14-16 March
David Leung
Contact Improvisation workshop “Dancing through, dancing with, dancing in between”
This is a proposal for dancers of various levels to come together and investigate the technical side of the practice, radiating from a personal, holistic perspective, to expand into observation and meditation on dancing with others.
The holistic approach will begin with explorations and exercises to reawaken the felt senses of the body/mind in movement: sense of touch, sense of weight, sense of speed, sense of volume, et cetera. Space will be curated to include personal divergence within these explorations.
The exercises will provide a playful laboratory for investigation in the biomechanical support of the spine and diaphragm in walking, running, jumping, rolling, et cetera, to build a physical foundation for the dance, based on awareness acquired through movement.
Here, technique is seen as a continually deepening understanding of oneself in the movement and stillness in between dancing and not dancing, rather than a fabrication of tenets outside of the current embodied experience. Silence will be an important teacher in the process, and it will allow many creative personal moments to sprinkle their flavors into our co-created experience.