Physical Dialogue
PHYSICAL DIALOGUE
Contact Improvisation
With more than two decades of experience in teaching and practicing improvised dance, Ramon Roig invites you to join a community at the intersection of art, physical dialogue and expressive freedom. From the dance hall to the Barceloneta Civic Center, passing through international workshops and multidisciplinary projects, Ramon Roig guides you on a journey through space and time where the limits of the body are only the beginning. Venture into this kinetic odyssey and discover how movement can be both a form of art and a way of communication.
Contact Improvisation
Every gesture is a word and every interaction a dialogue.
IC is nothing more than a way of physically communicating with another dancing body without using any premeditation.
By keeping our perception open, the information we receive from the environment will organize our sensitive body.
I don't need to look, just see and let our instinct guide our actions in an effective and accurate way.
And find a calmness in the breath to flow in the current of time filling us with energy and waiting.
Transforming my desires into intentions and the unpredictable into a constant discovery.
Everything that is not necessary is dispensable in physical dialogue, fluidity and elegance respond to everything that is effective and simple at the same time.
To be in tune with the whole, to be part of and to meet nature, until disappearing in it.
CI Physical Dialogue
TRAINING, INTENSIVE WORKSHOPS and REGULAR CLASSES
Contact Improvisation expresses its most fundamental essence through the link. Discovering the meaning of this bond and its multiple layers brings us a useful and lasting integration in the environment. Crossing the physical-temporal space in connection to share the experience with the other.
Works
Here you will find a diverse collection spanning several decades of relentless creativity, from theatrical performances to interactive art installations.
Each work represents a chapter in a career full of experimentation and discovery. This space serves not only as an archive of his achievements, but also as a window into the evolution of his artistic practice.
Fragments of actions
EGOS ESCÈNIC
Tactil
different ways ...
UNCERTAIN PLACES
CASA
Creating Contact Improvisation
This space is dedicated to explore the various facets of Ramón Roig's contribution to the world of Contact Improvisation. Ramón's creative journey in this field unfolds in multiple dimensions, although almost always hand in hand with SIAMB, an association that has been the vehicle of his artistic career.
The Jam
The Thursday Jam at the Centre Cívic Barceloneta is the oldest JAM in Spain, with more than 23 years of continuous existence. From the year 2024 the Jam will change to Saturdays due to the needs of the Civic Center. The new schedule is from 17:30 to 20:30.
E.C.I.B.
Contact Improvisation Meeting Barcelona
ECIB is composed of three annual events: Spring Meeting (Easter), Summer Meeting (July) and ECIB (September/October). Since 2002 these meetings have been created with the arrival of international masters who bring a broad vision of the origins and form of the IC.
Masters such as Martin Keogh, Frey Faust, Ray Chung, Karl Frost, Scott Wells, Daniel Lepkoff, Benno Voorham, Jules Beckman, Adrian Russi, Mirva Mäkinen, Jess Curtis, Andrew Harwood, Cris Aiken, Charlie Morrissey, Nita Little, Katie Duck or Simonetta Alessandri among others.
societat investigació art del moviment barcelona
S.I.A.M.B. functions as a platform for the organization of CI meetings and festivals, improvisation sessions, laboratories, Jams and other activities related to the art of movement and improvisation.
PerfoJam
Interactive dance
The Perfo Jam is an interactive dance session where the public is summoned to dance (JAM) and it is in that same space where those summoned dance as in a Jam, where small actions of no more than 3-4 minutes happen, appearing randomly in places marked by the light, disappearing shortly after without a trace and where the public-dancer, takes up his own dance.
With this we achieve that the actions connect with the observers in a more casual and empathetic way, without the need to receive applause of valuation, and will remain in the retina of these as suggestions of depth and beauty.
This formula aims to blur the barrier between actor and observer.
Doma India & Contact-Improvisation
Experiential days of encounter with horses through movement based on the methodology of Indian Dressage and the technique of Contact Improvisation.
Dancing with a horse or letting its gaze guide our movement. Accompanying each other, learning from each other... Our desires, our way of managing time, are highlighted in front of nature through the gaze of a horse.
Direction and coordination: Ramon Roig and Toni Arnal
Videos recorded by Ramon Roig
Capturing improvisation in images to organize the observer's gaze...
During improvisation, in full physical dialogue, the dancer's attention remains permanently on the point of union with the other dancer.
If we want, from observation, to capture or perceive what happens in improvisation, we must take our gaze into the scene and dance with it.
Bio
Ramon Roig
Dedicated to dance since 1992, he works in several dance companies in Barcelona and is trained in classical and contemporary dance in different private schools in the city.
His knowledge of improvisation is expanded and consolidated with teachers such as Daniel Lepkoff, Ray Chung, Martin Keogh, Nita Little, Frey Faust or Andrew Harwood among many others.
Knowledge that has helped him to establish the basis of his own personal and pedagogical concepts.
As a dance teacher, he gave his first Contact-Improvisation classes in 2000.
Since then he has traveled sharing his point of view in many countries around the world.He currently teaches regular Workshops and Training in Barcelona and Training in Valencia.
As director of the SIAMB collective since 1999, he organizes and participates in events related to Dance, Improvisation, Video-art and Performance.
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