We facilitate classes and workshops of family-friendly contact improvisation. These sessions enable people to experience contact improvisation as a means to connect to
each other, to enjoy moving in a way that is fun, unexpected, and challenging,
and develop physical confidence in yourself and another person. They also
allow children and young people to develop physical confidence in moving safely
and respectfully with others. Lastly, they offer parents who may find it
difficult to get to movement classes or performance events to attend and
connect with others in a similar situation, or to do a class that is designed
to nourish and energise you physically and intellectually.
Our classes and workshops allow families of every description to experience the art of
Contact Improvisation in a way that invites parents and children, siblings,
other family members, or friends to have fun together in a safe, yet
challenging way, connecting physically, strengthening personal relationships
and gaining new skills of movement and co-ordination.
Contact Improvisation is a movement art form that draws on
several different techniques to allow two or more people to come into contact
physically within an improvised movement structure. It may involve actions such
as rolling, lifting, sliding, going upside down, falling, or any combination of
these movements. Within the dance, each person is required to learn to listen
both to their own body and another person’s, whilst feeling the movement that
emerges from both. Through this listening process, people are able to come into
a state of flow, of ease, of enjoyment and of respect for self and other.
From a relationship perspective, the dance is a constant
negotiation of physical abilities, needs, cognitive development, bodily and
emotional sensitivity, and so is a space to develop ways of respectfully
listening to another person, and understanding your own boundaries and
capabilities.
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