Contact Improvisatie - Fundamentals: Connection

About this event

FUNDAMENTALS: CONNECTION

Contact Improvisation grew out of a simple exploration: two bodies sharing weight, and the movement that arises from it. This workshop goes to the essence and is suitable for new dancers looking for a way in; for experienced dancers who are looking for a way to let the dance keep getting richer. This time the thread through them is connection: how we find it, how we stay in it, and how we find our way back when we lose it.

Sharing weight, balance, momentum, direction, the rolling point of contact - this is the starting and meeting point from where our dance emerges.

How do we become available for improvised movement? How do I stay present and in my body so I can enjoy the dance and stay open to connection? What takes us out of connection, and what keeps a dance clear? How do we notice when we are directing or imposing, what is needed for physical and emotional safety, and when we are overstimulated?

Curiosity is the engine of development. With the fundamentals clear in the body, dancing becomes more colourful and refined, more meaningful, fun and juicy.

About the teacher:
Robin Berkelmans is a Tilburg-based dancer, performer and teacher, with Contact Improvisation and Instant Composition at the centre of his practice. In the Netherlands he organises CI workshops and co-organises the national CI Festival and the four-day Gathering. He teaches Contakids, a parent-child class that grew out of CI. He also teaches CI at the Amsterdam University of the Arts and leads a yearly four-day intensive in Freiburg since 2017. You can find him performing with the dance company Concert Curieus. Website: www.robinberkelmans.nl Instagram: @robinberkelmans