Saturday, February 22, 2020 at 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM PST
Flowspace
6315 Doyle Street
Emeryville, CA
Dedicate this magical day to play, connection, and
embodied improvisation! Yeah Team!
Find an aligned gain in your energy from practices
designed to deepen trust and togetherness. Come dance and co-create from the
potency of spontaneity in the Flowspace Arts Temple.
This class is for you if:
~you are curious about collaboration and community
~you are looking for new ideas on how to interact with
others in movement spaces.
~You are new to contact improvisation and wanting to
learn the basics
~you are interested in art, comedy, drama, and
improvisation.
~you are curious about letting go and allowing life lead
the way.
~you would like to spend your day in a beautiful space
with beautiful people
Flow of the Day:
1:00-3:30- Being Danced: An experiment in communal Play
3:30-4:00-Rest and Snack (please bring your own snack)
4:00-6:00- Contact Improvisation Basics
This class welcomes all bodies, all genders, and all
ages.
No dance experience is needed.
Please arrive on time at 1pm.
**The container will close at 1:20 and no one else will
be admitted. Special requests permitted, please communicate.
Contact Improvisation is an evolving system of movement
initiated in 1972 by American choreographer Steve Paxton. The improvised dance
form is based on the communication between two moving bodies that are in
physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern
their motion—gravity, momentum, inertia. The body, in order to open to these
sensations, learns to release excess muscular tension and abandon a certain
quality of willfulness to experience the natural flow of movement. Practice
includes rolling, falling, being upside down, following a physical point of
contact, supporting and giving weight to a partner.
"Contact Improvisation is an open-ended exploration
of the kinaesthetic possibilities of bodies moving through contact. Sometimes
wild and athletic, sometimes quiet and meditative, it is a form open to all
bodies and enquiring minds."
—Ray Chung
Being Danced is a vehicle for embodying presence and
playfulness. A movement class geared towards igniting the creative spark in
humans. A unique and innovative style of dance that creates a safe, playful,
and loving space for you to release inhibitions and dare to be seen.
We work as an ensemble in silly and theatrical ways to
co-create an alive response to our togetherness.
Participants will be guided through simple scores, and
games that create connection, promote positivity and develop awareness
training.
Gifts you will receive from this class:
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To participate with life in a more authentic
way.
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To trust your instincts and intuition.
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To find intelligence in improvisation.
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Laughter and Full Permission to be yourSelf.
The container is a safe place to revel in your inner
child's creative genius! An improvisational playground for collaborating in
community through movement, theater, and humor.
The space is created so that each and every one of us
have an opportunity to be seen and heard.
A creative outlet to give voice and movement to what is
alive for you. From this place your have deeper access to your own potency for
participating with this great turning that is happening on our beloved planet.
Facilitator: Shannon Sahaja
Cost: $55
