with Sole de la Hoz and Mark Rietema
Sunday 3rd November
12:00 – 17:00
St Werburghs Primary School, James Street, BS2 9US
A 5 hour Contact Improvisation workshop all about Under and Over dancing
Sunday 3rd of Nov, 12-5pm – Bristol
What do we need to move from a static back and forth dance, to a more active
support of our partners movement? In our research we have been particularly interested in reversing stereotypical roles and exploring what Sole’s smaller structure needs to lift Mark’s bigger structure. This has helped us to focus on particular principles and fundamentals of being both under and over dancers. We will start gently, using experiential anatomy and early developmental movement patterns based on Body-Mind Centering®, to then explore how we can free up our weight sharing into a more dynamic dance. Pivoting, reaching, pushing and dancing our way into three dimensionality…
This workshop is open to all levels. You can expect a mixture of somatic explorations, technical labbing and open dance scores. Please contact us if you have any access needs. (Body-Mind Centering® and BMC® are registered service marks of Bonnie Bainbridge
Cohen).
Sunday 3rd of November 2024, 12-5pm – St. Werburgh’s Primary School, Bristol
Tickets need to be booked in advance here https://bookwhen.com/markrietema
Sole de la Hoz teaches Contact Improvisation in London (eg. Temenos Dance, CI@Goldsmiths, London Contact Festival, Acland Burghley). She trained as a professional dancer, and has worked extensively in opera, immersive dance projects, and screen. Alongside performing and Contact Improvisation Sole is a Yoga instructor and Thai Massage practitioner
Mark Rietema teaches Somatics and CI in London and abroad. He also works as a psychotherapist
and somatic movement educator, having studied Process Oriented Psychology and Body-
Mind Centering®. His previous background is in community arts projects and
performances (UK, US) with an MA in Community Arts from Goldsmiths. He teaches as
faculty for Embody Move UK, Institut Prozessarbeit Deutschland, and as a guest teacher in various institutions.