ALL LEVELS CONTACT IMPROVISATION WORKSHOP WITH JEN M-L

Name: ALL LEVELS CONTACT IMPROVISATION WORKSHOP WITH JEN M-L
Start: 2024-11-17T15:00:00-08:00
End: 2024-11-17T17:30:00-08:00
Location: Rotary Centre for the Arts

Schedule

Sun Nov 17 2024 at 03:00 pm to 05:30 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Rotary Centre for the Arts | Kelowna, BC

All Levels Contact Improvisation 2.5 hour workshop
Teacher: Jennifer McLeish-Lewis

No prior dance experience is required, but a strong level of focus, concentration, physical rigour, and commitment to staying present are required. We will start on the floor with a gentle somatic based warm-up that will help the body to feel gravity. Growing from the floor to standing, we will practice smoothing out our transitions into upright dancing. The goal is an aware, alert, and embodied presence that uses the full capacity of the mover as a human being awake in the world. More sensitivity is reached through relaxing the nervous system. More alertness is reached through waking up the mind with moment-by-moment choice making. More embodiment is reached through a deep listening to the relationship to the earth, each other, and the space around us. All genders, abilities, and experience levels are welcome. This workshop is LGBTQ+ inclusive.
Where?
Room at Rotary Center for the Arts
When?
3pm-5:30pm (please arrive 5-10 min early)
Cost?
35$ before Nov 1st, 40$ after November 1st
e-transfer to [email protected]

Jennifer McLeish-Lewis has been a teacher of Contact Improvisation since 2006. Since 2000 she has studied and has had an ongoing practice under master improviser and contact teacher Peter Bingham. She has also trained with international teachers such as Ray Chung, Andrew Harwood, Chris Aiken, Karl Frost, and The Kaejas. Jennifer was a performer from 2002- 2012 with the contact based company MACHiNENOiSY in Vancouver, directed by Delia Brett and Daelik, performing in works inspired and underpinned by Contact Dance. In 2005 Jennifer was a performer in Karl Frost's improvised participatory performance, Axolotl, a show that toured the west coast of Canada and the U.S.A. She taught at Leviathan Studio in 2012 and 2013, and was a guest teacher at the Elsewhere Canadian Improvisation Festival in 2013. Her unwavering commitment to Contact Improvisation has led her to teach classes and workshops in Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Nanaimo, Kelowna, Montreal, Lasqueti Island, Salt Spring Island, Cortes Island, Croatia and Mexico. As a student of EDAM and Peter Bingham, Jennifer takes her place in the lineage as second generation to the originators and innovators of this postmodern partnering form.