Workshop by Jorien van Dam In this workshop, Jorien will guide you through various playful exercises to get a taste of the fundamentals of Contact Improvisation. Main ingredients will be: Physical Listening, the ‘Small Dance’, Weight-exchange, core-connection, Rolling Point of Contact, ‘Little Animal’, Falling, and Lifting. Participants will tune into natural movement patterns and explore how to organize their bodies to move effortlessly. The workshop will end with a little jam, flowing intuitively with what has been learned. Every Body is welcome (all genders, all colours), no prior experience is needed. Seasoned practitioners wanting to unravel deeper layers; the fundamentals are the infinite source 😉 About Contact Improvisation: Contact Improvisation (CI) is a form of improvised partner dancing exploring the physics of moving bodies in contact. Participants attempt to move with the unknown; listening, following and adapting to what is actually happening in the moment. CI dancers dance in relation to themselves, the space, and the ‘other’, finding a shared point of balance and moving as one organism. Body-awareness and ‘sensing’ play an important role, while there are various techniques one can develop. CI originated in the 70’s by a few contemporary dancers starting to experiment with gravity (like Steve Paxton). About Jorien van Dam: With a background in physical therapy and teaching yoga, bodies in movement are Jorien's cup of tea. Discovering Contact Impro about 5 years ago, Jorien fell in love with this form. Jorien experiences it as an art, a therapeutic tool, a social learning space, a political research area, and sometimes even as a spiritual practice. Expressing oneself through the body in this free form brings Jorien in touch with a primal essence, where intuition takes the lead. This feels so healthy. CI helps Jorien get to know oneself in relationality, and center oneself. Next to weekly classes, Jorien has attended multiple intensive weekend workshops with various teachers like Artem Markov, Tom Goldhand, Vega Luukkonen, Hugh Stanier, Katja mustonen and Christine Cole. Jorien is co-organising CI Jams every second week @ the Travertijnstraat 12 and recently initiated CI-Lab Groningen; a community-based dance class focused on movement research. Practical details: - Walk-in time: 19:00h - Class: 19:30 till 22:00h - Wear comfortable clothes which allow free movement, preferably long sleeves (works better in the partner dance) - Please do not wear perfume and be mindful of intense synthetic smells (natural deodorant is fine) - Please arrive in time 😉 Tickets: https://hipsy.nl/event/55014-contact-improvisation-dance-fundamentals?category-refer=3