This class series with Shannon is a delicious opportunity to deepen your strength and structure as a practitioner of Contact Improvisation.
We will focus on the 3 tiers of weight sharing:
1. Know your center.
2. Lean into a shared center
3. Get over it or Get under it.
(a person's center must be under another for them to be lifted)
This dance practice explores the skills of falling, rolling, counterbalance, lifting using minimal effort, how to make ourselves light when being lifted, centering techniques, and responsiveness to our partners and surroundings.
Shannon Sahaja is an embodiment alchemist who feels most at home in the woods, on a dance floor, in warm water or engaged in silly shenanigans. She holds a BFA in Dance from S.U.N.Y Purchase, and has 2 decades of experience as a movement facilitator. Shannon enjoyed being the manager and sacred space holder for Ecstatic Dance Oakland from 2017-2024. She has studied extensively with many of the early pioneers of Contact Improvisation and loves articulating the mechanics of weight sharing for those unfamiliar with the form. She brings delight to the space with her unique ability to create safety while spicing things up with humor and spontaneity. Shannon has a presence that guides those in her field to come home to their essential self through play and spontaneity as well as attunement and depth.
Join Shannon Sahaja for discovering more of your embodied genius. All levels welcome.
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