Katya Basalaeva

5-Day Intensive & 3-Day Lab with Katya Basalaeva

What does it mean to be in one place… in one moment… in one action?

How can we avoid creating contradictions within one activity, within one body?

How does our awareness organize weight, form, time, and direction?

How early do we notice changes as the whole begins to break into parts?

What if ease, courage, and safety in dance come not from greater effort, but from noticing fragmentation early and continually reorganizing toward wholeness?

The program consists of two integral parts: the Workshop and the Labs. Registration is proposed for the whole program only. By its nature, Katya’s teaching is equally relevant to experienced CI dancers and to beginners.

Schedule

March 20–24: 14:00–18:00 class, 19:00–21:30 workshop jam. March 25: individual integration/rest day. March 26–28: 16:00–19:00 lab, 19:30–21:30 lab jam. Total of approximately 48 hours.

Price

14,000 Thai baht | 380 euro. Early bird: 12,000 Thai baht | 330 euro, until February 10 or until the limit of the first 10 registrations is reached.

Accommodation and food are not included.

Inquiries: Yuri Novitsky, ynovitsky@myself.com, WhatsApp +33620813647.

About the teacher

Katya on herself and her practice: “I have been practicing and teaching CI since 2000 because I love this practice, and over time it keeps opening into new layers and possibilities.

Right now, I can describe my interest in Contact Improvisation roughly like this: Contact – as coherence, wholeness, inner consistency of the whole system involved in action. Improvisation – as the ability to create and shape forms, flows of forces, space, and time.

I like it when CI stays an exploration and a creation and does not shrink to learning and repeating familiar forms. What if we look not only at what has already been and what is, but also at what could be?

From the endless range of what is possible, what do I want to see manifested right now? What do I choose to embody, support, and sustain? What do I want, and what do I actually do? How do I want things to be? How do I want to bring order to chaos?

And what do we do with the accumulated baggage of patterns, ideas, and beliefs when they no longer serve the new tasks and challenges at hand?

I will be happy to welcome anyone who is ready to enter this experience—not of searching for themselves or for the dance, but of creating both.”