BODY that CAN - 10 day CI laboratory with Ekaterina Basalaeva 20-29 March, Koh Phangan 2024

𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗬 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗔𝗡 study of attention and action 10 day Contact Improvisation laboratory with 𝗘𝗸𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗲𝘃𝗮 20-29 March, 2024 Koh Phangan, Thailand 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆: The laboratory format is a meeting place for practitioners, where we can test any hypothesis through experience. I am open to sharing what is relevant to me and perhaps these topics and questions will become inspiration and a starting point for joint research. How to be willing, how to be able, how to be whole, clear and might? What I want, what I can, what I do, what happens? I can do what I want or I want what I can? Can I think of movement beyond the possible? How to connect a mind that wants to a body that can? How to be action, neither doubt nor despair in the face of uncertainty? How to touch the unknown? How to be prepared to face something that hasn't been before and never will be after? What is me, another, communion? What does it mean to be in the same place... in the same time... in the same action? How do I create here/there, this/another, me/not me…? How do I define boundaries? Or do they define me? What are we before separation? How early do I notice changes when something becomes another one? How to be at the source, at the beginning of every change? How to be an action, not a reaction? What makes me filled or empty, mobile or immovable, elastic or fluid, will or matter, centered or grounded, moving or stirring, falling or flying, tired or fresh, bored or engaged, alert or distracted, clear or muddled. These questions may seem redundant for dance practice. But the body is developing through tasks, necessity or curiosity. Through trying to make the impossible possible, we can find ourselves in a new quality of physical reality. Let's try to reduce the distance between the courage of thought and the ability to embody it. The laboratory is not open for 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀. Full commitment and punctual attendance are required for each session. 𝗡𝗼 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗲 (subject to minor changes): 20st - 24th: 10:30-15:30 - the last 1/1.5 hour of each session will be given for the integration of proposed material / jam. 25th-26th OFF 27th - 29th: 10:30-14:00; 18:00-21:00 jam - morning session includes 1/1,5 hour focused jam; evening session is an open jam for the participants of the workshop. 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲: THE SOURCE https://www.thesourcekpg.com 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲: 9000 THB / 230 EUR - Low income (8 places) 12000 THB / 310 EUR - Regular price 14000 THB / 360 EUR - Support price - supporting those who cannot afford the regular price. 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: No places available. 𝗘𝗸𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗲𝘃𝗮 Contact Improvisation dancer, performer, teacher, researcher. She has 24 years of experience in CI, contemporary dance, physical theater and performance. Short biography: 1998-2006 she was one of the founders and participants of "Wampeter" dance theater. As part of the theater, she participated in dance festivals and creative laboratories in different countries (Russia, Ukraine, UK, USA, Sweden). Since 2001, she has been the organizer of the educational and creative project "Art of Contact" in Novosibirsk (master classes, lectures, creative projects). Since 2007 - organizer and participant of the performance project "System of Units" (performances, video art, joint multimedia projects). Since 2009, the organizer of the annual International Contact Improvisation Festival in Altai. She also, as a guest teacher, took part in many CI festivals in different countries (Georgia, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Thailand, Germany, Spain). "In recent years, in CI practice I like to balance on the edge of physics and metaphysics. Here my dancing experience meets with an interest in philosophy, somatic research and the practice of presence. I like to put not answers, but questions in the center of practice. Questions concerning basic things: what is matter, mind, movement, perception, attention, time, space, me, other… And I watch time after time how the search for answers to these questions changes the mind, body, dance". 𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗬 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗖𝗔𝗡 is a part of the program of 𝗧𝗢𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗗𝗦 - 𝗮 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 / 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮. https://towards.contact 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽: Sasha Dodo, Dolores Dewhurst Marks If you have any questions - please write to: [email protected]