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Marie Chabert

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🤸 Contact improviser | Choreographer
🎯 22 yrs in CI | 17 yrs pro dancer | 8 yrs teaching
🌍 Teaching & performing
📚 CI Researcher | Community

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.: Moving Between Stillness & Connection :.

A 2-hour journey through Contact Improvisation, Meditation & Sound Immersion

How do we listen to ourselves while remaining open to others? How can movement, touch and sound deepen our sense of presence and connection?

Join Marie Chabert @m.chabert dance artist and choreographer and Gosia Malinowska somatic therapist, Reiki and sound facilitator, for an embodied journey exploring the space between movement and stillness, our inner and outer worlds.

Through guided meditation, somatic exploration and Contact Improvisation, we will awaken our senses, tune into gravity, and explore how we move and connect with others through touch, shared weight and playful interactions.

Moving between solo, partner and group explorations, we’ll cultivate curiosity, awareness and responsiveness, allowing dances to emerge through listening rather than predetermined steps.

We will gradually transition from movement into rest, immersing ourselves in a sound journey that invites deep listening, relaxation and integration.

An invitation to slow down, reconnect with yourself, encounter others and experience the interplay between movement, stillness and sound.

Open to all levels of experience. No previous dance or meditation experience is necessary. All explorations offer space for personal choice, boundaries and individual ways of participating.

Facilitated by Marie Chabert & Gosia Malinowska 🤸‍♀️🎶

Saturday, 28th November
6-8pm
Walworth Town Hall, Elephant & Castle @wthcommunity

Sliding scale donation- based payment…who’s in?? 😃

Booking link in my bio! 🤸‍♀️

#meditation #contactimprovisation #soundbath

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I love dancing WITH people. Maybe you are one of them?

Monday, Oct 19, 5-8pm The Gymmy Jam in Bushwick

Tuesday, Oct 20, 6:30-8:30pm Contact Improv Basics Class in Soho

Wednesday, Oct 21, 6:30-8:30pm. Restorative Contact in Brooklyn @maharosenyc

LINK IN BIO for more info on those classes plus others.

In this video I'm dancing with the dynamic @m.chabert @art_omi for the culmination of the 2026 Dance Residency. Thanks to @christopherkaui and @_de_jon_

Video by Karl.

#contactimprov #contactimprovisation #partnerdancing #dance #dancers

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A taste of Art of Play
CI and play fighting

Deep and meaningful explorations of what happens when we let go of inhibition and surrender to our body's innate need for movement, connection and play.

See more events at playfighting.uk

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The Art of Play
Brighton
Saturday 26 September 3pm

playfighting.uk

After a sold out event in London last weekend, it's amazing to be able to offer it again in Brighton. Marie and I had a lot of fun with co-facilitating and it became apparent that CI and Play Fighting are natural bedfellows.

In this workshop we'll combine play-fighting and Contact Improvisation in novel and experimental ways. Expect games, movement scores, and partner explorations that invite you to explore touch, negotiation, weight, balance, support, challenge, intensity, playfulness and spontaneity.

What can these 2 disciplines teach us?

CI helps with learning how to listen, be attuned, keep our body soft and supple.
Play fighting teaches us to trust our body's wisdom in split-second decisions, and avoid sticking to patterns and old behaviours - the speed of reaction forces improvisation at every turn.

We have a fantastic group forming and a beautiful space with full padded floor close to Brighton train station.

#BrightonEvents #BrightonConsciousEvents #PlayFightingUK #BrightonPlayFighting #ContactImprov #BrightonCI

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Friday night at The Playground! 💛✨

What a beautiful way to kick off our first Playground after the summer break! A little glimpse into the evening.

A HUGE thank you to everyone who joined us, both familiar faces and new ones. You are what makes The Playground such a special community, and we absolutely love seeing what happens when you all come together.

A massive thank you to our brilliant choreographers Marie Chabert @m.chabert Adél Bálint @adelbalint Stephanie Burrell @steph___ll and to our wonderful musicians Tommy Khosla @tommykhosla Michael Mendones @michael_mendones William South @williamsouthmusic and Rich Thornton @eatmydepth for sharing your creativity and bringing three completely different worlds to life.

And, of course, a big thank you to our lovely Playground team, Archie @archie.white Jonah @jonah_jy Mary @themovingtheatrelab and Simone @ms_stackhouse for helping make it all happen. ❤️

Here’s to more dancing, connecting, experimenting and making things together. See you at the next one on Friday 23 October!

With love, The Playground Team 🤍

#ThePlayground #ThePlaygroundLondon #DanceCommunity #ContemporaryDance #DanceImprovisation

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A CI jam to bring everyone together: London's CI teachers, organisers and you, the wider community for a time out to dance, lab and connect.

26th: Saturday 16:00 - 22:00

27th: Sunday 11:00-17:00

Our teaching and organising community is the foundation of London's CI community.
We want to celebrate being here together and meet you as a community, not just as individual practitioners.

Join us for one or two days of dancing, where you can fully let go—fall, fly, and be caught by the fabric of long-term, lush CI practices that our community holds. Experience CI as life integration where body meets mind and generates a collective field of care, curiosity and spirit.

We enter with as little agenda as possible, honouring the present moment that improvisation and jamming invite. Each day will be centred around spacious jams in the large Walworth Hall. Adjacent areas—the kitchen, living room, chill-out space and courtyard—give us room to chat, eat, rest, dream, and flow.

As our dancing and teaching community grows in size, practices, wisdom, and challenges, this event offers us a chance to jam our way into sensing who we are now and how we step into the future together.

Before and during the event, you are invited to share any questions you have about CI—technical, visionary, reflective, or concerning needs or serious concerns. We will dedicate 1.5 hours each day for teachers to explore these questions in small, spontaneous labs that you’re welcome to join on the spot.

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A few weeks ago we presented a short part from our upcoming creation "The Four Of Us" at the wonderful Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. It was such an amazing opportunity and a beautiful experience!
To be on this journey together with @anapaulaornelasfavela and @adamluis_houston I feel blessed ❤️

Thank you @christopherkaui and @_de_jon_ for the mentoring, for all the help, and the treasure you've built at Omi and you're still nurturing! Thank you @art_omi and @jacobspillow for this unique opportunity. And thanks for all the fellow-residents who we can perform together and trust the High Priestess.
My heart is full.

photo: @samplephotographer

#dance #contemporarydance #jacobspillow #artomi #physicalpuppettheatre #fizikaibábszínház #tobbszexustababszinhazba
#trustthehighpriestess

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I’ve been enjoying the contact improvisation practices with @m.chabert

Join us Saturday, August 8, 5-7pm at Art Omi for this and much more. Free with RSVP. Link in bio.

#contactimprovisation #contemporarydance #contactimprov #improvisation

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Radical gentleness. Holding hands.

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For the calendar 📆

Our 2 day *London Jam* September 26 +27 is coming UP ✨

Get your tickets while you can.

London's teaching, organising and practicing community come together to jam their socks off with you. No classes, just good old long form jamming, food share, space to hang out, lush body work and all your hearts desires.

We make it low cost so all can come but if you need special low low cost and wanna help out, get in touch!

*Event link*
Eventbrite : Exit Map London Jam

pictures by Joana Dabaj

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I have fantasized about an alumni reunion for the dance program at @art_omi for YEARS. Celebrating 20 cohorts of 181 dancers from 43 countries, this summer my fantasy has been realized.

Grateful to be in community with these amazing humans and excited to share their work at @jacobspillow on Saturday August 1 and at Omi on Saturday August 8.

Info to join us here:
https://artomi.org/residencies/dance/

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🎊 The special 20th anniversary edition of Art Omi: Dance is nearly upon us! To mark this milestone we’re hitting pause on our annual dance residency and are welcoming back three groups of alumni who first met in residence.

Led by Residency Program Director Christopher K. Morgan (@christopherkaui) and Residency Program Manager jeremy de’jon guyton (@_de_jon_), these nine dancers from all over the globe will reunite on our Hudson Valley campus to create bold new short-form work that embodies the connection, curiosity, and creative risk that encompasses the spirit of Art Omi.

The 2026 residency, kicking off next week, will see residents returning to Art Omi from as far back as 2008, and culminate in two performances celebrating two decades of transformative collaboration:

𓎟 August 𝟭 | 𝗝𝗮𝗰𝗼𝗯'𝘀 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 (@jacobspillow) | 5:30–6:30 PM | Tickets from $5
𓎟 August 𝟴 | 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗢𝗺𝗶 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗻 | 5–7 PM | Free. RSVP appreciated. Walk-ins always welcome.

Over the past 20 years, Art Omi: Dance has welcomed 181 dance artists from 43 countries. The 20 Years of International Exchange Open Call garnered applications from more than 50 alumni representing 25 countries.

🔗 Visit the link in bio for tickets, to RSVP, and to learn more about Art Omi: Dance!

𝗠𝗘𝗘𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗥𝗦
𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟴 𝗔𝗟𝗨𝗠𝗡𝗜:
𓎟 Marie Chabert | U.K./France | @m.chabert
𓎟 Joey Chua | Finland/Singapore | @joeychuafinland
𓎟 Csilla Gesztelyi Nagy | Hungary | @cipolla_collectiva
𓎟 Sintija Silina | Latvia | @sintija.silina

𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟰 𝗔𝗟𝗨𝗠𝗡𝗜:
𓎟 Gabrielle Revlock | U.S. | @gabriellerevlock
𓎟 Kensaku Shinohara | Japan/U.S. | @kensakushinohara

𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 𝗔𝗟𝗨𝗠𝗡𝗜:
𓎟 Adam Casteñeda | U.S. | @adamluis_houston
𓎟 Ana Paula Ornelas Favela | Mexico | @anapaulaornelas.mx
𓎟 Domokos Kovács | Hungary | @kovacsdomokos

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