SOMATICCOMMUNICATION: How Contact Improvisation Prepares Us for the 21st Century!

This is a three-day deep dive into the fabric of touch that is key to our relational practices in the movement of Contact Improvisation – and for many of us, in the living of life itself. Steeped in somatic communication, this adventure into our movement life begins within ourselves, but moves outwardly, to where selfhood refuses to be stable, set and limiting. Movement scores throughout the weekend will make this connection. In this workshop we will form and reform what we know as touch, exploring how this touch translates into the flow of movement. We increase the strength of our moving together with the human and the more than human worlds we also are. Creative, thoughtful, heart based, skill based, your learning will be anchored in the core principles of Contact Improvisation, such as: how to move weight like water - actions of cascading. The details of touching within weight exchange - even with the more than human world. The rising and hanging of the body – each state significant to communication. How attention lives in the very small. Extending to form surfaces that arc. Learning to trust the physicality of your extended intelligence. Movement practices include lots of dancing both as skills building and exploration. Although, in many cases these will be the same thing. I am looking forward to moving with you. To Register, Please copy and paste this link or write to me at [email protected] https://forms.gle/HKsUsJTUZwQVJBuE9 Covid Note: Although this workshop is based in Contact Improvisation, it moves spatially on other levels of physical connection. We will moderate our practice to keep everyone as covid safe as possible by understanding and acting on the touch that starts long before skin contact begins. If you want to practice CI at a distance, all scores will have alternative modes. If you wish skin contact, that too, is possible. Please be prepared to take a Covid rapid lateral flow test.