This intensive workshop is for people with a strong base of continuous experience in contact improvisation and is not for those who are beginning this practice.
$50/class
Registration necessary by sending an email to: a1harwood@yahoo.ca
To reserve your place, send a $20 NON-REFUNDABLE e-transfer via Interac to Andrew Harwood.
The balance ($30) is due IN CASH the day of the workshop.
Please arrive 15 minutes early and bring a snack and water.
As we ground ourselves in the core principles of CI, focusing on the dynamics and subtleties of touch, tone, texture, weight, momentum, and moving support, we will expand our awareness to include space, time, image, gesture and feeling, through solo, duet, trios and ensemble dancing.
Credit : Daniel Harwood-Farkas
We will consider how a lightly held compositional awareness and feeling can support our efforts to connect and find meaning when we are dancing. The workshop will involve specific improvisation investigations, perceptual tunings, principles of design and scores aimed at integrating CI within a greater creative universe
We will seek a quality of attention that shifts from self to others, to the environment and the ever-changing atmospheres in the room and the world at large, and back, to engage with innovative possibilities for individual and collective improvisation. This work can be viewed not only as a means for creative expression but as a process for developing our capacity to collaborate and build a community that holds space for each individual.
