LA CI Spring Workshop with Ezra - Cloud Tectonics

LA CI Spring Workshops with Ezra LeBank Dirt Work April 28th Sunday 1-5pm Cloud Tectonics May 19th Sunday 1-5pm At Dance Home 522 Santa Monica Blvd Is it possible for us to fly and fall without noticing much? Can the drift inherent in momentum compel us toward intuitive pathways above and along each other? On APRIL 28th we will dig into CI through Dirt Work: physical training to expand, integrate, and ready our bodies in conversation with gravity and the earth. This is essential training for CI, and one of my very favorite body’s of work. It is the foundation for flight and for dynamic capacity in improvising. It also prepares us for MAY 19th when we jump into Cloud Tectonics – work that aims to reframe our experiences of lift, loft, and drift. Detailed and buoyant exercises will guide us toward a dancing experience that feels full of abundant and radically free choice-making in vertical and spherical space for both ourselves and those we dance with. In these workshops, instead of relying on each other, we imagine a dance we co-create amidst simultaneous independence and communion while in flight. Arrive prepared to sweat, learn, and play. Open to all experience levels. Some previous CI experiences assumed. Take one workshop or both. Register here: https://forms.gle/yXveXZYqT8r7RyeP9 One Workshop: $75 Regular $60 Low Income $100 Supporting Both Workshops: $130 Regular $100 Low Income $180 Supporting Space is limited. Early registration encouraged. Bio Ezra LeBank is a Professor of Movement at California State University Long Beach. Meditation, Aikido, and acrobatics work their way into his curiosity of CI. His approach is inspired by many wonderful teachers including Nancy Stark Smith, Ray Chung, Mike Vargas, Nita Little, and Andrew Harwood. He has been invited as a teacher at International Contact Festival Freiburg, West Coast Contact Improv Jam, Seattle Festival for Dance Improvisation, Poland Contact Festival, Oberlin CI@50, and many more. Through his research company Bad Goat Dance, he studies Dirt Work & Cloud Tectonics as methods of bringing ourselves closer to the earth and to each other.