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InContact Winter Program DC 2026
Begin your new year with a deep dive into Contact Improv!
Begin your new year with a deep dive into Contact Improv!
IRENE SPOSETTI is back in DC in January. DC-CI in collaboration with BeingMotion has put together several opportunities to meet and explore with Irene.
Irene has inspired us in previous years’ workshops, welcoming experienced Contact Improvisers and newcomers to the practice. She brings a deep understanding of biodynamics, personal dynamics, and a poetic sense of how to convey their combination through her teaching, offering the opportunity to explore Contact Improvisation together with physical and personal clarity. If you attended previous workshops, you may recognize what we’re talking about, and if you haven’t, here’s your chance to experience it for yourself. Join us!
On two consecutive Saturdays, Jan 24 and Jan 31, we invite you to gather for a concentrated period of exploration and dance. The workshop on January 24 will be open to all levels and the second on Jan 31 will be for those with established grounding in CI fundamentals. Participants are strongly encouraged to attend both, allowing time to develop continuity, deepen questions, and follow the evolution of individual and collective processes. At the same time, each weekend is accessible on its own and welcomes those who can join only one.
Additionally Irene will be facilitating in collaboration with DC CI the Sunday Jan 25 and Feb 1 before-jam CI Classes.
About the Workshops
About the Workshops
The workshop on January 24 will be open to all levels and the second on Jan 31 will be for those with established grounding in CI fundamentals.
Irene will offer technical material and movement investigations focusing on skills, relational dynamics, and embodied choice-making within Contact Improvisation, as well as dance improvisations within focused scores. Alongside this, participants will be invited to share reflections, curiosities, and questions, allowing the work to be informed and shaped by the group’s interests and my inputs. We’ll explore movement possibilities, creativity, and relational expression through authentic and in-depth exploratory processes, cultivating clarity, ease, and availability in movement and in the way we participate in the dance.
We’ll dance with attention to ensemble dynamics, individual creativity, and partnering as interconnected dimensions of the Contact Improvisation practice.
Focus areas:
Somatic awareness & functional movement principles
Emergent expression, discovery, and responsiveness
Being with, making choices together, mutuality, shared agency, and play while improvising in CI
Workshop details
Workshop details
🗓 Saturday Jan 24: Arriving in Contact
🗓 Saturday Jan 24: Arriving in Contact
⇒ Open to all levels of CI experience.
🕐 1:00 pm to 5:00
📍 Edgewood Arts Center
3415 8th St NE, Washington, DC 20017
(Edgewood on Google Maps – Allow time to find street parking)
💵 Payment options:
Budget: $50
Standard: $65
Supporter: $80
Let us know if the rates are out of reach and we'll work with you.
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🗓 Saturday Jan 31: Dwelling in Contact
🗓 Saturday Jan 31: Dwelling in Contact
⇒ For those with grounding in CI fundamentals.
🕐 11:00 am to 5:00 pm Saturday, Jan 31st, 2026 at:
📍 The Movement Studios
8004 Alban Rd, Springfield, VA 22150
(TMS on Google Maps – Has a big parking lot)
💵 Payment options:
Budget: $70
Standard: $85
Supporter: $100
Let us know if the rates are out of reach and we'll work with you.
ONE-ON-ONE SESSIONS with Irene
ONE-ON-ONE SESSIONS with Irene
Uplift your experience by engaging in individually tailored sessions during Irene's stay. These private sessions offer a unique opportunity to delve into your specific needs, questions, and intentions related to somatic functional embodiment for movement and Contact Improvisation (CI) technique.
Whether you're looking to deepen your understanding of your body, expand its expressive range, refine movement skills, or explore technical and creative aspects of Contact Improvisation and dance, Irene will craft each session according to your personal needs and interests!
Sessions are available for individuals, couples, or groups of up to four people. Each session lasts between 1.5 and 2 hours and is offered on a sliding scale. Packages of 3 to 5 sessions are also available for those wishing to engage in a more sustained process. For more details and booking contact:
WhatsApp: +393248645535
IRENE SPOSETTI
IRENE SPOSETTI
Irene Sposetti is a versatile performing artist, facilitator, and dance maker originally from Italy. With over two decades of experience as an independent freelancer across Europe, Asia, and North America, she has developed a distinctive voice through extensive travel, cultural immersion, and a profound exploration of the body and movement as a path of self-inquiry, presence, and creative expression.
Since 2000, Irene has devoted her life to dance, dedicating herself with passion, energy, and a profound vision to the research, creation, transmission, and expression of dance. Through teaching, producing events, and performances at universities, cultural institutes, festivals, and independent platforms around the world, she shares her love for movement, transforming it into living art and conscious practice. In 2011, she founded BEING MOTION, a platform dedicated to educational and artistic collaborations worldwide. Her work focuses on movement research with a somatic and functional approach and real-time practice, often blending with voice and live music.
Irene is dedicated to nurturing authentic, embodied expression, creative empowerment, and independent thinking as tools to fully embody and manifest oneself in the world and in connection with others.
To learn more about Irene please visit:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beingmotion.irenesposetti
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BeingMotion
Website: https://beingmotion.com
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