Spiral Me - A Contact Improvisation weekend workshop with Teti Nikolopoulou

Name: Spiral Me - A Contact Improvisation weekend workshop with Teti Nikolopoulou
Start: 2025-09-27T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-28T17:00:00+01:00
Location: St Werburghs Primary School, Silver Birch Annexe, BS2 9UB

Schedule

Sat, 27 Sep, 2025 at 10:00 am to Sun, 28 Sep, 2025 at 05:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

St Werburghs Primary School, Silver Birch Annexe, BS2 9UB | Bristol, EN

Spiral Me…
All paths of movement are spirals, all creatures on earth have evolved in the spiral model. Spiral reaches to the source of our existence.
In this 9-10 hours workshop we will explore the essence of the spiral. We will focus on its mechanism to find the functional paths of the body.
In the first day, we will explore Paxton's material on the spine, and we will experiment in the tools derived from this. Furthermore, we will combine somatics approach, like experiential anatomy and developmental movement to get conscious in the biomechanics of the body and functional movement. We will find out that the spiral occurs in the thorax, while pelvis facilitates the procedure. In this way, the spine easily follows the pathways of movement and move smoothly, powerfully and efficiently.
In the second day of the workshop, we will see how limbs assist and navigate spirals. We will then apply these principles to contact improvisation, and we will explore the spiral pattern with partner at all levels, from the floor to the spirals on the back and around the heads of others
The workshop is for all levels, and intermediate and advanced.
Venue
St. Werburghs Primary School
Silver Birch Annexe
Mogg Street
St Werburgh's
Bristol
BS2 9UB
Tickets
Early bird til 1st August £70
Concession (after 1st August) £80
Standard (after 1st August) £90
Teti Nikolopoulou bio
Teti is a dancer, choreographer and Physical Education (Phd) teacher. She has been studied and trained for over 25 years in dance and contact improvisation and has completed postgraduate (2009) and doctoral studies (PHD/2020) on them in National and Kapodestrian University of Athens. She combines the practice of dance with theories, while connecting the modern dance forms with kinetic forms from the tradition. She has attended dance and contact improvisation workshops with important teachers (Nita Little, Ann Cooper Albright, Christina Klissiouni, Frey Faust, Timos Zechas, Charly Morrissey, David Zabrano, etc) and has been dancing and choreographing since 1992. She has collaborated with choreographers, directors, musicians, and visual artists and has taken part in international platforms and dance festivals. She teaches dance, improvisation and contact improvisation in professional dance schools, while she gives lectures, writes articles, and gives workshops on Somatics. Teti is an artist who invests in the dancer’s embodiment and uses it as a performative process. The dramaturgy of the performances results from the very process of movement and dance, while other narrative elements borrowed from other arts and life are used adjunctively. In other words, Teti, as teacher, dancer and choreographer focuses on the act of dance itself, recognizing the autonomy of this art and its ability to express meaning. She has also created a workshops where she trains professional dancers for free in exchange for research and creation of choreographic material, in Athens. Teti, in her youth, has been awarded twice in Pan-Hellenic choreography competitions and is funded by the Greek Ministry of Culture regularly from 2007, and 1017 until today.