Upcoming World Premier Weekend Length Workshop
Fri April 19: 6-9pm
Sat April 20: 1:30-6:30pm (with break)
Sun April 21: 1:30-6:30pm (with break)
Exact times may be adjusted
Contact Improvisation is a collaborative dance form, harnessing gravity, momentum, and weight. It seeks an experience of shared movement that is spontaneous, responsive and joyful. The idea of "Falling Into Form" suggests a choreography that emerges, rather than imposes. We are physical 'forms,' collaborating with gravity, to reveal a dance 'form.'
Informed by the Axis Syllabus, Aaron's teaching invites lightness, ease and sustainability. In this workshop we will explore the possibilities suggested by the anatomy of our structure - the curvature of our joints, the elasticity of our fascia, and the mobility of our spine, to find pathways that nurture and harness momentum. By honing our sense of curiosity, we cultivate a connection to our joints, to our fascia, to gravity, and to each other.
For Beginner to Experienced Dancers - this workshop is for you. There will be time for high dynamic, faster coordinations, as well as space for inner research, stillness and slow connection.
Please wear loose, comfortable clothing, of natural fibers, that will cover your limbs, and slide easily on the floor. A towel and a water bottle will helpful, while jewelry and strong scents are discouraged.
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Contact Improv is a collaborative dance form, harnessing gravity, momentum, weight, and levity to create movement that is spontaneous, responsive and joyful.
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Biomechanics
Kinetic architecture
Joint centration
Lead and lag - elastic rebound
Jumping: propulsion and reception
Spinal mechanics
Safe transitions
Falling softly
Spirals
Inversions
Duet and trio forms
Connection to your own structure, to the earth, to another dancer
Contact Improv emerged 51 years ago at the colleges of Oberlin and Bennington. It tends to elude definition. It was initiated by a small group of dancers and martial artists who wanted to uncover a quality of movement using shared weight. They were looking for impulses and
pathways that emerged from the senses, at the intersection of physics and anatomy.
Experience choreography that emerges rather than imposes.
It is a dance form that looks for connection, awareness, and listening. We learn to fly with ease, and to fall with softness. We train ourselves to care for the safety of those around us.
I am at your service.
I am here to support your empowerment. I create a safe space. Free to explore. Safe to explore movement at your own pace and on your terms. I value a high level of professionalism, composure, appropriateness, etiquette.
I respect the vulnerability of the teacher/student relationship and I’m interested in supporting your success. You are already fluent and masterful in your own body, working with your own body. Waking up to our own innate fluency as a mover.
Ensemble Research
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