Gravity Dances
GRAVITY DANCES
We move through the questions that Contact Improvisation continues to raise more than fifty years after its birth:
What does it mean to meet?
To fall?
To touch?
To share weight?
To research instability in an unstable world?
We draw from Steve Paxton’s legacy, from the small dance, from material for the spine —
We’ll look at CI not as an aesthetic, but as a political practice: a way to study care, consent, solidarity, empathy and interdependence.
– because everything is political — every weight shared, every hand released, every floor we trust again.
We invite you into this dance — a field of gravity, resistance, tenderness, and revolution(s)
Wainsgate Chapel
Hebden Bridge
England
HX7 8SU
United Kingdom
Wainsgate Chapel is the home to Wainsgate Dances, a programme of dance events curated by Charlie Morrissey which he organises together with his partner Rob Hopper. The programme includes workshops, residencies, performances and other encounters between artists and audiences.
Wainsgate is a space for research and experimentation where artists can come together to get on with whatever it is that interests them in an open environment in which questioning and interaction are encouraged. Many kinds of dance work happen here, and included within the programme are a number of artists who have an interest in researching CI and improvisational approaches to dance and choreographic practice.
Currently Wainsgate Dances offers a daily online shared open dance practice session Monday-Friday every week. Email wainsgatedances@gmail.com if you'd like to know more