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:2125@contactdance.co.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20161214T191500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20161214T211500 DTSTAMP:20160907T173526Z URL:https://contactdance.co.uk/events/wednesday-ci-class-2016-12-14/ SUMMARY:Wednesday CI Class - The Willow Studio - 14 Dec 16 19:15 DESCRIPTION:Contact Improvisation - 14 week course - with Saskia\n\nDate:   Starts Wednesday 14th September 2016 - ends Wednesay 14th December 2016\ nTime: 7.15pm - 9.15pm\nVenue: The Willow Studio\, St Werburghs Primary Sc hool\nCost: £84 for the course\, or £42 per block of 7. Otherwise £10 (£8 conc) to drop-in\nLed by: Saskia Chaplin\n\nStarting on Wednesday 14t h September for 14 consecutive weeks. A weekly two-hour class exploring th e basics and more of contact improvisation.\n\nContact Improvisation (CI)\ nCI is an improvised dance form that fine tunes your senses and wakes up y our ability to listen and respond to what is happening in the moment. Open to all bodies and inquiring minds.\n\nThis series of classes will offer a n in depth explorations into the fundamentals of CI\, enabling you to deve lop core skills to support fluidity and safety\, whilst opening up to new possibilities in your movement.\n\nPracticalities\nThis course is suitable for all levels\, whether complete beginners\, or those wanting to deepen  their practice. It is ideal to attend the whole course\, as there will b e a progression of learning. However\, drop-in is also possible at £10 pe r class (or £8 concessions)\n\nPlease bring loose comfortable clothing\, with a warm layer to start and end in\, kneepads if you have them\, and wa ter (though there is access to tap water in the adjoining kitchen area).\n \nContact\nTo book your place or find out more\, email Saskia on saskia@co ntactdance.co.uk or phone 07904 121 646.\n\nAbout the Teacher\nSaskia Chap lin "I first met CI in 2007 and have since attended events and workshops all over the UK and Europe\, entering the world of teaching in 2011. It ’s a form that suits me well\; I love the physicality of it\, to be surp rised and delighted in the moment. I love that sense of responding in new and unexpected ways in creative play\, finding moments of synchronicity\, feeling my body respond confidently and instinctively\, whilst exploring the world in the moving 3D offered by other bodies &\; minds in the spa ce.\n\nDespite a science degree in Photography\, I have always been drawn to engaging with the world through the body - yoga\, meditation\, and\, si nce 2002\, working as a massage therapist.\nMy CI journey coincided with m y journey into biodynamic craniosacral therapy\, for which I qualified as a therapist in 2010 and now offer alongside my massage work. I am intrigue d by the links between these forms\; where the micro reflects the macro\, the individual reflects the group and visa versa."\n\nContent\nBelow is my draft plan of this autumn course to give you a sense of what we will cove r.  I may decide to change the format slightly as we work together as a group.\n\nWeek 1:\nFirst contact – first finding our connection to the f loor we will explore the use of push\, pull\, and slide in contact with th e floor and our partners to make first contact in the dance\n\nWeek 2:\nFo llow the leader – using exercises to offer direction\, leading and follo wing our partners in space\, fundamentals of listening\n\nWeek 3:\nGive an d take – giving and taking weight\, counterbalance\, using weight\, and exploring how to say yes/no through our bodies\n\nWeek 4:\nMassage into Mo vement - we will use bodywork to bring awareness and movement from or skin \, muscles and bones.\n\nWeek 5:\nThe Centre – moving from our centres\, offering and taking lifts\, leading and following from centre\n\nWeek 6:\ nUp – exploring some simple lifts\, the table\, hip lifts\, etc\, and fi nding movement with weight exchange\n\nWeek 7:\nThe Underscore - a light i ntroduction to the led underscore. A held way to explore basic jam skills. \n\nWeek 8\nListening - a 3-part journey of listening\; moving from your i nternal landscape of feeling and sensation\, into aware contact through to uch  and others\, then outwards into a wider sense of the space as we dan ce in and out of contact.\n\nWeek 9\nEase\, Flow\, and the Awkward\n\nWeek 10\nSpiralling Softly – finding pathways from\, to\, and with\, the flo or and our partners\n\nWeek 11\nInside Out - tensegrity - exploring our in ner bounce\, tension\, compression\, reflection.\n\nWeek 12\nBackspace -  orientation and disorientation. Opening up our backspace to finr our ups ide down\, downside up\, and round-a-bout!\n\nWeek 13\nLegs as arms - waki ng the legs and exploring the possibilities of low level moving.\n\nWeek 1 4\nEssential Jam skills: offering\, taking\, leaving invitations\, and ex ploring ways in and out of the dance.\n*See you Dancing\, Saskia * ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://contactdance.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/20 12/05/Ibiza-2011-1-e1422561511702.jpg CATEGORIES:CI Class LOCATION:The Willow Studio\, St. Werburghs Primary School\, James Street\, Bristol\, BS2 9US\, United Kingdom GEO:51.4704;-2.57417 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=St. Werburghs Primary Schoo l\, James Street\, Bristol\, BS2 9US\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X -TITLE=The Willow Studio:geo:51.4704,-2.57417 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20161030T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR