7-Week Contact Improvisation Series with Toni Craige and Coda Badamo-Connors, Intermediate
Schedule
Wed May 15 2024 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Shared Visions Retreat Center - Murphey School | Hillsborough, NC
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Wednesdays May 15-June 26 7-9pm
Shared Visions Retreat Center (LAC Satellite Space)
3717 Murphy School Road, Durham, NC
DELICIOUS DANCING~
This series is designed for movers with substantial experience in CI who would like to deepen their practice in an intermediate+ level context. We will get into:
* More athletic elements of CI practice (inversions, lifts, falling together, etc).
* Weight sharing with momentum.
*Finding many doorways into a dance - working with the elements, body systems, and imagination to find fresh states and pathways.
* Developing dances slowly from a place of listening through bodywork and specific practices of attention.
* CI as a social form - bringing our whole selves to the practice and discovering the play, rest, and vitality that the form can bring.
WHAT IS “INTERMEDIATE”?
This is an intermediate level class, meaning that~~~ Students should be comfortable moving in and out of the floor in solo and with other bodies, navigating boundaries and physical/emotional safety in CI, and have basic weight sharing skills. If you have concerns about the level of the class, please email us to ask if it seems like a good fit BEFORE signing up~ [email protected]
ABOUT CONTACT IMPROVISATION:
Contact Improvisation is an improvisational art-sport with technique focused on touch, weight-sharing, momentum, and an ethic of experimentation with both physical forces and relational dynamics. It’s also a container to research perceptual flexibility, state-shifting, intimacy, mutuality, community, and embodied poetics. While duets are often the most known or visible aspect of CI practice, we practice partnering with physical forces, several people at once, the entire group, imagery, and the space around us. Professional dancers train in the form to improve their partnering skills and generate new material. Amateurs find community, strength, softness, agility, expression, and body-mind-spirit growth. While anyone can touch and improvise without taking a class, the techniques presented in this class will open the doors to more connected and athletic dances, give you basic fluency in a language of interaction shared by practitioners all over the world, and build the groundwork for a community of deep practice here in the Triangle.
THE LAC MAY/JUNE CONTACT IMPROVISATION ECOSYSTEM:
7 Flavors of Jam: Monday Night Jamming Series~ Each week there will be warm-ups provided by different experienced teachers, live improvised music with different musicians, and plenty of time for open jamming and play. Sign up for the entire series to support the event and reduce the per-jam cost (we prefer this!) or drop-in when you can.
MONDAY NIGHT FB EVENT LINK:
https://fb.me/e/gYcJFDkIF
7-Week Spirit and Technique of Contact Improvisation Series on Tuesdays (Open Level) and Wednesdays (Intermediate+)~ Starting in mid-May, Em Liptow and Len Foyle will be co-teaching an open-level/beginner-friendly CI series on Tuesday nights and Coda Badamo-Connors and Toni Craige will be co-teaching a series for more experienced dancers on Wednesday nights. Both series are 7 weeks long, and students must sign up for the entire series~ they will be nourishing learning experiences and spaces to build community connection.
TUESDAY NIGHT FB EVENT LINK:
https://fb.me/e/4jIARHukd
WEDNESDAY NIGHT FB EVENT LINK:
https://fb.me/e/7KKZKPscP
Weekend Events~ We will be hosting our signature 2.5 hour “Contact Improvisation Fundamentals” workshop on Sunday, 4/28 from 3:30-6pm. Come try CI for the first time or re-engage with the basics from a new perspective. This is an ideal way to try out Len and Em’s teaching before committing to the 7-week Tuesday night series.
CI FUNDAMENTALS LINK.
https://fb.me/e/4mJIowCFB
See full CI offerings at LAC here: https://www.livingartscollective.com/contact-improvisation/
COST:
* Class is $140/210/280 sliding scale for the 7 classes ($20/30/40 per class). $210 is the suggested amount, $140 is for those with less access to resources, and $280 is for those with more access to resources. Please pay the highest amount you can comfortably afford. If you’d like to come but cannot afford the lowest price tier, please reach out for a further discount. If you are moved to contribute to a scholarship fund, also let us know that.
* Generally speaking, you must register for the full series in order to participate-- we've found that having a stable group builds safety and depth. Very advanced movers can drop in on a case-by-case basis. Email us to inquire~ [email protected]
REGISTRATION:
* The series is capped at 24 and will fill to capacity. Register early!
Registration is at the bottom of this page: https://www.livingartscollective.com/contact-improvisation/
* There are discounts available for registering for this series early (15%MAYJUNEEARLY), and for two or more series early (30%MAYJUNEBE). Earlybird discounts expire at midnight on Monday, April 29th. You can also get 15% off for registering for 2+ series later in the process (15%MAYJUNEBOTH). Use codes when you check out via our online system, Acuity.
ABOUT THE TEACHERS~
TONI CRAIGE
Toni Craige (she/her), MFA, M.Ed., is a bodyworker, somatic coach, and dance artist working in Durham and Raleigh, NC.
Toni works with clients 1:1 as a BODYWORK + MOVEMENT THERAPIST and SOMATIC COACH, specializing in individuals who struggle with physical pain, feel that it may be connected to current or past stressful experiences, and are looking for a holistic path towards pain relief and emotional healing. As a DANCE TEACHER she builds individual and community resilience through group movement classes. Her background as a DANCE ARTIST infuses all of her work with an appreciation for beauty, imagination, deep feeling, and creativity.
Tonicraige.com
Toni started practicing Contact Improvisation in 2006 and has been teaching regularly in the Triangle since 2012. She completed her MFA in Choreography and Performance at Smith College in 2020, her Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at NCSU in 2016, and her BA in Dance at Wesleyan University in 2009.
CODA BADAMO-CONNORS
Coda Badamo-Connors’ (they/he/it’s) earliest movement practices include climbing trees & rolling on the sands of Lake Michigan. After formal training from ballet to boxing, it came home to improvisational movement in 2014 through flow arts, fire dancing, and CI. Coda has been facilitating group movement in 2017, collaborating with dance communities in Galesburg, Madison, Chicago, Asheville, and now the Triangle. His movement practices are informed by the queer chaos of ecology, and his facilitation is in service of a strengthened cultural integrity within CI spaces.
Starting as an apprentice to practitioners of Thai bodywork in 2015, Coda studied functional anatomy and treatment of pain, obtaining Thai bodywork certification in 2018. He partook in residencies with the Subbody Butoh school in India, and the Toward Centre for Practice and Research of Contact Improvisation in Thailand.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER/HOST~ LIVING ARTS COLLECTIVE:
The series is presented by Living Arts Collective, an intersection for artistically embodied experiences. Creating spaces for the exploration and development of artistic freedom and peaceful living. Based in Durham, NC.
Website here: https://www.livingartscollective.com/
CI events here: https://www.livingartscollective.com/contact-improvisation/
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Where is it happening?
Shared Visions Retreat Center - Murphey School, 4729 Old NC-10, Durham, NC 27705-8519, United States,Hillsborough, North CarolinaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
