ACROBATIC CI. CONTACT IMPROVISATION WORKSHOP WITH DANIELE SARDELLA (ITALY)

In this workshop we will learn how to get our contact improvisation dance fluid, efficient and acrobatic, and improve our flying skills. We will start warming up the body with the DanSoma Postural Training (a stretching in movement developed by the teacher that improves both the body's health conditions, its coordination skills and then the movement quality), we will study handstand and acro dance movements in order to enrich our personal movement possibilities and then apply the principles and the tools learned to improve the skill of communicating with other bodies. We will explore how to get confidence in putting weight on the hands (handstand) and stand on them in a safe and soft way; different ways to enter and exit from handstand and how to bring it into contact improvisation. How to use the back space (backbending) in a safe and efficient way and how it helps the flying skills in CI. How to use the spiral patterns in order to get the movement more fluid and efficient and improve flying possibilities in CI. Some more important principles of how to support and fly in a safe and fluid way. Daniele Sardella Mechanical Engineering, in 2002 he changes job to circus and street art performer; in 2003, after an injury, he meets the Biotransazionale Method as a patient, and since then it becomes his somatic postural training for circus techniques. During the following years he attends courses of equilibrism, clown, dance, theatre, and works at the Bellucci Aquatic Circus (2005-2006). Since 2009 he is developing a somatic method to the practice of handstand named Handstand in Movement. Since 2013 movement research becomes his main interest, focusing on its acrobatic aspects and in particular on how postural training can support healthy and efficient movement practice. He holds many workshops in Italy and abroad (India, China, Ukraine, Russia). In April 2018 he holds a one-week workshop at the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts (Beijing Opera), supported by the Italian Institute of Culture in Beijing (Italian Embassy). In 2018 – 2019 he is a resident teacher of postural training, floorwork and acrobatic movement at the Roman School of Circus and, for two months, personal trainer of Carolina Kostner, world and olympic champion of Ice Skating. In January 2019 he creates DanSoma postural training; then he startes to give long workshops, among which deserves a note a three month residential course led from september to december 2020. ****** Event Cost 299 € Including: - workshop with Daniele - classes with resident teachers - accommodation - 3 meals a day ************ Gomarduli Zen Garden is a CI based mountain retreat in Georgia. We hold the ongoing contact residency for 30 people and organise educational and research events around contact improvisation, contemporary dance, embodiment and somatic treatments.