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Join us for a Sunday of dance and contact!
✨Open for all levels of experience ✨
"Just the pleasure of using your body is, I think, maybe the main point. And the pleasure of dancing with somebody in an unplanned and spontaneous way..."
Steve Paxton
Contact improvisation is an open, improvised dance involving 2 or more bodies, with physical contact as the main mode of communication. The dance includes rolling, falling, being upside down, following a physical point of contact and giving weight to a partner. Dance partners often move in and out of physical contact, flow together, and improvise while mutually supporting and following each other's movements. Sometimes wild and athletic, sometimes quiet and meditative. It is a form of dance accessible to all bodies and inquiring minds.
Sunday 11th of may: Intensive workshop by Diederik
12:00 doors open
12:30 - 15:00 workshop by Diederik Burke
15:00 - 15:45 break
15:45 - 17:30 workshop by Diederik Burke
17:30 - 18:00 bodywork cooling down
18:00 potluck
✨Diederik Burke - Fluid Action✨
In this extended workshop we are going to emphasise the ability of the fluidity of the body by means of our movement quality. Its low resistance, its adaptability and quick, soft turns and shifts. With its approximately 70% water-based substance and its additional 360 joints, the human body is well equipped to move in a fluid manner. In addition, its inner structure, consisting of bones, tendons and muscles, gives it its form of solidness, simultaneously supportive and constraining.
We will start from the basic needs of our physical comfort and move into sharing contact. With a gradual development from finding comfort and grounding towards deepening connection and sharing exchange. Later we will be using our grounded connection for the application of exchanging weight and support into lifts and more dynamic dance. We will practice to release the effort, to allow our natural movement into spontaneous dance.
Throughout the workshop there will be plenty of time and space to explore, play and, of course, dance to our hearts content. As a Cooldown, we will end the session with integrating and grounding our experience deep into our body through bodywork and attentive presence.
This workshop is suitable for people who would like to find an entrance into CI and for more experienced dancers willing to fine-tune their skills and listening.
✨Diederik Burke ✨
Since the start of my journey into contact improvisation some 40 years ago, many additional practices, skills and experiences were added into my approach to dancing and teaching CI.
Leading from modern dance, 20 years of intensive martial arts training, Tai Chi and yoga practice. Aquatic therapy (warmwater dance), Shiatsu massage and various bodywork practices.
I had the privilege to be part of the teachers CI workgroup at the SNDO. Being one of the co-organisers of CLass-to-Jam at my homebase, Amsterdam for more than 25 years, where we still are going strong servicing a large CI community with weekly CI Classes and Jams.
Teaching and dancing in Europe, meeting so many lovely dancers fills my life with Joy. Hope to meet you next!!
There will be coffee and tea, bring your own small snack for during the break. And after the jam there will be a potluck. Everyone will bring something to eat, to share, and so we will have a delicious picnic where we will have a nice chat.
Important! Early bird tickets are on sale until 11:59 p.m. Wednesday night before the event. So buy your ticket on time! Tickets are non-refundable, but you can sell your ticket to someone else who wants to come. Please let us know who took your ticket.
For all upcoming dates in Nijmegen go to:
https://vasimcircusspace.nl/contact-improvisatie/
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Kom langs voor een zondag vol dans en contact!
✨Open voor alle niveaus/ervaringen ✨
“Ik denk dat het plezier om je lichaam te gebruiken misschien wel het belangrijkste is. En het plezier om met iemand te dansen op een ongeplande en spontane manier...”
Steve Paxton
Contactimprovisatie is een open, geïmproviseerde dans met 2 of meer lichamen, met fysiek contact als belangrijkste manier van communicatie. De dans omvat rollen, vallen, ondersteboven zijn, het volgen van een fysiek contactpunt en het geven van gewicht aan een partner. Danspartners bewegen vaak in en uit fysiek contact, flowen samen, en improviseren terwijl ze elkaars bewegingen wederzijds ondersteunen en volgen. Soms wild en atletisch, soms rustig en meditatief. Het is een vorm van dans die toegankelijk is voor alle lichamen en onderzoekende geesten.
Zondag 11 mei: Workshop door Diederik Burke
12:00 deuren open
12:30 - 15:00 workshop
15:00 - 15:45 pauze
15:45 - 17:30 workshop
17:30 - 18:00 lichaamswerk cooling down
18:00 potluck
Er is koffie en thee, neem zelf wat kleins mee om te snacken in de pauze. En na de jam is er een potluck. Iedereen neemt wat te eten mee, om te delen, en zo hebben we een heerlijke picknick waarin we nog gezellig nakletsen.
Let op! De early bird tickets zijn te koop tot de woensdagavond voor het event 23:59. Koop je kaartje daarom op tijd! Kaartjes zijn non-refundable, wel kan je je kaartje bij verhindering doorverkopen aan iemand anders die wil komen. Fijn als je ons dan laat weten wie je kaartje heeft overgenomen.
Ga voor alle aankomende data in Nijmegen naar:
https://vasimcircusspace.nl/contact-improvisatie/
