ARRÁBIDA CONTACT DANCE~#4~ Impermanent Community Lab

nature . contemplation . breathing . grounding . stillness . motion
touch . sound . awareness . overcoming . creation . family . joy

The core dynamics of the retreat are
dance and contact improvisation

..enriched by
nature walks , energetic practices (yoga and tai chi / chi kung), nutrition, massage, deep touch, music, singing, celebration, talking circles and spontaneous happenings
YOU Can just come for a day or
evening very easy prices..
INFOS
https://m.facebook.com/servivopalmela/events/?ref=page_internal&mt_nav=1#!/events/153876205320315

oficinascorpointeiro@gmail.com

+351 925 872 344 Pedro Paz (for sms questions) | + 351 966 605 163 Paula Silva (for doubts)
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. about Contact Improvisation

"Contact improvisations are spontaneous physical dialogues that range from stillness to highly energetic exchanges.

Awareness is developed, trusting in one's basic survival instincts.

The improvised dance form is based on the communication between two moving bodies that are in physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their motion - gravity, momentum, inertia. The body, in order to open to these sensations, learns to release excess muscular tension and abandon a certain quality of willfulness to experience the natural flow of movement.

Practice includes rolling, falling, being upside down, following a physical point of contact, supporting and giving weight to a partner.

It is a free play with balance, self-correcting the wrong moves and reinforcing the right ones, bringing forth a physical/emotional truth about a shared moment of movement that leaves the participants informed, centered, and enlivened."

-- early definition by american choreographer Steve Paxton and others, 1970s