Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/03/2024 - 05/05/2024
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location
Spazio NU
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This workshop is for Contact Improvisation dancers who wish to expand their improvisation skills into ensemble practices, extending their ability to engage in complex creative relations. It is for dancers who want to embrace art-making as a co-creative practice. In this work we will study the physicality of attention that begins with tactile flesh communication and becomes spatial touch. Our time practices begin with the immediacy of presence and unfold into durational agreements with our dancing partners that allow all ensemble members to engage in art-making. We will study how we communicate the conditions of events, emergent internal scores, future potentials, and creative anchors that organize our agreements. We will study how the quality of our briefest relations build trust and see that they produce emergent phenomena when amazing things happen. Critical to all is when to join and when to let go. Contact skills will be our base of practice and ensemble art making our goal.
This workshop will take dancers into ensemble movement practices that are a strong platform for all dancers, but especially for those interested in joining the Institute for the Study of Somatic Communication (ISSC) which is an international research organization based in dance ensemble practice. Understanding how we move from duet into ensemble movement, engage compositional practices that include touch based forms, and embody presence as a larger state of being are core concepts of the ISSC. Learning to dance inclusive of others supports somatic communication and relational intelligence for the dance that is the living of life.