WAVES AND SPIRALES contact improvisation workshop

WAVES AND SPIRALS Contact improvisation Workshop 10h 11th June 2023 Limitate number of partecipanta, to 25! The workshop invites you to dive into some of the understanding of the language of Contact Improvisation, to deepen our awareness, stretch and transform the possibilities of the body. We will work to tune our physical embody attention, connect to gravity and center, and align the body in lifting dynamic movements. What happens if we let go of our base, and follow the sensing body as waves in order to find the encounter with the other, entering into off-balance situations that create a loss of control, and generate your own style of dance. Sensing waves are a practice generated from listening to the internal waves of the sensing body and merging with one of your partners. How can we support the listening of these subtle spaces, at the same time using physicality and momentum to dance with the partner? By practicing the dialogue of shared waves and axes through space, we will build a network of sensing attention that will allow entering in a state of high awareness, an awakened center, and intuitive fascia, observing the dance that emerges in constant dialogue. We will reach lifting, dynamic falling, and the free speed of your sensing body. This workshop is open for all, beginners who wish to enter into this practice as well as experienced dancers and contact dancers, who wish to further develop and fine-tune their skills and improvisation partnering work. When: 10h 11th June 2023 Saturday 12.30 to 173 Sunday 10.30 to 15.30 price: sliding scale 120€ - 140€ Early bird registration (Before 15th May) 97 euro Info & registration: [email protected] Bio Barbara Berti is a choreographer, dancer and researcher who has lived in Berlin for ten years. As a performer she has regularly appeared on stage with Isabelle Schad (2016 to 2020), and Tino Seghal(2015 to 2018) and collaborated with choreographers and performance artists such as Judith Seng (2012 to 2014), Gabi Schilling (2014 and 2020) and bauhaus Dessau institute (2019), among others. In her choreographic work she is interested in issues of kinaesthetic empathy and the embodied transmission of physical experience in interaction with the audience. She has performed in the following theatres: HAU, Dock11, HKW, Martin Gropius Bau, PACT; and at these festivals: Tanztage, Tanz im August, Santarcangelo, Short Theater and Fabbrica Europa, among others. In Berlin she has an intensive teaching career and regularly gives classes and leads jams in contact improvisation. In 2014 she won the Theater tanz preis HAU2-100Grad Berlin with her solo "I am a shape in a shape, doing a shape" with the Italian version in which it was selected Vetrina Gd'a 2016 and Premio Gd'a 2017. 2017 winner of Premio Scenario with Bau #2. 2018 'Crossing the Sea funding' for China. In 2021 she received an NPN grant for her trio "SPACE - golden dream II" and a 'Distance' grant Berlin for her interspecies research SPECIES. In 2022 she received an NPN grant for her dance production "Zone of acceptance". 2023 'Dis-Tanz' stipendium for HUMANE research. Interspeices research: https://barbaratopi.wordpress.com/species/ https://exisdance.de/dis-tanz-solo/species-barbara-berti/ Karthik Rajmohan is a dancer, yogi and sound artist who is passionate about exploring the body in movement and in stillness. He has a diploma in movement arts and is one of the first generation of CI practitioners from India. Apart from teaching in the major cities he also took the form beyond the dance community. Offering CI in children’s homes, juvenile detention centres and rural communities. He sees CI as a way to not only understand laws of physics but also human nature and the dynamics of relationship with each other.