Improvisation, Contact & Creation
Family & Children Creative Dance
Workshop for Kids 12
Contakids
Mimi LO
Contakids
This parent-child interactive model, which originated from contact improvisation dancer Itay Yatuv in Israel, has been promoted worldwide. Its concept is to encourage parents and children to engage in physical activities and games, fostering a deeper level of communication in a joyful and relaxed environment. Children can learn to build confidence through bodily expressions, while parents can establish a stronger bond of trust with their children.
What is ContaKids?
Tactility is a fundamental sensory experience of our environment. As children, we first make sense of the world physically. As we grow into adulthood, we lose much of our dependence on touch to observe and learn, as our other senses—like vision and hearing—develop to become the dominant channels to our intellect and imagination.
Contakids is a methodology that pushes the idea of using physical contact to develop a deeper form of communication between parents and their children, that both will find enjoyable. By working with bodily movements, the child can enhance their motor skills and self-confidence, while the parents get to develop a bond of trust with their young. It aims to foster confidence in our actions, by reinstating the physical abilities that we were born with. This energetic assuredness flows directly, in an unmediated form, to our little partners in dance. As we tend to lack it as adults, the hard work is ours to bear right now.
*Children aged (3-8) must be accompanied by a parent
