• CONTACT IMPROVISATION Intensive
  October 11-13, 2024  Freiburg, DE     Facilitated by IRENE SPOSETTI

BeingMotion is thrilled to extend an invitation for you to participate in a deep dive into Contact Improvisation with internationally appreciated artist and facilitator, Irene Sposetti. She will be facilitating a weekend intensive dedicated to inquiry and practice as we delve in Contact Improvisation through the perspective of her extensive research and valuable experience.

Take a look at the program and take advantage of the early bird pricing. We also have scholarships available for dance professionals and students. Don’t miss this opportunity!

• ABOUT THE INTENSIVE                    “Somatic Improvisation”

I invite you to join me for a time dedicated to studying and practicing contact improvisation, playing with the idea of somatic improvisation – an art form of physical expression, shared embodied processes, dance dialogues, and instantaneous compositions.

I am deeply passionate about discovering and refining ways to ground ourselves in states of presence, heightened somatic receptivity, and exploration, which serve as the foundation for decision-making while improvising. Throughout our time together, we will engage in individual, partner, and group improvisations to activate and articulate our attention and availability, integrating physical-sensorial awareness with relational movement skills. Additionally, we will delve into creative play, intuition, and somatic imagination as sources of expressiveness and composition, experimenting with sensory words, tactile imagery, space, and other creative elements that arise from our dance.

• TECHNICAL THEMES

Our practice will center on understanding weight and its organization in the body in motion, as a key element for achieving fluidity and confidence moving on the floor, seamlessly transitioning between levels, and inverted positions, and combining movements in contact with others. We’ll concentrate on exploring technical tools for aerial suspensions, off-ground balancing, and playing with momentum and the trajectories of weight in motion. 

We will aim to access the simultaneous presence of stability and mobility, definition, and availability in our movements, as we intertwine our bodies in motion, releasing, rising, and gliding within the breath of gravity.

In addition to physical principles and skills, I will address our ability to collaborate safely and be present when partnering in contact, navigating limiting expectations and patterns that may arise, particularly in interactions with others. 

Here are some of the technical themes will approach over the weekend according to the group’s needs and interests: Biomechanics of movement in relation to gravitational force

• Centre-Axis fluid alignment, weight distribution and modulation of body tones
• Kinaesthetics of physical forces within and around our bodies, their elemental nature and qualities
• Core balancing and structural alignment in duet
• Aerial suspensions
• Trajectories of weight and space

• WHO IS THIS FOR?

This invitation is open to movers who are actively engaged in the study of the dance form of contact improvisation, and who already have a foundation in its principles and practice. A container will be created where all attendees will learn together, nourishing each other in the process while receiving specific tools and attention according to their needs.