NYC - Cloud Tectonics CI Workshop w Ezra LeBank

Cloud Tectonics & Dirt Work CI Workshop With Ezra LeBank New York City June 16 Sunday 12-4pm 100 Grand Dance Studio 100 Grand St NYC, NY 10013 Sign Up https://forms.gle/amacXnyWLeGffVX68 Workshops also in: Toronto June 9 Sunday 2-5pm *Hosting a free community jam Friday, June 7th 4-6pm* Montreal June 11 & 13 Tuesday & Thursday 6-9pm 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? In these workshops 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. This will prepare us for 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 our dancing, instead of relying on each other, we imagine a dance we co-create amidst simultaneous independence and communion in flight. Arrive prepared to sweat, learn, and play. Open to all experience levels. Some previous CI experiences assumed. Space is limited. Early registration encouraged. Drop-ins welcomed if space is available. Rates are the same if you attend one day or both. Join a second city as my guest. Contribution (same for Toronto, Montreal or NYC) Regular $100 - $150 *Low Income $50 - $100 Supporting $150 - $200 Any amount in the sliding scale is welcome. These are suggestions. *In an effort to make these workshops more accessible to all we are offering tiered rates. Those who have the means to choose Supporting make it possible for us to offer Low Income registration to those who need it. 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. www.badgoatdance.com If you need additional support in order to attend, please write: [email protected] There are no refunds. In the event you cannot attend, if you give your spot to someone else, please have them complete this form and note at the bottom that they are taking your place.