UnderScore MeetingVienna 29th June to 3rd July 2020 with Christine Mauch and Malcolm Manning A five-day immersion in the world of the UnderscoreThis is an opportunity to dance contact improvisation and practice, study and develop how we play together in the container offered by Nancy Stark Smith’s Underscore. We welcome...
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Contact Improvisation As A Solo Practice “We’re all alone in this together” Steve Paxton from a class in 1995 We always move in relation to the earth (ground), from which we get support, and to the air (space) which invites us to move through it. When we dance alone, we...
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Contact Improvisation As A Solo Practice “We’re all alone in this together” Steve Paxton from a class in 1995 We always move in relation to the earth (ground), from which we get support, and to the air (space) which invites us to move through it. When we dance alone, we...
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In this workshop, we’ll work with identifying and moving from our belly centres – the hara or dantian in the martial arts. When we organise our movement from this place it becomes powerful and potent – we know where we are. And connecting from here into the world brings a...
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Proto-technique class These are process-oriented dance classes focused on how we experience ourselves moving. The aim is to develop self-awareness as a tool for creating and refining our own dance practices: widening the range of movement vocabulary and qualities; improving ease, efficiency and flow in movement; recovering from and avoiding injury. The...
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Proto-technique class These are process-oriented dance classes focused on how we experience ourselves moving. The aim is to develop self-awareness as a tool for creating and refining our own dance practices: widening the range of movement vocabulary and qualities; improving ease, efficiency and flow in movement; recovering from and avoiding injury. The...
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Extended Mind Practices – Towards Radical Calmness What if we’ve got that mind-body relationship thing the wrong way around? What if it’s not the mind that lives in the body but the body that lives in the mind? In this workshop, Malcolm Manning presents dance and movement practices that he...
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Moving From The Fish Body Open-level dance and movement training In the 3.5 billion year tale of human evolution, it is from our fish ancestors that we inherit our spinally organised head-tail structure. In this process-oriented dance and movement workshop we’ll experience how to articulate from the “fish body” –...
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Language Of Sensation intensive A workshop for those who love to dance contact improvisation and are interested in exploring somatic approaches to expand the possibilities of their dancing. We will move between exercises aiming to clarify the sensations which lie at the heart of CI and exploring scores that point...
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This is a process-oriented dance class focused on how we experience ourselves moving. The aim is to develop self-awareness as a tool for creating and refining our own dance practices: widening the range of movement vocabulary and qualities; improving ease, efficiency and flow in movement; recovering from and avoiding injury....
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