FALLING UP: Falling & Flying

Name: FALLING UP: Falling & Flying
Start: 2025-11-23T14:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-23T21:30:00-05:00
Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley

Schedule

Sun Nov 23 2025 at 02:00 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Aikido of Champlain Valley | Burlington, VT

FALLING UP: Falling & Flying
A Contact Improv Workshop & Jam w/ Moti Zemelman
WHEN: SUNDAY, NOV 23 - Workshop: 2-6pm,�Jam: 7:30-9:30pm
WHERE: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St, Burlington, VT

COST ($10 OFF workshop if you register by NOV 1st):
Workshop & Jam: $60-110
Workshop only: $50-90
Jam Only: $15-20

TO PRE-REGISTER PLEASE PAY IN ADVANCE USING ONE OF THESE OPTIONS:
- Paypal to: [email protected]
- Venmo: Moti-Zemelman
- Check to Moti Zemelman, 8 Grant St. Greenfield, MA 01301
- Credit Card (Call Moti 413-475-2651)
* if you need to make other arrangements please be in touch: [email protected] 413-475-2651

...COVERING GROUND
Falling can be fun! What goes up must come down, and you have to go down to go back up again. Learn how to root, roll, and dig into the Cliffs, Plateaus, and boulders of our bodies to find that negotiation with gravity that we call flying. Find new pathways to the ground. Learn about your soft landing gear. Find ways to be light even as you anchor yourself to the Earth's gravitational pull. Come fall down and cover some new ground.
...GROWING WINGS
A study in the art of flying, we'll explore lifts, weight-sharing and the dynamics of flight. Learn to develop more comfort with heights, being upsidedown, and using momentum through the air. We will practice listening to the subtle invitations that our partners offer us to go UP and find new pathways towards the sky!
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Moti Zemelman, MFA began practicing Contact Improv 37 years ago. Over the past 29 years he has taught and performed across USA, Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico, Europe and Israel. In 2008-09 he taught as Dance Professor at the Instituto Naciónal de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Moti has been both a teacher and a board member at Earthdance Retreat Center in Plainfield, MA where he co-organized the Touch&Play Festival for 6 years. He was an original member of Wire Monkey Dance Co. (Holyoke, MA, USA) and is a featured dancer in Sanford Lewis' documentary film about CI "An Intimate Dance." As a musician Moti plays vocal-electronic music for Contact Jams and in 2007 released his debut CD, Doorwaves. He also designs and moderates the international Contact Improv resource website www.contactimprov.com.