In this workshop we will dance in contact with each other, the floor and gravity: building blocks of Contact Improvisation.

We will be astonished that we can be permeable to any stimulus, so much so that we become a channel for movement that travels from us to the other, from us to the floor and from us to the space.

The concept of permeability reverses the paradigm of doing and controlling with that of letting it happen, which does not mean not doing; on the contrary, it means continually choosing to be permeable and then reacting.

We will take the time to take in the stimuli. A fragment of precious time in which, in my experience, improvisation can emerge. More concretely, I’ll propose movement experiences that help to acquire a quality and listening that open the dancer to the present and to letting in.

We’ll build channels of connection in the skin, bones and thoughts.

There will also be short speaking circles to continually integrate and nurture the process as well as exercises and games that will be developed according to the structure that Nancy Stark Smith called “Simple-complex-simple”.