"Faking it With Gravity" Eugene Contact Improvisation Day 2025
Schedule
Mon Jan 20 2025 at 11:30 am to 03:30 pm
UTC-08:00Location
3411 Willamette St, Eugene, OR 97405-5122, United States | Eugene, OR
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Contact improvisation workshop with Karen Nelson (WA) and Nica Portavia (Italy), plus extra add-on events afterwards. The "Faking it With Gravity" workshop creates a space of inquiry to explore presence in our improvisation dancing. We ask ourselves, What is presence? How do I experience the falling part of falling? Or, the sensation of letting go into the unknown even for a brief timeless moment? Am I still improvising in this present moment?In Contact Improvisation we dance with gravity.
That sensation, our first handshake-touch with the earth, dances us through its
field for our whole lifetime. When we turn our attention to it, what happens? This is the basis of our practice.
Registration is now open, here, and more details can be seen here: https://forms.gle/n66HuuuFWSyP4hvB7
After the workshop, there is a 5:00 PM performance, titled "SMALLER," with Karen Nelson, Nica Portavia, and live music by Evan Strauss, inspired in part by contact improvisation. A great way to energize your contact improvisation practice and see master improvisors "at work," before the last part of the Contact Improvisation Day:
6:00 - 8:00 PM Contact improvisation jam with live music with Evan Strauss.
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Where is it happening?
3411 Willamette St, Eugene, OR 97405-5122, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
