Contact Improvisation classes in Ljubljana every Thursday from September 2017, if you happen to be in Ljubljana on a Thursday eve come and dance with us:)
This classes are focused on the fundamentals technical skills we use in Contact Improvisation, and are aimed to both beginners and expert dancers.
We will begin every session by opening our senses through body and breath work to increase our awareness of weight and the transfer of weight.
We will then go on to explore basic aspects and principles such as: rolling point of contact, physical listening and following, falling, spiral rolls, no hand dance, open up the back space, lift principles.
Using this vocabulary we will dive into a fluid dialog made by mutual listening, suspensions, surrenders and supports.
Please arrive on time, even 10 min before, to use the whole two hours for the class and have more time to dance in the last part.
WHERE
Plezalni klub Stena
Parmova ulica 25, 1000 Ljubljana
WHEN
Every Thursday 20.00 - 22.00
FACILITATOR
Davide Casiraghi is a dancer, Contact Improvisation teacher and Yoga Alliance certified teacher based in Slovenia. He is exploring Contact Improvisation since 2010. His study is started in Milan and continue in Europe with the many teachers. Roberto Lun, Nita Little, Martin Keogh, Angela Dony, Nancy Stark Smith are his main influences. He see CI as a way to re-awake and enjoy fully our sensitivity and playfulness, working on trust, explore curiosity about movement principles out of daily movement patterns.
In Milan he is co-founder of Collettivo Daimon, a CI collective that organize once a month the Sunday Contact Jams, and in Italy he is the webmaster of the Contact Improvisation Italian website: http://www.contactimprov.it/
In Slovenia he is co-founder with Nayeli Spela Peterlin of Movement Research LAB Project
http://movementresearch-slovenia.weebly.com/
and co-creator of MOAVE - psychology in movement.
http://www.moave.si/
In summer 2017 Contact Improvisation teacher at the International Summer Dance School in Ljubljana.
In October 2017, teacher at the International Dance Pedagogy Conference in Velenje.
WHAT IS CONTACT IMPROVISATION
Contact Improvisation is an improvised dance form based on the communication between two moving bodies that are in physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their motion: gravity, momentum, inertia. The body, in order to open to these sensations, learns to release excess muscular tension and abandon a certain quality of willfulness to experience the natural flow of movement.
Contact improvisations are spontaneous physical dialogues that range from stillness to highly energetic exchanges. Alertness is developed in order to work in an energetic state of physical disorientation, trusting in one’s basic survival instincts. It is a free play with balance, self-correcting the wrong moves and reinforcing the right ones, bringing forth a physical/emotional truth about a shared moment of movement that leaves the participants informed, centered, and enlivened.
Cost: 10€
FOR MORE INFO
www.moave.si - info@moave.si