Contact Improvisation Athens May 30 : "Forces & Directions : In-Through-Out"

Hi, Athens. First of all it's an honor to meet with you & share the passion for the research & investigation of movement. Enormous sense of gratitude to Pedro Panuela for agreeing & following through on this spontaneous creative endeavor! Let's see, feel & notice what sprouts of it. Saturday - 30/05 14:00-17.00 - Workshop 17.00-17.30 - Break 17.30-20.00 - Jam Location - Ananda Unity The proposed theme of this Explorative session is a dynamism of _Falling_ - a simple, yet ever-lasting fundamental motion of experience to be a part of. For : any act of standing is surrounded by & subjected to an act of Falling, as such 'standing' is rising from a fact of Falling, (re)creating a geometrical form & paradigm of growth. We will 'touch' on small gestures of falling inside of our body, finding valleys & curves that create pathways for us to follow & observe the unfolding directions, yet also tracking placement that can be of support or yielding connections. As, in a larger scale - we will practice fragments of in-through-out, as little clocked-noticeable-steps that happen in the partner dance: Falling into the Invitation (In) - Exploring the Invitation (Through) - Leaving/Redirecting the Invitation (Out) : Noticing how turns appear & our roles seamlessly shift. --------------------------------------------------- If we take a moment to pause & observe, everything surrounding us is literally in the dynamic of unsettling falling notion. What we are witnessing on a regular basis - is an angle & degree of such falling & consequent-supported rising. That support is what we will inquire into further in this class-session. Imagine the amount of time we spend as human beings in the Up-Right position? How much has been inhibited, learned, observed, participated in from this position of life... Often times, falling is associated with a failure. For those who are looking down & under, as their eye-sight is following a falling view is seen as a sign of weakness on the scale of societal norms. So perhaps with these gentle reminders we can introduce & explore the directions of the eye-bodily-sight in the weight-attention shared practice of Contact Improvisation. Direction carries much to discover. We may guide & be guided through the sense of vision, as equally a sense of bodily-mobility, spinal fluidity & unfolding eloquent mystery of momentum in motion. If we fall backwards - it is hard or nearly impossible to purse the direction through the eye-sight, as if we would - the direction of the fall will change into a new form, so with a back-falling, we learn to orient through the sixth sense of breathable 'back space' & observe who or what catches us as we equally calibrate the softness of our fall into it. Photos from : Tokyo (JP), Goa (IND), Seoul (KOR)