MEDITATIVE CI and site-specific Improvisation
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. Workshops often culminate in a site-specific performance as sharing and exchanging ideas with each participants’ view point.

SITE SPECIFIC IMPROVISATIONAL PERFORMANCE
Why do we perform? When we share time and space, what is the most vulnerable, pure, and meaningful way to present ourselves to others? In improvisational performance, our past experiences converge in the present body and mind, shaping a corrective future. This workshop will use awareness of touch to explore the connection between bodies, minds and environment. Participants will engage with environment/nature through their senses to create connection. This connection will be integrated
with scored improvisation, both as an individual and as a group, creating
choreographic studies to keep developing and exchanging ideas to reach performative state.