BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2602@contactdance.co.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230624T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230625T170000 DTSTAMP:20230501T091640Z URL:https://contactdance.co.uk/events/nita-little-two-day-workshop-co-crea tive-practices-in-contact-improvisation-worlding-two-as-one/ SUMMARY:Nita Little Two Day Workshop : Co-Creative Practices in Contact Imp rovisation: Worlding Two as One - - 24 Jun 23 09:30 DESCRIPTION:\n\nWe present a rare opportunity for Contact Improvisation pra ctitioners to deepen their dance by one of the early pioneers of CI\, Nita Little.\nThe workshop is aimed for those with a baseline of CI\, feel com fortable sharing weight and have experience listening to bodies in motion. \n\nDate : 24-25 June 2023 (2 day workshop)\nTime: 9.30 Arrive\, 10am star t\, finish for 4.30pm\nLocation: St Michaels Memorial Parish Hall Park Lan e\, Bristol BS2 8BE\nTicket Cost:\n£80 early bird\n£100 (if booking is m ade after the 15th May)\n• A discounted ticket is available for anyone w ho is committed to their practice but would find it unaffordable. Please e nquire below for more details.\nPayment:\nPaypal: bristolcontactresearch@g mail.com\n(please select friends or family)\nFor bank transfer/or any othe r queries please email: bristolcontactresearch@gmail.com\nPlease use Ref: "Nita Little (your initials)" on payments\n\nClass Description\nCo-Creativ e Practices in Contact Improvisation: Worlding Two as One\nBeyond the Begi nning level – dancers must have a Contact Improv practice.\nContact Impr ovisation was born through the idea that everybody knows how to move withi n a sea of gravity. The body will show up\, reflexively\, to meet its envi ronment. Indeed\, at an early stage\, Steve Paxton refused to actually tea ch the dance that by then already had a name. The notion that contact is s omething we do together\, rather than at each other\, or on each other\, c ame about through the repetition of the agreement to care\, for oneself\, for one’s partner\, and for the rest of whatever was nearby… the child ren rolling under our feet. The emphasis on good will was necessary to kee p everyone safe under conditions that were highly uncertain. This develope d stratospheric levels of awareness and capacities of attention that most people don’t experience. Eventually we became so capable that we could l et go of generating the dance and just let the dance itself take over beca use movement arose in milli-seconds of consciously noted experience organi zed by a far larger form. Readiness to move was there\, in those milliseco nds. Where one’s body began and another’s ended was insignificant to t he passage of information within the immediacy of dancemaking. Fifty-one y ears later\, this has developed into insight into co-creative practices an d levels of relations that speak to the making of dance that is no longer a negotiation. How do we move beyond merely dealing with one another? What else is there? This workshop will be an immersion in practices that suppo rt a physicality ready to engage co-creatively in dances that release prac ticed pathways\, are built on the physicality of attention\, rely on movem ent principles\, have organizational integrity\, and embody care.\n\nNita Little is an activist for relational intelligence through improvisational dance practices that began with the emergence and development of Contact I mprovisation in 1972. This path was provoked by Steve Paxton. The only rem aining Contact Improvisation (CI) teacher who was a member of the initial core of CI pioneers\, Nita has remained on the cutting edge of this practi ce\, training generations of Contact Improvisation practitioners and teach ers worldwide. A performer\, choreographer\, and dance theorist\, Little r eceived her PhD in Performance Studies in 2014. She returns to internation al touring invited by dance companies\, festivals\, conferences and univer sities to teach\, lecture\, and compose emergent events. Her writing inves tigates ecological actions of attention and the creative potentials presen t in entangled relations. She directs an international network of dance re search ensembles - the Institute for the Study of Somatic Communication (t he ISSC). ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://contactdance.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/20 23/03/worlding.jpg CATEGORIES:CI Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230326T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR