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
Contact Flying Smoothie
with/mit Christian Apschner: (AT)
ENGLISH
The act of ‘flying’ holds a special fascination in Contact Improvisation. But what are the ingredients
that make it truly work the way we envision?
The goal of this workshop is to find the right mindset of listening, sensing, and feeling, allowing lifts to
emerge effortlessly from the flow of movement. We want to find the right technique to use strength
efficiently and with minimal strain, harnessing momentum. In this way, we increasingly develop the
ability to shape the dance playfully and remain unfazed by unexpected moments. Free from any
aesthetic or gender-specific conventions, we want to simultaneously allow the meditative and athletic
aspects of Contact Improvisation to resonate within us.
This workshop is designed for dancers with prior CI experience and in good physical condition.
DEUTSCH
Das “Fliegen” übt in der Contact Improvisation eine ganze besondere Faszination aus. Doch was sind
die Zutaten, dass es auch wirklich so funktioniert wie wir uns das vorstellen?
Ziel des Workshops ist das passende “mindsetting” aus Zuhören, Fühlen und Spüren zu finden um lifts
mit Leichtigkeit aus dem “Kontakt” und Bewegungsfluß heraus entstehen zu lassen. Wir möchten die
richtige Technik finden um Kraft effizient und körperschonend einzusetzen und den Schwung zu
nutzen. So entwickeln wir immer mehr die Fähigkeit, den Tanz spielerisch zu gestalten und uns von
unvorhergesehenen Momenten nicht aus unserer Präsenz bringen zu lassen. Frei von jeglichen
ästhetischen oder geschlechterspezifischen Konventionen möchten wir gleichzeitig das Meditative und
Athletische der Contact Improvisation in uns wirken lassen.
Der Workshop ist für Tänzer*innen mit solider CI-Vorerfahrung und in gutem Trainingszustand
gedacht.
Christian Apschner (AT)
Christian is co-founder of the Vienna based association rollingpoint and has been dancing Contact
Improvisation since 1995. His most important teachers are Nancy Stark Smith, Kirstie Simson, Martin
Keogh, Andrew Harwood a.o. teachers from the pioneering days of CI. Inspired by his work as
practitioner for bodywork (Trager somatic movement education, Ortho-Bionomy) he has developed
free flowing three-dimensional movement sequences (3-D Flow Movement).
To him dance and performance art are part of an artistic and social life concept and a welcome
opportunity to make the invisible visible. He teaches regular CI classes,and workshops and organizes
site-specific participatory dance projects such as "Seltsamia". He has been invited to teach for
Impulstanz Wien, Tanzquartier Wien, Contact In Paradise Festival, Contact Festival Austria, Seminar
für Körper-Psychotherapie, Körperarbeit und Körperkunst Bad Gleichenberg and for CI Intensives in
Bulgaria and Italy.
In his free time, Christian spends a lot of time in the nature as an mycologist and environmental
activist.
www.rollingpoint.at
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.