Contact Improvisation workshop "Fragments and Presence"

CI workshop with Ralf Jaroschinski & Mirva Mäkinen, music: Antonio Alemanno Theme: Fragments and Presence including solo, duo and trio technique and bodywork When: 25.5. at 11-16, 26.6. at 18-21, 27.5. and 28.5. 11-16 in Kallio, Helsinki Price: 110e / 90e Registration: [email protected] This workshop includes technique for solo, duo and trio. We will also use bodywork as a guidance towards dance. Despite being a postmodern approach to movement itself, contact improvisation counterbalances the fragmentation that is rather typical for postmodernism, because it doesn’t deconstruct the dancers’ actions and interactions. It much rather connects, interconnects and contextualizes them very directly, on a physical level: Touch and contact being the primary parameters here, while aesthetics and styles are of secondary relevance. In this workshop, music and sound are an additional partner to improvise and interact with in very much the same way: The dancers’ authentic and immediate communication on the kinetic and acoustic levels has them experience and co-create an event which does not have a predetermined course of action or outcome on neither plain. The dance, movements, music and sounds will be original and expressive at all times in “Fragments and Presence”, it’s all about the dancers’ unpretentious presence and their multidimensional game, it’s about their courage and openness to be with the unknown as it is in progress of manifesting itself. „Fragments and Presence“ will inevitably remind us that life and it’s most valuable presents like the unrepeatable moment, sensuousness, attraction, friendship and love can’t be held on to, yet they can be experienced fully, and thus they can provide deeply felt satisfaction and contentment.