Weekend workshop - Dancing the Flowing Arc - With Simonetta Alessandri

About this event

The ability to shift between states, focus, and awareness is central to both the Feldenkrais Method and Contact Improvisation. In Feldenkrais, we cultivate awareness by noticing sensations and honoring the body’s intelligence, allowing attention to shift and pendulate between different parts of the body or the body as a whole. Experiencing this shifting is fundamental for re-patterning movement – moving away from inefficient, uncomfortable, or painful habits toward ease, effortlessness, and pleasure.

In Contact Improvisation, shifting attention, focus, and energetic states allows us to pendulate – moving between engagement with our partners and awareness of our own body. This flow supports conscious choices, honoring curiosity, creativity, and personal boundaries. Using pendulation as a lens, we will revisit specific Contact Improvisation vocabularies in which pendulation relates to shifting weight and the relationship between center and periphery while lifting, supporting, moving through space, and sharing weight.

Finally, we explore how the oscillation between states nourishes the flowing arc of the dance in duets, trios, and group configurations – inviting both grounded and delicate physical conversation, while opening the door to higher levels of physical and energetic engagement.


AMSTERDAM - Dates - 20-21 feb
Schedule -
Friday - open jam (included for workshop participants) - 19:30-22:00
Saturday – 13:15-19:15
Sunday – 10:00-17:00

PLACE (workshop) - The beautiful studio Belcampo Loft – Hannie Dankbaarpassage 33

PLACE (Jam) - The beautiful Gym studio in - Zaal B (Studio B) at Willem Witsenstraat 6.

PRICE - According to your income level:

Above average income - €215
Normal income - €195
Low budght/student - €180


Simonetta Alessandri is an Italian dance artist and somatic educator based in London. She is an internationally recognised teacher who applies the Feldenkrais Method in dance and movement training, as well as in performance making. She teaches at Trinity Laban, Goldsmiths University, and London Contemporary Dance School. Her work is informed by more than 35 years of dancing, teaching, and choreographing.

She was one of the few dance practitioners in Italy who began working with Contact Improvisation in the 90’s. She taught for more than 20 years in Italy and kept Contact Improvisation alive in Rome for 10 years through her classes and jams. Her choreography has included work for dance companies, student pieces, large-scale opera, improvised performance, site-specific projects, and movement direction for theatre.


Spaces are limited and registration is required - we expect to be full a few weeks in advance

For questions send a mail to - sadhana.improdance@gmail.com