january, 2023

20jan(jan 20)18:0022(jan 22)17:00Contact Improvisation / Workshop in Sydney

Event Details

INDEPENDENT & CONNECTED
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Contact Improvisation is an amazing frame to experience how being independent & self sufficient supports a sense of connectedness.
On a physical level we’ll explore how all body parts can find more freedom and responsiveness, while being elastically connected to the center of the body.
From somatic based work that nurtures our solo we’ll research how we are connected to others and the group as a whole and eventually how to create Jams that are more than just a collection of closed off duets.
We’ll also work on committed, weight-sharing duets with some specific Contact-technical input. A question in the background will be how we can stay independent in these physically strongly connected dances and how to create more breathing and choice-making space to feed the improvisational mind, that makes us feel alive.
As usual, my work is somatically based, accessing our bodies wisdom through sensing and exploring with a flavour of wonder. We’ll dance a lot, while noticing the freedom and support we receive by being on a journey together as a group.
This workshop will be suitable for people with previous experience in Contact Improvisation. If in doubt please check in with Eamonn.
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Bio: Joerg Hassmann
Inspired by contact improvisation for more than 25 years as a way to understand and celebrate the moving body and human communication. Many kinds of sports, release techniques, somatic work, instant composition and creating dance and theater performances have informed his dance and his teaching. As the artistic director Joerg is involved in the CI festival ‘contact-meets-contemporary’. Together with Daniel Werner he developed a systematic approach to Contact Technique that they taught over 12 years in Training Programmes in Berlin and throughout Europe.
His writings under www.joerghassmann.com/blog/ give deeper insights into his passion.
For the past two years Joerg has been living on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland and is grateful to have options to share his passion and knowledge around the moving body – locally and in other parts of Australia. https://www.joerghassmann.com/
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TIMES
Fri: 6pm – 8pm
Sat: 10am-6pm (with 2 hour lunch)
Sun: 10am-5pm (with 1.5 hour lunch)
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COST
$250 normal
$200 reduced (If the regular price is too much for your current income level you can choose the reduced rate)
$300 supporting (Paying this higher price makes it possible for us to offer cheaper tickets for those in need)
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PAYMENT
Via BSB to:
Name: Eamonn O’Flaherty
BSB: 944600
Account Number: 000138151
Reference: [Your Name] Joerg
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LOCATION
Harold Park Community Hall
1 Dalgal Wy, Forest Lodge NSW 2037
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RESPONSIBILITY AGREEMENT
Please be aware that for attending the workshop you need to accept the following:
“In attending this workshop I take full responsibility of my own health and well being. I acknowledge the nature of this workshop involves proposals to participate in exercises and movements that may be new to me. I recognise that the proposals are simply offers to try, and I take full responsibility to participate only within my own capacity as I see fit at the time. I acknowledge that the workshop facilitator and event organiser has no liability for any injuries which may occur during this workshop.”
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Photo Arkadiusz Kasperczyk

Time

20 (Friday) 18:00 - 22 (Sunday) 17:00 Sydney

Location

Tramsheds Sydney-Annandale

1 Dalgal Wy, Forest Lodge NSW 2037

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