Kiori Kawai’s workshop will explore how the sense of physical
contact affects our bodies and minds.
Her approach of Contact Improvisation is as a Meditative Movement Practice. It is based on observing breath and bodily sensations, placing the awareness to every part of the body, and integrating this awareness with movement. A practitioner of
meditation and improvisational movement, Kiori Kawai’s
approach employs observation of conscious and unconscious
choices through stillness and movement, using kinesthetic
awareness as a conversation to explore connection between self
and environment. Her workshops focus on various thematic
movement methods, such as “Body Climate”, “Arriving Score”,
and “Sleep Dance Lab.”. Workshops often culminate in a sitespecific
performance as sharing and exchanging ideas with each
participants’ view point.

ARRIVING SCORE
When we close our sense of seeing, there are another ways to
receive our environment. We will navigate each others to
experience our environment for ourselves to „arrive“ the new
space.

BODY CLIMATE
Observe bodily sensations and place the awareness to every part
of the body. Visually create a weather map of the state of the
body. What kind of climate is in your arm? In your toes? In your
pelvis? In your head?
We move our bodies reflecting these climates. As we move, how
does the climate change in the body.

SLEEP DANCE
is a lab that is held 8.5 hours from 9pm to 5:30am. We will dance, sleep, dream, dance again, dream in sleep, dance in dream, dream in dance, sleep in dance. SLEEP DANCE Lab. is inspired by dancing with the music of SLEEP, an
eight-and-a-half hour concept album based around the neuroscience of sleep by composer Max Richter. This slow, study, repetitive sound could make our concentration level deeper and deeper during we move together with partners in physical contact
throughout the night. Whenever our mind goes away, this sound
could be a good core to come back to connect with. Sometime in
stillness, other time with continuous movement in the state of our
dream. Let’s dance in our dream, dream in our dance.