Event Type : Workshop

There is this quality in the body, in dance, in life: a juicy power, resulting from connection, with patience yet without hesitation, deep listening, and always ready to go. We will play with the fascia, between tension and release in our own bodies, and while exploring hands-on work with our partner(s).

We want to create a nurturing framework, where we feel free and safe to go beyond the limitations of current challenges, getting in touch with what supports us individually and together as a group. Trusting the power of embodied dancing.

A certain lighthearted technical nerdiness will be balanced by lots of time for dancing in focussed and rather open frames.

Participants should be quite familiar with Contact Improvisation technique, which will be our common language for this Intensive. In case of doubt, check in with us.

We’ll have another dance retreat In Cooran on the Sunshine Coast!! They always create such nourishing and community buildng experiences.

SPRING TIME – SOFTNESS & STRENGTH

It is getting warmer again, days becoming longer, the green gets more lush and full, growths is happeing around us in subtile expansions and energizing spurts.
It feels the right time to visit our strength while keeping softness and fluidity alive. Being in our core while connecting to our surrounding.
We will visit developmental movement patterns on this journey into Contact Imprvosation, from ‘bonding with the earth’ to some lifts, technical explorations from a somatically nourished body. And we’ll explore how the eyes can inspire our dance and support the field that we create when dancing together.

I am grateful to be in this nourishing environment of the Hillier Retreat again, where we will have our extended break with provided lunch on Saturday. Everyone is welcome to stay with here their tent and enjoy a sense of community beyond the connecting time when dancing.

Technical aspects around how to move efficiently and deliciously with shared weigh will appear as well as open frames for dancing to intergrate the new material and to dance from a place ‘being’ rather than ‘doing’.