Curious about contact improvisation but need a little more info before committing to a whole series?
Come to an open class, Oct 12, 6:30-8pm at The Everything Space with Amanda Franz to give it a try.
Expect conversations, games and exercises to welcome you into the practice.
Know you are already interested?
Sign up for the upcoming series at The Everything Space, Thursdays 6:30-8:30pm,
Oct 19-Dec 14 (no class Nov 23) with Amanda Franz.
Learn more here:
http://www.theeverythingspace.com/foundations-of-ci.html
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What is Contact Improvisation?
Here is one of the many definitions:
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 improvisations are spontaneous physical dialogues that range from stillness to highly energetic exchanges. Alertness is developed in order to work in an energetic state of physical disorientation, trusting in one's basic survival instincts. It is a free play with balance, self-correcting the wrong moves and reinforcing the right ones, bringing forth a physical/emotional truth about a shared moment of movement that leaves the participants informed, centered, and enlivened.
—early definition by Steve Paxton and others, 1970s,
from CQ Vol. 5:1, Fall 1979
What is The Everything Space?
The Everything Space is a collaboratively run embodiment studio providing skillful and accessible somatic education, curated by Abbi Jaffe and Amanda Franz. The Everything Space offers classes, organizational somatic consultation and implementation, private sessions, performances and creative space to create opportunities to listen deeply to the wisdom of the body, express grief and celebration, and rewild ourselves. Find out more at theeverythingspace.com or find them on Facebook at The Everything Space.
64 main street 3rd floor, Montpelier VT 05602