WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
PART 1: SOMATIC COMMUNICATION How Contact Improvisation Prepares Us For The 21ST Century
Friday, Nov 11th: 6:00 - 9:00pm Saturday, Nov 12th: 10:00am - 6:00pm (with 2-hour lunch break)
Dive into the fabric of touch that is key to our relational practices in the movement of Contact Improvisation – and for many of us, in the living of life itself. Steeped in somatic communication, this adventure into our movement life begins within ourselves, but moves outwardly, to where selfhood refuses to be stable, set and limiting. Movement scores throughout the weekend will make this connection. In this workshop we will form and reform what we know as touch, exploring how this touch translates into the flow of movement. We increase the strength of our moving together with the human and the more than human worlds we also are.
Creative, thoughtful, heart based, skill based, your learning will be anchored in the core principles of Contact Improvisation, such as: how to move weight like water - actions of cascading. The details of touching within weight exchange - even with the more than human world. The rising and hanging of the body – each state significant to communication. How attention lives in the very small. Extending to form surfaces that arc. Learning to trust the physicality of your extended intelligence.
Movement practices include lots of dancing both as skills building and exploration. Although, in many cases these will be the same thing.
PART 2: MOVING WELL TOGETHER - Relational Intelligence In Duet and Ensemble Practice (Part 1 is a strongly recommended pre-requisite before taking this workshop. If you want to register for only Part 2, please email lorengro...@gmail.com.)
Sunday, Nov 12th: 10:00am - 6:00pm (with 2-hour lunch break)
Moving Well Together is an art with its foundation in the personal practice of Relational Intelligence. Born from 50 years of Contact Improvisation, this work moves between the individual and the collective to help you build fundamental practices of bodily felt communication so that you can move together conscientiously, thoughtfully, safely, and with grace. Our work will include particular trainings for mindful physicality including movement meditations, attention training for tactile coherence and communicative skill, training to align you with physical physics, physical listening and an ability to hear, through touch, the poetry of presence. We seek emergent actions that require more than one … the elegance of collective agreement that works on such a fine scale that negotiation is invisible. Moving well, together, takes us beyond ourselves in ways that empower our deepest inner knowing of belonging. We find our joy. Where there is somatic communication, we are stronger, more playful and far more versatile and creative. Let’s do this!
COVID REQUIREMENTS:
Vaccine Optional. Mask optional. We are asking all participants to take rapid tests on each day of the workshop, and present negative results upon arrival. If you are unvaccinated, we ask that you please wear a well fitted KN95 or N95 mask for the entire duration of indoor activity. If you test positive, you may be refunded for the days you miss.
