Weaving Our Attention Through Touch: From Solo to Collective Contact Jamming
Our day begins with solo floor work – moving in relationship with earth’s gravity, informed by anatomical, developmental movement and qigong. A constant anchor is the Earth’s pull, and how to let it support your direction of movement across space.
This will create a dynamic landscape to meet each other through touch. Different qualities of touch can become ways of communicating, listening and building up a kinaesthetic map of ourselves in relation to others.
As we warm up into our dancing further, we will dive into the practical containers of contact improvisation; tracing our attention of who is above and below; to learn how we dance from ground to air together.
We will explore our spines and how it connects to the tilt and curve of each other’s pelvis where your lower centre is. Like the direction of water and steam, we can play with the movements of a radial nature; such as scoop, swing, and bounce between ground and air, to converge and diverge from your dance partner’s centres. We listen and respect each individual’s unique rhythm and timing in each moment.
Open to everyone – all levels of movement experience are welcome.
More details of schedule: FB event
£50 early bird until January 8th
£65 standard (after January 8th)
£75 supporter
