CI Workshop Paris
September 11th to 14th, 2010 - Paris
with Stéphanie Auberville and Rajendra Serber
Présence and Performance
How can Contact Improvisation be used in performance? Contact Improvisation teaches us how to be present and make choices in the moment. What happens to our dance when we invite witnesses to view it? In this workshop we will practice using the tools of CI in the situation of being seen. Attendance to both sessions is not required.The first session will focus on how CI can help us to get deeper in a communication state. Communication with both our inner state and with our partner. CI has developed a wide range of tools about perceptions; touch, kinesthesis, balance, sight and more subtle energies. All of these senses inform our presence and our choices. By working on presence as the mode of communication with our partner, we will develop a balance between feeling, listening, acting and making choices in an instant.The second session will focus on using these tools in performance. What happens when we are in a performance situation – when there is a little stress of being seen? What kind of switch happens there? As we integrate the sight of a witness while we are dancing, we will use presence and attention to subtle energy as the subject of our performance practice.
Dates September 11th to 14th, 2010 from Noon to 6 pm
Location Point Éphémère (200 quai de Valmy 75010 Paris)
Fees Full workshop = 120 euros
Only the 11th and 12th september = 85 euros
Registration Stéphanie Auberville legrp.b@free.fr / +33 (0)6 50 81 41 08
Registration until the 31th august 2010