Contact Improvisation & Body Politics

Time: Saturday June 23, 13.00-17.00 Venue: Rhythm of Arts (Soi Inthamara 26/2, MRT Sutthisan Exit 4, take motor-taxi for 10 Thb) Fee: donation-based minimum 350 THB bank transfer: kasikorn 0332919946 (Nitipat Pholchai) Contact/questions?: 0830345950, line: ongarius RSVP: https://goo.gl/forms/BPqDJWoXYzxFhw013 Due to limited space (<15 persons), Please confirm your spot by REGISTERING your NAME & CONTACT in the link here (Booking info in the link) https://goo.gl/forms/BPqDJWoXYzxFhw013 "Contact improvisation & body politics" In this workshop we will work with the fundamentals of contact improvisation, such as: the relation to gravity, the physical contact between movers, the momentum of bodies, modulating tone, waking up reflexes and sense of balance, sharing weight. But it will also be an introduction to a body of work that has been developed by Daniel and many others at various gatherings since around 2008, some of them going under the name of Radical Contact. This could include material on consent and nonverbal communication, privilege, boundaries, the gaze, economies of appreciation and more. Body politics refers to how gender, race, class, sexuality… construct and impact bodies. Some examples of body political questions are: body image, beauty, fat, disability, body norms in general; the objectification of bodies in art, advertising and daily life; how society ascribes meaning to different zones of the human body (“mapping”). Daniel Mang bio I have been interested in how social domination takes root in the body, and bodies as sites of resistance, in some way, since my late teens. Contact improvisation has been my primary movement practice since 1986. I also do aikido and am strongly influenced by the Feldenkrais method, Body Mind Centering and ideokinesis. I have been teaching contact improvisation since 1990 – mostly in Europe, but also in South East Asia and Australia. My pedagogy is informed by my background as a professional bodyworker, my studies in physiotherapy and osteopathy, my experience with communication tools such as co-counselling, and by my politics. I see my interest in radical social theory and my love of contact improvisation as two aspects of the same desire. I am based in Sweden.