DEEP LISTENING: Intersections in Contact Improv, Compassionate Communication, and Tantra
| Contact Improvisation is an honoring of our own bodies and each body that we encounter. Even though CI offers more intimacy than any dance form I know of, there are so many ways we can continue to deepen. Using tools from Marshall Rosenberg’s Non-violent Communication as a common language we’ll explore our underlying observations, feelings, needs, and practice asking for what we truly desire in the dance. In this safe and sacred container we’ll also use Tantra inspired exercises integrating stillness, breath, slow-motion, eye-contact, sound and energetic awareness to explore being more deeply present and empathetic with our dance partners. (feel free to come with a partner or on your own) |
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Bio: Moti Zemelman, MFA, began practicing Contact Improv 23 years ago. Over the past 16 years he has taught and performed across USA, Canada, Guatemala, Mexico, Europe and Israel.
In 2008-09 he taught as Dance Professor at the Instituto Naciónal de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Moti has been a regular teacher and a board member at Earthdance Retreat Center in Plainfield, MA.
Other recent teaching engagements include DanceBase (Edinburgh), Circuit-Est (Montreal), Z in Motion Festival (Helsinki), and Lila Lopez Contemporary Dance Festival (San Luis Potosi, Mexico) He was an original member of Wire Monkey Dance Co., (Holyoke, MA, USA).
As a musician Moti plays vocal-electronic music for Contact Jams and in 2007 released his debut CD, Doorwaves. Other training includes yoga, Action Theater, modern dance, and clowning. He also designs and moderates the international Contact Improv resource website www.contactimprov.com.