Sharing the Dance: Contact Improvisation w Julie Brannen

Workshop Description: This workshop creates a safe space for learning and practicing the basic principles of Contact Improvisation (CI). Participants are invited to follow curiosity and creativity with self and others. The CI dance form – based on physical skills involving touch, sharing weight, following a shared point of contact, and riding momentum – engages participants in connecting and responding to each moment. Participants work towards aligning body, mind, and spirit and deepening connections with self, partners, and surroundings. "Contact Improvisation is an open-ended exploration of the kinesthetic 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, performer, teacher, researcher, engineer, and artist who has worked with Contact Improvisation since 1979 Ticket Price: $25/$35/$45 In an effort to make high-quality programming accessible to everyone we use a tiered pricing system for classes, memberships, & events. Please choose the price that works for your current budget while also honoring the value you place on this class. Want to understand more about our tiered pricing system? Go to the 'pricing' page of our website to read more about it! Please Note! Any tickets bought within 48 hours of the event will be offered at the supportive rate only. Cancellation Policy: Requests for cancellation received 48 hours in advance of the event’s beginning will be given the option of an account credit in full or a refund minus a 15% administration fee. Cancellation requests received after 48 hours prior to the start of the event will be given an account credit in full. Teacher Bio: Julie Brannen practices as a dance/movement therapist, healing artist, and clinician as part of InTouch & Motion private practice and Institute for Therapy through the Arts non-profit agency. As a teaching artist and conscious movement facilitator, she works with various community-based and arts-integration organizations, such as Inner Sense Healing Arts, Sat Nam Yoga Chicago, Dancing with Class, and Ecstatic Dance Chicago. She is the Founder + Artistic Director of SheWolf, a new paradigm global purpose movement to venerate the embodied feminine soul. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Registered Dance/Movement Therapist, with a Master of Arts in Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling, and Graduate Laban Certificate in Movement Analysis from Columbia College Chicago. Her intention is to bring beings back into their bodies with a felt sense of h(OM)e by re-claiming safety, owning their truth, expanding their awareness, stepping into their power, and creating with passion and purpose. In the process, she taps into different aspects of the psyche, stored in the body, which have been silenced, shrunken, or scared. Her goal is to create a safe, inclusive, nonjudgmental space in order to express, liberate, and uplift.