FALL/FLOAT/FLY: a Contact Improv workshop with Ezra LeBank
Schedule
Sat Oct 05 2024 at 11:00 am to Sun Oct 06 2024 at 05:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Odd Fellows Lodge | Nevada City, CA
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We're thrilled to have Ezra LeBank back from LA for a 2-day Contact Improv workshop in Nevada City!FALL/FLOAT/FLY: flirting with gravity from the earth to the sky
Is it possible to fly and fall without noticing much? Can momentum guide us above and along each other? In this workshop, we dive into these questions and explore the boundless possibilities of falling, floating, and flying in Contact Improvisation practice.
We'll start with Dirt Work, engaging in physical training that expands, integrates, and readies our bodies in conversation with gravity and the earth. This grounding practice will prepare us for Cloud Tectonics, where we'll reframe our experiences of lift, loft, and drift. Finally, we will build above, around, and beyond these concepts to move toward a dancing space that cherishes transparency and presence in playful dancing scores.
Through detailed and buoyant exercises, we will move towards a dancing experience rich with abundant and radically free choice-making in vertical and spherical space. Together, we'll co-create a dance that thrives on simultaneous independence and communion while in fall, float, and flight.
This evolving material builds on years of research and collaboration, with the aim to engage/challenge those familiar with Cloud Tectonics, and be accessible to everyone with some previous CI experience. Come prepared to learn, sweat, and play.
*Some previous CI experience is assumed.
OCTOBER 5-6
Sat, Sun 11am-5pm
ODD FELLOWS LODGE
212 Spring St
Nevada City, CA
EZRA LEBANK is Chair of Theatre Arts and Professor of Movement at California State University Long Beach. Meditation, Aikido, and acrobatics work their way into his curiosity of CI. His approach is inspired by many wonderful teachers including Nancy Stark Smith, Ray Chung, Mike Vargas, Nita Little, and others. He has been invited as a teacher at International Contact Festival Freiburg, West Coast Contact Improv Jam, Seattle Festival for Dance Improvisation, Poland Contact Festival, Oberlin CI@50, and many more. Through his research company Bad Goat Dance, he studies Dirt Work & Cloud Tectonics as methods of bringing ourselves closer to the earth and to each other. www.badgoatdance.com
Registration link: https://forms.gle/LpDHZveh26dCjcYQA
RATES:*
EARLY BIRD by Aug 18
$135-225 (Standard: $180)
REGULAR by Sept 30
$160-250 (Standard: $205)
LATE OWL after Sept 30
$190-280 (Standard: $235)
*We aim to make this accessible by offering slicing scale rates. We ask that you consider the bigger picture and choose an amount that is appropriate for you. If these amounts are a barrier to you, please let us know.
**Accommodation is not included for the workshop. If you need help coordinating a place to stay please let us know.
Photo credit: @EricAllenPhoto
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Where is it happening?
Odd Fellows Lodge, 115 S Pine St, Nevada City, CA 95959-2516, United States,Nevada City, CaliforniaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
