Who Are You Dancing With?
Visible and invisible Forces and Relationships in CI
What are some of the ways that we can more fully inhabit the shared experience of dancing CI?
Day workshop – 7 hours of teaching time
What are some of the ways that we can more fully inhabit the shared experience of dancing CI?
How can you bring more of who you are into your dancing?
In this workshop we’ll employ the vocabulary of Contact Improvisation to explore ways towards deepening and expanding our relationship with ourselves and with others as we dance.
Alongside the physical practice of dancing CI, the workshop will offer ways to bring less visible aspects of yourself into your dancing which can offer a richness of depth, nuance, range and integration both internally and externally.
The workshop will address aspects that are personal to you and how these personal aspects interface with the vocabulary and form of CI.
We’ll practice and explore the dialogue and play between the micro and the macro, the personal and the shared and the exchange that happens between them on a moment to moment basis.
The workshop will offer you practices to remain present on many levels in your dancing of CI to help you resource aspects of yourself that you may not normally access while you dance.
This includes exploring and integrating your vision, hearing, sensation and movement, and applying this practice to your dancing of CI.
From here you can access specificity, focus, range/expansion and a deeper relationship to the environment, which can bring support to your body and emotional sentience and colour to your dancing.
Juliet Shelley is a dancer, choreographer and performer currently residing in Paris, France. She studied dance professionally at the Laban Centre, London and at the Centre for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. Alongside her performance work, she has been dancing and teaching Contact Improvisation for most of her adult life. Her teachers include Nancy Stark Smith, Steve Paxton, Katie Duck, Julyen Hamilton, Kirstie Simson, Chris Aiken and Martin Keogh. She has taught classes and workshops in the UK, France, Netherlands, Italy, USA, Malaysia, New Zealand and Australia. She also teaches classes in Pilates and the Alexander Technique.
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Concession £55 +£1.50 booking fee
Full price £65 +£2 booking fee
Tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/bristolcontactimprovisationdance/1671184