“My favorite dances combine exquisite listening through the touch and physicality of CI with the delightful surprise of the unfolding improvisation.” – Alicia
As an experienced dancer in CI do you ever find yourself “lifting” your partner or giving weight to your partner in a way that is more of an expectation than a part of the unfolding improvisation? What are the subtle and sometimes not so subtle expectations that can be the pitfalls of an experienced dancer?
In this workshop, we’ll explore physical tools that bring more nuance, connection, and choice to weight sharing. We’ll build skills that support accuracy and lightness for flyers, and ease and mobility for under-flyers. We’ll also play with modulating weight to create surprise in timing, direction, and quality.
We will also explore attentional tools to support our ability to be completely present and connected while remaining unattached to a particular direction in the dance. Using the power of witnessing and being witnessed, we will observe our patterns and allow others to support us in opening to new possibilities.
*This workshop is for advanced dancers who want to grow their dancing through the giving and receiving of curious, loving witnessing. Please reach out if you’d like to discuss if an “advanced” level workshop is right for you.
Schedule:
Friday, 11/7 at 5:30 PM – Sunday, 11/9 at 2:00 PM
The workshop also includes:
- Healthy, delicious meals
- A gorgeous, buttery, radiant heat dance floor
- Accommodations for overnight stay
- An outside bonfire, woods for walking, and birds for watching
Workshop Cost:
$325 – pay-it-forward price: this helps folks attend the workshop for whom the regular price would be a hardship
$300 – regular price: fully covers the teacher’s fees and overhead expenses
$250 – 3 spots available at this rate
Please note – We will not be offering partial participation, as it is our intention to create a container for participants to join us for the whole learning journey. If you need to have a further conversation about finances, we welcome you to reach out!
Registration:
Email peaceablebarnstudio@gmail.com or complete the fields below to register or inquire about the workshop.
Upon registering, a $75 deposit is required to reserve your spot.
Workshop Location:
The Peaceable Barn
90 Peaceable Street
Redding, CT 06896
(203) 240-4742
www.peaceablebarn.com
*from NYC: MTA to Branchville. We will pick you up!
Alicia Grayson has been passionately involved with dancing, teaching and performing CI for the past 36 years. She has taught contact improvisation as an adjunct faculty at George Washington University, University of Denver, Naropa University and Shenandoah University. She teaches CI, yoga and pilates classes in Boulder, Colorado and regularly travels nationally and internationally to teach. Her long time practices of authentic movement, yoga and pilates, and her love of nature are important influences on her dancing and teaching. She is a certified Hakomi therapist, certified perinatal somatic attachment therapist and certified Feminine Power Transformational Coach and Facilitator. She delights in exploring and discovering new depths to contact improvisation and related disciplines and is particularly interested in the intersection of physics and expression and the mind/body relationship. www.aliciagrayson.com