Contact Improvisation Classes

Lewis Wilkins

Contact Improvisation Classes

Lewis Wilkins

In these classes, participants playfully delved into experiential anatomy, athletic development, and advanced possibilities for exchanging weight.

Guided improvisations and limitation scores were used as containers for attention, somatic tuning, creative decision-making, and relating to one another, both in and out of contact.

BIOGRAPHY

Lewis Wilkins is a UK-based dance artist with 16 years of professional experience as a performer, maker, and educator. Teaching since 2014, he specialises in ensemble improvisation, contact improvisation, floorwork, and soft acrobatics. Lewis teaches internationally for dance companies, festivals, organisations, and universities, including Agitart Figueres es Mou, B12 Berlin, Corps Bara, DV8 Physical Theatre, National Dance Company Wales, and Scottish Dance Theatre. He is a regular guest faculty member at LCDS, Nuova Officina della Danza, and the University of Limerick, and has previously taught at London Studio Centre, Middlesex University, Rambert School, and the University of Roehampton.