Workshop Groups Archives - CI Groundswell https://www.cigroundswell.org/product-category/workshop-groups/ Contact from the Ground Up Tue, 02 Jul 2024 02:06:13 +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 Workshop Groups Archives - CI Groundswell https://www.cigroundswell.org/product-category/workshop-groups/ 32 32 Pathways from the Ground Up – CI From the Ground up Series: Quarter 1 – 2023 https://www.cigroundswell.org/product/pathways-from-the-ground-up-2023/ Thu, 23 Feb 2023 04:25:40 +0000 https://www.cigroundswell.org/?post_type=product&p=7014 Workshop times & location

  • From the Ground Up - June 10th, 2023 12-3pm - venue changed - exactocation TBA (in Asheville)
  • Falling into Contact - June 17th, 2023 12-3pm at the Haw Creek Commons Sanctuary (directions)

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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 first quarter, we will be focusing on creating a strong foundation from which to explore the practice of contact improvisation (CI). We’ll develop a sense of trust in our own bodies, and understanding of its edges and potential and develop basic skills for moving with ourselves and others. This module aims to provide building blocks for movers to feel capable in their bodies and in the space, creating a strong foundation for coming into contact with other bodies.

We will focus on: connection to self and somatic exploration, connecting to the floor as a primary partner, falling, movement pathways to support improvisation, elements of coming into contact, pouring weight, non-verbal communication, and entering into flight with a partner.

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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]]> 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

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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

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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

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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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]]> Pathways from the Ground Up – Trimester #1 https://www.cigroundswell.org/product/pathways-from-the-ground-up-trimester-1/ Mon, 27 Jan 2020 13:48:19 +0000 https://www.cigroundswell.org/?post_type=product&p=256 In the first trimester, we will be focusing on creating a strong foundation from which to explore the practice of contact improvisation (CI). We'll develop a sense of trust in our own bodies, and understanding of its edges and potential and develop basic skills for moving with ourselves and others. This module aims to provide building blocks for movers to feel capable in their bodies and in the space, creating a strong foundation for coming into contact with other bodies. Certain elements that will be prioritized are: connection to self and somatic exploration, connecting to the floor as a primary partner, falling, movement pathways to support improvisation, elements of coming into contact, pouring weight, non-verbal communication, and entering into flight with a partner.

This trimester is a part of the Contact from the Ground up Series. Get a reduced price by pre-registering for the whole series!

Dates

  • 2020 Series Canceled due to COVID

Times 

  • TBA

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]]> The Adaptable Body – Trimester #2 https://www.cigroundswell.org/product/the-adaptable-body-trimester-2/ Sun, 26 Jan 2020 13:55:30 +0000 https://www.cigroundswell.org/?post_type=product&p=257 Sliding Scale Pricing – Pay up the scale to support scholarships and the teachers.

This trimester will explore and expand the capacities of our bodies. We will continue to review the fundamentals from the first trimester but in connection with others. We will explore different qualities of touch and contact, connecting with ourselves and others through different senses and body systems, and improvisational approaches and theory.

This trimester is a part of the Contact from the Ground up Series. Get a reduced price by pre-registering for the whole series!

Dates

  • 2020 Series Canceled due to COVID

Times 

  • TBA

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]]> Dancing Beyond the Ourselves – Trimester #3 https://www.cigroundswell.org/product/dancing-beyond-the-body-trimester-3/ Sat, 25 Jan 2020 13:57:19 +0000 https://www.cigroundswell.org/?post_type=product&p=268 Sliding Scale Pricing – Pay up the scale to support scholarships and the teachers.

In this trimester we will be delving into the expansive potential of attention, awareness, and group awareness. How do we move with a space? How can we use space in our dances with one another? How can we dance as a group? These questions expand the meaning, awareness, and potential of our practice of contact improvisation.

In this module we will be going over: CI fundamentals, improvisational movement, expanding the nervous system beyond the boundaries of skin, space as a dance partner, peripheral and telescoping awareness, the CI underscore, dancing from senses and feelings, and ensemble work.

This trimester is a part of the Contact from the Ground up Series. Get a reduced price by pre-registering for the whole series!

Dates

  • 2020 Series Canceled due to COVID

Times 

  • TBA

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