Contact Improvisation Basics With Jennifer Mcleish-Lewis
Date/Time: Oct 20 2018, 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Vancouver, Edam DanceCost: $40.00
PREREQS
All levels, absolute beginners welcome!
REGISTRATION
Email to millissagreenwood@gmail.com to reserve your spot
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ABOUT THE CLASS
Drawing on developmental movement patterns and skills of Contact Improvisation, this class will be accessible for all levels of movers. We will start on the floor with a gentle somatic-based warm up that will help the body to feel gravity. Growing from the floor to standing, we will practice smoothing out our transitions into upright dancing. Contact skills of reach, push, pull, fall, sluff, glide and roll will all be employed, using the floor as your loyal partner.
If you are sometimes lost at class or jams, this class will provide codified skills and set "moves" that are important to learn so that you can use them in the dance. For example, how to get on a body with a low, medium or high shelf, and how to get back off.
The goal is an aware, alert, and embodied presence that uses the full capacity of the dancer as a human being awake in the word. More sensitivity is reached through relaxing the nervous system. More altertness is reached through waking up the mind with moment-by-moment choice making. More embodiment is reached through a deep listening to the relationship to the earth, each other, and the space around us.
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A little bit about Jennifer
Jennifer McLeish-Lewis is a dance artist who performs, choreographs, and teaches. Jennifer trained across Canada at The Alberta Ballet School, The School of Toronto Dance Theatre and MainDance (Vancouver). She has performed in Canada, the United States, and Europe. Her experience in contemporary release techniques, ballet, contact improvisation, yoga and bodywork are all forms she draws on in her creative practice.
As a choreographer, Jennifer has had her work presented in Vancouver, Nanaimo, Seattle, Montreal and Berlin. She is one of three founding member of The Tomorrow Collective, her former dance company who created Brief Encounters. Her artistic training and choreographic work has been supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, The British Columbia Arts Council and the Alberta Arts Council. She lives and works in Vancouver where she is currently collaborating on a Canada Council and BC Arts Council funded Dance On Screen project with film director Lynne Stopkewich.
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