Exploring contact 16+

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Lesson Info: Lesimpressievideo Contemporary

Exploring Contact 

In these classes one's own body becomes explored in relation to others by using basic principles of contact improvisation and partner work. Topics like sharing weight, leading, following, touch, connecting, blending, and resolving. The approach to the body is open and sensitive. The emphasis is on the activity of listening to and allowing dance to be expressed through the body, combined with the learning of simple technical and sensory expanding skills. In these lessons, Yvette uses her knowledge of contact improvisation, aikido, partner work and open improvisation to put participants in a state of mind from which dance can arise effortlessly and spontaneously. 

This course is open to all bodies and enquiring minds. 

The Gap 

'Where you are when you don't know where you are is one of the most precious spots offered by improvisation. It is a place from which more directions are possible than anywhere else. I call this place the gap. The more I improvise, the more I'm convinced that it is through the medium of these gaps – this momentary suspension of reference point – that comes the unexpected and much sought after 'original' material. It's 'original' because its origin is the current moment and because it comes from outside our usual frame of reference'.  'Holding the moment open a few seconds longer widens the gap where the old behavior/ idea/ movement/ thought/ feeling would have gone. And maybe you have nothing to put in its stead. So you put in nothing'. 

Nancy Stark Smith

Teacher: Yvette van der Slik

Excited Dancer: With the Excited Dancer discount you get 25% discount from the second lesson per week. Excited dancer options or classes for you: Contemporary tuesday 19.00-20.00u, Ballet 16+ tuesday 18.30-19.30u & 35+ thursday 19.45-21.00u, Jazz thursday 17.15-18.15u, Danceimprovisation monday 18.30-19.45u, Move & conncect thursday 18.15-19.45u, Flamenco monday 19.00-20.00u, Commercial Hip Hop monday 19.30-20.30u. Special needs? Click here! And click here for the full schedule of all classes.

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