Thursday
9:30-12:30
Finding Our Dance: CI Fundamentals
Let’s arrive into our bodies and connect as a group with a deep warm up and a slow build into our CI dancing. Fundamental skills will offer grounding to newer dancers and create a shared movement language amongst all members of the group.
Finding Our Dance: CI Fundamentals
Let’s arrive into our bodies and connect as a group with a deep warm up and a slow build into our CI dancing. Fundamental skills will offer grounding to newer dancers and create a shared movement language amongst all members of the group.
2:00 - 5:00
How does gender live in our movement?
Digging into our exploration for the week, we will take this session to understand gender as an embodied practice. We will explore the postures, attitudes, qualities, do’s and don’ts that contain these gendered notions, even in our abstract dancing, working first as individuals and then in CI duets.
How does gender live in our movement?
Digging into our exploration for the week, we will take this session to understand gender as an embodied practice. We will explore the postures, attitudes, qualities, do’s and don’ts that contain these gendered notions, even in our abstract dancing, working first as individuals and then in CI duets.
7:00- 9:00
Contact Improvisation: What’s Gender Got to Do With It? (an interactive lecture)
Our bodies carry both conscious and unconscious deeply embodied notions of gender. How do these ideas and behaviors influence the choices we make in our dancing? Where do they expand and where do they limit our possibilities? Even in a dance form as inherently gender-role-free as contact improvisation, how do notions of masculinity, femininity, genderqueerness, heternormativity, queerness, etc. shape the decisions we make (and the decisions we see available to us)? In this interactive lecture, we will examine how gender influences the ways in which we organize and use our bodies and the roles we take on and off the dance floor.
Contact Improvisation: What’s Gender Got to Do With It? (an interactive lecture)
Our bodies carry both conscious and unconscious deeply embodied notions of gender. How do these ideas and behaviors influence the choices we make in our dancing? Where do they expand and where do they limit our possibilities? Even in a dance form as inherently gender-role-free as contact improvisation, how do notions of masculinity, femininity, genderqueerness, heternormativity, queerness, etc. shape the decisions we make (and the decisions we see available to us)? In this interactive lecture, we will examine how gender influences the ways in which we organize and use our bodies and the roles we take on and off the dance floor.
