Contact Improv Meets Tango-Dance Workshop
Schedule
Fri Jan 24 2025 at 06:45 pm to 09:45 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Bluebird Sky Yoga | Washington, DC
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“Contact Improv meets Tango” with Irene SposettiDance Workshop - January 24
6:30-9:45 pm
I warmly invite you to join me for a special experience.
Shortly after I began leading in tango, I felt an inexplicable urge to explore Contact Improvisation. Not long after, I encountered Irene Sposetti and was captivated by her teaching!
Irene is a multidisciplinary international performing artist, teacher and dance-maker. Her teaching is inspired by somatic practices, contact improvisation, partnering work and improvisation.
I was so excited to learn she also dances tango and knew we had to collaborate.
There are times in life where we gain insights into one discipline by engaging with another. For me, this is one of those times.
I believe Irene's knowledge and skills touch the fundamental essence, the joy and somatic communication in Tango!
In this workshop, Irene will introduce new perspectives and tools to help you embody tango with greater awareness, ease, and creativity.
About the Workshop
Together, we will explore the subtle layers of body mechanics and the foundational principles that define the tango embrace and walk. Through somatic practices, we’ll work toward alignment, grounding, and traveling together across the space. We’ll cultivate ease and fluidity in our movements, learning to merge our bodies in connection and exploring the creative dialectic of encounters with one another.
We will also dive into the playful and creative aspects of physical communication, moving beyond expectations and rigid formality. This process will open pathways to more spontaneous, authentic, and creative expression in our dances.
Themes will include:
-Liquid Alignment
-Layers of touch
-Lead and follow dynamics
-Somatic communication
-Musicality and improvisation
Who Should Attend?
This workshop is intended for all levels tango dancers who want to deepen their connection to their body, and enrich their tango dancing.
Registrations
To register and secure your spot please send $75 via Venmo to
@Allison-ODonnell-2
What to bring and what to wear?
Wear comfortable clothing that you can easily move in. Layers are a good idea. We will be in a yoga studio where no shoes are allowed, so please wear socks or practice shoes with soft bottoms.
Bring a water bottle.
Location
Bluebird Sky Yoga Studio. Street parking is available. Walking distance from the Brookland metro stop (red line)
About the facilitator
Irene Sposetti is a versatile performing artist, teacher, and dance-maker with a multidisciplinary background in classical music, drama, and movement. Irene has spent more than two decades living and traveling as an independent freelancer across Europe, Asia, and North America. As a result, her artistic path has been shaped by diverse cultural influences and deeply rooted in self-inquiry investigations and practices.
Through her dance, she aims to facilitate a heightened state of presence, enabling more conscious, functional, and effortless movement, broadening the technical, creative, and compositional skills of the movers. She has a particular interest in researching and refining the embodiment of movement biomechanics through the understanding of principles and explorative learning processes.
She dances the Argentine Tango, researching and facilitating new technical somatic and creative approaches to it and its learning.
She is interested in the “synergy of togetherness”, the relational, communicative and creative aspects of contact improvisation, partnering and group dancing.
To know more about Irene please visit:
Website: https://beingmotion.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beingmotion.irenesposetti
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BeingMotion
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BeingMotionIS
About the organizer
Allison (Alé) has been studying, practicing and teaching yoga and meditation for almost 25 years. She has danced some form of dance for the past 20 years, including salsa, bachata, samba, and tango. Allison has been dancing tango in Washington, D.C. since 2021. In 2023 she began learning to lead tango and sought out contact improv to build confidence in leading. See less
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Where is it happening?
Bluebird Sky Yoga, 3101 12th St NE, Washington, DC 20017-4002, United States,Washington D.C.Event Location & Nearby Stays:
