CI Weekend Workshop with Cinthia Perez Navarro - June 6 & 7 - Tickets on-sale now!
Jenny Sawyer
We are super excited to announce that CI Philly will be hosting a weekend-long CI workshop on June 6 & 7th! Early-bird tickets are on-sale until April 3rd, so grab those tickets! See below for details.
Join CI Philly for a two-day immersion into the fundamental skills, tools, and practices of Contact Improvisation. Newcomers will learn the foundations of CI, while experienced practitioners will deepen their rigor, fluency, and refine their choice-making.
We will cultivate an environment of trust, care, and adaptability where we can safely co-create, take risks, and embrace the immediate unknown. Through embodied solos, duets & ensembles, puzzles, scores, and composition, we will awaken our reflexes and readiness, and fine-tune our proprioception. As we roll, fall, share weight, and negotiate momentum, we will find pathways of ease in unpredictable moments.
Our time together will include reflection, harvesting, and sharing.
The main objectives of this workshop are:
• Navigating safety, boundaries and consent
• Understanding the foundation and fundamentals of Contact Improvisation from an embodied and somatic approach
• Initiating dances from a place of listening, with attention on ease, care and awareness
• Discovering what play, pause, touch and observation can bring to your practice
For more info & to register: https://events.humanitix.com/allusions-perez-ciworkshop
ABOUT CINTHIA PÉREZ NAVARRO
@znt_dance
@contactimprovpuebla
Cinthia is a teacher, dance-maker and interdisciplinary artist originally from Puebla, México, based in NYC. Her work is rooted in Contact Improvisation, Contemporary Dance and Somatic Practices.
She has facilitated classes with the CI NYC community (2026) and was on faculty at the American Dance Festival NC (2025), Summer CI Festival at The Field Center VT (2024), Contact & Flow Bacalar, Mexico (2025), San Pancho CI Festival Nayarit, Mexico (2023-2025) CI Fundamentals & Advanced Lab at Dreaming Stone Arts and Ecology Center NC (2024), Festival Pigmentos Puebla, Mexico (2023), Encuentro Nacional de Improvisación de Contacto CDMX (2016-2018), Performática Cholula, Mexico (2016-2018). She founded Contact Improv Puebla community in 2013 and continues to work with international interdisciplinary collectives XIPE Colectivo Escénico and Chicken Bank Collective.
Her pedagogy has been profoundly inspired by training with Nancy Stark Smith, Ray Elliot Schwartz, Martín Keogh, Nita Little, Zap McConnell, Daniel Lepkoff, Alicia Grayson, Andrew Harwood, Jennifer Nuget, Chris Aiken, Nia Love, Manuel Rochette, Karen de Luna Fors, Ángel Arámbula, as well as by her students and collaborators. She approaches dance as a practice of resilience and empowerment, promoting care and agency in movement, sparking self-discovery, creative responsiveness and collective awareness through community-based projects.
She holds a BA in Dance from the University of the Americas Puebla, México (UDLAP) and she is a Somatic Movement Educator from the Body Mind Movement México school.