Wise Moves with Simonetta Alessandri & Lucia Walker-Contact Improvisation Workshop for older dancers

The workshop will be suitable for experienced Contact Improvisation dancers and for those beginning or returning to the practise. The frame will hold a safe space for older dancers but all ages and abilities are welcome to come explore and play. We will explore our individual capacity for movement and allow dances to emerge from meetings with others and from the interplay of physical forces; momentum, pressure, structure, and gravity. The workshop will include quiet and subtle work as well as energetic and playful movement. Each participant is invited to participate according to their own ability and energy. It will be suited to those new to Contact Improvisation as well to experienced dancers who wish to deepen their practise. The frame will hold a safe space for older dancers but all ages and abilities are welcome to come explore and play. Lucia Walker and Simonetta Alessandri have been dancing for around 40 years and continue to be involved in the changing world of Contact Improvisation as well as teaching Feldenkrais and Alexander Technique. Both these techniques underlie and integrate with our teaching and movement directions. We are interested in how we adapt our movement and presence practises to support the changes that come with age and in supporting others to continue dancing and Contact Improvisation as they navigate their personal movement journey. Feldenkrais and Alexander Technique are approaches that centre around attention, awareness, and self-care. They support dance by refining awareness, allowing us to move safely beyond habitual patterns towards greater ease, effortlessness and pleasure. Through Feldenkrais, we will explore differentiation and integration—refining our ability to perceive subtle distinctions in movement, weight, tone and direction, while sensing how each part participates in the organisation of the whole. With Alexander Technique we increase discernment in self-noticing and appreciation of our sense of movement and practise our ability to pause, choose and respond authentically in each moment. Cost £50/£35 concessions. More information: mailto:[email protected] Booking: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wise-moves-with-lucia-walker-simonetta-alessandri- tickets-2002380163973?aff=oddtdtcreator.