OPEN CLASS (Int Adv) with Scott Wells (USA)

Come join the Kinetic Playground study group for one day, with an amazing guest teacher from the USA! LEVEL For dancers with a few years of ci or contemporary partnering experience ! WHEN 10 April, 2025 TIME Thursday 10.00 - 13.00 Come on time to register and pay, doors close at 10:00! WHERE Samdrubling Friedrich Kaiser Gasse 74 1160 Wien HOW MUCH Regular price: € 30 Movement lab student price: € 20 Register please: Juli Gabor signal/whatsapp: +4366762992933 About Scotts Approach: A somatic based approach to Contact and Flying We will start with contact practices in which sensation and proprioception lead to refined skills. We will work with physics and somatics that support freedom of flight and expression. (Pleasure <---> Technique, Somatics ---> Acrobatics). Zero as in developmental patterns at birth. Zero as cellular touch. We will practice flying, catching, landing, fluid acrobatics, deft manoeuvres. For the acrobatics everyone will work at their own level and will learn best by building group safety and trust. I aim to connect the work to somatic knowledge. For example, Jumping ≠ Flying because jumping is muscular action, whereas flying is in the bones and is affected greatly by emotions and attitude. We will be doing favourite Contact Improvisation exercises and current curiosities: created and learned over the decades investigation and indulgence. BIO Scott Wells has been practicing contact improv for 40 years, teaching for 30 and directs an award winning dance company in San Francisco. He has created works for skateboarders, for boxers and choreographed West Side Story for Sonoma State University. Scott has twice received the Izzie (San Francisco’s most prestigious dance award) for Outstanding Choreography. Scott has toured to Europe for the last 25 years teaching and performing in festivals in Moscow, Barcelona, Budapest, Berlin, Vienna, Zagreb, Bucharest and Ankara to name a few. He has an MFA in Dance, has been practicing Alexander Technique for thirty years, BMC for 15 and has studied a variety of counselling and bodywork practices. His current research passions are Eyebody practice, moving from the organs and contact improvisation. PRESS “Scott Wells...has a dizzying abundance of pure dance-making talent“ Rachel Howard, SF Examiner "Wells has become over the last fifteen years the Paul Taylor of Contact Improv — that is, the first to make dances in this idiom that are deeply musical, somehow "normal," imaginative, witty, often hilarious, sometimes fierce.” Paul Parrish, Danceviewtimes "Come for the Thrills, Stay for the Artistry." Allan Ulrich, Voice of Dance "Sproing! Once you adjust to the notion that very fit people are supposed to be bouncing off walls and flying in your face, you can relax and let them (Wells and dancers) do their thing, which is an electrifying style of contact improvisation" SF Weekly