Saturday, May 13, 2017 at 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
The Center SF
548 Fillmore Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
A 3-hour workshop and jam for beginning and intermediate
dancers.
I hear a similar story from a lot of beginning contact dancers:
You see some people on a dance floor doing some crazy connective, acrobatic,
intimate dance, and you're spellbound. You think to yourself: what *is* that?
You ask someone and they tell you it's contact improvisation. So you check out
a class or two, you try dancing with some people at ecstatic dance, but it's
challenging, scary, and awkward. It doesn't quite click. At this workshop, our
goal will be to help you make it click.
We'll cover fundamental contact improv techniques in
detail, both from an experiential perspective ("notice how it feels")
and a technical perspective ("put your foot right there"). You'll
walk away with a practical toolkit of skills that you can practice and apply
the next time you dance. We'll have teaching assistants on hand to ensure that
every student gets personalized instruction. We'll also discuss and practice
starting/ending dances and other social aspects of contact improv, which can be
intimidating to new dancers who are still learning the etiquette and norms of
the dance. At the end of the workshop, we'll have an open jam so you can
practice the new skills you've learned in a free form dance.
Cost: $20
