anna vilhelmine wallin
Photos by Alexandra Bergman, Lasse Lychnell, Anne Vejen, and Kat Mizina
A modular training program in Contact Improvisation (CI), engaging practice, pedagogy and artistic inquiry.
rolling . falling . flying . listening
becoming . kinaesthetic . landscape
negotiating . finding soil
This program invites a CI dialogue between Malmö, Gothenburg and Stockholm, exploring the exchange as a cross city program.
The program consist of two blocks where we meet to dive into practice during six intensive weekends.
The intention is to cultivate a continuous and flourishing practice in Contact Improvisation.
2026 will be the 5th edition of the program. It is an initiation to create a group process. To build a container where we can expand, sustain, remain, deconstruct, question, support, reflect in and out of movement, breath, and craft a beautiful space together. Opening up exchange between the cities, the vision is to connect, nurture, and strengthen the community in Sweden.
Participants are expected to commit to non-partial participation in each module and to contribute with care to the deepen and expand the collective practice.
TESTIMONIALS
Photos by Alexandra Bergman
Each module has a research topic interweaving practice and theory, approaching the body as a relational field.
AUTUMN BLOCK
Module 4 Göteborg / Sept 18-20
ECOSOMATIC SPACES — Ecologies of body & mind
w. Johan Nilsson
Module 5 Malmö / Oct 16-18
SOFTENING STRUCTURES
w. Iiris Raipala
MODULES 2026
SPRING BLOCK
Module 1 Göteborg / March 6-8
THE BODY AS OUR TERRAIN — Mapping knowledge and seeding future inquiry
Module 2 Malmö / April 17-19
SHARING PERSPECTIVES
w. Dorte Bjerre Jensen
Module 3 Stockholm / Maj 22-24
LISTENING TO LINEAGE — CI history and Understanding The Underscore
w. Marie Klawitter & Måns Erlandsson
Module 6 Stockholm / Nov 13-15
THUNDER & TIDE — the meeting between movement and poetry. Tracing travelling forces
— from ignition to collective harvest.
During our weekends the idea is to co-create a CI. living room where we practice various forms of reflection to explore
what moving together can reveal.
Combining somatic practices, tools for spatial awareness, and technical skills for improvisation in and out of contact, we explore performative scores and tools for ensemble work. Investing time in movement, stillness, silence, words, sound, writing, and drawing. We discover, uncover, and recover by moving and being moved, pouring ourselves into collective knowledge and development, creating a living library within a group.
During our weekends the idea is to co-create a CI. livingroom where we practice various forms of reflection to explore what moving together can reveal. We identify sources and history, drawing inspiration from other practices with inspiring guest teachers coming in to share.
FACILITATION
Anna Vilhelmine Wallin (SE)
is the artistic initiator and facilitator of the program. A movement artist, educator, and mother. Through practise based research she writes, teach, curates, act and breathe within the field of Contact Improvisation.
Deeply committed to develop the Swedish C.I community, gathering dancers through regular classes, workshops, laboratories, jams, and festivals. Initiated and launched the program in 2022 and co-curating Sweden Contact Fest together with Kristina Ahlman.
Beyond curating, teaching, and facilitating the program she works with dancetheatre companies, corporates and dance institutions around the world. She hosts workshops, lectures, and inspirational talks for leaders, as one to one sessions.
By using improvisation her research identifies the fragile as the solid. Through somatic practises she explores what listening can be and bring. Driven to hold less, sense more and explore what we can build together.
GUEST FACULTY
2026
Dorte Bjerre Jensen (DK) Co-facilitating Module 2 in Malmö 2026. Dorte is a director, creator, choreographer, and performer for 25 years. Work is anchored in an evolving artistic inquiry into multisensory relations of ecological attention through movement, manifested as performance, participatory performative scores, live art installations, workshops, and writing. Currently living in California working on a PhD at UC Davis within Performance Studies. Research is grounded within improvisation. As an art worker and educator, her work is anchored in an evolving artistic inquiry into multisensory relations of ecological attention through movement, manifested as: performance, participatory performative scores, live art installations, lectures, classes and workshops, writing and mentorship. Practicing, teaching and performing contact improvisation for more than 20 years abroad and in Denmark. From 2018 became a part of the research project Experimenting, Experiencing, Reflecting (EER): between Studio Olafur Eliasson and the Interacting Minds Centre (IMC), Århus university. As part of EER, performed her piece “Sharing Perspectives” (SP) at Tate Modern London, which is grounded within the practice of contact improvisation and score design. As ways to navigate the pandemic, developed the performative scores, Greeting Cards (2020), which questioned and redefined the choreographed gesture greeting; and INviteME Online (2021), which invited participants to reconnect to their private spaces, plants, and each other. Publish these collaborations in both artistic and scientific books and journals. In 2023-24, the pieces depicted human and landscape interdependencies emphasizing our entanglement and vulnerability between the human more-than-human worlds. More info: Article on “Sharing Perspectives” www.dortebjerrejensen.dk www.eer.info www.touchy-subjects.com
Marie Klawitter (SE) Co-facilitating Module 3 in Stockholm 2026. Marie Klawitter has danced, studied, taught, performed and arranged events in dance and contact improvisation for the last 15 years in Sweden, Israel, Germany and Denmark. Also a trained biodynamic craniosacral therapist. She has a deep-rooted love for the body, its movement and silence. Passionate about creating space for thinking, Marie feels for communities that can contribute to a greater sense of wholeness and belonging in our world. 2024 organiser of Sweden Contact Fest. Since 2025 initiator of Te-salong for existential conversations and performing arts at Tegelscenen in Hökarängen.
Måns Erlandsson (SE) Co-facilitating Module 3 in Stockholm 2026. Måns has been teaching and performing C. I. since 1993 in and outside Sweden, regularly teaching at the University College of Dance and Circus (DOCH), Mime and Theatre in Stockholm. He initiated the NordicImprodance Meeting (NIM) in 1996 as well as organizing the Lillsved Jam& Seminar and the Nordic New Years Jam since 2002. He used to teach infestivals in Germany, Italy, Spain and the Scandinavian countries since 1998.
Johan Nilsson (SE) Co-facilitating Module 4 in Gothenburg 2026. Johan is an explorer of natural sciences and art. Gardener and teacher in Biodynamic farming, gardening and Permaculturdesign. These are a great source of inspiration for him due to its deep relationship with the natural world, alternative methods and plant forces. In dance and improvisation, he experiences the same fascination as when he was a child playing in the forest - in contact with nature - a world full of imagination and playfulness. His movement background includes Capoeira, African Dance, World Dance and fire spinning, but his interest deepened when he first discovered Contact Improvisation in 2004, with his main inspiration coming from Måns Erlandsson and Malin Anclair, Stockholm/Sweden. Johan has been participating as a teacher and performer in several projects, festivals and dance events throughout Europe, India and China. He is regularly teaching classes in different dance institutions and is organising CI events in Sweden. For a few years he was part of organizing METAMORPHOSIS Improvisation Festival, where he is the co-founder. Since a few years his work in dance and gardening tends to blend more and more into the practice of Ecosomatics, a normative way of moving through life. A way to work with the dignity of human kind and the future of the living earth. Learning more about your own systems through studying the large ecosystems, and training your empathy for the large systems based on your own somatic system. In his teaching, Johan likes to use the imaginary and a fascination for small details as tools to create one’s own dance. With fire-spinning he developed a fascination with continuously traveling weight. In contact improvisation he likes to relate to weight shifts, big movements through space and he definitely loves a certain amount of risk! Recently his work in dance institutions has a focus on maintaining ones’ own solo, the improvised part of contact improvisation, featherlight lifts and verbal reflections.
Iiris Raipala (FI) Co-facilitating Module 5 in Malmö 2026. Iiris is a dance artist, performer and teacher based in Helsinki. She graduated in 2004 as Master of Arts in dance from the Theatre Academy of Finland. She also has Master in Art Pedagogy. Her interests lie at the intersections of ritual art, dance improvisation as larger phenomena, somatic body-mind practices and performance. She is one of the founders of artistic-scientific Liminal Art Collective, which is working in the field of improvisation, ritual art and altered states of consciousness (liminalart.fi). She been working closely with improvisation and contact improvisation in several performing groups and has performed in the choreographies of many internationally acknowledged choreographers like Rosalind Crisp, Lisa Nelson, Tomi Paasonen, Mirva Mäkinen and Nancy Stark Smith. She has been practicing, teaching and performing contact improvisation for over 20 years, and she is one of the founders of Goa Contact Festival, Skiing on Skin Festival and Midnight Sun CI festival.
2025
Hugh Stanier (UK) Co-facilitated Module 2 in Gothenburg 2025. Hugh is a dance artist, movement educator, facilitator, and bodyworker, with over 20 years of international teaching in Contact Improvisation and contemporary dance. Starting his dance journey in breakdancing, Hugh transitioned into contemporary dance, studying at Northern School of Contemporary Dance. He has since performed with acclaimed companies such as Wim Vandekeybus/Ultima Vez and 2Faced Dance, and is passionate about helping others explore the transformative power of movement. Hugh specializes in body-mind connection, offering personalized bodywork sessions and dance intensives for individuals and groups. Find out more about Hugh and his work: https://www.hughmanmoves.com
Cristina Crippa (IT) Co-facilitated Module 4 in Malmö 2025. Cristina is an interdisciplinary artist and passionate movement teacher based in Italy-Ireland. After some years of contemporary dance investigation she discovered her passion for contact improvisation, composition, and improvisation while she was studing sculpture and painting at Brera Arts Academy. Her curiosity shifted her focus from the canvas to body-environment relationships. She has danced contact since 2010 and In 2013, driven by the desire to know the roots of contactimprovisation, she flew to Earthdance (Massachusetts, USA) to study with Nancy Stark Smith and once back in 2014 she started teaching. For 7 years she taught regular contact classes at Artichoke, a contemporary dance program in Milan and she organize and teach in workshops, jam and event in Italy and Europe. Cristina is also an Ilan Lev Method pratictioner (bodywork) and she is part of Effetto Larsen, a group that use relational art for developing a sense of community. Contact improvisation allowed her to research the power of listen, of being rooted and in the same time able to move, to have trust in our inner researches and deepen the quality of presence and for her it’s a priviledge to share all of these aspects through teaching. Learn more about Cristina: IG: cristicrips, www.cristinacrippa.it
2024
Gonzalo Barales (SP) Co-facilitated Module 2 in Malmö 2025. Gonzalo is a movement artist, teacher and researcher focused on the development of the self through presence and movement practices. His knowledge and experience is nourished by Kung Fu, Tai Ji Quan, Qi Gong, Yoga, Contemporary Dance, Contact Impro, Ballet, Soft Acrobatics, Anatomy, Phisiology, Reiki, Taoism, Buddhism, Vedanta and Sacred Geometry. Read more about Gonzalo: https://vitalnexus.net/intensivo-rie-es-ci2
Sebastian Grubb (US) Co-facilitated Module 4 in Stockholm 2025. Professional dancer, choreographer and movement coach since 2006. He has won awards, toured extensively as a performer, taught throughout the U.S. and in Europe, made film appearances and enjoyed numerous collaborations with other dancers and teaching artists. Learn more about Sebastian and his work: https://bodywagging.dance
2023 - 2022
PRACTICAL INFO 2025
SPRING BLOCK
Module 1 Malmö / March 21-23
THE BODY AS A LANDSCAPE
Module 2 Göteborg / April 18-20
THE SPINE OF MY LIFE w. Hugh Stanier
Module 3 Stockholm / May 9-11
MOVING THROUGH HISTORY
AUTUMN BLOCK
Module 4 Malmö / Aug 29-31
BALANCING SPACE & BODY w. Cristina Crippa
Module 5 Göteborg / Sep 26-28
TENSEGRAL INTEGRATION
Module 6 Stockholm / Oct 24-26
FROM SEED TO SPIRAL
PRACTICAL INFO 2024
MALMÖ
w. 6 Feb 9-11
w. 14 April 5-7
w. 22 May 31-1
w. 34 Aug 23-24
w. 40 Oct 4-5
w. 48 Nov 29-1
STOCKHOLM
w. 7 Feb 16-18
w. 16 April 19-20
w. 24 Juni 14-15
w. 35 Aug 30-31
w. 42 Oct 18-19
w. 50 Dec 13-15
TIME
Fridays 18.30 - 21.00
Saturdays 13.00 - 18.00
* Sundays 11.00 - 14.00
* Sundays only goes for the First and the Last Module.
** Short breaks will be included and times may shift depending on the process and the groups needs.
