Dear friends of CFD, Tomorrow in Falmouth Richard and Malaika are offering a free CI event: Aikicontact | EXtension, in the Performance Centre, TR10 9LX, studio C. Free parking is available below the Performance Centre. If you are nearby it would be great to have you join. FREE day-long Aikicontact | EXtension workshop* and jam Saturday 26 July – Studio C 10.45am-1.30pm Workshop 1 + feedback lunch – salad and dessert provided, bring food to share 3.00-5.30pm Workshop 2 + feedback dinner – salad and snacks provided, bring food to share 7-9pm jam This day long event is free and includes time for feedback on each session, as we will be presenting new material to bring to Contact Festival Freiburg in August—see description below. Feel free to get in touch with any questions; out-of-towners can be hosted! We look forward to dancing with you soon. - Richard & Malaika Sarco-Thomas *Aikicontact | EXtension workshops 1 & 2: In these classes we will focus on finding a clear sense of multidirectionality, weightlessness, connection to our partner and their center through the use of Ki Aikido principles. We will explore theprinciple of blending with an emphasis on openness and playfulness to whatever comes during the dance. Using listening and good-natured resistance we will play with the complementary forces of up, down, here and there to softly wrestle, bowl, and fly each other through the space. Principles to include: ki (energy) extension without muscular tension sensing our partner’s ki / blending relaxation and injury prevention through dynamic alignment weight underside / kiatsu touch This class is suitable to all levels of experience. Richard Sarco-Thomas (UK) is an Aikido teacher/ practitioner and Kiatsu therapist, He has studied Japanese martial arts also including Aiki-Jujitsusince 1989, and teaches Ki Principles through Ki Aikido, Kiatsu bodywork and contact improvisation. Malaika Sarco-Thomas (UK/USA) is a researcher, teacher, performer and writer of improvisation practices in various contexts including theatres, contact improvisation events and with living plants in outdoor locations. After training at PARTS in Brussels and completing her PhD thesis Twig Dances: Improvisation Performance as Ecological Practice at Dartington College of Arts, she became senior lecturer and Course Coordinator for BA Choreography at Falmouth University. She is currently co-editing an issue of the Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices ‘on Contact [and] Improvisation’, forthcoming 2014. Together Richard and Malaika organize weekly contact jams/ CI classes in Falmouth and coordinate the annual Contact Festival Dartington and Conference, a celebration and investigation of practices of contact and improvisation, taking place in April each year at The Performance Centre, Penryn, Cornwall, UK.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:52:42 +0000
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