Cloud Tectonics: Training for Contact Improvisation & Contemporary Partnering
“Is it possible for us to fly and fall without noticing much? Can the drift inherent in momentum compel us toward intuitive pathways above and along each other?
We will begin with Dirt Work, physical training to expand, integrate, and ready our bodies in conversation with gravity and the earth. This prepares us for flight and dynamic capacity we explore in Cloud Tectonics, training that reframes our experiences of lift, loft, and drift. Detailed and buoyant exercises guide us toward a dancing experience full of abundant and radically free choice-making in vertical and spherical space for both ourselves and those we dance with. We imagine a dance we co-create amidst simultaneous independence and communion in flight.
Ezra LeBank is a Professor of Movement and Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts at California State University Long Beach. Meditation, Aikido, and acrobatics work their way into his curiosity of CI. His approach is inspired by many wonderful teachers including Nancy Stark Smith, Ray Chung, Mike Vargas, Nita Little, and Steve Paxton. He has been invited as a teacher at International Contact Festival Freiburg, West Coast Contact Improv Jam, Seattle Festival for Dance Improvisation, Poland Contact Festival, Oberlin CI@50, and many more. Through his research company Bad Goat Dance, he studies Dirt Work & Cloud Tectonics as methods of bringing ourselves closer to the earth and to each other.
The workshop will begin at 11am and roughly an hour will be spent to take a break during the day
Reach out to ci.goldsmiths@gmail.com if you have any questions
| Preis | ||
|---|---|---|
Regular |
£50.00 | |
Concession |
£40.00 | |
Performing Artist/Unemployed |
£35.00 |
Laban Building - Car Park Studio
Creekside
London
SE8 3DZ
Toilets, changing, and reception inside building.
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