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★ TEACHER SPOTLIGHT — LET’S FLY🤍

A rare one. We are so honoured to welcome Neta Peleg Ginzburg to ARCS 2026 for a three-part CI masterclass: Lift Light Fly on Might.

Neta Peleg Ginzburg

How can we be light — regardless of height and weight?

Across three sessions, Neta guides advanced practitioners and mature bodies into weight-sharing, spiraling lifts, and momentum — where alignment replaces effort, where centrifugal force can carry us, and gravity can be trusted.

An exploration of clarity: allowing weight-sharing to evolve into lifts, rather than making them happen.

🕊️ The three parts:
• PART 1 · Tue, June 16 · 7:30–9:30 PM (drop-in welcome)
• PART 2 · Wed, June 17 · 9:30 AM–12:30 PM (drop-in welcome)
• PART 3 · Wed, June 17 · 2:00–5:00 PM (deeper — Part 2 required)

All at proto studio
5333 Casgrain Studio 1107 (11th floor)
Montréal

A multidisciplinary artist from Israel / Palestine, creator of dance-literature performances, Neta teaches CI and anatomy-based somatic movement around the world — and is a percussionist and feminist peace activist. A once-in-a-festival chance to study with her. Don’t miss this.

↳ Reserve your place: arcscifestivalmtl2026.com — or tap the link in our bio.

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★ PORTRAIT D’ENSEIGNANT — À NE PAS MANQUER 🤍

Une rareté. Quel honneur d’accueillir Neta Peleg Ginzburg à ARCS 2026 pour une classe de maître CI en trois parties : Lift Light Fly on Might.

Comment être léger·ère·s, peu importe la taille et le poids ? Sur trois séances, Neta guide les praticien·ne·s avancé·e·s et les corps matures vers le partage du poids, les portés en spirale et l’élan — là où l’alignement remplace l’effort, où la force centrifuge nous porte, où l’on fait confiance à la gravité. Une exploration de la clarté : laisser le partage du poids évoluer vers les portés, plutôt que de les forcer.

🕊️ Les trois parties :

PARTIE 1 · Mar 16 juin · 19h30–21h30 (accès ponctuel)
• PARTIE 2 · Mer 17 juin · 9h30–12h30 (accès ponctuel)
• PARTIE 3 · Mer 17 juin · 14h–17h (approfondi — Partie 2 requise)

Valerie Sabbah

★ RECOVERY WORKSHOP — REST. RESTORE. KEEP DANCING. 🤍

🤲 Thai Massage & Nervous System Rest for CI Bodies
👐 with Shanthi Minor & Nico Couto
📅 Tue, June 16 · 9:30 AM–12:30 PM · Gentle · All Levels
📍 Proto Studio · 5333 Casgrain, Studio 1107, Mile End · Métro Laurier

Shanthi Minor
Nico Couto

After days of flying, falling, and listening through the skin — and especially after Monday night’s Focus Jam — the nervous system is vibrating high. Tuesday morning, we down-shift.

Come to the Morning Shake at 8, then sink into three hours of deep rest: a guided exchange of giving and receiving, through osteopathy and traditional Thai massage. We release the feet and hips that carried you, and soothe the neck and shoulders that held the weight of others — then carry that ease through the rest of the festival.

Shake → restore → keep dancing.

Valerie Sabbah

★ MORNING SHAKE — SHAKE TOGETHER. WAKE TOGETHER. 🤍 with the amazing Mel Sirois

Mel Sirois

Four days left of the ARCS Contact Improvisation Pre-Summer Festival — four full days of practice still to come, and each one begins with the shake.

Shake together. Wake together. Bagel together. Practice together.

🌊 THE DREAM: what happens when 50 shaking bodies move as one? Come help us fill the floor.

🥯 THE CHALLENGE: make all four mornings and take home a dozen fresh Fairmount bagels.

Shaking is part of the Contact Improvisation practice — the way we tune the body before a full day on the floor. We shake awake, release what we’re holding, and arrive porous and alive for the morning session and the whole day ahead.

How it goes:
📅 Mon–Thu · June 15, 16, 17, 18
⏰ Arrive 7:45 · shake 8:00–8:45 · bagels + breakfast after
🧦 Come in your pyjamas · bring a change of clothes
💛 Pay-what-you-can $5–10 (breakfast included)

📍 Proto Studio · 5333 Casgrain, Studio 1107, Mile End · Métro Laurier

★ TEACHER SPOTLIGHT — DO NOT MISS THIS 🤍

We can’t wait to welcome Niku Dhillon to ARCS 2026.

Niku Dhillon

Based on Salt Spring & Vancouver Island, BC, Niku has been practicing Contact Improvisation for over 13 years, with roots in Contemporary Dance at the University of Calgary.

His teaching lives where somatic listening, CI fundamentals, and the poetic expression of the unfolding dance all meet — and he’s known for the warm, welcoming spaces he creates, and for professionally training facilitators to hold them too.

Two mornings with him — where thinking melts into listening, and decisions release into flow:

🍃 Falling into Contact · Mon, June 15 · 9:30 AM–12:30 PM

🤲 The Honest Dance (Gentle) · Thu, June 18 · 9:30 AM–12:30 PM

Both at Proto Studio
5333 Casgrain studio 1107
Montréal
proto studio

Listen, fall, be moved. Don’t miss this one.

↳ Reserve your place: arcscifestivalmtl2026.com — or tap the link in our bio.

https://arcscifestivalmtl2026.com/ -niku

Valerie Sabbah

★ TEACHER SPOTLIGHT — DO NOT MISS THIS 🤍

We are beyond honoured to welcome Arash Khakpour to ARCS 2026.

Arash Khakpour آرش خاکپور

Originally from Tehran and based on the Coast Salish Territory (Vancouver), Arash is a dancer, choreographer and movement dramaturg who lives exactly where contemporary dance, contact improvisation, and creation meet.

A company member of the EDAM ensemble since 2017 , and co-founder and artistic director of the dance-theatre company
EDAM Performing Arts Society

The Biting School , he carries his research across stages and studios — deepening his work with Benoît Lachambre, Peter Bingham, Raïna von Waldenburg (through the Grotowski method), and most recently Meg Stuart’s Mystery School of Choreography in Lisbon. He’s also danced with Wen Wei Dance, Out Innerspace, Kinesis Dance, and Battery Opera , among many others.

The Biting School

He is travelling in to share that research with us — two inspiring dances into the poetic body:

✨ Poetics and Power of Principles · Tue, June 16 · 2–5 PM

💭 Dimensions of Imagination · Thu, June 18 · 2–5 PM

gility, tactility, imagination — come let the dance flourish.

↳ His work: bitingschool.com
↳ Reserve your place: arcscifestivalmtl2026.com — or tap the link in our bio.

https://arcscifestivalmtl2026.com/ -arash

Valerie Sabbah

What is this thing we share? 🤍

ARCS 2026 — Day 11: REFLECT.

The festival’s final day. An honest dance, a dreaming practice — and then a shared table, where we gather to ask the question the whole festival has been moving toward: what is Contact Improvisation?

📍 Thursday, June 18 · Proto Studio · proto studio
5333 Casgrain, Studio 1107 · Mile End

☀️ 8:00 — Morning Shake · Mel Sirois Mel Sirois

🤲 9:30 — The Honest Dance · Niku Dhillon Niku Dhillon

💭 2:00 — Dimensions of Imagination · Arash Khakpour Arash Khakpour آرش خاکپور

🕯 5:30 — Closing Symposium · Potluck, Panel & Performances — “What is Contact Improvisation?” · moderated by Dena Davida

→ Free · pay-what-you-can · FR/EN whisper translation · live-streamed worldwide

Through the research, we go further — together.

For full panel details visit
arcscifestivalmtl2026.com/
— or tap the link in our bio / Linktree.

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Qu’est-ce que l’on partage ? 🤍

ARCS 2026 — Jour 11 : RÉFLÉCHIR.
Le dernier jour du festival. Une danse honnête, une pratique qui rêve — puis une table partagée, où l’on se rassemble pour poser la question vers laquelle tout le festival a avancé : qu’est-ce que le Contact Improvisation ?

📍 Jeudi 18 juin · Proto Studio · 5333 Casgrain, Studio 1107 · Mile End

☀️ 8h — Shake matinal · Mel Sirois
🤲 9h30 — La danse honnête · Niku Dhillon
💭 14h — Dimensions de l’imagination · Arash Khakpour

🕯 17h30 — Symposium de clôture · Repas, Panel & Performances — « Qu’est-ce que le Contact Improvisation ? » · animé par Dena Davida
→ Gratuit · contribution volontaire · traduction chuchotée FR/EN · diffusé en direct

Par la recherche, nous allons plus loin — ensemble.

Pour l’horaire complet + l’inscription, visitez arcscifestivalmtl2026.com — ou touchez le lien dans notre bio / Linktree.

Valerie Sabbah