Directed by: Cynthia ReimersProduced by: Cynthia ReimersYear Created: 2026Length: 5 min 6 secCountry of Origin: CanadaCountry of Filming: CanadaComposer: Cynthia ReimersWriter: Cynthia ReimersKey Cast: Cynthia ReimersFilm DescriptionA contact improvisation film featuring three dancers immersed in a dance between themselves, sand, stones, glacial waters, and the flow of a river. Held is a story of deep sacred care, connection, and sisterhood, exploring support, surrender, trust, and the beauty of life's flow.

Held

A film by: Dancing Lobster and Kate MostYear Created: 2026Country of Origin: Finland

Contact Improvisation: A Life of Impulse

Year Created: 2025Length: 46 secondsCountry of Origin: United StatesPerformers: Gabrielle Revlock, Ryan Yamauchi, Sarah ZuccheroFilm DescriptionAn excerpt of Both, an improvised performance by Gabrielle Revlock, Ryan Yamauchi, and Sarah Zucchero. Recorded at Arts on Site in New York City on October 12, 2025.

Contact Improv Trio

Directed by: Fu LeYear Created: 2025Length: 4 min 14 secCountry of Origin: FranceCountry of Filming: FranceFilm DescriptionA group of young dancers from the Coline training program revisit a piece by Dominique Bagouet. Shot in a single take, Strange Age captures the dancers' exploration of the work and offers a glimpse into the Coline training program.

Strange Age

Directed by: Ximena Monroy RochaProduced by: Ximena Monroy Rocha, Elru Tsln, João Rafael NetoYear Created: 2026Length: 5 min 30 secCountry of Origin: MexicoCountry of Filming: BrazilPerformers: Elru Tsln, João Rafael NetoFilm DescriptionInspired by the permeability of bodies in relation and affection, this film brings together cloud-bodies, skies, trees, insects, wind, and human bodies in a continuous encounter. Emerging from creative encounters in Brazil, the film explores contact improvisation and the possibilities of bodies meeting, transforming, and becoming part of their environment. A first dance between Elru and Rafa unfolds in a city park, while Ximena provides a score and captures the encounter for the screen.

Reverdec­er (To Revive)

Directed by: Daria LukinaYear Created: 2026Length: 6 min 24 secCountry of Filming: ThailandFilm DescriptionA dancing tribe lives in the water until they are forced onto land, where they discover that the water has become unfit for life. Carrying water in bottles and plastic bags, they attempt to continue their familiar way of living, but as the water runs out, only one last drop remains. A poetic reflection on water, pollution, memory, and humanity's ancient relationship with the natural world.

The Last Drop

Directed by: Jacopo LepreYear Created: 2024Length: 2 min 26 secCountry of Origin: ItalyChoreographer: Soraya GomaaChoreographer: Andrea PadoanFilm DescriptionA short dance film directed by Jacopo Lepre and featuring choreographer-dancers Soraya Gomaa and Andrea Padoan. Moving between black-and-white and colour imagery, Sogna Fiore Mio offers a visually distinctive exploration of dance, movement, and the relationship between the performers.

Sogna Fiore Mio

Directed by: Tiina JääsköYear Created: 2026Country of Origin: FinlandDancers / Performers: Tiina Jääskö &amp; Mariel GueckFilm DescriptionA personal dance film born from a hard journey. Through movement, the film traces a path through struggle and the gradual return to standing on one’s own feet. It is an reflection on what it takes to move through Challenge and find the strength to rise.

The Battle We Choose

Directed by: Daria LukinaYear Created: 2025Length: 7 min 52 secCountry of Filming and Origen: GeorgiaKey Cast: Eve Trapeznikova, Adan William SpensorWriter: Daria LukinaFilm DescriptionIt is good in paradise, but there is no one to dance with. Eve creates Adam, and their dance explores innocence, connection, and the division between two halves of one whole. Drawing on the story of paradise, the film reflects on duality, the first touch, and dance as a universal language.

Eve and Adam

Year Created: 2026Country of origin: Spain and CanadaDancers: Francesca Frewer &amp; Jesus AlonsoFilm DescriptionAfter 15 days of dancing, sharing, and teaching at the Freiburg Contact Improvisation Festival, Francesca Frewer and Jesus Alonso come together for a final dance. The film captures the connection, shared practice, and movement that emerge through an extended experience of contact improvisation.

Contact Impro Last Dance in Freiburg CI Festival 2026

Directed by: ZHI JIANGYear Created: 2023Length: 13 min 23 secCountry of Origin: Not providedCountry of Filming: Not providedFilm DescriptionWhen one person carries out a security check on another, the traveller carries the waves between them. Set against the sea, THE WAVES explores inspection, suspicion, bodily reactions, and the invisible boundaries between people. Drawing on contact improvisation, the film considers trust, social dynamics, and human connection through movement and interaction by the shore.

THE WAVES

Directed by: Alex St-OngeYear Created: 2026Length: 10 min 51 secCountry of Origin: CanadaCountry of Filming: IrelandMusic: Eva FrankelCamera: Eva FrankelDancers: Alex St-OngeChoreographer: Alex St-OngeResearch and Navigation: Dan SelwayFilm DescriptionDancing with Stones is composed of a series of contact dances with Neolithic standing stones on the southwest coast of Ireland. The film explores what it means to commune with the past through movement and to place your hands on surfaces that have been touched and interacted with for thousands of years.

Dancing with Stones

Directed by: Litian WangLength: 8 min 55 secCountry: CanadaYear created: 2026A contact improvisation dance film exploring movement, connection, and spontaneous interaction. Two bodies respond to one another and to their surroundings, allowing the landscape and the movement itself to shape the experience.

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