The Touch&Play Project

To move within physics is to realize your body. To dance with chemistry is to accept your soul. Combining both could be the most exhilarating thing you have ever done.

Below the T&P project event calendar. Here you can find any Touch&Play related events that are scheduled for the near future. If you’re organizing or facilitating an event that follows our line of research and you’re willing to sign the T&P manifesto you can become a collaborator and contribute your work to the calendar. (Email email hidden; JavaScript is required for more info)

Below the calendar of Touch&Play related events that are scheduled for the near future. If you’re organizing or facilitating any event that adheres to the T&P manifesto feel free to email us so we can add it to the calendar.

Documenting research that explores the edges of Contact Improvisation and gathering any existing material related to the Touch&Play project is a key area of interest. Due to the ephemeral and intangible nature of Contact Improvisation recording the essence of the work that has been done can help those working with the material to analyse and process their experiences. It further allows the research to be shared with others not physically present at the event and finally it serves as a thread for those future generations who might ask similar questions to us.

Below you can find a selection of articles, discussions and email threads related to the T&P that we have been collecting over the past three years. If you have any material that you feel is relevant and would like to share please send it to us (email hidden; JavaScript is required) and we will post it for you.

If you would like to reproduce any of the material you find on this or any of our other sites please email us and we will help you with the correct attribution. Thank you for spreading our work. All rights related to work created within the Touch&Play Project are governed by the following Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

The Touch&Play project is a collaborative network of researchers exploring the edges of Contact Improvisation. The concept was first formulated in 2009 and since then two international events have been held in Berlin in 2010 and near Barcelona in 2011. Further numerous smaller T&P related events have been facilitated in Australia, Spain and Germany.

The project aims to open-up and challenge our concepts of Contact Improvisation as pertaining predominantly to dance and the physical body to include our emotions, sexuality, power, play, aggression, spirituality, politics and more…

Here the links to the previous and next big T&P events.

We are currently exploring possibilities to host a major event in the UK, Peru and Hungary.
If you are interested in hosting an event feel free to contact us at email hidden; JavaScript is required.

2012.touchandplay.org (to be constructed)

2011.touchandplay.org

2010.touchandplay.org

Image Gallery here, with separate single pages for other galleries. This is a Gallery generated with NextGen and GalleryView Plugin

T&P 2010 Berlin

Collection of images from the first T&P festival held at the Schwelle7 in Berlin

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A Second Gallery of Cartwheels

A longer description, graceful cartwheels without hands, occasionally becoming separated (head from body). Bejeweled and mummified.

3 Photos

The Touch&Play project aims to be community owned and inspired exploration of the evolution of contact away from the focus on Dance and physics. To accomplish this we are creating a decentralized collaborative model where by individuals, local and national communities are invited to organize, facilitate, teach, research and share Touch&Play related material.

If you or your community are interested in exploring these ‘”al)chemical edges” of Contact Improvisation the T&P network can support you. If your ideas are in-harmony with our manifesto

and fulfil the key organizational criteria we can support you . The Touch&Play project can help you curate, produce and/or promote your event through use of the Touch&Play name, website, mailing list, collaborating venues, contacts. Furthermore, There is a T&P research fund available to back-up any accepted proposals.

Here below is an alphabetical lists of past and current Touch&Play collaborators. Contributions range from the facilitation of a single workshop to the co-curation of an entire T&P event. Collaborator pages include a portrait, Biography, links to the T&P work that this person has contributed and links to any upcoming events this person might be involved in.

If you would like to become a T&P collaborator and/or host a local or international T&P event please send us an email (email hidden; JavaScript is required)

We want to make this event as community oriented as possible and encourage you to contact us with feedback, suggestion and questions of any type.

General enquiries: email Jenny Moy at email hidden; JavaScript is required

T&P Experiment: email Daniel Hayes at email hidden; JavaScript is required

PR related issues: email Jan Boeschoten at email hidden; JavaScript is required

For urgent matters you can try skyping Daniel Hayes (dohyedan)

Your opinion is appreciated: Please take a moment to share your feelings about the T&P concept, the festival structure, our website, or anything else you can think of. 
Thanks the T&P creation team.