MOLDOVA CONTACT + 2022
11 - 23 September
πCONSUELO PACHECOπ
Workshop:
Awakening a dancing body
The weight of our body is the first experience that embodies us and connects us to the world. Your body weight is different from other bodies. Weight communicates to us a give and take relationship with gravity. Each part of the body has a different weight. Weight can be a subjective experience. Weight is not only a matter of weighing, but also of thinking. Drop the weight. Hold the weight. Share the weight. The weight draws us into an inevitable dialogue with the earth and living beings. ΒΏHow much does the presence of a dancing body weigh?
Through Somatic Practice and Contact Improvisation we want to open a space of attention-exploration-study of micro and macro movements, which invites us to new perceptions about dance and the intimate relationship that crosses us with gravity.
We are a body that gives all its weight to the earth, where other bodies and their weights shake, touch, and find themselves dancing. Bringing our awareness of the earth closer to dance is giving us a genuine and instinctive experience of mobility.
#contactplus #teathers #contactimpro #contactfest
11 - 23 September
πCONSUELO PACHECOπ
Workshop:
Awakening a dancing body
The weight of our body is the first experience that embodies us and connects us to the world. Your body weight is different from other bodies. Weight communicates to us a give and take relationship with gravity. Each part of the body has a different weight. Weight can be a subjective experience. Weight is not only a matter of weighing, but also of thinking. Drop the weight. Hold the weight. Share the weight. The weight draws us into an inevitable dialogue with the earth and living beings. ΒΏHow much does the presence of a dancing body weigh?
Through Somatic Practice and Contact Improvisation we want to open a space of attention-exploration-study of micro and macro movements, which invites us to new perceptions about dance and the intimate relationship that crosses us with gravity.
We are a body that gives all its weight to the earth, where other bodies and their weights shake, touch, and find themselves dancing. Bringing our awareness of the earth closer to dance is giving us a genuine and instinctive experience of mobility.
#contactplus #teathers #contactimpro #contactfest
π2
MOLDOVA CONTACT + 2022
11 - 23 September
πLEONARDO LAMBRUSCHINIπ
Workshop:
Jumping | Falling β Up and down
During the intensive we will explore how the different practices that influce me while I dance Contact improvisation can lead to new possibilities of movement.
My aim is to awake and integrate them into the dance: determination and letting go, toning up and going with the flow, jumping up and down. We will explore the relationship between falling towards the floor and towards yours partners, how to open yourself to this idea, continuing with falling down and up to get to flying and traveling from one support to the other.
We will experience Contact Improvisation as a game of giving and receiving, at times through the eyes and the curiosity of children - who are welcome to share the experience with us - but also as a training to investigate gravity, softness, dropping in, elasticity, pushing up, density, tone, tensegrity, reaching.
There will be time to dance, and we will use some technical elements without losing the state of presence, relaxation and dynamicity in the dance.
We will use the possibilities that the place offers us to bring our research on movement not only into the studio but also in nature. Dance as a place of origin, where we can make contact with plants, insects, birds, trees and other living beings, to give the possibilities to ourselves to be crossed by the awareness of being framed with nature.
Free to lose "memory" and knowledge of all the things learned, we will look for new forms of communication and of sharing, leaving room for creativity.
#contactplus #teathers #contactimpro #contactfest
11 - 23 September
πLEONARDO LAMBRUSCHINIπ
Workshop:
Jumping | Falling β Up and down
During the intensive we will explore how the different practices that influce me while I dance Contact improvisation can lead to new possibilities of movement.
My aim is to awake and integrate them into the dance: determination and letting go, toning up and going with the flow, jumping up and down. We will explore the relationship between falling towards the floor and towards yours partners, how to open yourself to this idea, continuing with falling down and up to get to flying and traveling from one support to the other.
We will experience Contact Improvisation as a game of giving and receiving, at times through the eyes and the curiosity of children - who are welcome to share the experience with us - but also as a training to investigate gravity, softness, dropping in, elasticity, pushing up, density, tone, tensegrity, reaching.
There will be time to dance, and we will use some technical elements without losing the state of presence, relaxation and dynamicity in the dance.
We will use the possibilities that the place offers us to bring our research on movement not only into the studio but also in nature. Dance as a place of origin, where we can make contact with plants, insects, birds, trees and other living beings, to give the possibilities to ourselves to be crossed by the awareness of being framed with nature.
Free to lose "memory" and knowledge of all the things learned, we will look for new forms of communication and of sharing, leaving room for creativity.
#contactplus #teathers #contactimpro #contactfest
β€2
MOLDOVA CONTACT + 2022
11 - 23 Π‘Π΅Π½ΡΡΠ±ΡΡ
πSVETA BIRD & DANIEL DRAGOπ
RHYTHM OF STILLNESS
Contact improvisation classes
You are probably familiar with the state when you are somewhere in the center of peace of yourself and nowhere at the same time, and the world around you unfolds with its own rhythms, sounds and colors. Everything happens effortlessly, in a timely manner and everything is in its place.
The most dynamic, fast dance with many supports at different levels can happen around the epicenter of silence inside. And despite, perhaps, the most extremly observing from the outside, in its essence such a dance will be the safest.
We are always interested in finding and exploring ways to get into such states in and through Contact Improvisation.
Through concrete and practical-technical exercises, and sometimes very abstractly subtle and contemplative ones, we will look together for the keys of KI that open the doors of such states.
#contactplus #teathers #contactimpro #contactfest
11 - 23 Π‘Π΅Π½ΡΡΠ±ΡΡ
πSVETA BIRD & DANIEL DRAGOπ
RHYTHM OF STILLNESS
Contact improvisation classes
You are probably familiar with the state when you are somewhere in the center of peace of yourself and nowhere at the same time, and the world around you unfolds with its own rhythms, sounds and colors. Everything happens effortlessly, in a timely manner and everything is in its place.
The most dynamic, fast dance with many supports at different levels can happen around the epicenter of silence inside. And despite, perhaps, the most extremly observing from the outside, in its essence such a dance will be the safest.
We are always interested in finding and exploring ways to get into such states in and through Contact Improvisation.
Through concrete and practical-technical exercises, and sometimes very abstractly subtle and contemplative ones, we will look together for the keys of KI that open the doors of such states.
#contactplus #teathers #contactimpro #contactfest
β€3
MOLDOVA CONTACT + 2022
11 - 23 September
πVIRGINIA NEGRU & CATALIN DIACONUπ
Class description:
From solo to CI, to solo and CI again, and so on..
Sometimes in Contact Improvisation we focus so much on following the point of contact that we forget about dancing, or we dance our solo schemes forgetting about including proximity and contact possibilities in our composition.
We propose a class on how not to loose yourself in the sensory experience of CI and bring more of yourself into the dance, or even sometimes challenge the flow and the predictability that appears in the CI learned patterns by changing and playing with muscle tone, inertia and direction. But also to see how from the solo dancing and improvisation you can find solutions of entering in contact that make sense both technically and compositionally. How not to get lost in the βduet bubbleβ and include others around and the space. To keep the specific zoom-in quality of CI and at the same time be able to keep an open eye on zoom out perspective, the ansamble vision of real time composition practices.
Letβs have a rich dance! Follow CI principles and technique, then break them, then dance solo, and then come back in CI with more curiosity and sophisticated approach on dancing in contact with others.
#contactplus #teathers #contactimpro #contactfest
11 - 23 September
πVIRGINIA NEGRU & CATALIN DIACONUπ
Class description:
From solo to CI, to solo and CI again, and so on..
Sometimes in Contact Improvisation we focus so much on following the point of contact that we forget about dancing, or we dance our solo schemes forgetting about including proximity and contact possibilities in our composition.
We propose a class on how not to loose yourself in the sensory experience of CI and bring more of yourself into the dance, or even sometimes challenge the flow and the predictability that appears in the CI learned patterns by changing and playing with muscle tone, inertia and direction. But also to see how from the solo dancing and improvisation you can find solutions of entering in contact that make sense both technically and compositionally. How not to get lost in the βduet bubbleβ and include others around and the space. To keep the specific zoom-in quality of CI and at the same time be able to keep an open eye on zoom out perspective, the ansamble vision of real time composition practices.
Letβs have a rich dance! Follow CI principles and technique, then break them, then dance solo, and then come back in CI with more curiosity and sophisticated approach on dancing in contact with others.
#contactplus #teathers #contactimpro #contactfest
MOLDOVA CONTACT + 2022
11 - 23 September
πNICA ANDREA PORTAVIAπ
Organic/Organization
In this class we will start exploring the fundamentals of our movement looking for an organic organization of our body; bringing in our movement the idea of body as a universe made by parts in communication between them.
We will focus on the extremities, exploring different qualities and possibilities of movement; analyzing hands, arms and legs we will aim for fluidity, exploring rhythm, dynamics, shifting weight and reversibility.
With the partners we will bring all the material exploring the relationships and the communication between bodies, looking for a clear and interdependent dialogue.
#contactplus #teathers #contactimpro #contactfest
11 - 23 September
πNICA ANDREA PORTAVIAπ
Organic/Organization
In this class we will start exploring the fundamentals of our movement looking for an organic organization of our body; bringing in our movement the idea of body as a universe made by parts in communication between them.
We will focus on the extremities, exploring different qualities and possibilities of movement; analyzing hands, arms and legs we will aim for fluidity, exploring rhythm, dynamics, shifting weight and reversibility.
With the partners we will bring all the material exploring the relationships and the communication between bodies, looking for a clear and interdependent dialogue.
#contactplus #teathers #contactimpro #contactfest
MOLDOVA CONTACT + 2022
11 - 23 September
π PETYA STOYKOVA π
Creative movement workshop
What is dance?
Through the workshop we will explore the energetic nature of movement. We will expand our boundaries and perception of movement in search of its invisible value. We will experience different movement adventures, dance intentions and instant composition patterns. We will look at the dance as a flow of movement, a statement to make, an experience to share.
Dance is to be honest with your body. Above all it is about listening and following what moves you. The way we think about dance is the way we move. Letβs think and move about it together.
#contactplus #teathers #contactimpro #contactfest
11 - 23 September
π PETYA STOYKOVA π
Creative movement workshop
What is dance?
Through the workshop we will explore the energetic nature of movement. We will expand our boundaries and perception of movement in search of its invisible value. We will experience different movement adventures, dance intentions and instant composition patterns. We will look at the dance as a flow of movement, a statement to make, an experience to share.
Dance is to be honest with your body. Above all it is about listening and following what moves you. The way we think about dance is the way we move. Letβs think and move about it together.
#contactplus #teathers #contactimpro #contactfest