Basics of Contact Improvisation: Gravity

Gravity pulls me, calls my flesh to rest embracing my bones, encouraging every cell - come closer! Welcome to this two-day workshop, a Contact Improvisation Feast, where we will research how gravity shapes our dance. We will develop the ability to sense the weight of bodyparts while moving, and how gravity travels through the body. Some of the material we will explore, alone and with partner(s): - proprioceptive training - our sense of orientation through the vestibular system - using our weight as the engine in our dance to create momentum - find out what happens with the dance when we constantly seek and dare to lean out of balance The inspiration for this workshop comes from experiencing how attending to the most basic principles of moving frees up the dance, and expands our possibilities for movement. In that way this weekend is for you who feel like a beginner in CI, and for you who feel advanced. The material will meet you where you are. Practicalities: The workshop will be at Rom for Dans, doors open @ 10.40. Price for one day // 500,- Price for both days // 700,- For registration and questions, email [email protected] Ann Kristin Holten is a Dancer, a student of Osteopathy and a lover of Contact Improvisation. For the last 9 years this dance form has been part of her life, and she has been teaching in- and outside of Norway since 2015. CI is a never-ending ride of discoveries. A movement research practice, an artform, a playground. The joy of moving, the honesty and poetry of CI, and the meetings with other dancers are what brings her back to the dance floor, again and again.