Faking it With Gravity || a workshop with Nica Portavia and Karen Nelson

Name: Faking it With Gravity || a workshop with Nica Portavia and Karen Nelson
Start: 2025-01-18T10:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-01-18T17:00:00-08:00
Location: 4625 SE 67th Ave, Portland, OR, United States, Oregon 97206

Schedule

Sat Jan 18 2025 at 10:00 am to 05:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

4625 SE 67th Ave, Portland, OR, United States, Oregon 97206 | Portland, OR

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"Faking it With Gravity" creates a space of inquiry to study and research Contact Improvisation* (CI), including Tuning Scores* and Material for the Spine* (MFS.)
In CI we dance with gravity. That sensation, our first handshake-touch with the earth, dances us through its field for our whole lifetime. “small dance,” the quiet inner sensation of our reflexes balancing us is something we are always doing in our bodies. When we turn our attention to it, what happens? This is the basis of our practice.
In "Faking it" we work with looking at our patterns and making choices. We’ll be sensing into the questions: When do I know I am faking? Is faking bringing me into realness? With deconstructing/reconstructing, reflexual reliance, friendly falling, rolling, and flying with easy landing, we will embody to fake, make, explore, restore, unravel, travel and play within a research space of constant learning from the momentum and changes in our dances.
Karen Nelson and Nica Portavia met exchanging dancing and love for gravity. This meeting between different human beings and generations creates a space to dance, to hope, to remember, to fall and to be together. Contact Improvisation is our common strategy, our vocabulary, our home.