Contact Journey, January 7

CONTACT JOURNEY w/ Scott Wells January 7, 2023 A day long workshop as a journey via contact. This workshop is suitable as a continuation or as a starting place. w/ Scott Wells, January 7, Finnish Hall 9am -3pm Playful & focused. deep & light, practical & extravagant. Registration (required): tapgym.com under workshops. $115 or $85 by 12/31 Masks welcome, but optional Conversation: [email protected] There are a couple of scholarships for those who need a break. There will be bodywork, contact skills, longer passages of exploration, structured group improvs, and possible authentic movement. We’ll be doing favorite contact exercises and current curiosities. Created or learned over decades of investigation and indulgence. We will use bodywork into contact to invite listening, connection, ease and pleasure. Much of contact improvisation is getting out of your own way—some of which is hidden in tension patterns. “tension masks sensation” (S. Paxton). I’ve taught thousands of ci classes and have favorite ways to hone in on contact skills: falling, supporting through structure, rolling point, listening, feeling the ground through your partner, the flow with yourself and with partner. We will expand from the duet into group constellations and dancing. Your contact journey will be guided but will be your own: intersecting, sometimes joining others’ journeys, open to distractions and impulses on the way.