Elastic Attention - A Contact Improvisation Workshop with Anjelika Doniy
Schedule
Sat Sep 27 2025 at 11:00 am to 05:00 pm
UTC+02:00Location
Marstrandgata 8, 0566 Oslo, Norge | Oslo, OS
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"Elastic attention” For complete beginners
For beginners
For those who continue
To dance contact improvisation.
Anjelika tells:
I am inspired to run a CI workshop-lab, and will create the conditions:
- Material that grows from the basics and moves participants to jam safely, with a reliance on technique.
- Jam secrets that will blossom like seeds and support your jam experience in the evenings.
- CI labs. I will create structures and let in the lab spirit that will allow not only my experience as a facilitator to manifest but allow teachers and advanced participants to unfold the beauty of their dance path.
- A variety of transitions from beginning level to advanced and back again, so that we forget how small or big we are while remaining innocent, light and friendly in the dance.
What do you need to be ready for?
There will be a lot about efficiency and intuitive following of what is happening right now.
Work with the body in pairs, trios, in the form of bodywork.
Exercises with alternating roles of leading, following and releasing that lead into the dance.
There will be fairytale-like, imaginative invitations with precise, physically understandable instructions.
We will learn to move from the state of student training skills to losing these skills for the sake of poetry that does not require the sense of completeness.
Through all of which we will try to meet Contact Improvisation.
Exercises are important, but they cannot be more important than contact, flow, interaction of forces, inertia, that is already happening right now.
By practicing "Small Dance" we will learn to focus our attention on the inner space of the body.
We will meet with moving, rolling, sliding of the point of contact, when contact of two bodies gives importance to the search for mutual spatial trajectories.
The secrets of dance are revealed in space. Pauses, back space, entry into and exit from the dance, beginning and end, emptiness and fullness. We will learn to change states. And those states will be many.
Touching the source of movement.
Feeling compassion that is disarming.
Recognition of your fire.
Courage to accept yourself dancing.
Ability to adapt physical touch.
Gifts and losses as we surrender to the movement.
Expedition for the secret that is on the other side of the dance.
To sign up:
Vipps 900kr to Ann Kristin Holten,
97736615
…or write a dm for bank transfer.
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Where is it happening?
Marstrandgata 8, 0566 Oslo, Norge, Marstrandgata 8, 0566 Oslo, Norge, Oslo, NorwayEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
