Constellating The Senses (A New Year Contact Improvisation Retreat)
Schedule
Sun, 29 Dec, 2024 at 10:00 am to Sat, 04 Jan, 2025 at 06:00 pm
UTC-08:00Location
Beaver Point Hall | Salt Spring Island, BC
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Join us in our 5th annual new year retreat in contact improvisation dance hosted by Manuel Rochette, guest teacher Sashah Klapkew and more tba. The retreat will include a harmony of classes, jams, solo exploration, potlucks, sauna and a new year celebration.
All details on Website: https://www.contactimprovisationsaltspring.com/constellating-the-senses
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Constellating The Senses
In this world, as in Contact Improvisation, there are thing we know we know, there are things we know we don’t know, and there are things we don’t know we don’t know.
What exist at the event horizon of our capacities, of our courage, and of our desires, can be a source of fear or a well of exciting possibilities.
Our active presence, humility, daring nature and curiosity can be a nourishing nest for worlds to open in our dance.
In this 6 day immersion, we will dance with these questions in mind:
How can allow my body and mind to safely visit unknown spaces?
How can I transcend from optical vision into corporeal vision?
How does my attention and the attention of others shape my movement choices?
Where do impulses begin and how can I be more responsive to them?
How can I best support my partner(s) into deepening?
What is the meaning of control in contact improvisation?
Physically, we’ll be investigating into the back space, spirals, spinal mobility, flight and falls, eye-body relations, and dancing in disorientation.
We will be bringing in modalities such as authentic movements, blindfolded research, and dancing for the camera as a mean of learning from our movements.
This retreat will be aimed at a yin/yang balance to access both inner and outer worlds of our dance.
While the focus will remain on learning, many jams will be included in our time together.
The overarching intention of this retreat is to make steps towards greater levels of expressible movements, increase our vocabulary in technical contact improvisation, grow awareness of our personal narrative, dialect and limitations and learn to expand with them. And, in our sensing bodies, to come together as a group and feel a sense of belonging to investigate this form as a constellation.
BEFORE YOU SIGN UP:
This retreat is for dancers with a grasp of the fundamentals of Contact Improvisation. If you have doubt on your abilities, please reach out.
Please be aware that this retreat will include extended moments being blindfolded as well as some extended time in a non verbal space.
It will include moments of being witness by a camera as part of our movement research.
Register here:
https://www.contactimprovisationsaltspring.com/register
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Where is it happening?
Beaver Point Hall, 105 Natalie Ln, Capital, BC V8K 2C6, Canada,Salt Spring IslandEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
