From Gravity to Grace!
Are you…
…curious what Contact Improvisation is all about?
…hesitant to join jams because not confident you have the skill? or feel safe enough?
…already dancing CI, but find yourself not progressing, repeating patterns, and want inspiration for new ways to move and dance?
…ready to skill up to the next level, so can flow with more freedom, grace & power?
These trainings are designed for both new and advanced dancers with techniques, inspiration and exercises with many variations, options and diverse pathways to accommodate different skill levels.
Throughout the day, you learn how to develop a strong and intuitive connection with yourself and your dance partners, as you explore the possibilities of contact, movement, balance, momentum, body awareness, weight-sharing and flight.
And we integrate and practice it all with plenty of time to Jam!
You Can Gain:
- Core principles and techniques: All you need to know to dive confidently into the CI jam scene
- Enhanced spatial awareness: Break out of your bubble, increasing your awareness of the space and the group
- Connection and community: Build confidence, trust, safety, friendship and CI culture
- Expanded movement range: Explore various pathways, techniques and improvisational principles to increase your possibilities for spontaneous movement
- Physical conditioning: Improve your strength and flexibility through dynamic exercises
- Flight: Elevate your dance practice to new heights
Contact Improvisation (CI)
CI is an open-ended exploration of the body in relationship to others; a unique style of dance that emphasizes the physical communication and collaboration between two or more dancers.
A dance form open to everybody. it can be lively and athletic, quiet and meditative, or anything in between.
Previous Participants:
"I have never felt more at home anywhere in my life. I enjoyed the deep connection I managed to obtain with people"
- Anon -
"The best few days of the year so far. It was just amazing getting in touch with new ways of understanding myself and others"
- Jens Ludwig -
"I felt like getting perfectly sized bites of information mixed with playfulness and a sense of connection with everyone else attending. It really was a lot of fun!"
"Thank you so much for your time and patience this weekend. I had a wonderful and most interesting time and I found it to be one of the most, if not the most, therapeutic experiences of my life"
We Explore:
FREE YOUR DANCE
Fundamentals of CI to Survive and Thrive in Jams
- Moving from self into others: Build on self-connection and awareness before contact with others
- Impulses and inspirations: Play with mirroring, leading, following, inputting and responding
- Different levels: Fluid transitions from ground to sky and back
- Contact techniques: Ways to make contact with others - rolling, pivoting, sliding...
- Inspiration from nature: Fluidity of water, rooting into ground, animal play, and spirals to enhance ease and power of movement
- Integration: Unravel apparent contradictions in the interplays of structure and fluidity, care and freedom, precision and spontaneity, inertia and momentum, falling and flying
LEARN TO FLY
Sharing Weight and Navigating Gravity For Effortless Flow and Flight
- Layers of contact: Connect with others through space, skin, flesh and bone
- Sharing weight: Practice different orientations like leaning, pushing, pulling, pouring and falling into points of contact
- Balance and support: Find yourself, the ground, the other(s) and the sky
- Projection: Extend our bodies to enhance movement, balance and weightlessness
- Physics of bodies in motion: Understand the principles of inertia, momentum, leverage and centre of gravity to achieve weightlessness
- Flight pathways: Effortless lifting and flying in many many different orientations, directions and rotations
Whether you are looking to refine your technique, deepen your understanding of movement, or simply have fun exploring a new style of dance, this CI training can be an enriching and rewarding experience.
So come and join us, and discover the joy and freedom of movement that Contact Improvisation has to offer!
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