CI LAB at Pembroke House

​

• For a month 2 practitioners share their research with one another around contact improvisation. They facilitate a lab every Tuesday evening 7-9:30pm for people to join the research by facilitating approaches, experiments and engage joint conversations. Participants are invited to bring their questions and join the explorations proactively, becoming a co-researcher in the process.

​

Next iteration: September 2026

​

​

​

Contemporary and Improvisation Class at Siobhan Davies

​

• Every Wednesday 6:30-8:30pm, this class encourages moving with ease, personal expression and joyful creativity. It draws on Release Technique and Somatics, two areas of Contemporary Dance. Creative Contemporary sessions will fine tune your awareness to your weight, breath and the flow of movement. Guided by a singular idea or anatomical focus, you will gradually find complexity and depth in your dancing; playful exploration will inspire confidence to expand on form, rhythm and dynamism.

​

Next iteration: September 2026

​

​

Contact Improvisation Course at National Centre for Circus Arts

​

• Every Thursday 7:30-9:30pm, this course is taught by Laura to develop existing CI skills and hack the finer integrations with less time on basics and more time for flow, dynamic weight shifts, falls and inversions. This course is suitable for people with some CI experience and also for those who have been dancing for a while and want to explore the technique in greater depth.

​

Next iteration: September 2026

​

​

CI Upside Down Laura Doehler and Lewis Wilkins

​

• In this workshop, we will explore how inversions in contact can open up your range and play in contact improvisation. Overall it is a workshop for experienced dancers who are looking to become more comfortable in their upside down practice and who like to increase risk in their dancing safely. That means we will also look at falls and jumps to incorporate more dynamic weight shifts. We will take time to prepare the body and develop a deeper understanding of recovery, safety, and freedom in movement as we go along for a strong yet mindful practice to emerge. The workshop is coupled with deeper listening practices to ensure that dynamic dances are coupled with tuned playfulness wherein support, being with and generosity create dances that we truly co-create. Rather than high jacking, we are learning to fall with and into space, gravity and our partner as agentic material that we collaborate with.

​

10th and 11th of October, booking open (Early birds until 10.09.2026)

​​

​

Private classes

​

• Laura is offering private classes in contemporary, contact improvisation, improvisation and movement analysis (Laban).

​

• She has mentored other artists including Chloe Zhao, a range of private clients with varying experiences, companies such as Book of Shadows and acted as mentor and artistic director for Codigo Dance (Portugal)

​

• Prices are flexible and made upon agreement. To express your interest please email: info.exitmap@gmail.com 

​​

Available at all times.​