July 14 – 15, 2018 (Saturday – Sunday)
Western Sky Studio
2525 8th St,
Berkeley, California 94710
A strength of contact improvisation in its avoidance of
clear definition is its nature as meandering engagement with our whole selves:
the physical, the poetic, the aesthetic. Release through dynamic, athletic movement
intrinsically works on core holding patterns. As we cultivate an inner calm, it
facilitates the exhilaration of 3-dimensional flight together through space. A
willingness to engage with mental/emotional state facilitates a more
sophisticated experiential art-making, novel movement pathways, and a richer
physical poetics. In taking a “holistic” approach, we keep circling back around
to different aspects of ourselves and different modes of exploration in
contact, seeing how they are interwoven and how each contains the seeds of the
other.
Fulfilling the need for rest and nurturing, the thrill of
the roller-coaster ride of bodies flying together through space, the getting
lost in sensory exploration, the enigmatic sense of personal process and
unwinding of social stress, playful aesthetic collaboration and shared creative
games… contact fulfills multiple needs and curiosities.
The Passive Sequencing work will be ground work, calming
the mind to allow for more aliveness, cultivating a spaciousness in the
experience of time that allows for more fluid and present relationship to
unfolding mechanics. Simultaneously an “internal” approach to contact technique
(in the sense of internal vs external martial arts) and a general system for
cultivation of functional body awareness.
A mix of technical work, open ended investigations,
athleticism, bodywork, mind work, and a fair bit of sweat.
Cost: $210 -$330 Sliding Scale
