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SUMMARY:Dancing the Unknown
DESCRIPTION:Contact Improvisation Training\n\n \nAre you…\n…curious what Contact Improvisation is all about?\n…hesitant to join jams because not confident you have the skill? or feel safe enough?\n…already dancing CI, but find yourself not progressing, repeating patterns, and want inspiration for new ways to move and dance? \n…ready to skill up to the next level, so can flow with more freedom, grace & power?\n \nThese trainings are designed for both new and advanced dancers with techniques, inspiration and exercises with many variations, options and diverse pathways to accommodate different skill levels.​​​​\nThroughout the day, you learn how to develop a strong and intuitive connection with yourself and your dance partners, as you explore the possibilities of contact, movement, balance, momentum, body awareness, weight-sharing and flight.​​​\n \nWe divide the training into 2 half days, so you can attend either or both:\n \n​​FREE YOUR DANCE ~ Fundamentals of CI to Survive and Thrive in Jams​​\n\nMoving from self into others: Build on self-connection and awareness before contact with others\nImpulses and inspirations: Play with mirroring, leading, following, inputting and responding \nDifferent levels: Fluid transitions from ground to sky and back\nContact techniques: Ways to make contact with others – rolling, pivoting, sliding…\nInspiration from nature: Fluidity of water, rooting into ground, animal play, and spirals to enhance ease and power of movement\nIntegration: Unravel apparent contradictions in the interplays of structure and fluidity, care and freedom, precision and spontaneity, inertia and momentum, falling and flying​​​​​\n\n \nLEARN TO FLY ~ Sharing Weight and Navigating Gravity For Effortless Flow and Flight\n\nLayers of contact: Connect with others through space, skin, flesh and bone\nSharing weight: Practice different orientations like leaning, pushing, pulling, pouring and falling into points of contact\nBalance and support: Find yourself, the ground, the other(s) and the sky\nProjection: Extend our bodies to enhance movement, balance and weightlessness\nPhysics of bodies in motion: Understand the principles of inertia, momentum, leverage and centre of gravity to achieve weightlessness\nFlight pathways: Effortless lifting and flying in many many different orientations, directions and rotations​​​\n\n \nBOTH INCLUDE:\n\nCore principles & techniques – move through different levels & ways to make contact, seamless transitions, momentum, balance, spirals, falling, projection & loads more\nBuild confidence, trust, safety, connection & CI culture\nImprove your range of movement & creativity, physical communication & conditioning, spatial & body awareness\nExplore the interplays of structure & fluidity, care & freedom, precision & spontaneity\nJams to integrate & practice it all\n\n \nNo previous experience required.\nWhether you are looking to refine your technique, deepen your understanding of movement, or simply have fun exploring a new style of dance, this CI training can be an enriching and rewarding experience.\nSo come and join us, and discover the joy and freedom of movement that Contact Improvisation has to offer!\n
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