Contact improvisation is notoriously hard to describe. At the basis of the practice are the physical contact between two or more partners, the relation to gravity, and to the momentum of moving bodies. It’s about letting go of excess tension, waking up the reflexes and sense of balance, and working with weight. It is a very subtle way of interacting and negotiating through touch and movement.
The Workshop aims to provide some basic contact improvisation vocabulary: how to share weight; follow a rolling point of contact; give all one’s weight to someone else; make yourself light; modulate your weight; lift someone up; get used to being upside down; offer a plateau; connect to one’s center; use momentum; extend into falling; have your landing gear ready…
Schedule: Saturday 8 December 2012 13:00 - 17:00
Fee: MYR 90 regular, MYR 65 concession (includes MYR 15 registration fee)
Venue: PODs, No 30 Jalan Thambipillay, Brickfields, 50470 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
To register: email danielmang@gmail.com
website: http://www.danielmang.com