Tom Goldhand

Deep Dive into Contact Improvisation

Moving with Confidence 

In this two-day workshop, you’ll delve deeper into the practice of contact improvisation. You’ll build step by step, allowing skills, confidence, and body awareness to grow organically.

You’ll learn how to share weight and maintain movement together. You’ll explore how you move through space, how you respond to your partner, and how touch and gravity guide your dance. You’ll practice with tempo, height changes, and role changes.

We’ll work with focused exercises, solo and partner work. Based on clear agreements, the dance evolves toward increasing freedom and creativity, with a focus on safety and mutual care, and with room for both depth and playfulness.

Teacher

Tom is a dancer and instructor at Sadhana Dance School. He has been creating and teaching dance and movement scores for over fifteen years. He co-founded the Amsterdam-based company Mono Collective and holds a master’s degree in dance therapy from Codarts in Rotterdam. In recent years, he has led intensive movement and personal development workshops and retreats. As an improviser, he explores dance as a practice of consciousness – from contact improvisation to authentic movement and ecstatic dance – and shares this investigative approach with his participants.

Accessibility

• The workshop is physically demanding, but can be adapted to your own pace
• The workshop is not wheelchair accessible
• Memorizing long phrases or structures is not a requirement