Come As You Are - Contact Improvisation Workshop - Squamish, BC, Canada

Alessandro Rivellino (Brazil) is visiting our country and we have the opportunity to have a workshop! Dates 06 and 07 of May in Squamish! at Aikidaily Dojo! Saturday 10am - 1pm (break) and 3pm-5pm Sunday 11am to 1pm and 3pm to 5pm There is a possibilitie to come for one or both days. There is possibilitie of being hosted by local communitie friendly ppl ☺️ Investment: single 1 day - 55 CAD 2 days - 95 CAD Bring a Friend! 1 day - 100 CAD for both 2 days - 160 CAD for both more information and registration: [email protected] Description: This workshop will open space for some of the most precious things of Contact Improvisation. It is directed for everyone that wants to be there. It will suggest that experience is born by wittnessing yourself, being attentive, but not heavy. By making partnership with gravity we have the gateway for the playfullness, the truth, the force of life that crosses us all. You know, any movement is a precious thing, I would say that even if you repeat it, it will be new. Presence is always here, we just tune attention to empower it. I like to invert the assumption that we dance, for the one who says that we are danced. Let's embodie this surrendering and enjoy the poetry that is behind words. Your first task is low down your expectations, but knowing that we will consider dance as teacher, and the floor and the sky will be available to dance with. More people will appear, we will have the grace of improvisation inside the clearest bases. Welcome. Bring yourself. As you are. ... BIO Where is the intersection of dreamland and awaken realm at this big reality called Dream? Alessandro Rivellino? What to say? I have been living dance and contact improvisation in a surrendered way as a dancer for 18 years and as a teacher for 12 (if i do not count my childhood experiences) and I had the opportunity to travel to 24 countries, offering and having classes, intensive courses, workshops, residencies and Jams with different and experienced colleagues, which probably gave me a good "floor" to start with 'not knowing with certain quality' ... I have also organized, with more people, different meetings and festivals of this beautiful practice, in Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Portugal, Denmark, Turkey and Mexico. I come from different dance schools at the somatic level and movement research, today I see that I have danced and taught a good part of my life and yet I feel that I have just started. In my practice I have been integrating various techniques and bringing the potential of dance to life. If I ask myself between my name and my body, the second one is the dearest, and if you ask about my deepest interest in dancing and teaching the answer would be around living questions related to dance itself, to the presence and to the Big Mistery. I Hope through this illusion of you and I being separated, we can drop it, and go beyond our hanging names to explore the in-between field of existence to dance and be danced with and through the visible and invisible forces entangled at each single moment and find the way to be at the arch of beauty. ... Bio2: If I would live from the glory of the past, I would tell you that i have 18years of surrendering life to dance, and that when I was child I used to dance a lot. And even, i could say about recognizements, goals, progress. I could say that i was awarded as best dancer, that i was nominated as best dancer another time and director, that I have an award for artistic and research excellence, that I have a masters degree, that I travelled 24 countries teaching, dancing, organizing festivals, labs, retreats, residencies. I could say that I was part of Experimental dance group for several years, as student and teacher. That I had funds for creating art pieces that was awarded and nominated, and for studying and travelling. But really, if I cannot forget about that, you will not reach me, there is too many past, too many "I", let's just understand that "wrinkles are the knowledge" and bidy knows where to go. If we trust, we will meet at a common field, the field of presence, the only place were dancing, learning and teaching can happen. Life is happening now, as an action, a force, full of mistery and grace, is from there that I want us to be guided.