Description:
Let's listen to the breath - especially exhalation, release from action.
What do the exhalation, pause, stop give us?
Let's make listening our main thing.
Somewhere there a movement is being born...
What is this workshop about?
About the possibilities and limitations.
About relationships with the other and others.
About the flow of movement and consciousness.
About contact with yourself, despite the constantly changing circumstances.
About joy. Who dances, watches and enjoys at the same time? Where is this "pleasure muscle" located? How can we train it, stretch it, use it? How do we turn from just eccentrics in love with CI into aesthetes, finely tuned to the beautiful, funny, sensual?
One of our natural needs is to be visible. This gives us strength, energy, motivation to realize ourselves and to live fully, with taste. In dance, this manifests in the way I look and can see the movement, and how others look at me and give feedback in the form of attention, movement, in words. We can call it presence.
And our other need is to be invisible, free and unconditioned by the external environment. Not to check if we do our tasks correctly—basing our view on the authorities or opinion of elders; to do, to try, to encounter the result ourselves and to choose our own path. Let's call it totality.
How to combine these two healthy needs?
By experimenting! Improvisation is a game with the known and the unknown. With rules to be followed or broken. With a degree of freedom that is respected or violated. Improvisation can only be learned through practice and improvisation.
By practicing continuity, flow, unpredictability of movement in space.
By adapting the space behind to a spherical, connected, technically poetic dance.
By experimenting with vision, stretching this possibility from safety to aesthetic pleasure.
By training what can allow you to be spontaneous in the unpredictable world of dance. To be ready for new offers, to play, to tune in. To allow others to look at you and learn to accept the support of the beholder.
By integrating this into CI practice.
We will remember that we can perceive, feel, see, and hear beauty. To expand, to explode, to feel the flow, to stick a curious nose into movement and stillness, silence and sound.
For this we have time and place, music and silence, presence and disappearance.

BIO:
Anjelika Doniy is a dance improviser, choreographer and teacher focused on contact.
After 5 years of formal studies of choreography, ballet dance and other stage disciplines at the Higher School of Culture (St-Petersburg), she worked for 10 Years as a theater choreographer.
“In 1997, I was at the Impulse Dance Festival in Vienna. There, I saw a wonder of CI, watched Steve Paxton on stage, flew into Andrew Harwood workshop where some 70 dancers were rolling over each other. This was unbelievable, the earth was becoming alive. I saw a realization of my dream of the world growing from connection, interaction, harmony between one and many.
It was love at first sight. From 2002 I started facilitating first jams and CI workshops in Russia and initiated the International Contact Improvisation and Performance Festival in Moscow in 2006–2010.
My path in CI as a teacher began as long journey of workshops for beginners. I love to guide people into the dance, inspire them with their own body, and awaken to what is already there. I love to surprise long-time dancers with secrets of the body as little keys opening a familiar dance into new spaces. This year, I am following a program of the Institute for Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy to go deeper into the body and its anatomy, to touch the cells, to breathe through the navel, and to use this resource in my practice.
My special interest in contact improvisation is clarity. Clarity towards the practice. Honesty towards how I move my weight in the space of Gravity. Attention towards clearing the dance from the personal. Letting things happen as they go.
I am grateful to have met and studied with such teachers as Regine Chopinot, Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith, Danny Lepkoff, Benno Voorham, Lisa Nelson, Esther Gal, Yaniv Mintzer, Martin Keo and many others.”
Anjelica taught over 200 workshops all over the world for all levels from complete beginners to professional dancers. Her teaching is rooted in many years of work of acquiring and transmitting technical skills and equally long path of meditation and mindfulness practice. She blends them into a life dance, contact improvisation.
*The language of the workshop will be English.

PRACTICAL INFO

PRICE AND SUBSCRIPTION
Early Bird Price (till 5th of October): 250 euro
Standard Price (after 5th of Oct): 300eur
Deposit of 90 eur when subscribing (more info in the application form)
*Price includes accommodation and food.

Cancellation and Refund Policy:
Until 5.10.2024 a full refund of the deposit
After 5.10.2024 no refund will be possible.

To subscribe, fill out the form:
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LOCATION
Our event will take place in the forested region of Pohorje, Slovenia, surrounded by waterfalls and wilderness. The nearest town, Ruše, is a 20-minute drive away. We’ll be staying in a cottage nestled in nature, with a wooden studio for dancing. Blankets and duvets will be provided for you.
Address: Klub Prijateljev Narave, Smolnik 38, 2342 Ruše (Slovenia)

FOOD
The breakfast, lunch, and dinner will be provided by the organization team. The food will be mostly vegan.

TIMETABLE
We will start on Thursday, 31.10. with afternoon class, dinner and a jam.
We will be finishing with lunch on Sunday, 3.11.
More detailed timetable coming soon!

If you have more questions, write us on contactimpro.slovenia@gmail.com
Warm welcome to join us!

Nayeli, Ema, Daniele and Anjelika