Contact Improvisation Intensive TUNING BODIES with IRENE SPOSETTI
Schedule
Fri, 17 Jan, 2025 at 06:30 pm to Mon, 20 Jan, 2025 at 06:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center At the University of Maryland | College Park, MD
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Begin your new year with a deep dive into Contact Improv! IRENE SPOSETTI is back in DC in January. DC-CI in collaboration with BeingMotion have put together several opportunities to meet and explore with Irene.
Irene has inspired us in previous years' workshops, welcoming experienced Contact Improvisers and newcomers to the practice. She brings a deep understanding of biodynamics, personal dynamics, and a poetic sense of how to convey the combination to her teaching, offering the opportunity to explore Contact Improvisation, together, with physical and personal clarity.
If you attended the previous workshops you recognize what we're talking about, and if you haven't here's your chance to experience it for yourself. Join us!
Contact Improvisation Intensive
TUNING BODIES
January 17-19 + optional Jan 20
We invite you to a time of focused Contact Improvisation exploration guided by Irene Sposetti
***Details and registration:
https://www.dccontactimprov.net/.../incontact-dc-jan-2025
https://tinyurl.com/tuning-bodies-jan-2025
About the Intensive
Join me for an intensive workshop where we'll explore, learn, and grow together in Contact Improvisation. Whether you're new to this dance form or looking to deepen your skills, this meeting will offer a supportive space for discovery and development.
We’ll focus on the improvisational, physical, and relational skills essential to the practice for authentic and in-depth exploratory processes, cultivating a greater sense of ease and openness in our movements and the way we participate in the dance.
We'll explore ways to expand our presence and refine our attunement skills: learning to listen before speaking, to adapt before defining, to receive while expressing, to be with before seeking to communicate.
The practice of tuning creates a spacious canvas of shared awareness, shared silence, and stillness – laying the foundation of our collective being, participating, and collaborating. Tuning facilitates embodied self-regulation and mutuality, it supports accessing nuances and subtler information within and without, non-verbal communication and choice-making. Attunement can facilitate synchronizing and combining in the emergence of creative improvisational dancing.
Each day will include focused jams where we’ll explore ensemble dynamics, individual creativity, and partnering as interconnected layers of our Contact Improvisation practice.
Through somatic explorations, we’ll delve into the biomechanics that underlie CI dancing, aiming at safe, clear, and effortless movements. We’ll pay attention to organizing around our core and central axis to support fluid transitions between levels and easeful navigation across spaces.
We’ll practice sharing trajectories and rides, combining our bodies in motion with a sense of dynamic flow and responsiveness cultivating shared balance, through nuanced and continuous weight distribution and core alignment.
Key Tools and Approaches:
* being and moving through multiple planes and directions, fully inhabiting spherical space
* differentiating and modulating body tones
* core-balancing and alignment in contact
* inhabiting shifting structural and responsive geometries
* expanding the practice beyond dropping, collapsing, lifting, or giving weight, to include subtler layers of connection and choice
* using visual orientation to enrich spatial awareness and relational dynamics.
I invite all to cultivate a space filled with curiosity devoid of judgment and expectations — a shared container that embraces diverse expressions, body types, and levels of experience. Together we’ll nurture individual agency, responsibility, authenticity, and consensual interactions.
Bring your questions, your willingness to be challenged, and your spirit of adventure as we journey together toward greater presence, exploratory creative embodiment, play, and dance.
Monday Jan 20 Deepening
We invite you to extend the journey by joining us for an additional day, dedicated to delving deeper into more advanced techniques and improvisation skills. Building on the themes explored over the weekend, this extended session is designed for those with more experience, offering an opportunity to refine and question your practice and engage in more complex and nuanced explorations.
WHEN
* Jan 17, 6:30 pm to 9:00pm
* Jan 18 and 19, 10:30 am to 6:00 pm
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* Jan 20 Deep Dive (optional): 9:30 am to 3:00 pm
WHO
Mixed levels welcome, familiarity with CI basics expected, up to 35 participants.
Firm CI experience for Monday Deep Dive day Jan 20, up to 25 participants
REGISTRATION
Find all details and registration form
https://tinyurl.com/tuning-bodies-jan-2025
IRENE SPOSETTI
https://beingmotion.com
Irene is a versatile performing artist, facilitator, and dancemaker with a multidisciplinary background. Although originally from Italy, Irene has spent more than two decades living and traveling as an independent freelancer across Europe, Asia, and North America. Her artistic path has been shaped by diverse cultural influences and deeply rooted in self-inquiry investigations and practices.
Irene specializes in offering and producing dance training, events, and performances across esteemed institutions such as universities, companies, cultural institutes, festivals, and independent platforms. Her work has reached audiences across the globe and reflects her distinctive and diverse experiences as a passionate explorer and artist.
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 is interested in the “synergy of togetherness”,
the relational, communicative and creative aspects of contact improvisation, partnering and group dancing.
To know more and stay in touch visit:
Website: https://beingmotion.com
FB page: www.Facebook.com/BeingMotion
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BeingMotionIS
Ig: beingmotion.irenesposetti
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Where is it happening?
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center At the University of Maryland, 8270 Alumni Dr, College Park, MD 20742, United States,College Park, MarylandEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
