Contact Improvisation Immersion with Carmen Serber and guests in Berkeley, CA.

Somatics into Contact Improvisation

Application and registration form and prices.

This year long training provides a modular education into Contact Improvisation moving between sensing, practice, theory and somatic integration. We experience the body as a vessel of experimental inquiry, somatic communication, embodiment and wild physicality.

The curriculum of each module focuses on one or more anatomical structure(s) which we examine and perceive in multiple ways using our felt sense as primary tool of orientation. We apply Contact Improvisation exercises involving partner and ensemble work as research base, the Axis Syllabus for studying a moving body through space and movement practices that invite expansive improvisational experiences with embodied attention on the individual and the collective. All those aspects will be embedded in peer learning labs that support the integration of the presented material and beyond.

In addition each module will include different (dance) artists and somatic experts to widen the perspective of dance and understanding of what is a body.

I am dedicated to offer guidance with the intention to support you in your own individual learning path. Outside the modules the cohort is encouraged to meet to deepen their practice. 

There will be participants from last year's training at each module to support you and the evolving group field.

I am looking forward to co-creating this year of joyful learning together. 

WHO IS IT FOR 

Anyone interested in Contact Improvisation, especially movers who want to expand their physical skillset AND their practice of relational presence.
Movers, dancers, therapists and athletes that are interested in expanding or reconfiguring their movement, teaching, or healing practice.