Beauty is in the eye of the beholder with Anjelika Doniy 1,2 April, Koh Phangan

𝑩𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒚𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒓 Contact Improvisation, Authentic movement, the state of presence with Anjelika Doniy 1,2 April 2024 Koh Phangan, Thailand Let's listen to the breath - especially exhalation, and release from action. What do the exhalation, pause, stop give us? Let's make the listening our main thing. Somewhere there a movement is being born... What is this workshop about? About the possibilities and limitations. About relationships with the other and others. About the flow of movement and consciousness. About contact with yourself, despite the constantly changing circumstances. One of our natural needs is to be visible. This gives us strength, energy, motivation to realize ourselves and to live fully, with taste. In dance, this manifests in the way I look and can see the movement, and how others look at me and give feedback in the form of attention, movement, in words. We can call it presence. And our other need is to be invisible, free and unconditioned by the external environment. Not to check the if we do our tasks correctly—basing our view on the authorities or opinion of elders; to do, to try, to encounter the result ourselves and to choose our own path. Let's call it totality. How to combine these two healthy needs? By experimenting! Improvisation is a game with the known and the unknown. With rules to be followed or broken. With a degree of freedom that is respected or violated. Improvisation can only be learned through practice and improvisation. By practicing continuity, flow, unpredictability of movement in space. By adapting the space behind to a spherical, connected, technical and poetic dance. By experimenting with vision, stretching this possibility from safety to aesthetic pleasure. By training what can allow you to be spontaneous in the unpredictable world of dance. To be ready for new offers, to play, to tune in. To allow others to look at you and learn to accept the support of the beholder. For this, we have time and place, music and silence, presence and disappearance. 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗹𝗲 1, 2 April 10:00-13:30; 18:30-21:30 (each day). 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲 The Source Koh Phangan 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲 3000 THB If you are unable to pay full amount direct your inquiry to: [email protected] 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 https://forms.gle/QAqCxzm6cGNXd9hk6 This workshop is co-organised with TOWARDS — a center for the practice and research of Contact Improvisation in Thailand / Asia. 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗔𝗻𝗷𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗮 Anjelika Doniy is a dance improviser, choreographer and teacher focused on contact. After 5 years of formal studies of choreography, ballet dance and other stage disciplines at the Higher School of Culture (St-Petersburg), she worked for 10 Years as a theater choreographer. Until... In 1997, I was at the Impulse Dance Festival in Vienna. There, I saw a wonder of CI, watched Steve Paxton on stage, flew into Andrew Harwood workshop where some 70 dancers were rolling over each other. This was unbelievable, the earth was be- coming alive. I saw a realization of my dream of the world growing from connection, interaction, harmony between one and many. It was love from the first sight. From 2002 I started facilitating first jams and CI workshops in Russia and initiated International Contact Improvisation and Performance Festival in Moscow in 2006–2010. My path in CI as a teacher began as long journey of workshops for beginners. I love to guide people into the dance, inspire them with their own body, and awaken to what is already there. I love to surprise long-time dancers with secrets of the body as little keys opening a familiar dance into new spaces. This year, I am following a program of the Institute for Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy to go deeper into the body and its anatomy, to touch the cells, to breathe through the navel, and to use this resource in my practice. My special interest in contact improvisation is clarity. Clarity towards the practice. Honesty towards how I move my weight in the space of Gravity. Attention towards clearing the dance from the personal. Letting things happen as they go. I am grateful to have met and studied with such teachers as Regine Chopinot, Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith, Danny Lepkoff, Benno Voorham, Lisa Nelson, Esther Gal, Yaniv Mintzer, Martin Keo and many others. Anjelika taught over 200 workshops all over the world for all levels from complete beginners to professional dancers. Her teaching is rooted in many years of work of acquiring and transmitting technical skills and equally long path of meditation and mindfulness practice. She blends them into a life dance, contact improvisation. https://anjelikadoniy.com