BEYOND THE CONTACT DUET – GROUP & TRIOS

  • Yearly workshops & guest Teachers

    On the shoulders of Giants – 6-7 March (Nijmegen)

    GUEST TEACHERS

    Vega Luukkonen -Transitions, Precision, Lightness – 28-30 March  
    Pawel Konior – Soft Acrobatics – Hip Shoulder connection 10-11 May
    Arye Bursztyn – A GENEROUS DIALOGUE – 23-25 May
    Benno Voorham – SHARING THE DANCE – 27-29 June

    •  beyond DUET – flying in trio & group 21-23 feb

    3 DAY CONTACT WORKSHOP IN AMSTERDAM WITH tom goldhand

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    Contact Improvisation workshop
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    Dance Improvisation performance
    In this special workshop we will take the time to expand our Contact Improvisation duet and add to it another partner or even partners – we will learn to play, ground and fly with one partner and then how to do it with a trio and other group formation.
     
    Most of the people with experience in this form are accustmed to dance in a duet, with one partner sharing our weight and movement pathways – once adding another element to this mix, there are very different elements to consider and to adjust and balance.
      
    This was a great experience last time I gave this workshop and I wish to bring it further out there – one of the participants described it as – “All the cool stuff that you can add to a jam”. 
     
     This workshop is intended for all levels practitioners of Contact Improvisation from beginners to very experienced practitioners. 

     ★★★★- Places are limited and registration is required – ★★★★

    (In the last years we were fully booked a few weeks in advance, so if you wish to join be sure to do so soon)

    REGISTRATION FORM

    Here is a short video from our previous workshops

    Practicalities

     
    INVESTMENT – FOR 3 DAY TRAINING

    – Above average income: €195

    – Normal income: €180

    – Low income / Students: €165

    WHERE AND WHEN

    the beautiful studio Belcampo Loft  – Hannie Dankbaarpassage 33, in front of the Film center in De Hallen in Amsterdam.
    21-23 – Feb

    Friday  11:30-18:30
    Saturday 13:00-19:30
    Sunday  10:00- 17:00

    REGISTRATION FORM

    As in all of my workshops –  we will address as well the following 4 concepts :

    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.