Contact Improvisation with Olive Bieringa

February 20, Saturdays 11-1pm

March 7 - March 31, Sundays 6:15 pm-8:30 pm

This workshop focuses on how bodies move while in physical contact with each other while focusing on the physical laws that govern motion: mass, gravity, momentum and inertia. It trains the body in heightened sensory awareness, weight bearing partnering skills and improvisation. As a social dance it defines and asserts boundaries of intimacy, trust and self. It is a physical practice in democracy that can be profoundly meditative and acrobatic in the same moment. We will utilize materials from Body-Mind Centering(r) to refine our dancing skills.