C.I workshop Cardiff

Contact Improvisation.

In Contact my approach is both technical and experiential - concentrating on building up a functional understanding of underlying physical principles and structures of Contact Improvisation whilst also widening the trust to one's instincts, impulses and intuition. 

The principal themes behind the work are organic, fluid and functional movement. Fluid transitions. Efficiency. Sequentiality.

The sessions develop slowly from inside to out. Often starting with individual floor-work, offering particular principles and tasks, and then gradually building up through the layers using the natural spirals of the body.  Material alternates between contact and solo tasks, and exercises that connect the group as a whole, creating an open, safe and exciting environment to explore.

Within specific exercises we will  explore tools that are helpful to work in contact: sharing weight, center-to-center, leaning and supporting, rolling point of contact.

Also using ideas around momentum, suspension, inertia & falling. To find effortless ways into weight transfers and lifting, leading and following, falling and spiraling…

Time will also be given to work with dance-scores, which allows participants to get into the flow of their own movement, giving time and space to integrate the learnt technique into their dance.

The workshop is open level. Everybody is welcome.