Workshops with Andrew de Lotbiniere Harwood

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Cost: $200.00

March 25-29, 9:30am-12:30pm for $200
and/or
March 30 & 31, 12noon-5pm for $150

At the outset Steve Paxton's experiments with Contact Improvisation (CI) were closely connected with the act of performance and corresponded with specific practices of sensing and perceiving. CI was and is part of a movement that both questions the values of spectacular produced shows and frequently calls up different values in the ways it is practiced and presented. In this workshop we will take a closer look at the layers of complexity and levels of subtleness in this evolving dance form, aiming to cultivate an ease and gracefulness in those crossing fields while maintaining an inquisitive attitude and encouraging our performing skills to come into play.

We will work with tuning our own experience and innate presence while studying/focusing on awareness, sensation, perception, impulse, influence, reflex, and reaction in order to create an intimate sense of connectedness, ease and spaciousness between them. Allowing for introspection and dialogue as we go, we will deepen our understanding of the micro-dynamics and fine points that reveal themselves in our dancing. In addition, we will examine and practice states and qualities of improvising, investigate a variety of relationships between imagination, action, time and space, whilst we scrutinize how we sense, see and are seen by each other. How do we act with a sense of clarity as we move? How do we witness others and ourselves in the subtle and small range and in the bigger, wider range? Bring curiosity, a keen desire to dance and a willingness to be seen.

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