London, The Generating Company Contact Improvisation class and jam session with Robert Anderson

Class

Contact Improvisation class and jam session with Robert Anderson

Contact Improvisation is an open-ended exploration of the kinaesthetic possibilities of bodies moving through contact. Sometimes wild and athletic, sometimes quiet and meditative, it is a form open to all bodies and enquiring minds. In these class and jam sessions we will expand our skills for listening to and connecting with others in contact improvisation dances. Arriving into sensation, gravity, the breath and simple movement patterns will be the preparation for dancing. Using touch and the exchange of weight with a partner, we'll explore techniques for rolling, spiralling, pouring and sliding. From this place of fluid connection we?ll begin to play with the physical dialogue that is contact improvisation; perceiving, following, making suggestions and surprising ourselves. We?ll combine the technical explorations with time for open dancing - inviting curiosity, pleasure and play into our improvisation. The sessions are open to all levels of experience.

Robert Anderson an independent dance artist based in London. He teaches improvisation and contact improvisation at Rose Bruford College and in a variety of settings in the UK and abroad. Robert has been passionately involved with contact improvisation since 1996 studying with leading teachers from the US and Europe. After gaining a BA Dance and Culture at the University of Surrey, in 2000, he spent six months in San Francisco to train in contact and improvisational dance. Since 2001 Robert has been teaching and facilitating contact improvisation classes, jams and workshops in London. Robert has taught at international contact festivals in Germany, Israel, Poland, Russia and Italy and participated in co-teaching gatherings in Estonia, Sweden, Finland, Scotland and Austria. He has performed in work by Adriana Pegorer, Joe Moran, Kate Brown, Tino Seghal, Jovair Longo, Meghan Flannigan, Magdalena Radlowska, Lalitaraja and Sarah Shorten. He is currently performing with Touchdown Dance and with the improvisation collective SoFt.

When

31 Mar - 5 May 2008
7 - 9 pm

Cost

6 weeks £60 inc. VAT
(taster sessions available)

Where

The Boiler Works
64 Orchard Place
Trinity Buoy Wharf
E14

East India/Canning Town DLR

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Contact

Course contact: 020 7093 3204
Applicants should email generatingtraining@gmail.com

www.generatingcompany.co.uk