Who Are You Dancing With?
Visible and invisible Forces and Relationships in CI
What are some of the ways that we can more fully inhabit the shared experience of dancing CI?
In this workshop we will employ the vocabulary of Contact Improvisation to explore ways towards deepening and expanding our relationship with ourselves
and with others as we dance.
Alongside and sourced in the physical practice of dancing CI, the workshop will offer ways to bring aspects of yourself into your dancing which can offer a richness of depth, nuance, range and integration both internally and externally.
The workshop will address aspects of what is personal to you and how these aspects interface and integrate within the vocabulary and form of CI so there is an ongoing play between the micro and the macro in your dancing, the personal and the shared, and the dance that happens between them on a moment to moment basis.
The workshop will offer you practices to remain present on many levels in your dancing of CI so that you can resource aspects of yourself that you may not
normally access while you dance.
This includes exploring and integrating vision, hearing and sensation within the practice of CI, a practice which brings in flexibility, specificity and focus, a deeper relationship to the environment to access support for your body and emotional sentience and colour to include in your dancing.
Venue
St. Werburghs Primary School
Silver Birch Annexe
Mogg Street
St Werburgh’s
Bristol
BS2 9UB
Juliet Shelley is a dancer, choreographer and performer currently residing in Paris, France. She studied dance professionally at the Laban Centre, London and at the Centre for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. She has been dancing and teaching Contact Improvisation for most of her adult life. Her teachers include Nancy Stark Smith, Steve Paxton, Katie Duck, Kirstie Simson, Chris Aiken and Martin Keogh. She has taught classes and workshops in the UK, France, Netherlands, Italy, USA, Malaysia, New Zealand and Australia. She also teaches classes in Pilates and the Alexander Technique. https://muovo.fr/en
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