Summer dance school will be a five-day long intensive exchange of ideas and knowledge on classes for beginners, advanced and professional dancers. It will offer intensive daily workshops for various dance techniques and styles, so you will be able to upgrade your knowledge and skills with visiting domestic and foreign teachers. Workshops are open to all age groups, to amateurs, professionals or anyone in between.
There will be as well the evening program and on the 1st of July SDS participants will perform, presenting their newly-gained knowledge to each other, have a picnic, chat in a relaxed atmosphere and receive their SDS participation certificates.
SDS is recommended for dancers, dance mentors, choreographers and everybody who is actively involved with dance and movement.
Let's have fun and dancy summer in Ljubljana!
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BACK TO THE ROOTS of CONTACT IMPROVISATION I (16+)
/ Davide Casiraghi
This workshop is focused on the fundamentals technical skills we use in Contact Improvisation, and is 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, 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.
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. Practice includes rolling, falling, being upside down, following a physical point of contact, supporting and giving weight to a partner.
Davide Casiraghi
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 continues in Europe with many teachers. Roberto Lun, Nita Little, Martin Keogh, Angela Dony, Nancy Stark Smith are his main influences. He sees CI as a way to re-awake and enjoys fully our sensitivity and playfulness, works on trust, explores curiosity about movement principles out of daily movement patterns. In Milan, he is co-founder of Collettivo Daimon, a CI collective that organizes 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 and organizer of Sunday Contact Jam in Ljubljana: http://movementresearch-slovenia.weebly.com/