REGISTRATION OPEN！｜Body-Time CI Intensive Week

Attention is what drives us when we are small, and it is what we create our reality with when we are big. 

What is the ecological transition from one role to another and back again? It's the student/teacher relationship within ourselves. 

In this intensive we will explore ourselves as a process of multi-faceted learning: 

- discipleship and transfer of knowledge, 

- leading and following, 

- letting go of roles, "grazing", "fluttering", experiencing ourselves as elastic, shifting attention, 

- telescopic awareness, 

- attention to big and small details.

I plan to teach this festival intensive as a CI laboratory.

For teachers, for those already dancing, and for beginning participants. I am unaware of how contact improvisation seeps into our bodies, but I do know that it does happen in some non-linear way. 

And there is another truth in our continued growth of community - we cannot be without each other. Beginners without experienced dancers, teachers without beginners. We need each other to grow, to sniff the paths of dance, to give each other vectors for development. Listening to each other from different corners of the development of dance, intelligence and soulfulness, we can begin to understand our potential, the call to development and catch the path that we want to take at the festival and further in life.

I am inspired to run a CI workshop-lab, and will create the conditions: 

- Material that grows from the basics and moves participants to jam safely, with a reliance on technique. 

- Jam secrets that will blossom like seeds and support your jam experience in the evenings.

- CI labs. I will create structures and let in the lab spirit that will allow not only my experience as a facilitator  to manifest but allow teachers and advanced participants to unfold the beauty of their dance path. 

- A variety of transitions from beginning level to advanced and back again, so that we forget how small or big we are while remaining innocent, light and friendly in the dance. 

When participants come to the festival with no experience or expectations — it helps them to face the new unawares, to surrender to the flow of information and movement. Their dance happens on its own, frantically, without the involvement of the mind.

When the experience is vast and juicy — one just wants to dance, to exchange tastes and things, to reach out to those who are already comfortable and familiar. 

My wish is that everyone meets the dance, touches the miracle of this freedom and puts it in the heart. And the heart knows where to go.

Anjelika Doniy

Anjelika Doniy is a dance improviser, choreographer and teacher focused on contact.

After 5 years of formal studies of choreography, ballet dance and other stage disciplines at the Higher School of Culture (St-Petersburg), she worked for 10 Years as a theater choreographer. Until… 

“In 1997, I was at the Impulse Dance Festival in Vienna. There, I saw a wonder of CI, watched Steve Paxton on stage, flew into Andrew Harwood workshop where some 70 dancers were rolling over each other. This was unbelievable, the earth was becoming alive. I saw a realization of my dream of the world growing from connection, interaction, harmony between one and many.

It was love from the first sight. From 2002 I started facilitating first jams and CI workshops in Russia and initiated International Contact Improvisation and Performance Festival in Moscow in 2006–2010.

My path in Cl as a teacher began as long journey of workshops for beginners. I love to guide people into the dance, inspire them with their own body, and awaken to what is already there. I love to surprise long-time dancers with secrets of the body as little keys opening a familiar dance into new spaces. This year, I am following a program of the Institute for Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy to go deeper into the body and its anatomy, to touch the cells, to breathe through the navel, and to use this resource in my practice.

My special interest in contact improvisation is clarity. Clarity towards the practice. Honesty towards how I move my weight in the space of Gravity. Attention towards clearing the dance from the personal. Letting things happen as they go. I am grateful to have met and studied with such teachers as Regine Chopinot, Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith, Danny Lepkoff, Benno Voorham, Lisa Nelson, Esther Gal, Yaniv Mintzer, Martin Keo and many others.”

Anjelika taught over 200 workshops around the world for all levels from complete beginners to professional dancers. Her teaching is rooted in many years of work of acquiring and transmitting technical skills and equally long path of meditation and mindfulness practice. She blends them into a life dance, contact improvisation.‍‍‍‍‍‍

https://anjelikadoniy.com

During this Laboratory we want to invite you to explore together movement related to falling and flying, and during the process bring up our own questions and interests, in order to share experiences about lifting in our dance practice and co-create a space to investigate and enrich our perspectives about it.

During a lift:

How to land safely?

How to rise together?

How to save energy?

How to find an effortless quality?

How to be ready for the unexpected?

How to not jump into it, creating a gap, but instead find a smooth gradual transition from low to higher level, and from higher to low level, as part of a bigger movement? How to see the small fragments of the process, and simultaneously, don’t breaking it in pieces but create wholeness in the movement?

How to do smooth transitions, changing levels, while keeping a solid connection? How to experience the lift not as a repetition of a form but as a state open for improvisation?

How to don’t treat our partner as an object, but instead co-create a lift as a balanced collaboration?

How to play with lifts in trio?

We are interested in proposing these questions, open space for the participants questions too, and investigate together, going deeper in our own Movement research.

Paweł Kubiak

Paweł is a dancer and educator. During his pedagogical studies he taught regular Contact Improvisation classes and organised jams. For the last 4 years Pawel has been travelling around Europe and Asia exploring dance and leading workshops. He has taught Contact Improvisation at festivals such as Israel CI Festival, Solo&CI Tirol Festival, Warsaw Flow, FRU Contact Improvisation Festival in Łódź.

He also runs movement workshops for parents with kids inspired by Contact Improvisation, Capoeira and AcroYoga.

He has participated in performances with a focus on contact improvisation e.g. at the Winter Jam in Warsaw - 50 years celebration of Contact Improvisation, site-specific projects with a presentation for the public or at the Landskron Festival.

He is especially interested in the Feldenkrais Method, exploring the self in relationship to movement, following curiosity, asking questions on the performative aspect of Contact Improvisation - and generally asking questions.

instagram: @duende_tao

Daniel Rojasanta 丹艺

Multidisciplinary Performer Artist born in Latin America.

Studied Plastic Arts & Contemporary Art at the Colombia National University, got a Master degree on Traditional Chinese Painting at the China Art Academy, with a thesis about Painting & Performance, learned Physical Theater in South Korea with the Theater Troupe Georipae, and learned Taichi with the master Zhou ZhongFu (周中福).

After co-creating the first CI community in Hangzhou, China, he have toured extensively, opening workshops of Somatics & Contact Improvisation in places like Tokyo, New York and Bogota, and performing his own pieces in collaboration with Contact HZ, as well as Dance & Theater pieces, produced by The ASK in Shanghai, and created by the Theater Troupe Teatre Animal from Spain and the Dance Company Ingrid Olterman Dans from Sweden.

He had performed at the India Art Fair in New Delhi, the Myriang Village Theater in South Korea, the National Grand Theater in Beijing and the Power Station of Art at the Shanghai Art Biennial; was part of ECITE, the European Contact Improvisation Teachers Exchange in Italy and Belgium; he has developed his Performing practice together with explorations on Theater, Music and Literature, in Art Events and International Festivals in India, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Georgia, China, Japan, South Korea, Colombia and United States. He now works in close collaboration with Towards Center for the Practice and Research of Contact Improvisation, in Thailand.

Facebook & Instagram: @danielrojasanta

Photo credit: 晓玲

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Touch, Movement, Sound, Zen: 

Somalign & Contact Improvisation

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