Kinetic Dialogue
DIÁLOGO FÍSICO
Contact Improvisación
Amb més de dues dècades d’experiència en l’ensenyament i la pràctica de la dansa improvisada, Ramon Roig t’invita a unir-te a una comunitat que es troba en l’intersecció de l’art, el diàleg físic i la llibertat expressiva. De la sala de dansa al Centre Cívic Barceloneta, passant per tallers internacionals i projectes multidisciplinaris, Ramon Roig et guia en un viatge a través de l’espai i el temps on els límits del cos són només el començament. Aventura’t en aquesta odissèa kinètica i descobreix com el moviment pot ser tant una forma d’art com una manera de comunicació.
Contact Improvisation
Every gesture is a word, every interaction a dialogue.
CI is nothing more than a way to communicate physically with another dancing body, without any premeditation.
By keeping our perception open, the information we receive from the environment organizes our sensitive body.
I don’t need to look, only to see, letting our instinct guide our actions effectively and accurately.
And to find calm in the breath, to flow with the current of time, filling ourselves with energy and patience.
To transform my desires into intentions, and the unpredictable into a constant discovery.
Everything that is unnecessary can be omitted in physical dialogue; fluidity and elegance respond only to what is effective and simple at the same time.
To tune in with the whole, to be part of and encounter nature, until one disappears within it.
CI Movement Dialogue
Training Programs, Intensive Workshops & Regular Classes
Contact Improvisation expresses its most fundamental essence through connection. Discovering the meaning of this connection and its multiple layers provides us with a useful and lasting integration into the environment. To move through physical and temporal space in connection, sharing the experience with another.
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 achievements but also as a window into the evolution of the artistic practice.
Action Fragments
EGOS ESCÈNIC
Tactil
Various Ways to Drown
Could you keep doing it forever…?
UNCERTAIN PLACES
CASA
Shaping Contact Improvisation
This space is dedicated to exploring 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 through the SIAMB association, which has been the vehicle for his artistic career.
La Jam
The Barceloneta Civic Center Jam is the oldest Jam in Spain, with over 25 years of continuous existence. Starting in 2024, “The Jam” will move to Saturdays due to the needs of the Civic Center and will include a Pre-Jam class. The new schedule is:
Pre-Jam Class 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Jam: 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM
E.C.I.B
Contact Improvisation Meeting Barcelona
ECIB is made up of three annual events: Primavera Spring (Easter), Summer Meeting (July), and ECIB (September/October). These meetings have been held since 2002 with the arrival of international masters who provide a broad vision of the origins and form of the CI.
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, and Simonetta Alessandri, among others.
barcelona art movement research society
S.I.A.M.B functions as a platform for organizing 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 audience is invited to dance (JAM). It is in this same space that those invited dance, as if in a jam. Small actions lasting no more than 3-4 minutes occur, appearing randomly in places marked by light, disappearing shortly afterward without a trace, and the audience-dancer resumes their own dance.
With this, we achieve a more casual and empathetic connection with the observers, without the need for applause. They remain in their memories as suggestions of depth and beauty.
This formula aims to blur the barrier between actor and observer.
Indian Dressage & Contact Improvisation
Experiential journeys of encounter with horses through movement, based on the methodology of Indian Dressage and the Contact Improvisation technique.
Dancing with a horse or letting its gaze guide our movement. Accompanying one another, learning from one another… Our desires, our way of managing time, are highlighted in the face of nature through the eyes of a horse.
Dirección y coordinación: Ramon Roig y Toni Arnal
Videos recorded by Ramon Roig
Capturing improvisation in images to organize the observer’s gaze…
During improvisation, in the midst of physical dialogue, the dancer’s attention remains permanently focused on the point of connection with the other dancer.
If we want, through observation, to capture or perceive what is happening in improvisation, we must bring our gaze into the scene and dance with it.
Bio
Ramon Roig
Dedicated to dance since 1992, he has worked with several dance companies in Barcelona and trained in classical and contemporary dance at various private schools in the city.
His knowledge of improvisation has expanded and consolidated with teachers such as Daniel Lepkoff, Ray Chung, Martin Keogh, Nita Little, Frey Faust, and Andrew Harwood, among many others.
This knowledge has helped him establish the foundations for his own personal and pedagogical concepts.
As a dance teacher, he taught his first Contact Improvisation classes in 2000.
Since then, he has traveled around the world sharing his perspective. He currently teaches regular workshops and training in Barcelona and in Valencia.
As director of the SIAMB collective since 1999, he organizes and participates in events related to dance, improvisation, video art, and performance.