Contact Improvisatie - How the Body Speaks Speed

About this event

HOW THE BODY SPEAKS SPEED

This workshop will first slow you down, to look at smoothing your movement out. And from there we can widen the range of speed and dynamics.

Somatic exercises refine our functional alignment with our awareness of time, so the body stays responsive, grounded and present at every tempo. We look at pathways that keep us connected to another body and then bring this into more dynamic material.

Sinking into the moment, we open up a space to refine our listening to the body and which invitation comes out of the dance and the situation. The work builds trust in your own actions while improvising, and a readiness to meet whatever tempo the dance asks for.

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