THURSDAY NIGHT CLASS/JAM
Our weekly class/jam on every Thursday 6.30pm to 8.30pm.
It is open to anyone, including new beginners.
WHAT TO WEAR
WEar clothes you can move around in and go down to the floor (no skirts). Longer pants and no singlets please to reduce skin to skin contact.
LOCATION:
West End Uniting Church
11 Sussex St, West End, Brisbane
PAYMENT
Pay at Door- Cash or Bank Transfer
$15 (standard)
$10 (concession)
WHAT IS A CI JAM? (1 hour)
It is a space to experiment, to play, to dance, to connect with your own body and with others. There is space to come in and out of the Jam as you please, observing others at play, or nurturing yourself, while still 'being' in the group experience. This is a safe space with no sexuality or sexual advances and no displays of affection, such as kissing or stroking.
CLASS (1 hour)
We will usually start with a 1 hour class to introduce a range of skills that are utilised in contact. This might include:
- techincal aspects, especially contact techniques like a rolling point of contact, supporting weigth and flying.
- Improvisation - to encourage play and exploration of movement and contact
- Movement - how can we move freely, efficiently and safely, including changign dimensions from floor to standing.
WHAT IS CONTACT IMPROV?
Contact Improvisation (CI) is a dance and movement form based on the physical principles of touch, momentum, shared weight, and following a shared point of contact.
The form was founded in 1972 by Steve Paxton, who was radically experimenting as a contemporary dancer. Steve integrated other movement experiences including gymnastics and his studies in the martial art form Aikido. The first contact Improvisation form was workshopped in a 2 week lab where Steve invited 17 other dancers including Nancy Stark Smith. Following the laboratory, they performed this experimental style for the first time, in New York City.
CI has developed over the years into a more sophisticated, but still experimental form, that plays with all the ways we can contact with another person or the floor...rolling, sliding, mutual balance, the mechanics of lifting others and being lifted and even how to fall.
The interplay between dance and touch is a powerful somatic practice and the ever-changing points of balance creates new cognitive learning.
It can be healing and liberating to allow your whole body to experience contact with any part of the body in a safe creative dance and movement form.
TEACHER/FACILITATOR
GABRIEL SOL
Gabriel is a teacher, therapist and healer exploring the intersection between somatics, movement and personal transformation. Gabriel starting the CI community in Brisbane in Sept 2018.
He has been teaching CI classes, workshops and facilitating jams with the aim of building a thriving CI community in Brisbane.
Gabriel has an extensive background in movement, both modern and traditional Somatic embodiment practices, including:
- Yoga teacher in both traditional and modern systems incl classical Tantra, modern Hatha, Partner and Zenthai Flow Yoga.
- Therapist/healer using a mix of modalities including a movement-based therapy, ZenThai Shiatsu.
- A longterm martial arts practitioner incl Capoeira, and Taekwondo.
- A longterm practitioner of 5 Rhythm dance - a conscious therapeutic dance form.
For more info on Gabriel's work:
https://www.facebook.com/GabrielSol.Alchemist
RESPONSIBILITY AGREEMENT
Please note: By attending participants are asked to agree to the following statement:
"In attending this workshop I take full responsibility for my own health and wellbeing. I acknowledge the nature of the workshop involves proposals to participate in exercises and movements that may be new to me. I acknowledge that the workshop facilitator has no liability for any injuries which may occur during this workshop"
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