WORKSHOP - CI SHOTS
Intensive one day workshop
“We have two legs on the ground, two arms in the air. Our body bridges earth with sky.
During the day we walk, while dreaming we fly. Contact Improvisation is a wonderful dance form, through physical contact we can experience such qualities that can enchant our movement experiences, like flying for example!
In this workshop, you will experience what flowing into flying means – giving first our support to the earth and effortlessly leave it – how does that feel, how your body can be light and what are the qualities needed inside the variety of ways to approach it.”
— Gregory Chevalier (CI SHOTS, November 2023)
* für Informationen auf Deutsch nach unten scrollen
Feet up head down, it’s CI play time!
with/mit Sarah Sea Clarke (UK)
ENGLISH
Are you longing for more dynamism in your contact dance practice? Feeling like a break from somatics and a ‘softly softly’ approach? Wanting to edge up a bit?
In this workshop we will be drawing from the long cultural heritage of capoeira, leaning into transferable skills and techniques to tackle Contact Improvisation from another angle, and find out how it can up our improvisation “jogo” (game).
Contact improvisation like Capoeira has developed many variations and styles as the movements have grown internationally. Although fairly distinct, the forms have several commonalities and there are many benefits of Capoeira that can feed into and enhance one’s CI practice.
As we prepare ourselves for the more acrobatic and dynamic movements of C.I., we will use some training approaches of Capoeira to develop our proprioceptive skills, enhance our peripheral vision, athleticism, quick action reaction and dynamic interplay.
The workshop will include:
- Finding comfort in the unknown and disorientation of the upside down
- Using your own “Malandragem” (mischief) to bring forth a more playful and acrobatic approach towards Contact Improvisation.
- Physical training to develop our strength and agility
- Cultivation of our awareness and sensory perception
- Preparing our “landing and launching gear”
- Exercising our non-physical skills of diligence, mental flexibility, friendliness, caution and courage
- Round Robin “Roda”
- An overview of where Capoeira meets Contact Impro
Sarah Sea Clarke (UK)
is a holistic dance & movement teacher coming from a background of capoeira, contact improvisation and humanitarian filmmaking. She is certified as a facilitator of spiritual ecology practices through the Work that Reconnects network (USA), and as well as having collaborated in various dance collectives and ensembles, is a founder and lead researcher of the Vienna CoLab for the Institute of Study of Somatic Communication (USA).
Sarah has trained internationally and led capoeira groups across Egypt, Jordan and United Arab Emirates, as well as setting up and running the first contact improv group in Dubai.
The red thread of Sarah’s work lies in re-connecting with self, other and environment, through living systems thinking/being and urging our worldwide human family to remember our common humanity.
www.instagram.com/sarahseaclarke
Where/Wo:
AUBERGiNE, Güntherstraße 1, 4040 Linz
Price/Preis:
Social discounts are possible / Sozialrabatte sind möglich
* The course will be held in english and translated to german if needed. / * Der Kurs wird in englischer Sprache abgehalten und bei Bedarf ins Deutsche übersetzt.