Biweekly Workshop: Yoga-Based Contact Improvisation as Co-Creative Process

Beginners are welcome to join us! Participation in the second part of the workshop and/or the showcase is optional for the general participants but required for those aiming to become certified teachers. Part one of the workshop can be attended online or in person. The second part of the workshop will be in person.

The advanced participants who had completed all workshops and demonstrated mastery of the materials will help coteach with the facilitator as part of their teacher training.

We are aiming to develop a group a Triune Yoga teachers to help bring these co-creative workshops to a larger community that the Center of Co-Creative Coherence serves. Join us to maximize human potential and unity for a better world through performing arts!

Time:

2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. on every other Saturdays (06/10, 06/24, 07/08, 07/22, etc.)

Part One: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Pre-Jam Yoga as Body-Mind Centering for Refining CI Techniques

$15 for students; $30 for non-students

Part Two: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

CI as Authentic Movement for Co-Creating Theatrical Movements, Lyrics, and Melodies.

$15 for students; $30 for non-students

Place:

The Interchange, 1815 Cleburne St, Houston, TX 77004

Bring if possible: (no worries if there are missing items for your first class) Three 4” or 5” yoga blocks, two yoga straps, small stool, resistance band, & ankle weights, and three monochromatic costumes (black, red, and white)

Register at https://hopehuirising.com/triune-ascension-origin/ to receive improvisational cues and narrative specific to your gene keys. If you are not able to make a payment upon registration, feel free to pay at the door with cash or via Venmo (@HopeHui-Rising)

More information can be found on https://hopehuirising.com/contact-improvisation/

To practice contact improvisation (CI) safely and effortlessly, specific body-mind centering exercises are very helpful for engaging the right invisible body mechanics for learning/refining specific CI techniques beyond the visible forms and movements.

We will use yoga to prepare and center our body and mind while learning and practicing CI techniques during the first hour. This yoga-based pre-jam warmup is intended to help us enter a state of effortless flow during the second hour so participants from all experience levels will be able to enjoy the CI jam safely and fully.

By the end of nine workshops without improvisational cues, participants will

-Acquire a warmup yoga routine that will help address compression and misalignment and strengthen head-tail connections.

-Obtain body-mind conditioning required for using basic CI techniques with proper body mechanics.

During the CI jam, we will also use live sacred sounds and optional gene-key-cues to explore the intersections of contact improvisation with authentic movement, Laban movement analysis, creative arts therapy, and choreography for those interested in using CI for self-development and in participating in a final showcase this summer.

By the end of nine workshops with improvisational cues,

participants will

-Develop an authentic individual and collective repertoire from the inside out.

-Deepen awareness of varying modes of operation that enable direct expressions from the Source as a conscious creator of improvisational dance and/or music.

-Gain clarity on potential blockages (karma) for release and one’s life purpose (dharma) to establish one’s true Being and perform more focused actions.

-Build a movement portfolio as an audition recording for a musical film.

-Apply Laban Movement Analysis to develop characters using gene keys as choreographic/acting principles.

Participants who have completed all nine workshops, one rehearsal, and one showcase can submit audition recordings for paid positions associated with running future workshops and producing the musical film entitled Triune Ascension Origin.

Targeted Audience:

All body types and levels of experience are welcome to join us to fully capture the diversity of the human gene pool through authentic human movements and emotions.

Experienced dancers and aerialists/acrobats with the ability to finetune the co-improvised choreography for ground and/or aerial performances/audition recordings are helpful!

Host or Publisher Dr. Hope Rising