The Humus workshops, while being part of the professional training, are open to the territory, creating a precious opportunity for encounter between people with different backgrounds. Humus aims to create an art community that believes in the power of encounter and in the richness of differences. Our workshops are open spaces where the territory becomes community through art, where diversities become opportunities for collective growth.
This year's common thread is memory, explored through different artistic languages.
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Workshop Characteristics
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Open to the territory
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Integrate Humus's professional training path
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Create opportunities for exchange between professionals and community
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Explore different forms of memory through artistic practices
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Foster encounters between different backgrounds
Notes
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Each workshop can be attended individually
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Places are limited to ensure quality of work
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Reservation is required
Contact Improvisation
Teachers: Linda Bufali
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As part of the Humus 2026 program, we are pleased to announce a new collaboration with ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ฅ๐ข:๐๐๐ง๐๐๐ซ, ๐๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ญ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ก๐๐ซ ๐จ๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐๐๐ญ ๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฌ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง. Humus students will participate in the first CI LOOP workshop, which Linda will hold in Bologna at our headquarters, OfficinAcrobatica, organized by CIP (Contact Improvisation Padova).
"๐๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ง ๐ ๐๐ก๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ช๐ฎ๐๐ง๐๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ซ๐ซ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ง๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ' ๐๐ก๐จ๐ข๐๐๐ฌ. If we try to simplify further, we can say that CI is the ๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐จ๐ ๐๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ. This makes me think that in the common paradigm of dance, and of motor skills in general, a fall is perceived as a mistake, the result of a bad choice. It's funny to note how, in CI, we train to cause falls, which become possibilities and open up to the unexpected. The unexpected that generates, that creates, that IMPROVISES."
We can't wait to open the doors to this new collaboration and dive into Linda's world!
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17-18 January 2026
Registration at: contact.improv.padova@gmail.com
Real Time Composition
Teachers: Claudia Dias
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This is a training workshop in the area of โโImprovisation and Composition that uses the Real Time Composition Technique (CTR) as a tool and theoretical-practical approach.
CTR is a technique born in the field of contemporary dance which, going beyond the boundaries of the performing arts, has become a research method on how to meet. The purpose of its use is always the collective and the other. In this sense, despite being applied in an artistic, i.e. aesthetic, context, its use is ethical. It aims to help make assertive decisions, that is, decisions suited to the context, in the sense of the survival of collective action.
Applied in the artistic field, CTR is still today a working tool to face the unknown, what will come, since in this practice there is no predefined script. In this sense it can be understood as an improvisation technique, although it goes far beyond this categorisation. This technique is fixed by a system of thought and an operating mode made up of a set of tools. The operational mode, i.e. its practice, is structured by a spatial, temporal and functional framework and is supported by the guidance of principles.
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11-12 April 2026
Schedule: 10.00-13.00/14.00-17.00
At: OfficinAcrobatica
Fees: 150€
Registration at: segreteria.formazionehumus@gmail.com
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Spazio Jam
Another new feature for this fourth edition of Humus is a safe space for encounters through dance.
Two events led by
Nica Portavia, a dancer and pedagogue specializing in Contact Improvisation, will offer a space for improvisation and connection.
The events organized within Humus are also open to the public.