Our work emphasises first-person embodied experience, long durations, repetition, and attentional training within shared physical space. Practice is not limited to the studio: it extends into daily activities such as building, maintenance, childcare, cooking, cleaning, and land care. These are treated as part of the same field of inquiry rather than as supporting tasks.

 

Contact Improvisation forms the core practice of Assembly, informed by individual backgrounds in Tai Ji, Butoh, osteopathy, somatic practices, freediving, Vipassana meditation, Dzogchen, Zen, anthropology, and Asian cultural studies. These influences shape how we listen, sense, and structure attention, without becoming a collection of techniques.

 

Our community includes families and two newborn children. This places dependency, responsibility, care, and interruption directly inside the practice, allowing us to work with embodiment under real and changing conditions.