with Karl Frost
This is an all levels workshop exploring the kinesthetic possibilities of contact improvisation … an organic mix of technical exploration and open-ended investigation.
Contact Improv is a 35 year old art form investigation the physical and aesthetic possibilities of two or more bodies moving through contact. Contact is the frame of investigation and Improvisation is our response… intellectual, emotional, instinctual.
In the fundamental explorations of contact, we find an endless source of investigation: physical listening, surrendering into and channeling a changing flow of momentum, cultivation of more unmediated presence. As well as broad exercises, we explore specific movement vocabulary, demonstrating principles of anatomy and physics and opening up the physicality of the dance to a wider, more three dimensional range of possibilities. We challenge fear-based responses to find more fluid, 3-dimensional movement with another… through the air and into and out of the floor.
Beyond a technical exercise, we see contact as a space of investigation of self, other, and (inter)connection. Within the physics of the dance, we observe metaphors for emotional dynamics and relationship to life and the world. We see what comes of playing actively with metaphor and see where it is not just metaphor.
Contact is explored as a kind of body work, its practice being one opening and healing the body… physically and emotionally. We grow to more deeply enjoy being in a body.
Together, we find where our curiosities meet.
Body work, Mind work, pleasure, intellect, and a fair bit of sweat.
Logistics:
When: 12-6pm, Saturday and Sunday, December 9-10
Where: Performanceworks Northwest, 4625 SE 67th Ave., Portland, OR
Fees: $95-140 sliding scale (if deposit received by December 1) or $120-170
Registration: paypal $50 to Karlfrost@hotmail.com or contact Goody… 503.459.8898 , stillunfolding@yahoo.com
www.bodyresearch.org
This is an all levels workshop exploring the kinesthetic possibilities of contact improvisation … an organic mix of technical exploration and open-ended investigation.
Contact Improv is a 35 year old art form investigation the physical and aesthetic possibilities of two or more bodies moving through contact. Contact is the frame of investigation and Improvisation is our response… intellectual, emotional, instinctual.
In the fundamental explorations of contact, we find an endless source of investigation: physical listening, surrendering into and channeling a changing flow of momentum, cultivation of more unmediated presence. As well as broad exercises, we explore specific movement vocabulary, demonstrating principles of anatomy and physics and opening up the physicality of the dance to a wider, more three dimensional range of possibilities. We challenge fear-based responses to find more fluid, 3-dimensional movement with another… through the air and into and out of the floor.
Beyond a technical exercise, we see contact as a space of investigation of self, other, and (inter)connection. Within the physics of the dance, we observe metaphors for emotional dynamics and relationship to life and the world. We see what comes of playing actively with metaphor and see where it is not just metaphor.
Contact is explored as a kind of body work, its practice being one opening and healing the body… physically and emotionally. We grow to more deeply enjoy being in a body.
Together, we find where our curiosities meet.
Body work, Mind work, pleasure, intellect, and a fair bit of sweat.
Logistics:
When: 12-6pm, Saturday and Sunday, December 9-10
Where: Performanceworks Northwest, 4625 SE 67th Ave., Portland, OR
Fees: $95-140 sliding scale (if deposit received by December 1) or $120-170
Registration: paypal $50 to Karlfrost@hotmail.com or contact Goody… 503.459.8898 , stillunfolding@yahoo.com
www.bodyresearch.org
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