Contact Improv - Sunday Jam (Monthly Special)
Schedule
Sun Sep 22 2024 at 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
UTC+10:00Location
South Brisbane Sailing Club | West End, QL
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SPECIAL MONTHLY JAM - ONLY $20 or $10
We are switching the Thursday Jam once a month to a Sunday morning at different venues, around Brisbane.
So we are branching out to a larger venue with more traditional floors so we can be more expansive.
This month LOCATION:
South Brisbane sailing club
(68 Hill End Terrace, West End QLD 4101)
BOOKINGS
https://www.trybooking.com/CVLXY
$20 (standard)
$10 (concession)
WHAT IS A CI JAM?
It is a space to experiment, to play, to dance, to connect with your own body and with others. There is space to come in and out of the Jam as you please, observing others at play, or nurturing yourself, while still 'being' in the group experience. This is a safe space with no sexuality or sexual advances and no displays of affection, such as kissing or stroking.
ELIGIBILITY
Ideally you have already attended a class, workshop or course before attending a jam.
If you not been to any event including a Jam, send me a quick message before attending, so I make sure you know what to expect.
WHAT IS CONTACT IMPROV?
Contact Improvisation (CI) is a dance and movement form based on the physical principles of touch, momentum, shared weight, and following a shared point of contact.
The form was founded in 1972 by Steve Paxton, who was radically experimenting as a contemporary dancer. Steve integrated other movement experiences including gymnastics and his studies in the martial art form Aikido. The first contact Improvisation form was workshopped in a 2 week lab where Steve invited 17 other dancers including Nancy Stark Smith. Following the laboratory, they performed this experimental style for the first time, in New York City.
CI has developed over the years into a more sophisticated, but still experimental form, that plays with all the ways we can contact with another person or the floor...rolling, sliding, mutual balance, the mechanics of lifting others and being lifted and even how to fall.
The interplay between dance and touch is a powerful somatic practice and the ever-changing points of balance creates new cognitive learning.
It can be healing and liberating to allow your whole body to experience contact with any part of the body in a safe creative dance and movement form.
TEACHER/FACILITATOR
GABRIEL SOL
Gabriel is a teacher, therapist and healer exploring the intersection between somatics, movement and personal transformation. Gabriel starting the CI community in Brisbane in Sept 2018.
He has been teaching CI classes, workshops and facilitating jams with the aim of building a thriving CI community in Brisbane.
Gabriel has an extensive background in movement, both modern and traditional Somatic embodiment practices, including:
- Yoga teacher in both traditional and modern systems incl classical Tantra, modern Hatha, Partner and Zenthai Flow Yoga.
- Therapist/healer using a mix of modalities including a movement-based therapy, ZenThai Shiatsu.
- A longterm martial arts practitioner incl Capoeira, and Taekwondo.
- A longterm practitioner of 5 Rhythm dance - a conscious therapeutic dance form.
For more info on Gabriel's work:
https://www.facebook.com/GabrielSol.Alchemist
RESPONSIBILITY AGREEMENT
Please note: By attending participants are asked to agree to the following statement:
"In attending this workshop I take full responsibility for my own health and wellbeing. I acknowledge the nature of the workshop involves proposals to participate in exercises and movements that may be new to me. I acknowledge that the workshop facilitator has no liability for any injuries which may occur during this workshop"
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Where is it happening?
South Brisbane Sailing Club, 68 Hill End Ter, West End QLD 4101, Australia,Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, West EndEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
