How do we keep our dancing fresh? Contact Improvisation offers so much freedom and yet it is easy to get stuck in habits or lost in what we think the dance “should” be. In this workshop we have 2.5 days to explore moving with a sense of ease in body and mind, feeling more connected to your self and your partner, allowing emotional resonance, finding flow. From this space we will challenge our bodies to find new pathways, moving the dance beyond the familiar. Work with “upside down” material like handstands or hanging and sliding down with the head first will encourage us to move off the beaten tracks and become more skilled in the richness of detail. In my experience it is the combination of precision and heart that lets me find more variety in the dancing, more sense of journey and exploration – and a more alive jam space.

The workshop welcomes people who have a sense of the basics of CI and wish to go further and deeper. And, as always, long term practitioners will appreciate working within limitations and the brilliant principles of the form to find new exploration and discovery. Plus I’ll be sharing some language and phrasing I have been exploring in my teaching to help students find the heart in their practice, without losing the skill.