Imperfect Sphericity - Contact Improvisation Workshop

Name: Imperfect Sphericity - Contact Improvisation Workshop
Start: 2024-10-26T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-10-27T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Rom for Dans

Schedule

Sat Oct 26 2024 at 11:00 am to Sun Oct 27 2024 at 06:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Rom for Dans | Oslo, OS

Welcome to a contact improvisation workshop with Johan Nilsson
As a base and a starting point
we will work with
3 INSTANCES OF PRESENCE
The PRESENCE of the PAST,
where habits and memories determine the now.
The PRESENCE of the NOW
where one can loose oneself in activity, happiness or enthusiasm
and
The PRESENCE of the FUTURE,
where desires and dreams are present in visions and plans.
And while moving through these 3 layers of reality
we will arrive at a CRITICAL CONNECTEDNESS.
The heart of CI
Where it is real.
Technically we will work on our beautiful
IMPERFECT SPHERICITY
That is our ability to be round, global, spherical
Spreading our awareness all around
Practice, practice, practice
Work from hidden places, unseen back space and up-side-down
We will be striving to be perfect, universal, awesome
But we will enjoy failing and staying imperfect
I would encourage us to work on our ability to keep an active solo, working from PERIPHERY to CENTER. Starting light, enhancing the BEAUTY IN DETAILS, so that we later can arrive at the excellence of great weight exchange and BIGGER DANCE.
This is how I see us work:
Let’s reach for a non-pedestrian way of being…
As humanity would move before uprightness was the main choice
Let’s play with the forces of fun and forces of momentum as we move into dance.
Let’s pass through stages of playfulness as we widen our shape,
imagining ourselves to be hyper-spherical.
Then, travelling on the full spherical landscape of another in a shared dance, moving through
big spaces without vision.
Let’s give our compactness air and wings to our play with gravity!
Let’s work with and question how we move over each other, on each other and with each other.
Moving through landscapes and offering each other landscapes to move on.
Let’s receive each other as people and as moving creatures.
Constructing bubbles of functional dance.
Sustaining active solos in near proximity.
Dialogues in shared moments.

Biography
Johan is an explorer of natural sciences and art. He’s a trained gardener and teacher in Biodynamic farming, gardening and Permaculturdesign These are a great source of inspiration for him due to its deep relationship with the natural world, alternative methods and plant forces. In dance and improvisation, he experiences the same fascination as when he was a child playing in the forest - in contact with nature - a world full of imagination and playfulness!
His movement background includes Capoeira, African Dance, World Dance and fire spinning, but his interest deepened when he first discovered Contact Improvisation in 2004, with his main inspiration coming from Måns Erlandsson and Malin Anclair, Stockholm/Sweden.
Since then, Johan has been participating as a teacher and performer in several projects, festivals and dance events throughout Europe, India and China. He is regularly teaching classes in different dance institutions and is organising CI events in Sweden. For a few years he was part of organizing METAMORPHOSIS Improvisation Festival, where he is the co-founder.
Since a few years his work in dance and gardening tends to blend more and more into the practice of Ecosomatics, a normative way of moving through life. A way to work with the dignity of human kind and the future of the living earth. Learning more about your own systems through studying the large ecosystems, and training your empathy for the large systems based on your own somatic system.
In his teaching, Johan likes to use the imaginary and a fascination for small details as tools to create one’s own dance. With fire-spinning he developed a fascination with continuously traveling weight. In contact improvisation he likes to relate to weight shifts, big movements through space and he definitely loves a certain amount of risk!
Recently his work in dance institutions has a focus on maintaining ones’ own solo, the improvised part of contact improvisation, featherlight lifts and verbal reflections.
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PRACTICAL INFO
Schedule:
Saturday - Sunday: 11.00 - 17.00
Saturday evening we have optional time for reflection / free studio time after the workshop
Price:
Early bird until August 30th
Both days 1200,-
Single day 600,-
After August 30th
Both days 1400,-
Single day 700,-
Pay by Vipps to Oslo Kontaktimpro (14486)
or ask by email about account number for transfer.
Bookings by email to [email protected]
Your place is confirmed when payment is received and you have sent a booking email.