Our day begins with solo floor work – moving in relationship with earth’s gravity, informed by anatomical, developmental movement and qigong. A constant anchor is the Earth’s pull, and how to let it support your direction of movement across space.
This will create a dynamic landscape to meet each other through touch. Different qualities of touch can become ways of communicating, listening and building up a kinaesthetic map of ourselves in relation to others.
As we warm up into our dancing further, we will dive into the practical containers of contact improvisation; tracing our attention of who is above and below; to learn how we dance from ground to air together.
We will explore our spines and how it connects to the tilt and curve of each other’s pelvis where your lower centre is. Like the direction of water and steam, we can play with the movements of a radial nature; such as scoop, swing, and bounce between ground and air, to converge and diverge from your dance partner’s centres. We listen and respect each individual’s unique rhythm and timing in each moment.
We arrive into a jam space in the afternoon; being guided and having open time to be witnessed in momentum and stillness in our dances together.
Open to everyone – all levels of movement experience are welcome.
Itinerary:
10.30 Arrive
10.45 Opening circle
10.30 Arrive
10.45 Opening circle
11.00 Morning session: solo floor work/moving, touch scores in partners/trios, witnessing scores transitioning between solo and group moving
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Practical elements of contact improvisation, above/below, centres, transitioning between air and ground
3.45 Jam
4.15 Guided warm down
4.30 Closing circle, Harvest
5.00 Leave space
5.00 Leave space
Prices:
£50 early bird until January 8th
£65 standard (after January 8th)
£75 supporter
£50 early bird until January 8th
£65 standard (after January 8th)
£75 supporter
Limited spaces available, booking essential.
To book please contact Sophie via email: sophieroffmarsh@hotmail.com
Biography:
Jan-Ming’s love of contact improvisation began 20 years ago. Since then, she has been nurtured and challenged by its creativity and contradictions of freedom, risk and play. Amongst many things, she is informed by her ancestral healing practice, an ongoing study of Chinese Daoist internal energy arts, somatic bodywork, Afro-Brazilian martial art of Capoeira, and trauma-informed approaches advocating choice, consent, equity, compassion and pleasure. She has a background as a performance artist/facilitator in dance, music and physical theatre, and is a practicing somatic bodyworker certified in The Pantarei Approach.