SASHA BEZRODNOVA

Sasha Bezrodnova (Russia) is an organizer of Contact Improvisation festivals all over the world, teacher of Contact Improvisation, psychologist and free driver. During many years she has been studying and researching different body-mind modalities. By education she is a social psychologist. In last years CI has become her main interest and direction in life. She practices CI and Authentic Movement since 2002, teaches regular classes in improvisation and performance group in Praktika thatre in Moscow, as well as jams, labs, workshops for beginners and advances in different cities and countries. She participated in performance projects with Steve Batts, Karl Frost, Konstantinos Mokhos, Andrey Andrianov. 

 

 

 

FROM GROUNDING TO FLYING

 

We’re gonna start from practicing the very basic skills, the very core principles of CI. Those basics that give us the ground for developing a free and secure dance, full of pleasure and sense of flying.

Such basics as listening, attention, body awareness, small dance, movable support, falling, playing with transmitting the weight. It is never late to come back to these things, and on any level of experience we discover some new depth every time, disclose and develop the more and more tiny details of our dance and our being.

We're gonna add a lot of work with alignment of our body in receiving weight, and work with entering into the pelvic area of our partner, to be free for unexpected and mutually agreed lifts and flights.

We are gonna mostly work from the state of «Beginner’s Mind». It seemes to me, that it is actually the only suitable state for dancing contact improvisation. From the place, where not-knowing and not-understanding gives birth to Attention. Into a place, where, from our readiness to the New and Unexpected, to the Meeting with the partner the way he is, the true Improvisation is emerging...

Another focus that I am very concerned about is feedback. The ability to give a raw-data feedback, the skill of observing with no conceptions or analysis. The benefit of getting a raw feedback. The quality of presense of the whitness. The language we use to communicate our observations. How we learn by observing, how we learn when being observed.