Contact Beyond Contact

Join us for Contact Beyond Contact, a dance and healing practice for embodied connection - with oneself, in relationship, in community, and with nature. In CBC, the dance is a metaphor and a practice for how we move through life. The heart of CBC includes energetic attunement, invitation, boundaries, expanding awareness, and community care.

This is a 2-hour facilitated session of relational conscious dance, welcoming to all. We’ll explore dance as a language of embodied communication, to express, invite, say yes and no, co-create. By the end, we’ll be dancing with the whole room, moving together as individuals and as a collective, in contact via our energy, senses, presence, touch, heart, and spirit. “Contact Beyond Contact” is a reference to this, how we are always in contact.

CBC integrates dance modalities including Authentic Movement (Solo), Contact Improvisation (Duet), and Passing Through (Group), with healing modalities including Qi Gong, Thai Massage, Family Constellations, philosophies of Taoism and Buddhism, & more. CBC @contactbeyondcontact is created by Vangelis Legakis @vanlegakis! Learn more about CBC and Facilitators Training Courses at education.unityspace.org @unity_space

For me, CBC has been a primary practice of being fully with myself as I expand into connection. The more I feel where I am, the more I can be in relationship and in community. On a practical dance level, it gives me ways to dance with anyone, almost immediately, and foundations that support me in all dances I am learning.

P.S. I'm making a spontaneous trip to the Bay Area, May 2-5! I'll be back again mid June to July. Look forward to dancing soon!

About the Facilitator:

Angela Heyun is curious about everything embodiment and improvisation - all the ways we inhabit ourselves, meet life, cultivate presence and imagination, and make choices as humans together. In her facilitation, Angela creates spaces to be with what is emerging, to go into the unknown together. She is committed to always being in the practice and learning of what she holds dear.

For her, dance is a kind of existential understanding; presence and touch are an immediate and fundamental ‘knowing.’ Angela has been teaching in embodiment for a decade. Angela is a teacher of Contact Beyond Contact, her primary and most deeply rooted practice, training with Vangelis Legakis. She also draws inspiration from Qi Gong, Authentic Movement, Integrative Somatic Arts, Fusion, Microfusion, Yoga, Tango, Butoh, Tai Chi, movement research, embodied theater, bodywork, contemporary dance, and music improvisation.

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Thank you to Vangelis Legakis and Contact Beyond Contact for rooting my primary practice and way of moving through life, the values that I faciliate. The depth and intention of this practice is interwoven in my day-to-day life, impacting how I am in relationship and in community <3

I am also deeply impacted by… Nita Little (Contact Improvisation, Relational Intelligence), Annamari Keskinen & Ryan Mason (Thar Be Dragons), Bela Crowder (Embodied Heart). I am constantly inspired by… Julian Barnett (Personal Poetics), Amy Rogg (Underbelly), Betty Martin (The Wheel of Consent), Julyen Hamilton (Theatre Works, The Supported Body). I am happy to share more about my experiences with any of these teachings!