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In this workshop we will dive deeper in the point of contact and work with noticing boundaries and consent. Through reading the movement of fascia layers underneath the skin, we can increase listening and fine tuning in the contact. This process helps us to synchronize with our dance partner and allow more time with details. New possibilities to investigate and play with the contact point can arise.
We might go along with the direction suggested and with pleasurable delay, we can resist, hook, and create momentum. When we are experiencing the elasticity of the body and time, a new agency arrives, where we are free to break habitual movement patterns and integrate our whole body in the movement in a functional holistic way.
We will work with consent and boundaries in dances through the concept of a dance being a house where we discover new rooms together with the dance partner. It’s also implemented in all the exercises and in the way I facilitate the space. The importance is in checking-in with yourself and your partner and keeping the dance and contact open for changes.
For me it’s important that the participants find ways to know what works best for them, with joy and pleasure, and they can stay response-able.
PRICE:
45€ / 55€ / 60€
sign-in and pay here: https://www.chipta.com/en/tickets/event/72273/contact-improvisation/event-info/
TIME
Sunday 20.10.2024, 13:30-17:30
LOCATION
Studios Vredenburg
Vredenburgersteeg 31-35
1012 DZ Amsterdam
TEACHER:
Kaisa Kukkonen (1986) is an interdisciplinary artist-researcher based in Finland. She works with the poetry of movement, politics of touch, and somatic practices.
Kaisa has been dancing CI since 2005, and teaching since 2010 in Finland, Sweden, Germany, Austria and Iceland. Her CI home is Berlin, where she learned from Joerg Hassmann, Daniel Werner, Christine Mauch, and Gesine Daniels among others. Later her teachers and/or co-dancers have been for example Katja Mustonen, Anya Cloud, Iiris Raipala, Terhi Rasilo, and Nita Little. She currently dances and teaches in Helsinki.
Kaisa finished her studies at Iceland University of Arts in the MFA of Performing Arts programme (2021-2022) in September 2022 with a performance project “Take This Touch Inside Your Body”. She graduated from the MACoDE program at HfMDK in Frankfurt with a master thesis “Noticing Power Relations in Teaching Touch in Contact Improvisation” (2021). For the thesis she interviewed fourteen Contact Improvisation teachers, collected their strategies and thoughts on how to teach touch. website: https://kaisakukkonen.wordpress.com/
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Stichting Studio's Vredenburgh, Vredenburgersteeg 31, 1012 DZ Amsterdam, Nederland,Amsterdam, Netherlands
