Constellating The Senses - Contact Improvisation - Calendario Globale

Constellating The Senses

Workshop
29 dic 2025 -  4 gen 2026
29 dic 2025 @ 7.00 pm 4 gen 2026 @ 7.00 pm
Beaver Point Hall - 1361 Beaver Point Road, Salt Spring Island, Canada - Show map
Constellating The Senses - Beaver Point Hall - Salt Spring Island, Canada

From December 29th to January 4th, join us in a new year retreat
in Contact Improvisation Dance with Manuel Rochette,
guest facilitators Niku Dhillon, Maeve Iredale and more.

The retreat will include a harmony of classes, jams, solo exploration,
potlucks, saunas and a new year celebration. 
 
 
Constellating The Senses
A great opening, a quiet transcendence.
An availability to touch the unknown, a desire to reach anew.
A sense of awe that makes our eyes widen, our pupil dilate and lets clarity come in.
We have opened, and closure is no longer a reflex but a choice.
Awareness expands through the senses - the body, its expression.

In this 6 day immersion, we will dance with these questions in mind:
What lies at my fingertips that I overlook, misread, or avoid?
Can I move with truth and authenticity while welcoming complexity?
How do I widen my capacity to meet whatever arises in each moment?
Where does simplicity shift into complacency in my dance?
How available am I—body and mind—in this unfolding conversation?

Physically, we’ll explore into the pelvis as a communication tool, centre to centre connection, the joints range of motion,
poly centricity, and the role of the eyes and spine in our choice making.
We’ll be investigating into our limitations and natural tendencies, strengthening and modulating patterns.
We’ll be bringing in authentic relating, authentic movement, vocal exploration,
blindfold research, and labbing to deepen in the practice of contact improvisation. 
This retreat will be aimed at a yin/yang balance to access both inner and outer worlds of our dance. 

 BEFORE YOU SIGN UP:

This retreat is for dancers with a grasp of the fundamentals of Contact Improvisation. If you have doubt on your abilities, please reach out. 
Please be aware that this retreat will include extended moments being blindfolded as well as some extended time in a non verbal space. 
 
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Manuel Rochette is a dancer, facilitator, founder and one of the hosts of Salt Spring Island Contact Improvisation Festival in Canada.
With 20 years of experience with the form of Contact Improvisation, his personal studies got him in touch with teachers such as Martin Keogh, Angelika Doniy, Alicia Grayson, Ray Chung, Scott Wells, Vega Luukkonen, Kira Kirsch, Paul Singh, Andrew Harwood and more.

His facilitation approach is at the nexus point where skills, states, play and spontaneous composition merge. 
His dancing style aims at creating true connection, ever-changing pathways, opening to novelty and modulating patterns.
Curiosities of the moment: A relentless sense of connection with self, duet and group, accessing poly-centricity, how to increase availability & generosity with the body, and the relation between pause, punctuations, and continuity of movement.
Manuel is also a DJ and a gardener from which he sources inspirations and metaphors. 
https://www.contactimprovisationsaltspring.com/

Niku Dhillon has been practicing Contact Improvisation for over 12 years, with roots in Contemporary Dance at the University of Calgary. Drawing from a year and a half of studying and facilitating CI across North America, he enjoys creating warm, welcoming spaces for people to explore together with intention

Beaver Point Hall

1361 Beaver Point Road
Salt Spring Island
British Columbia
V8K 1W9
Canada

Wonderful heritage community hall. Wooden floors, Wooden walls, Wooden Ceiling, surrounded by rainforest, near the ocean and lakes.