Two-day Weekend Workshop
with Sarah Konner
November 15th and 16th
Between the Floor and Space:
Flying in Contact Improvisation
(Option to attend either day or both)
REGISTRATION IS OPEN:
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About the weekend...
Between the Floor and Space:
Flying in Contact Improvisation
Two days, two levels: Advanced Beginner and Intermediate
In this workshop, we’ll explore the mechanics of flying: giving and receiving weight, tracking centers, soft collisions, offering ledges, and getting under.
Using momentum and leverage to find easeful alignment, we become each other’s ground. With a light, ready body, we’ll study the journey from down to up and up to down, discovering freedom in mutuality. Starting close to the floor, we’ll build confidence, ease, and safety as we rise into shared flights, improvising, testing, and co-creating mobile support systems.
Saturday introduces the foundations of safely sharing and supporting weight for flying. (Advanced-Beginner level.)
Sunday deepens into intermediate transitions in and out of flight, catching momentum, and improvising through evolving possibilities. (Intermediate level.)
Both Saturday and Sunday: Continuing to return to the fundamentals is the clearest path to towards more freedom and possibility in Contact Improvisation. Appropriately experienced dancers are encouraged to participate in the whole weekend as the workshop material will build from Saturday to Sunday.
Here's a metric for the expected experience levels:
Saturday: Advanced-Beginner level - Nov. 15th (10am to 5pm)
For dancers with a solid grasp of contact fundamentals:
• You’ve taken other workshops or classes & feel ready to further your skills
• You feel comfortable with moving in and out of the floor, safely
• You have listening skills to work improvisationally in contact with partner(s)
Sunday: Intermediate level - Nov. 16th (1:30pm to 6:30pm)
For dancers who seriously strive to advance their CI practice and regularly participate in the form:
• You have a solid understanding of weight-sharing, momentum, and physical listening: on your feet, on the floor and in transition between these
• You navigate disorientation in motion (right side up, sideways, and upside down)
• You have a falling practice that balances risk with safety
• You accept responsibility for your own safety and boundaries
Sign up for both Saturday and Sunday (Intermediate level)
Appropriately skilled dancers are encouraged to attend both days, as the material on Sunday will build on the foundation of Saturday.
REGARDING BOUNDARIES: Consent and Touch
As always, participants have free agency to engage in any part of this workshop to their own degree of comfort. You have the option to choose (or choose not) to engage in any exercise or partnership, also to end any interaction at any time.
WEEKEND SCHEDULE: November 15-16, 2025
Saturday (All-day)
Doors open (register/warm-up).....9:30am
Workshop Period...........................10am-5pm
(Lunch break at some point, BYO)
Sunday (Long afternoon)
Doors open (warm-up).....1:15pm
Workshop Period.............1:30-6:30pm
(Snack break at some point, BYO)
Food note: Saturday lunch and Sunday break will have quick turn-arounds.
Please BYO or make a quick trip to a local restaurant.
COSTS & REGISTRATION:
Register ASAP!
This workshop will fill quickly. Registration is limited to 30 participants (per day) and the teacher is very well regarded.
Online Pricing (On-line registration closes Wednesday, 11/12/25 at midnight)
Saturday only: Advanced-Beginner level
$80 - Reduced rate - Hard economic situations (Also see Financial Aid, below)
$105 - Regular rate - Employed, retired, self-employed.
$115 - Well-employed rate - Please pay this if you can. Help keep other rates low.
$125 - Supporting the arts rate
Sunday only: Intermediate level
$55 - Reduced rate - Hard economic situations (Also see Financial Aid, below)
$75 - Regular rate - Employed, retired, self-employed.
$85 - Well-employed rate - Please pay this if you can. Help keep other rates low.
$95 - Supporting the arts rate
Saturday and Sunday
$130 - Reduced rate - Hard economic situations (Also see Financial Aid, below)
$175 - Regular rate - Employed, retired, self-employed.
$195 - Well-employed rate - Please pay this if you can. Help keep other rates low.
$205 - Supporting the arts rate
♦♦ Click HERE to Register ♦♦
Financial aid and contributions for future financial aid:
To Apply: If the lowest level of our sliding scale is too expensive for you, we offer a limited number of applicants a discount off their fee on a first-come-first-served basis. (Discounts: 2 day option: $45 off, Saturday: $25 off, Sunday: $15 off)
Apply on the registration form.
To Contribute: If you have even a little extra, please contribute to the Financial Aid Fund as you register. Your support enables more dancers to attend CIB events. Contribute when you register online.
At the door pricing: (Approximately 15% more, If available)
OUT-OF-TOWNERS:
If you live outside of the local area you are welcome to attend this workshop. However, unlike some other events, CIB cannot be responsible to organize overnight accommodations for you. Please contact your personal Boston area friends, if you need help staying overnight.
LOCATION:
St. Mary Orthodox Church, 8 Inman St, Cambridge
Our usual Tuesday night space (Central Sq: right behind Life Alive Cafe)
Transportation: Accessible by T (Red line to Central Square) or if you drive, allow time to find parking. There may be some spots in the church lot behind the building; check there first. Street parking is not restricted on Sundays.
COVID AND HEALTH CONSIDERATIONS:
Contact Improv Boston does not require participants to wear masks or provide proof of vaccination. Please respect this optional choice of each dancer.
Please be mindful of your activities particularly in the week before the workshop and do a covid test in the 24 hours before the workshop, if possible.
Do not attend if you tested positive for Covid in the last 24hrs (even without symptoms), or if you are feeling sick in any way (even with a negative Covid test), or if you have been in contact with somebody with obvious Covid symptoms in the last 48 hrs.
You must notify the registrar in order to receive a refund.
CONTACT THE REGISTRAR WITH A QUESTION:
Please do not hesitate to contact us with a question or comment.
Registrations@ContactImprovBoston.com. Thanks
ARTISTS' BIO:
Sarah Konner is a dance artist, improviser and somatic movement educator. Sarah creates dance-theater that has been shown at performance venues, universities, and museums across the country. Sarah has had the pleasure of working with Jeanine Durning, ChavasseDance&Performance, Heidi Henderson, Sarah Shelton Mann, Jenna Reigel, Gabrielle Revlock, Shura Baryshnikov, Megan Kendzior, Alex Springer and Xan Burley, Headlong Dance Theater, and setGo Performance. She has been teaching Contact Improvisation since 2012 nationally and internationally, co-organized CI Ground Research from 2012-2019, teaches and performs with SetGO Ensemble, and leads a yearly all-women's CI Lab retreat. Sarah is an Associate Professor at the Boston Conservatory. She holds an MFA in Dance from Smith College and certification in Body-Mind Centering®. www.SarahKonner.
CANCELLATION POLICY:
• If CIB finds it necessary to cancel the event for any reason, we will refund the entire registration fee of registered participants.
• If a registered participant withdraws from an event for any reason by midnight, Friday, one week before the event, we will fully refund their registration fee.
• If a registered participant withdraws closer to the event for health (or Covid exposure) reasons and notifies the registrar, a full refund will be issued.
• If a registered participant withdraws closer to the event date for non-health related reasons or does not notify us, no refund will be issued. Also applies to no-show.
• We will consider hardship situations for refunds before and during the event. Please notify the registrar.
HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE AND DANCE!