september, 2026
29sepallday11oct7-day Intensive in Ubud/ Bali + Weekend LaboratorySurfing gravity & alive pausing
Event Details
About the program After Jörg Hassmann's 2024 visit to Bali, the resonance of his teaching remained strongly felt in the local Contact Improvisation community. We are inviting him
Event Details
About the program
After Jörg Hassmann’s 2024 visit to Bali, the resonance of his teaching remained strongly felt in the local Contact Improvisation community. We are inviting him back for a longer and more focused period of study.
This program is held as two connected parts: a seven-day intensive with Jörg, followed by an optional two-day laboratory for those who complete the intensive and wish to continue the research.
The first part offers a guided process of study, practice, and dancing. The second part opens into a laboratory format, where the material gathered during the intensive can become a ground for further exploration. Jörg will continue to hold the frame, while the emphasis shifts toward embodied research: following questions, working with growing edges, and allowing the group’s shared experience to shape the direction of the practice.
Words from Jörg
“There is a quality in my dance and in many advanced Contact Improvisers that I don’t really know how to teach. It is about momentum and flow; it feels like surfing gravity, or moments on a rope swing, or flying by using the density of the air. There is acceleration, suspending, hovering in the unknown, weightlessness, and a delicious knowledge about slowing down, taming, or containing momentum.
I’d like to spend more time than I usually dare in my teaching with solo and bodywork-ish explorations, to let these qualities sink into the body – like rebounce, recoil, micro-falls, swinging, sloshing, shaking – so that the body slowly and gradually soaks them up like a sponge. So that these qualities are effortlessly present in our dance.
I also want to include the question around tonality: how can we train multiple muscular tones in the body and use strength while staying in a listening, responsive state?
My teaching and exploring lives in polarities. Stillness, alive pausing, micro-movements, and micro-dialogues are becoming more and more precious to me. They expand our options and aliveness, and bring an intuitive compositional flavour to our dancing.
Witnessing work will support our presence and become a glue for us working as a group.
I also wish to establish a labbing culture, where we support each other to move towards our growing edges – doing the things we avoid or feel we never practice enough, where fear patterns kick in in a limiting way. Simple or challenging pathways can be a starting point.
The labbing will be seeded in the first seven days and will become our main way of working in the additional last two days.
The main learning and integration will probably happen in the dance.
I wish that we dance a lot.”
Intensive
29 September – 7 October 2026
The intensive is the main body of the program. Across seven sessions, Jörg will guide the group through a deep physical inquiry into momentum, flow, falling, suspension, tone, stillness, micro-movement, and the subtle compositional intelligence that becomes available through Contact Improvisation.
The work will include solo explorations, partner work, bodywork-informed research, witnessing, dancing, and the gradual development of a shared group field. During this time, the seeds of the laboratory will also begin: participants will be invited to notice their own questions, habits, avoidances, thresholds, and growing edges.
Schedule
- 29-30 September: 10:00am – 2:00pm
- 1 October: day off
- 2-3-4 October: 10:00am – 2:00pm
- 5 October: day off
- 6-7 October: 10:00am – 2:00pm
Laboratory
10-11 October 2026
(Optional continuation, open only to participants who complete the Intensive)
Jörg will continue to hold the frame, while the work enters a more open laboratory mode: following the questions that emerged during the intensive, working with personal and collective edges, and allowing the dance itself to reveal what wants to be studied.
Both days will include
- 10:00am – 1:00pm: session
- Lunch break
- 3:30pm – 5:30pm: session
Pricing
Intensive
- Super Early Bird: 5,000,000 IDR until 30 June (max 5 spots)
- Early Bird: 5,500,000 IDR until 15 August (max 10 spots)
- Full Price: 6,500,000 IDR
Laboratory
- 1,500,000 IDR
Who should apply?
This program is designed for dancers with previous Contact Improvisation experience who are ready for a committed period of study. This program is not suitable for first-timers.
You should have:
- Familiarity with basic CI skills: weight sharing, changing levels, rolling, falling, and moving safely in physical contact
- Curiosity toward both technical precision and open-ended research
- Readiness to participate in a full group process
- Full commitment to the intensive schedule
Location
Ubud, Bali
(exact location will be shared after registration)
Registration
Time
September 29 (Tuesday) - October 11 (Sunday)
