Axolotl Participatory Performance

May 31 to June 15 and August 8 to 10 The Dancing Wilderness Project

July 12 to 26 The 2 week San Francisco Contact Intensive

August 19 to 24 Body Research Contact Festival at Sierra Hot Springs, CA

August 25 to Sep 1 Contact Camp at Burning Man

Cross training for CI (suggestions, observations, and critiques)

Cross training (training in multiple disciplines in order to mutually support various practices with information from other practices) is a fabulous idea! I would say that that is how I (Karl) got a lot, if not most, of my technique for contact. I've also noticed over the years that various forms of cross training, while bringing benefits to CI practice will also bring with them various drawbacks. Below is a somewhat subjective list of various common cross trainings to do for CI, along with my observations on them, coming from a reference point of how we approach the practice of CI. A big caveat is that anything you study will wildly vary from one instructor to another, and this is probably as big a variable as actually what is studied.

Martial Arts

Alexander and Feldenkrais techniques

Contemporary Dance

Ballet

Release techniques (Skinner, Klein, release-based contemporary, etc)

Yoga

Chi Gung

Butoh

BMC

Sports

Meditation

Wilderness experience