BIO
I am a community pedagogue (MA), peace educator, and I have practiced contact improvisation since 2001. My background in drama pedagogy, nonviolent communication, and peace education shapes the way I facilitate, inviting empathy, listening, and connection. For me, contact improvisation is a practice of cultivating aliveness, awareness, and peaceful relations, both within ourselves and with others. I currently work as a peace educator and expert at the Peace Union of Finland.
What keeps drawing me back to CI is the possibility of knowing through the body, following unexpected pathways, and discovering connection through dance. I am moved by the simple yet profound experience of sharing our humanity through embodiment — sensing, responding, supporting, and being affected by one another.
Shared ground
Teacher: Annukka
Pathway: CI Essential
What could it mean to belong to the ground we share?
Through Contact Improvisation, we explore belonging through weight, touch, falling, listening and choice. We move between autonomy and interdependence, sensing how our bodies shape and are shaped by the shared ground.
We open to the space around and between us, exploring how we move with space, shape it through our movement, and are moved by it in return.
What if the ground became a field we participate in and care for? How does recognising our interdependence change the way we move, relate and care for the earth we share?