Contact Improv Workshop and Jam with Stu Phillips July25-31
Contact Improv Workshop and Jam with Stu Phillips, July25-31
Five day workhsop with evening jams. Commencing Monday, July25 at 10am. Participants are to arrive for dinner on Monday July 25 or before and continue till breakfast on Sunday July31.
$400 includes tuition, camping, all meals and transportation on Lasqueti.
contact markyoung [at] lasqueti [dot] ca to register. $75 deposit, balance due by July15.
See http://leviathan.lasqueti.ca for more info...
Improvisational Contact, Re Enlivening the Lost Art of Improvisational Dance in Contact
Class Description: Contact Improvisation consists of two very essential words, the first has become perfected, the second fossilized. In our quest to study contact improvisation, we have become acrobatic with less emphasis on meaning, heart, and soul purpose, so in this exciting dance workshop, we study our way into perfect improvisational dance as an approach to interpersonal dynamics, perfected in the height of expression. We learn to become more comfortable with our own personal expressive tendencies in the moment, not as a pattern of nonsensical athletics, but rather as a rooted expression of what's really going on for us intrinsically in our selves, in the very moment honing our outer expression of inner impulses bypassing mental patterning, into the wonderful world of truth, as it is known in the unknown, revealed and built upon moment to moment, with focus and acceptance.
Our focus is complete depatterning with emphasis upon the real self, moving from personal reality and not concepts, without interruption, with clean approach and aligned focus with our true expression in the moment. This methodical approach consists of simple psychic group guidance, with clean physical, mental or emotional foci unblocking patterned no nos into cleaner expression of focus, with one on one time honing this true alignment with self, moving into being real and watched simultaneously, in relationship with other and self, as duet, trio, quartet, quintet, and so on, so personal truth becomes the only excitement, the method of approach to dance Improvisationally.
It always works, eventually, and it will be impossible to disconnect from our true physical and emotional flows, with an "observant" and supportive mental approach enhancing visiblizing our truth to our selves, an enlivening personal experience, transforming into deeper pathways from self.
Experience: Stuart Phillips has been teaching workshops, classes and series in Improvisational Contact Dance in the US and New Zealand for over 23 years, performing Improvisational Contact for same and teaching and performing Improvisational Dance and Theater for over 31 years throughout the US.
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