Contact Improvisation meets Ensemble: Somatic Communication within CoCreative Practices

Contact Improvisation meets Ensemble: Somatic Communication within CoCreative Practices This is an Intermediate Advanced workshop for movers who are interested in exploring physical communication within tactile relations on spatial and flesh-based levels. Ensemble movement invites gesture as a form of communicative engagement although we will move way beyond its visual simplicity and the chunkiness of body language through advancing the functional embodied concerns of Contact Improvisation. Working from a baseline of care, we will explore the almost magical potentials of moving together within time practices that coordinate our unspoken agreements. These alignments can happen faster than conscious decision making. We will learn to hold ourselves “lightly”, move readily, fly and support one another by becoming more than a singular being. Always more than one, we will play within highly creative physical forms, that require our fullest being of presence. Expect to gain an experiential vocabulary that informs many states of your embodied relations. Nita Little is an activist for relational intelligence through improvisational dance practices that, for her, began with the emergence and development of Contact Improvisation in 1972. This path was provoked by Steve Paxton. The only remaining Contact Improvisation (CI) teacher who was a member of the initial core of CI pioneers, Nita has remained on the cutting edge of this practice training generations of Contact Improvisation practitioners and teachers worldwide. A performer, choreographer, and dance theorist, Little received her PhD in Performance Studies in 2014. She returns to international touring invited by dance companies, festivals, conferences and universities to teach, lecture, and compose emergent events. Her writing investigates ecological actions of attention and the creative potentials present in entangled relations. She directs an international network of dance research ensembles - the Institute for the Study of Somatic Communication (the ISSC). Saturday & Sunday, May 13th & 14th, 2023 Location: Eden Studios - Breite Str. 43, Berlin, Germany Sliding Scale Payment System $145-$195 Registration Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScmYNAetEg-HT8uapIikRnFRohskbD6k086YXlg_ZpizSaoFg/viewform Questions: [email protected]