Contact improvisation weekend is an opportunity to awaken body sensations while dancing from the morning till the dawn surrounded by nature and beautiful people.
We will meet our mornings with Deimante's Prišmantaitė hatha and partner yoga. After warming up and stretching out we will dive into the practice of contact dance with teachings of Nica Portavia from Italy and Aiste Jančiūte from Lithuania. There will also be fire, live music and a good fording in the woods of improvisation.

DATE: March 13-15
PLACE: school of crafts ‘Sodžiaus Meistrai’, Meistrų str. 10, Rūdiškės.
Price includes 2 nights and snacks.
EARLY BIRD PRICE: 90 euro (Prepayment by the 23th February).
FULL FEE: 120 euro.
DEPOSIT: 50 euro (you will get an account number after filling your a registration form)
REGISTRATION: https://forms.gle/3d1NkMzPE7WA9Nxy7
WE WILL SLEEP in a cozy, newly built dormitory with a big kitchen and other necessary conveniences.
LUNCH can be cooked by oneself or ordered for an additional 4.50 euro per portion.
HOW TO GET TO US: by train Vilnius–Marcinkonys, get out in Rūdiškėse. From Rūdiškes station we will pick you all up. Call 868771733, Deimantė.
BY CAR you should go to Rūdiškes, when you see supermarket NORFA turn left (assuming you are coming from Trakai), pass through the railway and turn left again. Soon you will see the sign for the school Sodžiaus Meistrai on the right.
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For any inquiries write us or give us a call:
aistejanciute@gmail.com, tel. 862457116 (Aistė); deimosdance@gmail.com, tel. 868771733 (Deimantė).
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NICA PORTAVIA.
Dance yourself. Dance the dance that you are. Give the access to dive into your body and research possibilities and strategies. We will research solo and relationships with the others. Our focus is to work with an open body, ready to change, ready to receive, ready to give. We will dance ourselves, our senses, our way to be alive. We will dance ourselves Whole.
With this intensive I want to promote a research based on Contact Improvisation and improvisation. We will use those two vocabularies as playground to research presence and consciousness of our body, of our dance. We will use element inspired by Tuning Score, Instant Composition and Material for The Spine.
At the end of the intensive there will be a performative moment with the group.

AISTĖ JANČIŪTĖ
Michelangelo said, "Touch is life." Touching can bring life not just to sculpture, but also for dance. Touch can enrich the body with unexpected directions, angles of motion, circumference and the quality of movement. It can enrich the soul by connecting with oneself and communion with another person.
Throughout the workshop, using various exercises we will explore how touch can help you listen, trust and follow the inner momentum of motion. We will learn to give and to follow partner's direction of movement, and we will look for new ways of moving, using the weight of the body or its individual parts. We will use gravity power for smooth and soft movement together. Determine to move 360 degrees and make the most of it using the whole surface of your skin to discover a spontaneous, lively and creative movement journey.

DEIMANTĖ PRIŠMANTAITĖ
During contact improvisation weekend I will wake you up with yoga and breathing exercises. After warming up joints and muscles and awakening the mind, we will try yoga in pairs. We will learn to trust ourselves and partner, to receive and give up body weight, and to help partner deepen some yoga postures.
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Dance experience is not necessary. Wear loose and comfortable clothes. Footwear is not needed – we will dance bare feet or with socks.
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CI weekender activities timetable:
March 13, FRIDAY
16 :00–17.30 Arrival, registration.
18:00 CI Opening circle
19:00–21:00 Jam
March 14, SATURDAY
9:00–10:30 Yoga in pairs, preparing bodies to move (Deimantė)
11:00–13:30 I session (Contact Improvisation with Aistė)
Lunch
16:00–18:00 II session (Contact Improvisation with Nica)
Dinner
20–22 Jam with live music
March 15, SUNDAY
9:00–10:30 Yoga in pairs, preparing bodies to move (Deimantė)
11:00–13:30 I session (Contact Improvisation with Aistė)
Lunch
16:00–17.30 II session (Contact Improvisation with Nica)
17.30–18.00 CI weekender closing circle.