MOLDOVA CONTACT + 2022
11 - 23 September
💙SEBASTIAN FLEGIEL💙
Intensive:
Title: Flying into landing
There are certain aspects of CI, which helps us feel this form as more pleasurable and less as a challenge. These are breathing, fluidity of movement and falling.
Breathing is natural for us and we do not think about it very often. Through series of exercises I will invite you to breathe consciously to combine it with movement in the state of awareness.
Fluidity is a natural state for our bodies. So we will investigate this way of movement and try to play with it on all levels, from the floor level to standing position. This fluid state of guarantees our safety and allows for more fun at the same time.
Falling is the third aspect that we will work on. In my opinion falling is the most important and at the same time most neglected amongst CI practitioners. Yet exercised with care, it will allow us to push borders of CI experience further and will teach us, how to dance safely.
All three aspects are mutually strengthening each other and helping each other and we will dive into this relationship.
Fall does not exist!
It’s simply an automatic body reaction to a fear dictated by an unknown and untested pattern of movement, that took us by surprise.
This time our meeting will be devoted to development of our falling and flying skills.
Through spiraling, rolling, spreading the momentum we will befriend dynamical meetings with a floor, which are known as falling. Through series of processes we will try to transform those into landings.
Main emphasis is to change and rewrite our instinctual movement habits in order to open ourselves into shared kinesphere where two centers are intertwined in dynamical interchange.
Throughout the workshop we will introduce and develop fair share of dynamic partnering with strong pressure however towards the technics of helping yourselves into landing. Main goal of the workshop is to start the process of erasing the idea of a fall, from our mind and body.
No animal walks on their knees. Nevertheless, knee pads are advised! You know just to on the safe side.
#contactplus #teathers #contactimpro #contactfest
11 - 23 September
💙SEBASTIAN FLEGIEL💙
Intensive:
Title: Flying into landing
There are certain aspects of CI, which helps us feel this form as more pleasurable and less as a challenge. These are breathing, fluidity of movement and falling.
Breathing is natural for us and we do not think about it very often. Through series of exercises I will invite you to breathe consciously to combine it with movement in the state of awareness.
Fluidity is a natural state for our bodies. So we will investigate this way of movement and try to play with it on all levels, from the floor level to standing position. This fluid state of guarantees our safety and allows for more fun at the same time.
Falling is the third aspect that we will work on. In my opinion falling is the most important and at the same time most neglected amongst CI practitioners. Yet exercised with care, it will allow us to push borders of CI experience further and will teach us, how to dance safely.
All three aspects are mutually strengthening each other and helping each other and we will dive into this relationship.
Fall does not exist!
It’s simply an automatic body reaction to a fear dictated by an unknown and untested pattern of movement, that took us by surprise.
This time our meeting will be devoted to development of our falling and flying skills.
Through spiraling, rolling, spreading the momentum we will befriend dynamical meetings with a floor, which are known as falling. Through series of processes we will try to transform those into landings.
Main emphasis is to change and rewrite our instinctual movement habits in order to open ourselves into shared kinesphere where two centers are intertwined in dynamical interchange.
Throughout the workshop we will introduce and develop fair share of dynamic partnering with strong pressure however towards the technics of helping yourselves into landing. Main goal of the workshop is to start the process of erasing the idea of a fall, from our mind and body.
No animal walks on their knees. Nevertheless, knee pads are advised! You know just to on the safe side.
#contactplus #teathers #contactimpro #contactfest
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MOLDOVA CONTACT + 2022
11 - 23 September
💙KIRA KIRSCH💙
intensive:
PHENOMENAL BODIES - Axis Syllabus & Movement Alchemy
Dance training and contact improvisation as experiential research practices
In this intensive I would like to combine two approaches that have strongly influenced and inspired me as a dance artist, CI dancer and movement researcher for many years. There is Axis Syllabus initiated by Frey Faust, a collective and living archive of knowledge about the body in motion with a strong focus on anatomical, biomechanical and physical relationships used to analyze and improve movement processes. And there is movement alchemy, a training approach for performers by Sara Shelton Mann (american choreographer), a field of research that deals with touch as a transformative tool, energetic alignments in the body as well as clarity in intention and attention, among other things. We will move in both systems, which are characterized by very different languages and logic. You can expect hands-on work, improvisation, contact, practice-theory dialogue and looping movement patterns to immerse deeply into our phenomenal bodies.
#contactplus #teathers #contactimpro #contactfest
11 - 23 September
💙KIRA KIRSCH💙
intensive:
PHENOMENAL BODIES - Axis Syllabus & Movement Alchemy
Dance training and contact improvisation as experiential research practices
In this intensive I would like to combine two approaches that have strongly influenced and inspired me as a dance artist, CI dancer and movement researcher for many years. There is Axis Syllabus initiated by Frey Faust, a collective and living archive of knowledge about the body in motion with a strong focus on anatomical, biomechanical and physical relationships used to analyze and improve movement processes. And there is movement alchemy, a training approach for performers by Sara Shelton Mann (american choreographer), a field of research that deals with touch as a transformative tool, energetic alignments in the body as well as clarity in intention and attention, among other things. We will move in both systems, which are characterized by very different languages and logic. You can expect hands-on work, improvisation, contact, practice-theory dialogue and looping movement patterns to immerse deeply into our phenomenal bodies.
#contactplus #teathers #contactimpro #contactfest
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MOLDOVA CONTACT + 2022
11 - 23 September
💙CONSUELO PACHECO💙
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. ¿How 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
💙CONSUELO PACHECO💙
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. ¿How 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
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MOLDOVA CONTACT + 2022
11 - 23 September
💙LEONARDO LAMBRUSCHINI💙
Workshop:
Jumping | Falling – 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
💙LEONARDO LAMBRUSCHINI💙
Workshop:
Jumping | Falling – 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
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MOLDOVA CONTACT + 2022
11 - 23 Сентября
💙SVETA BIRD & DANIEL DRAGO💙
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 Сентября
💙SVETA BIRD & DANIEL DRAGO💙
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
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MOLDOVA CONTACT + 2022
11 - 23 September
💙VIRGINIA NEGRU & CATALIN DIACONU💙
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 ‘duet bubble’ 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.
Let’s 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
💙VIRGINIA NEGRU & CATALIN DIACONU💙
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 ‘duet bubble’ 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.
Let’s 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
💙NICA ANDREA PORTAVIA💙
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
💙NICA ANDREA PORTAVIA💙
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
💙 PETYA STOYKOVA 💙
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. Let’s think and move about it together.
#contactplus #teathers #contactimpro #contactfest
11 - 23 September
💙 PETYA STOYKOVA 💙
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. Let’s think and move about it together.
#contactplus #teathers #contactimpro #contactfest
MOLDOVA CONTACT + 2022
11 - 23 September
These cozy dance halls and spaces of Chisinau are looking forward to our appearance in them!
Very soon !✨
Aceste săli de dans și spații confortabile ale Chișinăului așteaptă cu nerăbdare apariția noastră în ele!
Foarte curand !✨
Эти уютные танцевальные залы и пространства Кишинева предвкушают наше появление в них!
Очень скоро !✨
#contactplus #teathers #contactimpro #contactfest
11 - 23 September
These cozy dance halls and spaces of Chisinau are looking forward to our appearance in them!
Very soon !✨
Aceste săli de dans și spații confortabile ale Chișinăului așteaptă cu nerăbdare apariția noastră în ele!
Foarte curand !✨
Эти уютные танцевальные залы и пространства Кишинева предвкушают наше появление в них!
Очень скоро !✨
#contactplus #teathers #contactimpro #contactfest
MOLDOVA CONTACT + 2022
11 - 23 September
Eng:
Our Sasha 🤍
About myself, contact improvisation and what awaits us next week 🍂
Rom:
Sasha noastră 🤍
Despre mine, contact improvizație și ce ne așteaptă săptămâna viitoare 🍂
Ru:
Наш Саша 🤍
О себе, контактной импровизации и о том, что нас ждет уже на следующей неделе🍂
#contactplus #teathers #contactimpro #contactfest
11 - 23 September
Eng:
Our Sasha 🤍
About myself, contact improvisation and what awaits us next week 🍂
Rom:
Sasha noastră 🤍
Despre mine, contact improvizație și ce ne așteaptă săptămâna viitoare 🍂
Ru:
Наш Саша 🤍
О себе, контактной импровизации и о том, что нас ждет уже на следующей неделе🍂
#contactplus #teathers #contactimpro #contactfest
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