Free Contact Improvisation Class for the next two Thursdays.

Hello all,

I've booked a room in the University from 7-9.30pm to do some free beginners contact classes. I'm expecting people with a mix of experience of Contact Improv, with a fair few complete newcomers. We'll be looking at some of the basic techniques used in Contact Improvisation. So don't be shy and come along!
Please contact me in advance via e-mail or text if you are interested as I need to know the possible numbers.
Class will start 7 and finish around 9.30pm. Contact me for details.

Below I've pasted an attempt at a description of Contact Inmprovisation (taken from Karl Frost's website)

see you there,

Mark
07969830116

Contact Improvisation is an open ended exploration of the kinesthetic possibilities of bodies moving through contact.  Sometimes wild and athletic, sometimes quiet and meditative, it is a form open to all bodies, changing from moment to moment and dance to dance to flow with the physicalities of those meeting. Having a reference point in the post modern dance explorations of Steve Paxton and others in the early 70s, there is a base in an observation of the body's abilities to self organize functionally in precarious,off-balance situations set up by the collaboration and collision of two or more investigating partners. Part 'non-martial' martial art, part acrobatic dance, part movement meditation, part collaborative bodywork practice, contact is a place where we can with a sense of playfulness and curiosity explore our bodies and interconnection.

Contact is the frame of investigation. Improvisation is the flow of responce.

Originally instigated as a performance experiment, it has evolved and branched out in many directions.  Its investigations have become the underpinnings of many of the principles of contemporary theater dance, informing not only how to work with another body, but also informing the investigation of how we use our bodies more fluidly, gracefully, and efficiently, whether with a partner or not. In this context it also has become a major tool and reference point for dance theater, not only as a technique, but as a source of material for investigating relationship, for both improvised and set work, both physically and dramatically -- the metaphors for relationship emerging out of CI are endless.