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The Future of CI
23-25 April 2021
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Session descriptions, presenter bios and additiona. information at https://www.earthdance.net/futureofci
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KW: Keywords
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Schedule updated as of 25 April 2021 5am EDT/UTC-4
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Day 1 - 23 April FridayDay 2 - 24 April SaturdayDay 3 - 25 April Sunday
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Session I
6am-9am PDT/9am-12pm EDT/3-6pm CET/9pm-12mn UTC+8/10pm-1am JST		Session I
6am-9am PDT/9am-12pm EDT/3-6pm CET/9pm-12mn UTC+8/10pm-1am JST		Session I
6am-9am PDT/9am-12pm EDT/3-6pm CET/9pm-12mn UTC+8/10pm-1am JST
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TIMES IN EDT/UTC-4Room A Room B Room C TIMES IN EDT/UTC-4Room A Room B Room C TIMES IN EDT/UTC-4Room A Room B Room C
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9:00-9:30 AMRoom A
Welcome intro and land acknowledgement		9:00-9:30 AMPanel - CI with families and young people
Faye Lim, Priyanka Barua (Singapore, India)
KW: Family		Lecture/Discussion - A W-Archive of Contact Improvisation.
An attempt at anArchiving Contact & its fugitive undercurrents.
Emma Bigé, Dieter Heitkamp, Defne Erdur (France, Germany, Turkey)
KW: wild, Wyrd, wRong, wayward, wacky, Warrior, who?, whiteness, we, Whales, water		Movement Workshop - Fluidifying
Dasha Sedova and Liselotte Singer (Russia, Germany)
KW: Pandemic, Online		9:00-9:30 AMFacilitated Conversation - Digital Technology and Dancing with Disability
Anne Chérel (Germany/Luxembourg)
KW: Digital, Access, DanceAbility
- not recorded - 		Panel - personal, performative, physical, political, practical
Andrew Wass, Paul Singh, Caterina Mocciola, Andrzej Wozniak, David Lim (Germany, USA, Italy, Poland, Malaysia)		*NEW*
Fair Festivals Lab
Markus Hoft and Samuli Lehesaari
(Germany, Finland)

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9:30-10:00AMLecture/Movement - Aquatic Contact
Collin Edina (USA/Germany)
KW: Sociology, Methodology, Waterdance		Panel - History of CI in Thailand
Nitipat Ong Pholchai, Tananpach Asavasemachai, Ladda Kongdach, Wattana Wattanawithee (Thailand)
Thai with translation
KW: History, Place, Community
Lecture - The politics of patience: Covid lessons for embodied allyship
Sarah Gottlieb (USA/Spain)
KW: Pandemic, Equity		9:30-10:00AM9:30-10:00AM
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10:00-10:30 AM10:00-10:30 AMLecture - CI spaces as a French mixed-race woman in Rabat, Berlin and Paris
Myriam Konaté (France)
English and French with translation
KW: Race, Context
Facilitated Conversation - Ethics and logistics of rentering CI During a Waning Pandemic
Loren Groenendaal (USA)
KW: Pandemic
- not recorded - 		10:00-10:30 AMLecture - The future of CI does not include
Eroca Nicols (Canada)
KW: Consent, Trauma
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10:30-11:00 AMMovement Workshop - INviteME performance scores
Dorte Jensen (Denmark)
KW: Pandemic, Healing
Participants requested to prepare items		Facilitated Conversation - Envisioning Fair Festivals
Alex Zampini, Katya Dikowa, Samuli Lehesaari, Markus Hoft
KW: Festivals, Equity
- not recorded - 		Movement Workshop - A listening touch: audio guides for outdoor practice
Laura Doehler and Sofie Narbed (UK)
Audio guide available for pre-download, see description for info
10:30-11:00 AM Conversation/Movement Workshop - Body as Home and the Roots of White Supremacy
Consent in Contact in Context Study Group (International)
KW: Race, Colonialism, Theory
Pre-reading recommended, see workshop description		10:30-11:00 AMPanel - CI in a Time of Crisis/CI as high-risk practice
Anya Cloud, mayfield brooks, Charlie Morrissey, Karen Nelson, Erik Ferguson, Alejandra Garavita Aguilar, KJ Holmes (USA, UK, Guatemala)
KW: Pandemic, Race, Climate		*NEW*
Open Jam
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11:00-11:30 AM11:00-11:30 AMPanel - Neurodiversity and CI
Sarah Jones, Kathleen Rea and Jen Roy (Canada)
KW: Neurodiversity		Movement Workshop - Over under and around the Underscore
Jenny Döll (Germany)
KW: Underscore, Online		11:00-11:30 AMPanel - Sanctuaries of CI Practice in Europe
Julija Melnik and Sara Biglieri (Lithuania, France)
KW: Place, Community
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11:30 AM - 12:00 N11:30 AM - 12:00 N11:30 AM - 12:00 N
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Session II
11am-2pm PDT/2-5pm EDT/8-11pm CET/2-5am UTC+8/3-6am JST		Session II
11am-2pm PDT/2-5pm EDT/8-11pm CET/2-5am UTC+8/3-6am JST		Session II
11am-2pm PDT/2-5pm EDT/8-11pm CET/2-5am UTC+8/3-6am JST
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2:00-2:30 PMPanel - Long view: CI as a political practice?
Nita Little, Keith Hennessey, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Ann Cooper Albright (USA)
Facilitated Conversation - Authority, Legitimacy, and Desire in CI
Ophra Wolf (USA)
KW: Authority, Desire, Safe Spaces
- not recorded - 		2:00-2:30 PMRecognizing Whiteness
Mark Messer, Joanna Fitzrick, JC Bitonti, Colleen Roche, Kellyn Jackson (Canada, USA)
- not recorded - 		A Black, Indigenous, and /or Person of Color (BIPOC) affinity CI connection space
Andrew Suseno (USA)
- not recorded - 		Allyship in Action
Leslie Heydon and Kathleen Rea (Canada)
Workshop notes available in advance. See description.
- not recorded - 		2:00-2:30 PMFacilitated Conversation - "Post-pandemic" consent in CI-jams
Jenny Döll and Adriana Pegorer (Germany, UK/Italy)
KW: Consent, Pandemic
- not recorded - 		Facilitated Conversation - Reflections and Breathing Space: Long Table Discussion
Colleen Bartley (UK/USA)

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tchivett (Germany)
KW: Consent, Touch, Desire, Solo dancing
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2:30-3:00 PM2:30-3:00 PM2:30-3:00 PM
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3:00-3:30 PMMovement Workshop - Small Dance, Big Dance, A collective strategy for Remaining Connected and Embodied
Mahalo, Naomi Moon, Danielle Riome (Montréal CI community) (Canada)
English/French
KW: Pandemic, New Forms
Limited capacity 30 participants		3:00-3:30 PM3:00-3:30 PMPanel - Bailando al margen del binario de género /Dancing outside the gender binary
Calu and Ali Salguero (UK, Mexico)
En español/inglès, English/Spanish
KW: Gender, Queer
Movement Workshop/Facilitated Conversation - CI Bystander intervention
Kathleen Rea and Patrick Crowley (Canada, USA)
KW: Conflict, Care, Community
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3:30-4:00 PMPanel - What can and should the CI community do about climate change?
Richard Kim, Benjamin Pierce, Heike Kuhlman, Erik Mägi, Cléia Plácido (USA, Germany, Sweden, Brazil)
Climate		3:30-4:00 PM3:30-4:00 PMConversation - Dynamic Definitions: Facilitated Conversations on a Consent Culture Language Bank, Consent Culture Language Bank (International)
French, German, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, English
KW: Consent
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4:00-4:30 PMPanel - Transitioning Towards Connections - How to engage with the practice of touch during and after the pandemic
Penny Chivas, Kaisa Kukkonen, Adriana Pegorer (Scotland, Finland, UK/Italy)
KW: Pandemic, Touch		Lecture - Reconnecting to memories of West-African traditions of improvisation
James Not'in, Busayo Olowu, Jakob Maché (Nigeria, Portugal)
KW: Equity, Queer, Tradition		4:00-4:30 PM4:00-4:30 PMLecture - The political relevance of some CI principles
Pedro Penuela (Brazil)
KW: Politics		Lecture - CI as an Opportunity to Acknowledge and Transcend Hegemony
Fatima Adamu Good (USA)
KW: Race, Equity
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4:30-5:00 PM4:30-5:00 PM4:30-5:00 PM
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Session III
5-8pm PDT/8-11pm EDT/2-5am CET/8-11am UTC+8/9am-12n JST		Session III
5-8pm PDT/8-11pm EDT/2-5am CET/8-11am UTC+8/9am-12n JST
5:30-7:00 PM in the FofCI Café space
Listening Session with Earthdance
Amii LeGendre, Meta Bobbe and others
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5-8pm PDT/8-11pm EDT/2-5am CET/8-11am UTC+8/9am-12n JST
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8:00-8:30 PM
Panel - Improvising within the field of settler colonialism on Indigenous land
Katelyn Stiles, Kevin O'Connor, Margit Galanter (USA)
KW: (De)colonization, Land acknowledgements, Relationality		Panel - Using Discoveries from Online Dancing to Contribute to the Future of CI
Zach Pine, Bebe Miller, Cecilia Fontanesi, Funda Gul, Nancy Hughes (USA)
KW: Pandemic, Online, Equity, Consent, New Forms		Other - Exploring CI through micro-phenomenology
Esteban Fredin Ortiz (Mexico)
Spanish with translation
KW: Cognitive science, Online		8:00-8:30 PMLecture - Abandoning 'The Natural Body' in CI to Move into an Equitable Future
Robin Prichard (USA)
KW: Equity		Movement Workshop- Systemic racism and CI
Leslie Heydon (Canada)
KW: Race, White Supremacy
Movement Workshop - Solo-partnering and Other Imaginative Supports
Lailye Weidman (USA)
KW: New forms, Pandemic		TIMES IN EDT/UTC-4Room A Room B Room C
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8:30-9:00 PM8:30-9:00 PM8:00-8:30 PMPanel - Invenciones y reinvenciones, estrategias para seguir en contacto durante la pandemia/ Inventions and reinventions, strategies for continuing with Contact during the pandemic
Elisa, Laura y Yasmin (Epiico, Mexico) + Cristina Turdo, Andrea Fernández, Laura Barceló y Paula Zacharías (Argentina)
En español/Spanish with translation
KW: Pandemic,Context
Movement Workshop - Restorative Contact
Gabrielle Revlock (USA)
KW: Mindfulness
In person partner required. Participants without an in person partner are invited to witness and join the discussion.		Facilitated Conversation - politics and CI
Leslie Castellano and others
(USA)
KW: Politics
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9:00-9:30 PMMovement Workshop - Nancy Stark Smith's Research as Infinite Game
Sarah Young and Patrick Crowley (USA)
Lecture - A Call for CI Citizens
Michele Beaulieux (USA)
KW: Safer brave spaces, community approaches		9:00-9:30 PMPanel - Reciprocity, Empathy, Compassion and Conflict: Remembering the Future
Lauren Tietz, Nora Hajos, Kan Yan, Ryuta Iwashita (USA)
KW: Histories, Healing, Dreaming, Futurity		Facilitated Conversation - Climate Change and CI; Connection and Commitment for Positive Change
Loren Groenendaal (USA)
KW: Climate
- not recorded - 		Movement Workshop - Contacting with warm self regard
Lalu Simcik (USA)
KW: Healing, Witnessing		8:30-9:00 PM
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9:30-10:00 PMLecture/Movement Workshop - Healing Trauma in the Body in CI as it relates to consent
Rythea Lee (USA)
KW: Trauma, Consent, Healing		9:30-10:00 PM9:00-9:30 PMLecture - Intentional Reemergence:
dreaming the aftertime
Nicole Bindler (USA)
KW: Equity, Pandemic
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10:00-10:30 PMFacilitated Conversation - Questioning CI
Keith Hennessey and Taja Will (USA)
KW: Critical race, Queer-feminism, Embodiment
- not recorded - 		Panel/Movement - CI with greater freedom from the form - a seed of embodied experiences from Japanese/Asian bodies - Offline remote dancing
Ryuta, Shoko Kashima, Chico Katsube (Japan, USA/Japan)
English/Japanese with translation
KW: New forms, tradition		10:00-10:30 PMFacilitated Conversation - If Touch Isn't Part of the Class, What Do Our Lesson Plans Emphasize?
Sue Lauther (USA)
KW: Teaching
Participants requested to prepare materials, see description
- not recorded - 		Lecture/Movement Workshop- Symbiotic Score Talk-through
Yuenjie Maru (Macau/Hong Kong)
English, Cantonese and Mandarin with translation
KW: Danceability, Inclusive practice
Lecture/Movement Workshop - Virtual CI: Experiential in the Now, and Looking into the Future
Naomi Bennett and Jeff Doff (USA)
KW: Danceability, Inclusive practice
Touch, Pandemic, Long-distance, Tech, AR, VR		9:30-10:00 PMMovement Workshop - Unísonos en contacto : Ritual de la pequeña danza/
Unisons In Contact : Small Dance Ritual
Andrea Fernandez, Paula Zacharias, Laura Barcelo (30min)
En español/Spanish with translation
KW: Movement, Reflecting

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10:30-11:00 PM10:30-11:00 PM10:00-10:30 PMRoom B
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