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:195@contactdance.co.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20111022T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20111023T170000 DTSTAMP:20120103T161920Z URL:https://contactdance.co.uk/events/our-instinctual-movement/ SUMMARY:Our Instinctual Movement - St. Michael's Parish Hall - 22 Oct 11 10 :30 DESCRIPTION:Our Instinctual Movement (a contact improvisation workshop) \ n\n\n \;\n\n22 - 23 October\, Bristol.\n\n \;\n\nFacilitated by Ja mus Wood and Lee Bolton.\n\n \;\n\nCosts: £70 or £60 concessions. Bo okings 07966498596 email: info@embodiedpresence.co.uk.\n\nwww.embodiedpre sence.co.uk.\n\n \;\n\nUnearthing your instinctual body\, discovering the power within muscle\, bone\, blood.\n\nA workshop dedicated to your in stinctual knowing\, unearthing your unique movement potential. A weekend w orkshop. Influenced by Instinctual Movement and Contact Improvisation. Com e expecting to move\, dancing on your own\, in contact duets and group imp rovisations.\n\nWhen I dance I feel that there are many places to dance fr om. One of these places that interests me greatly is a place of instinct\, my animal body. There is a knowing in each of us\, if we can let go of th e mind control on our moving we can begin to trust our sensate body.\n\nIn this workshop we will dive deeply into our senses and touch that which we already know but may have forgotten. A weekend dedicated to listening to the dance from the inside out.\n\nEach day will begin with a non stylised movement practice designed to allow us to inhabit our bodies\, and bring t he pure power and dexterity of our physicality into the dance. From here w e will touch contact practice\, score and group improvisation.\n\nIn the C ontact Improvisation aspect we will be offering focuses and scores that wi ll create new possibilities for our dancing. The potential of dancing beyo nd the box\, with aliveness and  a sense of freshness. We will be looking at the technical aspects of contact from a functional view. Using exercis es as starting places to play with to grow from\, giving us a chance to se e places of habit and choice around this. Our dancing can then become an o ffering to each moment fresh\, alive\, spontaneous.\n\nWe welcome beginner s through to experienced movers.\n\nWear warm comfortable clothes\, layers are good for any floor work we might do in the warmups.\n\nLook forward t o dancing with you.\n\n \;\n\nAbout Lee\n\nI suppose you could say at the heart of it all I am a dancer.  It seems my body was born to move.  My softness\, my passion\, my sadness\, my rage\, my sensuousness\, my sen se of chaos all come through when I dance.  This is where more than anywh ere else I can be close to myself and have the capacity to touch life with freshness.\n\nMy passion for dance and in particular the drive to be as a uthentic in each moment as possible has led me from 5 Rhythms to Contact I mprovisation and latterly into a practice of  Non-Stylised movement based on the teachings of Helen Poyner.\n\nThis has led me to co-design a serie s of classes and workshops that interweave the teachings of fundamental mo vement\, contact improvisation and presence based on the Movement of Being (Devon) teachings.\n\nDance for me is a metaphor for life.  How can I re ally meet myself? How can I truly be here in this moment to experience lif e and meet you?  This is what fascinates me.  Movement offers the opport unity to ask these questions\, with the potential to experience depth and understanding.\n\nI offer a space for this exploration.\n\n \;\n\nAbou t Jamus\n\nI love to move\, to inspire creativity through dance and connec tion. I teach and guide classes in Contact Improvisation\, Instinctual Mov ement\, Somatic Yoga and perform with the Touch Down Dance.\n\nI like it s imple. I find that working with simple themes can take us deep into our ow n experience and are pathways to presence and embodiment. So themes I work with like arriving\, how do we arrive into contact with ourselves\, into a space and with another. I find this a fascinating topic.\n\nUnusually\, my path has been defined by a congenital eye condition - I almost lost my sight 10 years ago. Six operations on\, my sight is improving\, with futur e operations pending. I have found ways to transform my wounding into a un ique gift. My life is not what it would have been without my eye condition \, many doors initially shut\, while others opened.\n\nAlong my journey\, I have had the good fortune to work with many gifted teachers\, many echo ’s of these teachings live in my teaching today. Key figures are Malcolm Manning\, Helen Poyner\, K J Holmes\, Lisa Nelson\, Nancy Stark Smith\, M iranda Tufnel\, Katy Dymoke\, Adam Bradpiece\, Ray Chung\, Angela Dony.\n\ n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://contactdance.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/lo cations-pics/event-195.jpg LOCATION:St. Michael's Parish Hall\, Park Ln\, Bristol BS2 8BE\, Bristol\, BS2 8BE\, United Kingdom GEO:51.457;-2.59932 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Park Ln\, Bristol BS2 8BE\, Bristol\, BS2 8BE\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=St. Michael 's Parish Hall:geo:51.457,-2.59932 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20110327T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR