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One of the best compliments a contact dancer can receive is – “you are light as a feather”, another good indication to one technique is how we land on the floor, both these partners (the human one and the floor beneath our feet) teaches us how to refine our movement and dance. In this Intensive Contact Improvisation workshop we will practice and investigate how to be light as a feather and to land quietly on the floor like a cat, we will learn to use our entire body – muscles, bones and joints in order to achieve this not so easy task.
By understanding different pathways in space and inside the body one can learn to refine his/her movement capabilities. Seeing spirals pathways as a way up to the air and down to the ground, realizing that one can influence the “heaviness” quality of his/her body and change it in order to be grounded or to be lifted.
In this workshop we will experience and explore how we can override our fear reactions into a free form, dancing and extending it into flying. By the end of the workshop we will see how we will be flying on a partner in a safe way, and how to feel secure and to ride this flow even in a less secure situations, which in the past might have brought our reflexes and reactions to burst out.
This workshop is intended for all levels practitioners of Contact Improvisation from beginners to very experienced practitioners. (If you have never done contact before, it is better to take a few classes before joining this workshop)
Limited places available – Registration is required.
(in the last 10 years we were fully booked 3 weeks in advance)
This year we will have two options for people to join 5 or 3 day workshop.
The 5 day workshop is the summer intensive where we will have more time to go into more depth.
The 3 day workshop is a condensed and intensive form of the 5 day one
6-10 AUGUST
Studio Belcampo Loft – Hannie Dankbaarpassage 33, Amsterdam.
10:30-17:30
29-31 AUGUST
Studio Belcampo Loft – Hannie Dankbaarpassage 33, Amsterdam.
10:30-17:30
Here are is short video from our previous workshop
(5 DAY WORKSHOP – 6-10 AUGUST )
– Above average income: €295
– Normal income: €275
– Low income / Students: €255
(FOR 3 DAY WORKSHOP – 29-31 AUGUST)
– Above average income: €195
– Normal income: €180
– Low income / Students: €165
Tension, Intention, Attention, Extension
Tension – How does our body move? what mechanism and physical forces drive our muscles? and how can we play with the tonus of our body? what intention do we give to our muscles and movement and how does it change it.
Intention – Our will to move, direction chosen, speed decided. Our intention is the driving force for movement manifestation in the body, yet how much of it are we aware of at any specific time and how much is “just” a reflex, or a pattern that the body has acquired over the years without giving it the proper attention.
Attention – Finding the gap between Intention to Tension, the moment where our will become physical body movement. By adding awareness to our will we can create attentive movement that is not merely a reflex to an outside signal. Our attention can go inside the body, to our partner and even far into the extended surroundings.
Extension – Spreading the limbs to the far ends of the Kinesphere, and our movement to the far end of space. Extension is one of the most used qualities in Contact Improvisation, we use it when we reach high over our partner, or when we reach down towards the ground. Despite the strong physical movement to the far edges of our body’s kinesphere, when a “full and true” extension is being made we try to stay with the minimum amount of tension in our body as possible.
Learning how to do that requires all of our attention and intention.
