Our guest today is Yasukichi Sazuki (Japan) — a pioneer of Contact Improvisation in Tokyo, sharing the form for over two decades and introducing it to her country.

In this episode, we explore:

✨ Trusting the environment & culture of caring in Japan

✨ Staying rooted in CI fundamentals — gravity, fall, expansion, breath

✨ Offering space for authentic encounter

✨ “Simple is the strongest.”

📘 Find Contact Improvisation Japan

🙏 Special thanks to dancer Izumi Kuribayashi for translating this first bilingual episode.

🎧 Faces of CI online: Instagram @momentumcontact

🔗 Upcoming Contact Workshops by Aalia

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