Colours In Contact

Colours In Contact Colours In Contact offers a platform to explore open dynamic expression and connection through dance. Our minds? Our hearts?

At Colours in Contact, you are invited to explore your experience of body and movement through Contact Improvisation while remaining conscious of others, in all our differences, with love and curiosity. These differences may include but are not be limited to race, gender, culture, dance experience, athletic ability, neural differences and body type. Which Is to say, with great enthusiasm, we will practice asking ourselves: What do our bodies have to say today? How can we approach this with the utmost respect and care and learn to listen to what is present? Join us for this musical dance evening, make new connections and have fun! Weekly Wednesday & Saturday schedule:
- 6pm doors open
- 6:10-7:10pm dance lab
- 7:10-8:50pm Open dance jam with music
- 8:50pm closing circle

Location: 805 Dovercourt Road, top floor

Access considerations: Not wheelchair accessible

Parking: Free parking available along neighbouring streets

Cost: $15-$25 sliding scale

Level: All levels welcome, no experience necessary. Beginners and beginners’ mindsets are welcome! ABOUT CONTACT IMPROV: Contact Improvisation (CI) is a partner/solo/group-improvised dance style developed in 1972 by Steve Paxton and Nancy Stark Smith, heavily influenced by Aikido and Modern dance. Due to the open-ended nature of the dance, each new dancer can add to this pot of creativity. This has lead to various influences weaving in and out of the form. Some of those influences include but are not limited to Tango, Zen, Zouk, Contemporary, Ballet, Hip Hop, Qi Gong, Capoeira, Ballroom, Salsa and the list goes on. This is the beauty of CI: it can offer such an open fertile ground for exploration in expression and movement. Your voice in this dance is what will drive the creative freedom possible at Colours in Contact.

09/20/2026

Let’s pour it out on the dance floor!

✨ Beg/Inter Lyrical Dance ✨

Happening this Sunday 2-3 pm on the top floor of the Dovercourt House!

For those of you who want a space to feel, express, move things, and release with awesome songs, cool people and no pressure 😇

Then stay after for an all-levels contact improv jam from 3-5 pm 💜

Arrive early, bring friends, let’s have a heartfelt, connected Sunday 🌱

09/17/2026

🎉 Come enter this world of Contact Improv 🎉

We’re pretty cool. We’re laid back but determined. We like to sweat, but we’re also efficient. We come from different cultures, movement backgrounds, ages, identities, and walks of life. We love to play, get creative, and express freely. Not only that, but we also make fires, sing together, play board games, share meals, have deep conversations, and find plenty of reasons to keep hanging out outside of the studio 🔥🎶🍲

Now we’re opening up another Foundations series for those of you who are new to contact improv and want to discover what this movement form is all about - the play, the creativity, the connection, the challenge, the unexpected moments, and all the things you didn’t know you could access.

And yes, when you join the series, you’re not just getting 5 classes. You’ll have access to FREE jams throughout the series, shared learning, community gatherings, meals, and more 🙌

You don’t need to know how to dance. You don’t need a partner. You just need some curiosity and a willingness to explore.

🌱 CONTACT IMPROV FOUNDATIONS 🌱
5 Thursdays • Oct 8-Nov 5 • Kensington Market
All levels • Registration required
🔗 Link in bio to sign up

09/17/2026

GET READY!! The Blindfold Jam is back, baby! 🎉🎉

Always one of Colours in Contact’s most popular events, the Blindfold Jam invites you to let go of your usual visual cues and drop deeper into listening, sensing, responding, and connecting through movement.

The room will be split in half: one side will invite gentle explorations with no lifts, while the other side will be open to pairs of two who choose to dance together and want to explore lifts and more dynamic movement.

We’ll start the evening by outlining clear guidelines and ways of navigating the space so everyone knows what they’re stepping into. Halfway through, we’ll pause for a potluck. Then, as you can see in the video, once all those beans have been contained for long enough, the room may just erupt into fun spontaneous dancing 😂

This is an event you won’t want to miss!

BLINDFOLD JAM
Wednesday, September 23
6:30-10:30 pm • Please arrive early/on time
$25 • Sign up through the link in bio 🔗
🥙 Please bring a potluck item
🙈 Blindfolds provided

09/15/2026

A lot of people get this wrong…

❌ MYTH #1: Contact improv is sensual, sexual or romantic
✅ That is not the intention of our space. CI does draw on all the senses, but we move to create, explore and play, and move in contact for the fun of the dance, not with an intention of romance. We also support people in increasing their capacity for platonic touch, especially when they’re unfamiliar with touch that isn’t romanticized. When touch doesn’t have to be romantic or sexual, so many awesome possibilities open up in movement and in connection!

❌ MYTH #2: You need to bring a partner
✅ Nope. You can come alone. In fact, most people do. We dance with different people throughout our time together, and you’re free to choose when and with whom you connect.

❌ MYTH #3: You have to be super open, confident or “good at improvising”
✅ Absolutely not. You can be shy, curious, cautious of touch or have absolutely no idea what you’re doing. We’ll support you in getting familiar with the space, meeting our supportive community, getting started, and checking in with your nervous system along the way ✨

❌ MYTH #4: It’s just a bunch of hippies rolling around on the floor 😄
We have CEOs, gamers, tech professionals, professional movers, artists, influencers, and everything in between in our space. We value freedom, community and cooperation, and sure, we question mainstream norms, but we also value thoughtful dialogue, curiosity, critical thinking, and creating a space where people can show up as themselves, without having to subscribe to a particular lifestyle or worldview.

So if you’ve been wondering whether contact improv is for you… now there’s really only one way to find out 😉

Come try it out at our Wednesday jam this week, we’d love to meet you!

Sept 16 • 6:30-9 pm • Dovercourt House, top floor • All levels • $20 • Drop-in

Have more questions or are there still aspects you’re uncertain or curious about? Send us a message, we’ve heard it all and would be happy to chat! 💜

09/14/2026

LYRICAL DANCE this Sunday! 🔥

This is one of my favourite ways to connect to myself, to my emotions, and to my own expression through movement, yet so few places offer lyrical dance for adults, at all levels, in a diverse, non-pressure environment.

Here, we don’t care if you get the choreo right. In this class, I offer gentle choreography as a vehicle for discovery and expression - a chance to explore your flexibility, your extensions, your musicality, your emotions and the way YOU want to move.

Come join us this Sunday and give yourself some space to move, feel, and express 🫶

♡ Emma

LYRICAL DANCE
This Sunday, September 20
2-3 pm • Beginner/Intermediate
Dovercourt House, top floor
Sign up through link in bio 🔗

✨ Please arrive around 1:45 pm so we can start on time

😇 This will be followed by an all-levels contact improv jam from 3-5 pm. Just come to the class or join us for the class + jam!

09/13/2026

🎉 CONTACT IMPROV WEEKEND INTENSIVE 🎉

Toronto, this one is special 💜

Long-time Colours in Contact dancer Julien is coming back to Toronto after spending over a year dancing and teaching around the world. His return sparked the idea for a day and a half of diving deeper into the practice together!

This intensive is designed for intermediate to advanced contact improv dancers, professional dancers, and experienced movers who are ready to explore more deeply, physically and creatively.

We’ll spend extended time in the practice, learning new skills, asking questions, tinkering with ideas, dancing, playing and discovering what happens when we give ourselves more time and space to explore.

Expect advanced lifts, spirals and spinning pathways, heart-led movement, creative inquiry, lab time, open exploration and plenty of time to dance together.

If you’re newer to contact improv, there’s still time to build your foundation and get some dancing under your belt before the intensive 🌱

Come for the skills. Stay for the exploration. Spend the weekend in community, going deeper into the practice.

Link in bio for details and registration 🔗

Feel free to send us a message with any questions! We’d be happy to chat and help you figure out if this intensive is right for you 🙌

09/11/2026

WARNING ⚠️ This will probably change your life!

Change is hard. Taking that first step, leaning in and continuing to explore the parts of life that feel hard or unfamiliar is definitely a flex. And haven’t we all worried at some point about all the good that could happen? 😉

Here you can practice leaning in… into movement, connection, communication, curiosity, play, and all the things that can happen when you give yourself permission to explore.

Let’s challenge your status quo and find new ways to feel at home and free in your body.

💜 JOIN US FOR THE SUNDAY JAM 💜
Dovercourt House, top floor
3-5 pm • All levels
Followed by dinner in community

09/10/2026

The room became a world of creatures, movement and imagination 💜

Jazz Kamal ياسمين invited us to step out of our usual ways of moving and into a world of instinct, sensation and possibility.

We moved like creatures. We played with primal sounds and postures. We breathed, sensed, responded and explored an imagined environment together.

When we give ourselves permission to move beyond what’s familiar, we can surprise ourselves. We discover movements we didn’t know were there. We listen differently. We become more curious, more responsive, more connected to what’s happening in the moment.

Thank you, Jazz, for creating such a unique and powerful experience with us ❤️‍🔥

And if you’re ready to keep exploring…

Our next Contact Improv Jam is this Sunday from 3-5 pm on the top floor of the Dovercourt House!

Come move, play, connect and see what unfolds 🌱

09/08/2026

We all go through transformation. At Colours in Contact, it’s almost impossible not to.

We find new ways to strengthen
We build confidence
We develop the muscles of curiosity and creativity
We gain trust in our bodies
We practice leaning on community
We increase our capacity for platonic touch
We lean into courage
We learn to flow and adapt
We find more peace and ease
And we take all that we’ve discovered into the rest of our lives

Some parts may be challenging. Some moments may be an edge. We may encounter fear, uncertainty, vulnerability, or just something unfamiliar. But when we lean in, allow, stay with it, and let ourselves be supported by others, there is so much this dance can offer us.

It can help us soften
Restore us
Strengthen us
Surprise us
Reconnect us with ourselves and with others
And sometimes, it simply brings us back to play

This is what we love about contact improv. It’s not just something we do with our bodies for a couple of hours. It’s a practice in how we meet ourselves, how we meet others, and how we meet the world.

Come move with us 💜

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805 Dovercourt Road
Toronto, ON
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