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Welcome to a workshop on some basic principles of CI. Join me if you are at the beginning of your CI exploration or you want to get back to the basics. These classes are suitable for everybody and we will learn by personal inquiry and exploration. What are the essential things to make Contact Improvisation enjoyable, fun, interesting and safe enough? We will explore different principles through precise exercises as well as working more freely through questions and experimenting. Each body and each dance is different, and even from the beginning, we are figuring out, learning by doing and practicing.
These are a few aspects we will touch on:
- Leaning - working with weight, and with different amounts of weight, shared axis, and directions
- Finding own movement and movement with the other/s.
- Moving with weight. Moving through levels, moving at different levels.
- Rolling and sliding on the floor and with a partner.
- Managing weight through tone and relaxation.
- Grounding to one's own body and movement, going towards others and the space from there.
- Practising boundaries, saying yes and no, leaving dances, joining dances, and being clear with your own intentions and the ability to listen to others.
- Taking care that the bodymind is open and warm for dance.
When: Sat 9.- Sun 10.11.2024, 11-16
Where: Humina-tila, Uutiskatu 2, Pasila, Helsinki
Price: Early-bird 90€-140€ (registered before 1.11.)
Normal 140€-200€ (registered after 1.11.)
Register by sending an email to Kaisa: [email protected]
Event photo by @Patrick Beelaert, Winberg CI Festival 2024
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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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Uutiskatu 2, FI-00240 Helsinki, Suomi, Uutiskatu 2, FI-00240 Helsinki, Suomi,Helsinki, Finland
