Throughout this weekend we weave together Contact Improvisation & somatics to invite ourselves to feel deeply at home in the body and in movement.
We will flow in and out of contact, viewing the dance as a playful dialogue, which breathes freely in time and space.
Composing the dance, composing the contact.
I will offer explorative exercises, as well as clear technical tools and pathways to understand underlying physical principles of contact improvisation. We’ll spend time with the floor, sensing gravity, studying how our bodies function.
What makes our movement effortless and efficient ? How do we align our bones to create support and ease in our movement ?
Becoming comfortable with not knowing.
We call in qualities of elasticity & liquidity, and how developing multidirectional availability opens up more possibilities in our movement.
Sharing weight and finding the subtle details and articulation of our shared architectures, will bring us into moving together through levels, through the space & in and out of contact. Using our breath to find synchronicity helps us to ‘tune in’ together.
We will explore ideas around falling and flying. By researching the subtle mechanics of ‘small dance’ and suspension, we progress towards using momentum and spirals of the body to enter fluid ways to lift each other, using the momentum of the fall into ‘catching a ride’. We can look at "lifting" being rather a small
weight-exchange through the space - falling into each other - than something big and spectacular.
We will also research how to use our arms and wings as extension of our spine. Arms can be a beautiful pathway to find entrances into lifts, and create space and time in our dances. Breathing in and out of contact. Working with the frame and structure of the arms, we create ways to connect to the space and find counterbalance in the body, providing frames to both lift and be lifted, and offer structures to be explored.
Awareness and presence are helping us to expand the choices and possibilities in our dance. Cultivating conscious listening, breathing, giving and receiving.
Material alternates between contact- and solo tasks, towards trios and group-scores.

Technique and Poetry.
Structure and Freedom.
Playful Beings in Motion.