Intuitive systems for CI with E. Mueller & D.Schwartz
May 28-30, Vilnius, Lithuania
(This workshop is open for everybody. The material will be prepared in a way that as well beginners as experienced dancers can profit fully.)
In the five years of their collaboration, co-teaching CI to beginners as well as to professional dancers all over Europe and America, Daniela and Eckhard have been developing a system of basic tools to access and deepen into Contact Improvisation.
In this workshop we will explore the center-periphery connection as a key principle to separate and reconnect the limbs to the center in different ways. Through the action of releasing and activating, reaching and folding, spiraling, etc, we will develop different movement patterns, that will help us to let go from old and inefficient ones to find ease and flow in our own pathways along the floor and through the different levels listening to gravity and momentum.
With more awareness for our own body in motion, we will be ready to connect to our partner’s body and fully commit to the dance, while we stay centered and grounded, as we enter our spherical space. (Read more)
We will explore the full range of giving and receiving, from light touch (you are responsible for your own weight) to full weight sharing. Through respectful listening and body actions like scanning, sensing, reading, leaning, proposing, following, accepting, resisting, balancing, counter-balancing, etc, we will engage ourselves in an open physical dialog.
Understanding and integrating some of the principles, we will find more trust and freedom in our own body, own movements and in the communication with our partner.
Eckhard Mueller (Germany/France)
co-founder of the Contact Festival Freiburg, is enthusiastically dancing and performing CI since 1988. In his teaching he is playfully searching for depth in the understanding of the form. As a member of Cie dégadezo, he has participated in diverse choreographique dance-theater pieces since 2002.
Daniela Schwartz (Argentina/France)
is involved in the practice, preformance and teaching of CI since 1998. Memeber of Cie dégadezo. As a visual artist, she is interested in the body, space and movement in the present moment as Materia for research, expression and création. Her multiple medias : video, objects, installation are present in her practices.
Schedule: Friday: 19:00-22:00;
Saturday and Sunday 11:00-18:00 (1h break)
Cost: Sliding scale 55-70€, Single class (3h): 15€
55€ if registered by May 10,
65€ if registered by May 24,
73€ - later.
10% discount for students!
Location: Vilnius city center; will be specified for registered participants.
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Accommodation: We can help to find some free/inexpensive place to stay.
Information and registration:
Julija Melnik, +370 613 57997, improv_lt(at)yahoo.com
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