This container offers an immersive time and space to engage with contact-improvisation as a powerful gateway for getting closely acquainted with your personal physiology and kinetics. Carefully curated sessions will blend theoretical knowledge of female biomechanics with the playful study of weight, gravity, momentum and connecting with moving bodies, notorious to contact-improvisation.
Your body, in this context, becomes the landscape and architecture for a deliberate and precise self-study, a deepening of your contact-improvisation practice and a greater understanding of your female body.
Although assembled as a deep solo study, the female-body group container of femina.kinetica.ci will naturally give rise to essential collective insights. This support will lead your solo towards the pathways of optimizing a heightened and autonomous lucidity of expressiveness, efficiency and creativity within your contact-improvisation dance.
femina.kinetica.ci leverages the benefits of a female-body container to deepen the study of the female body in motion. It is specifically designed for those with anatomical female bodies, creating a nurturing and empowering environment that highlights the diversity, strength, and fluidity inherent in the female body form. The shared experience of like-bodied participants enriches the learning process, enabling a deeper, collective exploration of movement that is tailored specifically to female biomechanics.We hope this to be a nourishing and liberating experience for those who hold a female-anatomy-body. With the femina.kinetica.ci container offering an exclusive focus on the female anatomy in contact-improvisation, cis-men, are asked to not attend this event.
What to Expect
Welcome to Femina Kinetica—a four-day deep dive into the female body in motion. This workshop invites participants into an intimate and expansive practice space where we’ll explore Contact Improvisation through the lens of female anatomy, lived experience, and somatic intelligence.
✦ Embodied study and discussions on feminine biomechanics.
✦ Daily somatic movement classes rooted in Material for the Spine, Tuning Scores, and embodied female anatomy.
✦ Contact Improvisation practices that honor weight, momentum, and deep listening.
✦ Guided partnering, solo research, and group constellations.
Improvisational scores, evening jams, and spontaneous composition.
✦ Early morning silent forest walks exploring foot-to-floor responsiveness, followed by sauna and quarry plunges.
✦ A like-bodied container for anatomical female bodies, held with care, creativity, and mutual respect.
✦ A balance of rigorous physicality, emotional spaciousness, quietude, and collective insight.
For more information and registration, please visit:
https://www.earthdance.net/event/femina-kinetica-with-valerie-sabbah/
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