past Archives - CI Groundswell https://www.cigroundswell.org/product-category/past/ Contact from the Ground Up Thu, 27 Feb 2025 14:14:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.cigroundswell.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/cropped-CI-Groundswell-Emblem-green-sq-32x32.png past Archives - CI Groundswell https://www.cigroundswell.org/product-category/past/ 32 32 Contact Improvisation Intensive Workshop – Sept 12-15, 2024 https://www.cigroundswell.org/product/contact-improvisation-intensive-workshop-sept-12-15-2024/ Tue, 02 Apr 2024 03:24:56 +0000 https://www.cigroundswell.org/?post_type=product&p=7301 Join us at Dreaming Stone Arts and Ecology Center in the mountains of NC!  For an immersive Contact Improvisation fundamentals weekend.

September 12-15th

Five 2.5 hour CI classes, discussions of the history and philosophy of CI in the evenings and over delicious meals, jams, and swimming in the river– what more can you want? It is a great opportunity to get your CI practice started for the first time or to deepen your engagement with the form.

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]]> Collective Effervesence Contact Improv Retreat https://www.cigroundswell.org/product/collective-effervesence-contact-improv-retreat/ Mon, 15 May 2023 16:15:27 +0000 https://www.cigroundswell.org/?post_type=product&p=7193 Gather for the first Contact Improvisation Retreat at Dreaming Stone’s new dance space and retreat center in the mountains of WNC with special teaching artist, Brad Stoller.

We will relinquish the small self and unlock healing with theatrical play, authentic movement, and most of all – Contact Improvisation!

Register Here!

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Discover new creative tools in intensive workshops led by Brad Stoller, deepen your practice in open jams, and luxuriate in the sonic richness of live music. Enjoy opportunities to dance with and bask in Dreaming Stone’s beautiful land and be nourished by delicious and healthy food!

Register Here!

 

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]]> Exploring Kinnection – CI From the Ground up Series: Quarter 2 – 2023 https://www.cigroundswell.org/product/exploring-kinnection-ci-from-the-ground-up-series-quarter-2-2023/ Thu, 23 Feb 2023 03:46:58 +0000 https://www.cigroundswell.org/?post_type=product&p=7034 Workshop times & location

Pay up the sliding scale by choosing a per-workshop or drop-in price to support scholarships and the teachers. Select your price below.

Early Bird Registration ends July 5th

These two workshops are a part of the four quarter Contact from the Ground up Series. Get a reduced price by pre-registering for the whole series!

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]]> In the second quarter, we will expand on the foundation we developed in the first quarter through the concepts of the Skinosophere and Kinosphere from Nancy Stark Smith’s Underscore.

We’ll deepen our capacities to be with and understand our own body and movement, and telescope our awareness and movement out into exploring moving in space. We will focus on the meditation of self-connection and presence, telescoping awareness to expand and focus our attention, proprioception and other senses beyond sight, tracking bodies in space, and modulating tone, speed, and other aspects of movement among each other.

These two workshops are a part of the four quarter Contact from the Ground up Series. Get a reduced price by pre-registering for the whole series!

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]]> Developing Our Adaptability – CI From the Ground up Series: Quarter 3 – 2023 https://www.cigroundswell.org/product/developing-our-adaptability-ci-from-the-ground-up-series-quarter-3-2023/ Thu, 23 Feb 2023 02:47:57 +0000 https://www.cigroundswell.org/?post_type=product&p=7040 Workshop times & location

Pay up the sliding scale by choosing a per-workshop or drop-in price to support scholarships and the teachers. Select your price below.

These two workshops are a part of the four quarter Contact from the Ground up Series. Get a reduced price by pre-registering for the whole series!

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]]> In the third quarter, we’ll play with the foundations we developed in the first and second quarters through the exploration of improvisational scores to challenge and develop our skills and adaptability as well as practice common contact improvisation vocabulary including more fully developing weight-sharing with rolling point of contact and lift invitations.

We’ll develop an understanding of improvisational scores and hone common contact improvisation vocabularies, and then expand and break out of those boxes to keep our dance fresh and truly improvisational.

These two workshops are a part of the four-quarter Contact from the Ground up Series. Get a reduced price by pre-registering for the whole series!

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]]> Dancing Beyond Ourselves – CI From the Ground up Series: Quarter 4 – 2023 https://www.cigroundswell.org/product/dancing-beyond-ourselves-ci-from-the-ground-up-series-quarter-4-2023/ Thu, 23 Feb 2023 01:55:39 +0000 https://www.cigroundswell.org/?post_type=product&p=7046 Workshop times & location

Pay up the sliding scale by choosing a per-workshop or drop-in price to support scholarships and the teachers. Select your price below.

These two workshops are a part of the four-quarter Contact from the Ground up Series. Get a reduced price by pre-registering for the whole series!

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]]> In the fourth quarter, we’ll continue practicing the individual skills we have developed over the first three quarters, but now more explicitly in the greater context of the group, and with more fluidity within the group.

We’ll explore and play with elements of improvisational forms of Viewpoints and Emergent Improvisation as well as the CI Underscore to strengthen our sense of group ensemble and improvisational awareness of the group while continuing to practice and apply our fundamental CI skills.

These two workshops are a part of the four-quarter Contact from the Ground up Series. Get a reduced price by pre-registering for the whole series!

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]]> Contact Improvisation Labshop https://www.cigroundswell.org/product/contact-improv-labshop/ Sat, 23 Apr 2022 16:12:21 +0000 https://www.cigroundswell.org/?post_type=product&p=6957 Currently on Hold - no dates scheduled

Groundswell's CI Labshop is one part "CI Lab", one part workshop.

Bring your questions, ideas, inquiries, scores, etc. and the facilitator will support the group in weaving them together in a lab like fashion!

Each Labshop will be:

  • an opening circle to share our inquiries, which the facilitator will use to inspire:
  • a mini-class and/or facilitated activities or scores to practice or explore related skills
  • another circle to harvest from the class and activities, and establish some elements for:
  • a more open ended exploratory score, lab or jam space
  • A final closing circle

The Labshop is a great opportunity for all dancers regardless of how much experience you have to explore specific concepts, skills and group scores.

Every Wednesday 6-8pm in West Asheville (Register for address)
Facilitated by CJ O'Reilly

Please be sure to review to the COVID guidelines for this event (below)

Drop in: $20
Pre-Registration: $10-20
Groundswell Members: included
Scholarships available, apply here.

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If you have symptoms of COVID (or other socially transmitted infections) or have a known exposure according to these guidelines, please do not join until the appropriate quarantine or isolation period has passed according to these guidelines. Your registration will be refunded upon request.

Since COVID can be spread without symptoms, regardless of exposure we encourage participants to take steps to improve their immunity to COVID-19 in order to reduce community spread to immunocompromised people.

Masks are welcome, but not required.

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]]> Zoom Jam – Wednesday, May 13, 2020 https://www.cigroundswell.org/product/zoom-jam-wednesday-may-13-2020/ Thu, 07 May 2020 01:12:53 +0000 https://www.cigroundswell.org/?post_type=product&p=4124  

The Homewood Jam is not at Homewood!

We Dance on zoom!

All levels and experience welcome
Depending on the desires, we explore... come create what you want...

Wednesday, May 13, 2020
On Zoom (register for link)
Arrival 7:30pm
Opening Circle 7:45pm
Closing Circle ~8:45pm

$5+ suggested contribution
No one turned away for lack of funds

Please read the Asheville Jam Guidelines

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]]> Zoom Jam – Wednesday, May 6, 2020 https://www.cigroundswell.org/product/zoom-jam-wednesday-may-6-2020/ Sun, 03 May 2020 04:39:52 +0000 https://www.cigroundswell.org/?post_type=product&p=4087  

The Homewood Jam is not at Homewood!

We Dance on zoom!

All levels and experience welcome
Depending on the desires, we explore... come create what you want...

Arrival 7:30pm
Opening Circle 7:45pm
Closing Circle ~8:45pm

$5+ suggested contribution
No one turned away for lack of funds

Please read the Asheville Jam Guidelines

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]]> Axis Syllabus & Contact Improv workshop with Daniel Bear Davis – Cancelled until Further Notice https://www.cigroundswell.org/product/daniel-bear-davis-axis-syllabus-and-contact-improv/ Thu, 27 Feb 2020 13:42:40 +0000 https://www.cigroundswell.org/?post_type=product&p=247 This workshop was cancelled due to COVID-19.

Sliding Scale Price - pay up the sliding scale to support Scholarships and CI Groundswell - discounts with Contact From the Ground up registrations!

A weekend workshop with Axis Syllabus and Contact Improvisation teacher Daniel Bear Davis.

https://vimeo.com/391990945

Daniel Bear Davis (MFA) is an interdisciplinary performance maker, movement educator, nationally certified massage therapist, and Somatic Experiencing® post-graduate student dedicated to support humans to step into greater aliveness and  resilience so we can more fully inhabit the details of our lived experience. He teaches Axis Syllabus, Contact Improvisation, Composition, Acrobatic Stilts, and Dance History.  Whatever the subject, he considers the students researchers and his role is to offer tools to encourage range, choice and curiosity.

Schedule

Cancelled until further notice

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]]> Whispers of the Body: Listening for Connection Within and Between Bodies – Contact Improv Workshop – March 7th & 8th https://www.cigroundswell.org/product/whispers-of-the-body-listening-for-connection-within-and-between-bodies-contact-improv-workshop-march-7th-8th/ Sun, 23 Feb 2020 22:53:14 +0000 https://www.cigroundswell.org/?post_type=product&p=1400 This workshop was cancelled due to COVID-19.

Price are Sliding Scale. Pay up the sliding scale to support scholarships and teachers.

We deepen our listening to our own body and connection to its center while expanding into connection with others through weight sharing, exploring structure and weight, navigating dance partnerships through invitations, responding, and by matching tone and pace.

This workshop can be taken stand alone, or as part of the Contact From the Ground Up Series or the Pathways from the Ground Up Trimester.

Time:

Saturday - 10am-1pm,  2:00pm-5:00pm

Sunday - Community Lab on Workshop Material - 2:30pm-5:30pm

Location:

Saturday: Earthaven Council Hall (~45 minute drive from town, get clear on directions in advance - no cell reception)
Sunday: Homewood - 19 Zilicoa Street, Asheville, NC

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]]> Within this two day workshop we will build on foundations from which participants can begin feeling comfortable navigating partnerships in the context of contact improvisation. We will begin with connection to our primary dance partner – ourselves. From a place of internal listening we will journey into touch with other bodies, delving into the interplay between internal and external awareness, called “telescoping awareness”.

A foundational element to coming into contact is that of listening through our tactile sense. We will be exploring how to utilize our bodies and movements as tools for listening and expressing while relating to other bodies. The aim is to offer participants methods to communicate boundaries and offer invitations through a somatic channel.
 
Besides harnessing the powers of nonverbal communication we will also go deep into some foundational elements of weight sharing. Some such elements will be: finding and grounding into our own center, moving from the center, connecting to other’s centers, exploring structures and how weight transfers through structures, supporting weight sharing through connection to the floor, the pouring in and pouring out of weight, and more.
We hope that by combining exercises involving communicating with the body and exercises exploring weight sharing, that participants feel safe and empowered in their ability to explore contact with others while taking care of their personal needs.

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