Diving Into the Fabric of Touch - Workshop with Nita Little

Diving into the Fabric of Touch: Technical & Relational Practices in the Movement of Contact Improvisation ---------------------------------- This workshop is a dive into the fabric of touch that is key to our relational practices in the movement of Contact Improvisation – and for many of us, in the living of life itself. The material will be steeped in somatic communication. We will form and reform what we know as touch, exploring how this touch translates into the flow of movement. We increase the strength of our moving together with the human and the more than human worlds we also are. Creative, thoughtful, heart based, skill based, our learning will be anchored in the core principles of Contact Improvisation, such as: how to move weight like water – actions of cascading. The details of touching within weight exchange. The rising and hanging of the body – each mode significant to communication. How attention lives in the very small. Extending to form surfaces that arc. Learning to trust the physicality of our extended intelligence that underlies reflexive action. The availability of many forms of temporal engagement. Our movement practices will include lots of dancing both as skills building and exploration, although, in many cases these will be the same thing. Nita Little is one of the earliest instigators of the Contact Improvisation dance form, investigating alongside her then professor at Bennington College, Steve Paxton. ---------------------------------- 💠Schedule Thursday, June 4, 6-9pm Friday, June 5, 10am – 1pm & 2:30 – 5:30pm Saturday, June 6, 10am – 1pm & 2:30 – 5:30pm Sunday, June 7, 10am – 2pm ---------------------------------- 💠Program Costs Whole Workshop – $275 – $475 sliding scale One Day Drop In (Thursday Evening) – $55 – $85 sliding scale Partial Workshop (Thursday Evening & Friday) – $115 – $200 sliding scale Partial Workshop (Weekend Saturday & Sunday) – only available to folks who have studied with Nita before – $115 – $200 sliding scale By offering a sliding scale, and TWO FREE BIPOC spots, we hope to make this offering financially accessible. Paying at the higher end of the sliding scale MAKES IT POSSIBLE for us to offer a sliding scale and scholarship spots. Please pay at the highest level that you are able.