Touch - Flow & Let It Go
Workshop will start with warm up based on integration of exercises from kundalini meditation, joga, contemporary dance and experiental anatomy. Gradually focus will move from personal body alignment to observation, sensation and understanding of “others” bodies. Shifting awareness on how to relate with others. I will introduce basic principles of contact improvisation, with special focus on “light” partnering without implying weight. The range of possible connections between participants will go from mere sensation based contact (eye contact, closed eyes contact, reading, following, adjusting, off balance contact...) to more explicit use of touch and sharing “one body” experience. Participants will also learn from active imagination. Shifting their awareness from relationship (and possible reactions) on how to relate to your inner “world”. Participants will now focus on expressing personal states. Where am I today? Who am I and can I show myself without fear, in my totality? How do I dance my weaknesses? How can my fragility become strength? The range of exercises will go from working in pairs, detecting each others movement habits, improvising solos to emphatetic shadowing / repeating of movement sequences.
About Contact improvisation (CI)
Contact improvisation (CI) is a dance, based on using touch and focused on the form coming from the inside out. Sensation is translated as information and converted to waves of movement. Underlying the fluid action of CI are principles that govern the relationship of moving bodies, and the physical and mental states of the dancers. It is using improvisation instead of determining specific actions, pathways or defined "steps". It is a practice of finding liquid freedom in flow of the body. Contact improvisation is the most democratic way of dancing, because each individual can join at any time, with whatever movement background and bring his own perspective to understanding what human contact means.
In the workshops we will focus to improvisational tools that can be efficiently used in your other dance practices:
Opening the senses and trusting yourself and contact
Basic tools for contact improvisation - the language of touch, moving from your center, working with weight, principle of invitation and acceptance ..
Instant composition and inner chemistry
How to use space in improvisation
Improvisation as Dance of Presence
You will learn how to be present and wide awake enough to let go, so creation can happen through you and your partner in dance.
Dance ecology, in addition to build a bridge between nature and culture through dance, also aims to expand the perception of contemporary dance practices in spiritual and emotional sense and encourages to revitalize forgotten wisdom of sacred traditions and bring them back in to dance education. It also raises the awareness of the need to transform the man through body work and through revival of poetic discourse and interdisciplinarity within different artistic practices. Sandra Anais, the culturologist that works, researches and develops programs in the field of dance, which she understands as an interdisciplinary field of artistic, scientific and spiritual practice. She is active as a dancer, teacher, organizer, producer, curator and coordinator of the festivals. She is currently exploring the physical practices of other cultures, embodiment of thoughts, contemporary performative practices and nomadism in relation with urban rituals, new age practices and creation of urban communities / tribes. In the field of dance and improvisation she was teaching in Slovenia, India, Indonesia - Bali, Vietnam and Croatia.
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