Europe +UK
Athens, Greece Apr 11, 12-13
Glasgow Apr 26-27 REGISTER HERE
London May 3-4 May 2*, (*SMALLER with Scott Smith)
Madrid, Spain, May 9, 10-11
CONTACT FOR INFO
photos: julika schlegel/ faking it/ amsterdam 2024
Faking it With Gravityis a space of inquiry to study and research Contact Improvisation* (CI), including Tuning Scores* and Material for the Spine* (MFS.)
In CI we dance with gravity. That sensation, our first handshake-touch with the earth, dances us through its field for our whole lifetime. “small dance,” the quiet inner sensation of our reflexes balancing us is something we are always doing in our bodies. When we turn our attention to it, what happens? This is the basis of our practice.
In Faking it we work with looking at our patterns and making choices. We’ll be sensing into the questions: When do I know I am faking? Is faking bringing me into realness? With deconstructing/reconstructing, reflexual reliance, friendly falling, rolling, and flying with easy landing, we will embody to fake, make, explore, restore, unravel, travel and play within a research space of constant learning from the momentum and changes in our dances.
Karen Nelson and Nica Portavia met exchanging dancing and love for gravity. This meeting between different human beings and generations creates a space to dance, to hope, to remember, to fall and to be together. Contact Improvisation is our common strategy, our vocabulary, our home.
*We thank Steve Paxton (1939-2024) for his ground breaking practice of the “small dance” (1960’s), and his instigation to collectively discover with many others the ongoing and evolving partner dance practice called Contact Improvisation (1972).
*We acknowledge Lisa Nelson for her proposal of Tuning Scores which highlight the small dance of our senses, confound our patterns of survival, allow natural delight of ordinary compositional choice to reveal wonders of dancing in a dancing world.
*MFS underlies so much of the movement discovered in CI. Spirals thru the body, and energy extension beyond our finger prints. This body of work was articulated by Steve Paxton and points to deep anatomical inter-relationship emanating from the small dance, and beyond.
Athens, Greece Apr 11, 12-13
Glasgow Apr 26-27 REGISTER HERE
London May 3-4 May 2*, (*SMALLER with Scott Smith)
Madrid, Spain, May 9, 10-11
CONTACT FOR INFO
photos: julika schlegel/ faking it/ amsterdam 2024
Faking it With Gravityis a space of inquiry to study and research Contact Improvisation* (CI), including Tuning Scores* and Material for the Spine* (MFS.)
In CI we dance with gravity. That sensation, our first handshake-touch with the earth, dances us through its field for our whole lifetime. “small dance,” the quiet inner sensation of our reflexes balancing us is something we are always doing in our bodies. When we turn our attention to it, what happens? This is the basis of our practice.
In Faking it we work with looking at our patterns and making choices. We’ll be sensing into the questions: When do I know I am faking? Is faking bringing me into realness? With deconstructing/reconstructing, reflexual reliance, friendly falling, rolling, and flying with easy landing, we will embody to fake, make, explore, restore, unravel, travel and play within a research space of constant learning from the momentum and changes in our dances.
Karen Nelson and Nica Portavia met exchanging dancing and love for gravity. This meeting between different human beings and generations creates a space to dance, to hope, to remember, to fall and to be together. Contact Improvisation is our common strategy, our vocabulary, our home.
*We thank Steve Paxton (1939-2024) for his ground breaking practice of the “small dance” (1960’s), and his instigation to collectively discover with many others the ongoing and evolving partner dance practice called Contact Improvisation (1972).
*We acknowledge Lisa Nelson for her proposal of Tuning Scores which highlight the small dance of our senses, confound our patterns of survival, allow natural delight of ordinary compositional choice to reveal wonders of dancing in a dancing world.
*MFS underlies so much of the movement discovered in CI. Spirals thru the body, and energy extension beyond our finger prints. This body of work was articulated by Steve Paxton and points to deep anatomical inter-relationship emanating from the small dance, and beyond.
