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Open Contact Improv Workshopwith Nita Little
in Santa Monica
at Dance Home
522 Santa Monica Blvd
Sunday, October 2
12-5pm
This workshop is open to all participants from beginners to experienced dancers!
Fee:
$120
To Register:
Venmo: @bossyflyer
Paypal: paypal.me/bossyflyer
(friends & family)
Note "Nita Sunday"
Workshop Description
SOMATIC COMMUNICATION:
How CONTACT IMPROVISATION Prepares Us for the 21ST CENTURY
This is a dive into the fabric of touch that is key to our relational practices in the movement of Contact Improvisation – and for many of us, in the living of life itself. Steeped in somatic communication, this adventure into our movement life begins within ourselves, but moves outwardly, to where selfhood refuses to be stable, set and limiting. Movement scores throughout the weekend will make this connection. In this workshop we will form and reform what we know as touch, exploring how this touch translates into the flow of movement. We increase the strength of our moving together with the human and the more than human worlds we also are.
Creative, thoughtful, heart based, skill based, your learning will be anchored in the core principles of Contact Improvisation, such as: how to move weight like water - actions of cascading. The details of touching within weight exchange - even with the more than human world. The rising and hanging of the body – each state significant to communication. How attention lives in the very small. Extending to form surfaces that arc. Learning to trust the physicality of your extended intelligence.
Movement practices include lots of dancing both as skills building and exploration. Although, in many cases these will be the same thing.
Bio
Nita Little investigates embodied attention within improvisational movement practices with a concentration on the technicities of both creative and relational practices. Through ensemble dance improvisation and Contact Improvisation, practice and performance, she works toward a future that recognizes our environmental entanglements and values many forms of embodied communication. A dance researcher, theorist/artist, and one of the founding developers of Contact Improvisation (CI) she teaches around the globe, guiding one of its forward leading edges. She began 50 years ago, working with Steve Paxton on materials that became CI (1972) and was a participant in the earliest performances and teaching that helped it to become significant within dance and dance communities. Within CI’s first year she developed a curiosity about the relationship of the (physical) mind and relational events. Now, she investigates ecological actions of embodied attention, particularly with respect to somatic communication between humans and between humans and the non-human.
Nita received her PhD in Performance Studies with a focus on the articulation of presence and creative actions of attention (2014). Her life work is inclusive of mindbody training, performing, choreographing, researching and writing about the ethics, politics and entanglement of somatic relations. With a world-wide audience for her teaching, dance making, and lecturing, she is an activist for relational intelligence and an advocate for dancers as embodied researchers. She looks forward to returning to direct the international Institute for the Study of Somatic Communication (ISSC, 2016), a network of laboratories populated by dancer researchers and associate research experts from diverse fields. She lives near Seattle, in the USA. During the years of worldwide retreat she initiated online classes of “Relational Intelligence” and “Composing Emergence” as well as private coaching. She is currently in process of producing an e-course series and has only recently returned to international touring. www.nitalittle.com
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Dance Home, 522 Santa Monica Blvd,Santa Monica,CA,United States