Foundational skills for presence, partnership, and the unpredictable dance of contact.

We’ll begin by tuning our bodies—activating attention as a physical practice and sharpening our sensitivity to impulse, momentum, and the forces moving through us.

We’ll connect to our ground and to each other, entering a field of shared presence through weight, attention, and the subtle intelligence of touch.

Together, we’ll explore a shared center of gravity—discovering how to perch, pivot, and enter flight, embracing the pleasure of not knowing what’s next. Through emergent collaboration, we’ll cultivate our capacity for attunement—dancing with the shifting edges of support, direction, and choice. We will do a lot of dancing, and it will be fun.


Gretchen Spiro and Steve Homsher practice, teach, and perform Contact Improvisation. As founders of Tumblebones Contact Improvisation Collective, they share a deep love for the principles and practice of CI—both as an art form and as a way to connect with others and with the mystery of aliveness.

Their teaching emphasizes clear physical skills, artistic exploration, and embodied attunement. They believe that improvisation and connection can help us become more awake, kind, and aware as human beings.

Together, they bring over 50 years of combined experience and maintain close ties to the founders of the form.