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Documents CI Global Calendar Canadian regions BC Salt Spring Island BC Vancouver Island BC Lasqueti Island BC Mainland BC Victoria (on facebook) Collingwood, ON Montréal / Sherbrooke, QC Killaloe / Barry's Bay / Madawaska Valley / Opeongo Newfoundland Ontario Regional Contact Jam Ottawa, ON / Gatineau, QC Peterborough, ON Toronto, ON facebook: Québec, QC Winnipeg, MB Jump down to: International Earthdance MA Canadian Links Association Contact Improv (Montréal) Canadian Dance Links (via contactimprov.com) April 2007 Toronto video (Flash) Other Links EarthDance (USA) contactimprov.com (USA) Wikipedia: "Contact Improvisation" contactquarterly.com (USA) Archives Ontario Regional Jam, Toronto, 2027 Ontario Regional Jam, Toronto, April 2026 Ontario Regional Jam, Toronto, April 2025 Ontario Regional Jam 2024, CANCELLED due to Organizational Insufficiencies Ontario Regional Jam 2023, CANCELLED due to pandemic Ontario Regional Jam 2022, CANCELLED due to pandemic Ontario Regional Jam 2021, CANCELLED due to pandemic Ontario Regional Jam, ONLINE, April 2020 Ontario Regional Jam, Toronto, April 2019 Ontario Regional Jam, Toronto, March 2018 Ontario Regional Jam, Toronto, April 2017 Ontario Regional Jam, Toronto, March 2016 Ontario Regional Jam, Toronto, May 2015 Ontario Regional Jam, Toronto, May 2014 Ontario Regional Jam, Kitchener-Waterloo, May 2013 Ontario Regional Jam, Ottawa, May 2012 Ontario Regional Jam, Toronto, May 2011 Ontario Regional Jam, Toronto, May 2010 Ontario Regional Jam, Toronto, May 2009 Ontario Regional Jam, Toronto, April 2007 2007 Documentary Ontario Regional Jam, Ottawa, April 2006 Burlington International Jam, March 2006 Ontario Regional Jam, Toronto, March 2005	Start here: What is Contact Improvisation Dance? See the left side-bar and choose a region in Canada or International. 2026 October 9–11 – Falling Into Autumn CI Dance Jam Friday, Oct 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM to Sunday, Oct 11, 2026 at 4:00 PM EDT eventzilla: Falling Into Autumn CI Dance Jam As we head into the season of harvest and coziness, we want to dance with you at the “Falling into Autumn” annual weekend-long jam! We’re creating a weekend of dancing, connection, and care—centered on trust, open communication, and being in space together. This jam is access-focused and intentionally welcoming, with efforts to remove barriers so more folks can join us. Contact improvisation is magical because it’s not codified—everyone brings their own style. We celebrate dancers of all experience levels, identities, and body types. Your presence, your body, and your lived experience are what will make this jam amazing. Whatever your style, we offer options to support you: technique classes with local and traveling teachers, guided jams with themes like the Blindfold jam, and open jams for unstructured exploration. Inspired by the season, we’re making the space cozy with cushions and mats in the studios for when you want to rest while staying in the room. Saturday night we’ll share a catered dinner and enjoy film screenings of contact dance from around the world, including local submissions. With just 1–2 events at a time, there’s space to breathe, dance, and truly get to know each other. We hope you’ll finish this weekend feeling a sense of collaboration and togetherness with your fellow dancers, and a sense of excitement and inspiration for your own dancing. 2026 October 17-18 - Inter/Adv Contact Improv Intensive Saturday, Oct 17, 2026 at 10:00 AM to Sunday, Oct 18, 2026 at 5:00 PM EDT Join Colours in Contact for a day and a half of movement, learning, experimentation, play, and connection - an immersive experience designed to take you deeper into your contact improvisation practice while sharing the space with a vibrant and diverse community of movers. Eventbrite: Contact Improv Intensive Ticket Link This isn’t just a day of classes. It’s a chance to spend extended time in the practice: learning new skills, asking questions, tinkering with ideas, dancing, resting, thinking, playing, and discovering what happens when we give ourselves the time and space to really explore. We’ll spend the first day moving through a rich mix of facilitated sessions and open exploration, with plenty of opportunities to take what we learn directly into practice. Expect spirals, spinning and advanced lifts, heart-led movement, creative inquiry, a contact improv lab, and lots of time to dance and experiment together. We’ll close the day with a community dinner, then come back together on Sunday for a jam with the broader Colours in Contact community, giving you even more space to integrate, play, and let the practice unfold. Ready to join us? Click the ticket link above for full details, including the location, facilitator information, FAQ, agenda, pricing, and registration. If you have any questions or would like more information, feel free to reach out at `hello@coloursincontact.com` or message us on Instagram or Facebook `@coloursincontact`. We look forward to moving with you! 💜 2027 Big Heart Dance Camp UniCamp of Ontario – Honeywood (west of Barrie, ON) NOTE: The Big Heart Dance Camp web site is not yet updated for 2027. The annual Big Heart Dance Camp is a multi-arts, intergenerational, weekend gathering of creative conscious community. Follow the link for details. We welcome you to experience embodying your full creative self in a safe, supportive and playful environment. A wide array of dance, yoga, music, and other healing arts modalities are shared through playshops and evening events. Big Heart Dance Camp takes place at Unicamp, near Honeywood, Ontario. Beautiful hiking trails, forest, and a swimming pond invites you to take a dip. Meals are eaten in community, lovingly and mindfully prepared by our kitchen team. We invite you to join us in growing our creative, conscious community as we blossom into our 17th year! Contact Ian! Allen about car pooling to this event from the Ottawa/Gatineau area. 2027 (maybe) Ontario Regional Contact Jam – ORCJ As of August 1 2026 we don't have enough committed organizers to recreate the usual big event in Toronto, so we are putting out a call for options for what to do in 2027, if anything. Contact `ontjam@contactimprov.ca` Follow this link to the Ontario Regional Contact Jam 2027 (maybe) Contact Ian! Allen about car pooling to this event from the Ottawa/Gatineau area. International Events () () Not exactly Canada; but, close enough for improvisational purposes. See also the CI Global Calendar 2026 August Burlington International Contact Improv Jam August 28 to 30 – Burlington, Vermont, USA The Annual Burlington VT International Contact Improv Dance Jam: Beautiful accessible downtown dance space Led warm-ups Outdoor group performance scores Come dance with us! Contact Ian! Allen about car pooling to this event from the Ottawa/Gatineau/Montréal area. 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2026 October 9–11 – Falling Into Autumn CI Dance Jam

Friday, Oct 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM to Sunday, Oct 11, 2026 at 4:00 PM EDT

eventzilla: Falling Into Autumn CI Dance Jam

As we head into the season of harvest and coziness, we want to dance with you at the “Falling into Autumn” annual weekend-long jam!

We’re creating a weekend of dancing, connection, and care—centered on trust, open communication, and being in space together. This jam is access-focused and intentionally welcoming, with efforts to remove barriers so more folks can join us.

Contact improvisation is magical because it’s not codified—everyone brings their own style. We celebrate dancers of all experience levels, identities, and body types. Your presence, your body, and your lived experience are what will make this jam amazing.

Whatever your style, we offer options to support you: technique classes with local and traveling teachers, guided jams with themes like the Blindfold jam, and open jams for unstructured exploration.

Inspired by the season, we’re making the space cozy with cushions and mats in the studios for when you want to rest while staying in the room. Saturday night we’ll share a catered dinner and enjoy film screenings of contact dance from around the world, including local submissions. With just 1–2 events at a time, there’s space to breathe, dance, and truly get to know each other.

We hope you’ll finish this weekend feeling a sense of collaboration and togetherness with your fellow dancers, and a sense of excitement and inspiration for your own dancing.

2026 October 17-18 - Inter/Adv Contact Improv Intensive

Saturday, Oct 17, 2026 at 10:00 AM to Sunday, Oct 18, 2026 at 5:00 PM EDT

Join Colours in Contact for a day and a half of movement, learning, experimentation, play, and connection - an immersive experience designed to take you deeper into your contact improvisation practice while sharing the space with a vibrant and diverse community of movers.

Eventbrite: Contact Improv Intensive Ticket Link

This isn’t just a day of classes. It’s a chance to spend extended time in the practice: learning new skills, asking questions, tinkering with ideas, dancing, resting, thinking, playing, and discovering what happens when we give ourselves the time and space to really explore.

We’ll spend the first day moving through a rich mix of facilitated sessions and open exploration, with plenty of opportunities to take what we learn directly into practice. Expect spirals, spinning and advanced lifts, heart-led movement, creative inquiry, a contact improv lab, and lots of time to dance and experiment together. We’ll close the day with a community dinner, then come back together on Sunday for a jam with the broader Colours in Contact community, giving you even more space to integrate, play, and let the practice unfold.

Ready to join us? Click the ticket link above for full details, including the location, facilitator information, FAQ, agenda, pricing, and registration.

If you have any questions or would like more information, feel free to reach out at hello@coloursincontact.com or message us on Instagram or Facebook @coloursincontact.

We look forward to moving with you! 💜

2027 Big Heart Dance Camp

UniCamp of Ontario – Honeywood (west of Barrie, ON)

NOTE: The Big Heart Dance Camp web site is not yet updated for 2027. The annual Big Heart Dance Camp is a multi-arts, intergenerational, weekend gathering of creative conscious community. Follow the link for details.

We welcome you to experience embodying your full creative self in a safe, supportive and playful environment. A wide array of dance, yoga, music, and other healing arts modalities are shared through playshops and evening events. Big Heart Dance Camp takes place at Unicamp, near Honeywood, Ontario. Beautiful hiking trails, forest, and a swimming pond invites you to take a dip. Meals are eaten in community, lovingly and mindfully prepared by our kitchen team. We invite you to join us in growing our creative, conscious community as we blossom into our 17th year!

Contact Ian! Allen about car pooling to this event from the Ottawa/Gatineau area.

2027 (maybe) Ontario Regional Contact Jam – ORCJ

As of August 1 2026 we don't have enough committed organizers to recreate the usual big event in Toronto, so we are putting out a call for options for what to do in 2027, if anything. Contact ontjam@contactimprov.ca

Follow this link to the Ontario Regional Contact Jam 2027 (maybe)

Contact Ian! Allen about car pooling to this event from the Ottawa/Gatineau area.

International Events (*)

(*) Not exactly Canada; but, close enough for improvisational purposes. See also the CI Global Calendar

2026 August Burlington International Contact Improv Jam

August 28 to 30 – Burlington, Vermont, USA

The Annual Burlington VT International Contact Improv Dance Jam:

Beautiful accessible downtown dance space
Led warm-ups
Outdoor group performance scores

Come dance with us!

Contact Ian! Allen about car pooling to this event from the Ottawa/Gatineau/Montréal area.

What is Contact Improvisation Dance ?

What is Contact Improvisation Dance?

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