Inspiral - Contact Improvisation workshop & Jamming 9-14 November, Chiang Mai

Contact Improvisation Intensive workshop - INSPIRAL with Sasha Dodo and Dolores Dewhurst-Marks 9-14 November Chiang Mai Schedule: (On the 9-th we start 18:00) Classes 10:00-12:30+ Lab 16:00-17:30+ Jams and bodyworks 19:00-21:00+. The workshop contains a set of solo practices for preparing and tuning body-mind for contact improvisation / anatomy of spiral movement / principals of CI with emphasis on continuous attention / trio exploration / whirling meditation practice / intentional disorientation / doing improvisation - embodying intuition. Workshop includes everyday jams and bodyworks. The program might be extended for two or more days if the group will be interested continue to practice. Registration: https://forms.gle/1EmEPZDUFHdfXGNo7 For more information contact @Sasha Dodo or @Dolores Dewhurst Marks Price: Donation. About Sasha & Dolores: Sasha and Dolores are independent artists, directing and curating ART CONTINUUM NOMADIC RESIDENCY, designed for international artistic exchange, development and production of art; BEING NATURE PROJECT, encouraging connection with deeper self and the natural world, engaging in poetry and dance with nature. Co-organizers of THAILAND CONTACT & MOVEMET ARTS FESTIVAL, and THAILAND CONTACT IMPROVISATION CONFERENCE. Teaching internationally workshops, laboratories, and retreats. Currently based on Koh Phangan, Thailand. In their teaching work, they are interested to shape spaces for investigation of body intelligence in relation to spatial awareness and the imagination. https://reverserivers.com/ // There are many ways of defining the dance form Contact Improvisation. Here are two: Contact Improvisation is an evolving system of movement initiated in 1972 by American choreographer Steve Paxton. The improvised dance form is based on the communication between two moving bodies that are in physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their motion—gravity, momentum, inertia. The body, in order to open to these sensations, learns to release excess muscular tension and abandon a certain quality of willfulness to experience the natural flow of movement. Practice includes rolling, falling, being upside down, following a physical point of contact, supporting and giving weight to a partner. Contact improvisations are spontaneous physical dialogues that range from stillness to highly energetic exchanges. Alertness is developed in order to work in an energetic state of physical disorientation, trusting in one's basic survival instincts. It is a free play with balance, self-correcting the wrong moves and reinforcing the right ones, bringing forth a physical/emotional truth about a shared moment of movement that leaves the participants informed, centered, and enlivened. — Steve Paxton Contact Improvisation is an open-ended exploration of the kinaesthetic possibilities of bodies moving through contact. Sometimes wild and athletic, sometimes quiet and meditative, it is a form open to all bodies and enquiring minds. — Ray Chung