Contact Improvisation workshop in Helsinki

5 days long Contact Improvisation (CI) Workshop "Experimental anatomy and bodywork towards CI dancing" Time: 6.-10.6.2016 at 17-20 in Helsinki Price: 80 euros Teacher: Mirva Mäkinen Live Music: Antonio Alemanno Registration and info: [email protected] (+358400383805) Experimental anatomy and bodywork towards CI dancing Traditionally contemporary dance technique has been trained as learning different movement phrases or combinations, which you need to memorize. This is one way of teaching, I love it as well and I also love to explore what are the main principals in contact improvisation or contemporary dance technique. We will explore floor work, movement through the space and by using experimental anatomy as a tool towards dancing. By experimental anatomy I mean experiencing different body parts through movement and through images. These classes have strong improvisational influence and we will use bodywork as a tool to explore touch and open the CI dance. This contact improvisation workshop provides the unique opportunity to study and create dance within a collaborative and professional focus. The workshop features a variety of influences that include: dance technique and composition, experimental anatomy, bodywork and improvisation. Bio (Mirva): Mirva Mäkinen graduated (MA) from the Dance Department from the University of Arts, Finland in 2000, before that she did masters of Physical Education from University of Jyväskylä. 2010 she start to do doctoral studies in University of Arts in Helsinki, her research is about Somaesthetics of Contact Improvisation. From 2000 onwards she has been a dance teacher, choreographer and lecturer for dance at the Kallio Upper Secondary School of Performing Arts. She has been teaching in several international dance and contact improvisation festivals. Mirva has been working with with many different dance companies and choreographers, here few of them: Dance company Karttunen Kollektiv (choreographer Jyrki Karttunen), New Circus Company Circo Aereo, choreographer Joona Halonen, Echo Echo dance company (North Ireland), collaboration with Frey Faust and collaboration with Joerg Hassmann. At the moment she is working with Finnish choreographer Valtteri Raekallio. In dance I am interested in the feeling of flow and soft movement. I love to investigate movement, its rhythm and different ways of inhabiting the body. A feeling of dancing is created by being able to switch the body from total relaxation to extreme intensity and tension. I call this the body’s ability to breathe and create movement.