CONTACT IMPROVISATION SKILLS
7 Weeks Program
“Just the pleasure of moving and the pleasure of using your body is, I think, maybe the main point. And the the pleasure of dancing with somebody in an unplanned and spontanious way, when you’re free to invent and they are free to invent.” – Steve Paxton
Dates: Wednesdays From 11th january to 22nd February
Time: 7.15 – 9.15pm
Venue: The Willow Studio, St Werburghs Primary School
Cost: £10/£8 conc
MoveGB members welcome.
With Jamus Wood and Lee Bolton
Starting on Wednesday 11th January for 7 consecutive weeks. A weekly two-hour class exploring the Skills of contact improvisation.
This Seven week program is an opportunity to delve into the practice of contact improvisation. Beginning with exploring the basic movement principles of Contact Improvisation:
•Softening into and moving with the floor.
•dancing into and out of contact.
•Exploration of touch.
•Giving and receiving weight.
•Developing and sensing a good fluid alignment.
•Listening too and actioning our impulses.
We will also develop the less seen skills of contact improvisation:
•Awakening our senses and reflexes to be able to respond to space and each moment.
•Developing a bodily felt sense, and our ability to listen and respond too ourselves, our partner and the dance environment around us.
Over the weeks the dance will evolve and expand. We’ll explore specific pathways of movement to clarify the how involved in dancing with a partner. We will dance into and out of the floor, explorations into falling and flying.
Practicalities
These classes are open for those who are just beginning there journey with contact and for more experienced dancers who wish too deepen their practice finding subtleties in touch, direction and presence. It is ideal to attend the whole course, as there will be a progression of learning. However, drop-in is also welcome.
Please bring loose comfortable clothing, with a warm layer to start and end in, kneepads if you have them, and water (though there is access to tap water in the adjoining kitchen area).
Contact
To book your place or find out more, email Jamus on embodiedpresence@gmail.com
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