Portland - Cloud Tectonics: Lift, Loft & Drift in CI w Ezra

CLOUD TECTONICS: LIFT, LOFT & DRIFT IN CI With Ezra LeBank Portland, Oregon @ Flock PDX Sept 30 & Oct 1 Saturday 12:15 - 6pm Sunday 12:15-3pm Registration: https://forms.gle/LYthDYHn6krg5iSs8 Description 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? We will begin with Dirt Work: physical training to expand, integrate, and ready our bodies in conversation with gravity and the earth to prepare 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. 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. All levels are welcome. All are welcome, some previous CI experiences assumed. 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.bossyflyer.com *In an effort to make this workshop 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. Early Bird Discount by September 1st Regular: $120 Low Income: $90 Supporting: $150+ After September 1st Regular: $150 Low Income: $120 Supporting: $180+ **$20 discount on all prices for POC Participants. Photo credit: @EricAllenPhoto