehuntemea
Americas (2+ days): https://www.facebook.com/groups/citreasurehuntamericas
Water dance & aquatic movement (2+ days): https://www.facebook.com/groups/citreasurehuntaqua

09/24/2026

Typical post jam conversation

09/02/2026

🍂 CI Festivals, Camps, Trainings, Residencies, Intensives & Workshops — September Edition

94 upcoming CI events of four days or more, across 27 countries, from Chile to South Korea, Moldova to Costa Rica. Autumn festival season in Europe, then the winter migration to Goa, Thailand, Mexico and Costa Rica.

That's the long-format list below. Altogether the map now holds 157 upcoming CI events in 33 countries, alongside 290 CI communities in 68 countries, plus teachers, venues and country pages, all filterable by country, date and event type 🌿

What's new since the summer:
👤 A teacher directory. 500+ CI teachers and organizers, each with their events, location and links. If you teach, you can claim your own profile and keep it up to date yourself.
➕ You can add your own events. Make a free account, claim or create your profile, and submit. We check it and put it on the map. And not only the long ones: weekend workshops, shorter intensives and trainings belong there too.
🌍 A new group for shorter events: Contact Improvisation Events in Europe, Middle East & Africa (2+ days). Weekend workshops and 2-3 day formats that don't fit the 4+ day lists finally have a home. Americas and the Asia-Pacific region cooming soon.
💧 And started yesterday: Water Dance & Aquatic Movement Events Worldwide (2+ days). Multi-day events that happen in water: Watsu, WaterDance, Aguahara, aquatic CI and related work, all dancing in water. Brand new and small, so whoever joins now shapes it.
📲 The site installs to your phone. Open it in your browser, choose "Add to Home Screen", and it opens like an app. No app store, no account.

Planning something for autumn, winter, or even spring or summer 2027? Drop it in the comments or add it yourself on the website so it becomes part of the map.

🎓 = trainings, year groups & professional programs
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SEPTEMBER
🇨🇦 Sep 1–4 — Camping in Contact, La Mauricie National Park QC
🇮🇹 Sep 1–7 — ECITE Italy, San Casciano in Val di Pesa
🇳🇱 Sep 2–6 — CI Core Teacher Training Week, Amsterdam 🎓
🇩🇪 Sep 3–6 — TANZT! Festival, Ökodorf Sieben Linden
🇬🇧 Sep 3–7 — Togethering at Spirit Horse, Wales
🇺🇸 Sep 3–6 — Lummi Island Jam & ReHarmonizing Retreat, WA
🇬🇷 Sep 6–9 — Diving into the fabric of touch, Corfu
🇩🇪 Sep 9–Apr 2027 — CI Teacher Training, Freiburg 🎓
🇨🇭 Sep 10–13 — Spätsommer Contact-Jam, Glarisegg
🇮🇱 Sep 10–14 — Rosh, a CI & Partnering Event, Even Sapir
🇺🇸 Sep 10–13 — Compositional Awareness in CI, Earthdance
🇺🇸 Sep 10–13 — CI Fundamentals Intensive, Rutherfordton NC
🇩🇪 Sep 11–Jun 2027 — Elske Seidel Contact Jahresgruppe, Berlin 🎓
🇨🇦 Sep 13–26 — CI Workshop & Jam, Lasqueti Island
🇵🇹 Sep 14–19 — Portugal Contact Festival, Tavira
🇪🇸 Sep 17–20 — Enramando, Jugar en Serio, Garganta la Olla
🇮🇹 Sep 17–20 — Jamazo Italia, Genova Nervi
🇩🇪 Sep 20–26 — Diving Deep, Flying High, Ponderosa
🇬🇷 Sep 20–30 — Hashmurot, South Crete
🇰🇷 Sep 20–24 — Wind Dances Me, Seoul
🇩🇪 Sep 22–27 — Well-being, Resilience and Healing, Berlin
🇳🇱 Sep 22–27 — In Silence Contemplative CI Meeting, Naarden
🇵🇹 Sep 22–30 — Confluence, 9-Day CI Art Residency, Tavira
🇩🇪 Sep 24–27 — CI LongJam Dresden
🇭🇺 Sep 24–27 — Body of Water and Dirt, Budapest
🇲🇩 Sep 26–Oct 4 — Moldova Festival Contact+, Chișinău
🇮🇩 Sep 29–Oct 11 — Surfing Gravity & Alive Pausing, Ubud
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OCTOBER
🇦🇹 Oct 1–4 — Nita Little Workshop, Vienna
🇹🇷 Oct 1–14 — Silent Conversations, Ortahisar
🇦🇺 Oct 2–5 — Australian Contact Festival, Lennox Head NSW
🇺🇸 Oct 2–7 — GLACIER Retreat, Willard WI
🇩🇪 Oct 3–7 — The Connected Body in Contact, Cologne
🇵🇹 Oct 4–12 — Barriga Improvisation Camp, Sintra
🇪🇸 Oct 7–12 — Contact Impro Ibiza Festival
🇨🇱 Oct 8–12 — Cuerpodesierto, Atacama Desert
🇪🇸 Oct 8–13 — EMOCIE, Almería
🇨🇦 Oct 9–12 — Falling Into Autumn Jam, Toronto
🇺🇸 Oct 9–12 — Landing in Delight, Vashon Island WA
🇺🇸 Oct 9–18 — CI California Campout, North Fork CA
🇩🇪 Oct 10–20 — CI Residency, Sommerecke
🇩🇪 Oct 10–Jun 2027 — CI & BMC Jahresgruppe, Bonn 🎓
🇩🇪 Oct 14–18 — Rooted in Motion Module 2, Berlin 🎓
🇫🇷 Oct 14–18 — L'attention incarnée, Nita Little Intensive, Cintegabelle
🇺🇸 Oct 14–18 — East Coast Jam, Charles Town WV
🇨🇭 Oct 16–Feb 2027 — CI Advanced Training, Bern 🎓
🇫🇷 Oct 17–23 — CI & Butoh Festival en Provence, Rustrel
🇫🇷 Oct 19–25 — FeldenJamLab, La Bergerie
🇩🇪 Oct 20–25 — Nordtanz Festival, Stade
🇮🇹 Oct 20–25 — Mediterranea CI Gathering, Femminamorta
🇩🇪 Oct 21–25 — 7th Contact Impro Festival Leipzig
🇵🇹 Oct 21–25 — Nita Little, ISSC Somatic Research Training, Fools' Valley 🎓
🇦🇷 Oct 22–25 — La Momentum CI Gathering, Córdoba
🇩🇪 Oct 22–26 — Herbst-Jam, Sommerecke
🇺🇸 Oct 22–26 — Falling Leaves Jam, Earthdance
🇪🇸 Oct 24–Jun 2027 — FOCUS CI Valencia 🎓
🇮🇹 Oct 25–28 — Dolomite Flow, Lichtenstern
🇦🇹 Oct 28–Nov 1 — Formless Archetypes Intensive, Vienna
🇩🇪 Oct 29–Nov 1 — Herbstjam, Freiburg
🇬🇧 Oct 29–Nov 1 — Training Ground, London
🇩🇪 Oct 30–Nov 4 — Somatic Movement Arts Festival, Benediktbeuern
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NOVEMBER
🇮🇳 Nov 1–Dec 19 — Art of Improvisation Residency, 11th Edition, Arambol Goa
🇩🇪 Nov 2–8 — Movement Artisans, Introductory Module, Berlin 🎓
🇦🇺 Nov 5–8 — ReWoven Residential Retreat, Whitebridge NSW
🇨🇭 Nov 6–Feb 2027 — Winter Intensive in CI, Uster 🎓
🇵🇹 Nov 9–15 — Organic Interaction, Palmela
🇺🇸 Nov 11–16 — Layers of Listening, Field Center VT
🇳🇱 Nov 26–29 — Performance & CI Festival, Helvoirt
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DECEMBER
🇵🇪 Dec 12–19 — Encuentro de CI, Valle Sagrado de los Incas
🇩🇪 Dec 16–20 — Rooted in Motion Module 3, Berlin 🎓
🇫🇷 Dec 26–Jan 3 — CI New Year's Eve, Prieuré de Marcevol
🇩🇪 Dec 29–Jan 10 — Movement Artisans Module 1, Berlin 🎓
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2027
🇮🇳 Jan 4–13 — Training Ground Goa: Feldenkrais & CI, Arambol 🎓
🇹🇭 Jan 5–27 — Heart Plexus, Chiang Dao
🇩🇪 Jan 7–10 — 4-Day Jam Berlin
🇺🇸 Jan 8–29 — Spiral & Root CI Training, Earthdance 🎓
🇮🇳 Jan 14–24 — CounterBalance Gathering, Arambol Goa
🇺🇸 Jan 15–18 — Long Beach CI Festival, CA
🇩🇪 Jan 16–Feb 13 — CI Residency Winter, Sommerecke
🇲🇽 Jan 18–28 — La Manzana de Paxton, Mazunte
🇹🇭 Jan 26–30 — Root & Wind with Bari Kim, Koh Phangan
🇫🇮 Feb 16–21 — Skiing On Skin, Vierumäki
🇦🇹 Feb 19–23 — The Roots and Heart of CI, Vienna
🇨🇷 Feb 20–27 — Embodied Ecologies, 13th Annual CI Retreat, Cahuita
🇩🇪 Feb 24–28 — Rooted in Motion Module 4, Berlin 🎓
🇩🇪 Apr 4–18 — Movement Artisans Module 2, Berlin 🎓
🇩🇪 Apr 7–11 — Rooted in Motion Module 5, Berlin 🎓
🇮🇹 Apr 28–May 2 — Sicily Contact Impro Retreat, Femminamorta
🇦🇹 May 3–9 — Contact in Paradise, Reichenau an der Rax
🇩🇪 May 15–18 — From Zero to Flying, Mühlhausen
🇩🇪 May 24–30 — Rooted in Motion Module 6, Berlin 🎓
🇩🇪 Jun 7–27 — Movement Artisans Module 3, Berlin 🎓
🇩🇪 Sep 20–29 — Movement Artisans Module 4, Berlin 🎓
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This list is community-sourced and continuously evolving.
Know other CI festivals, camps, retreats, trainings, intensives or workshops (4+ days) that should be on it? Drop them in the comments, or add them yourself, so we can keep the map alive 🌿

Full map, teacher directory and both new groups → links in the first comment

08/30/2026

📋 The CI Treasure Hunt Teacher Directory is live!

Find Contact Improvisation teachers, organizers and musicians in your country:
https://citreasurehunt.com/teachers

Missing your profile, or something’s wrong?

➕ Add your profile:
https://citreasurehunt.com/dashboard/new-profile

✏️ Already listed? Claim your profile and edit it: https://citreasurehunt.com/dashboard/claim

Please be generous with mistakes and help us keep the directory accurate. If you spot something missing or incorrect, please let me know!

And don’t forget to upload a picture! 📸😊

08/11/2026

New on CI Treasure Hunt: a Greece country page 🇬🇷

We just published a page bringing together Contact Improvisation events, communities, venues, and teachers across Greece, from Athens to the islands. If you're part of the Greek CI scene, take a look and let us know what's missing or needs a correction.

https://citreasurehunt.com/greece

Contact Improvisation in Greece: find local communities, teachers, upcoming events, and venues, the full CI Treasure Hunt directory for Greece.

08/06/2026

Simone Forti, 1935-2026. She coined the term "art sport" watching Steve Paxton's earliest contact improvisations, and kept contributing to CQ for decades after.

07/28/2026

🇸🇪 New: Contact Improvisation in Sweden

We just launched the first CI Treasure Hunt country page pilot:

https://citreasurehunt.com/sweden

One place bringing together Swedish CI communities, teachers, upcoming events and venues.

If you know the Swedish CI scene, have a look:
Did we miss a community, a teacher, a jam, or a space? Any corrections and additions are very welcome! 🌿

Sweden is just the beginning. We want to build similar country pages for many places around the world.

If you are active in your local CI scene and would like to help as a country ambassador, checking existing information and helping us discover what is missing, we'd love to hear from you.🌍