In this intensive we like to engage with movement vocabulary drawing from developmental movement patterns and bring it into Contact Improvisation. In the womb, swimming in the fluids, movement is already happening as vibration, attraction and repulsion, as sponging, as pulsation. When the transformations into specific shapes and patterns begin, we are forming a midline, a front and backbody, a center and a periphery, an axis with limbs and a complex system that enables us to move, sense, react, take in and let go . Once we are born and sense the pull of gravity, there is a lot to learn about coordination of all the parts of the body. Also diverse needs  appear, emotions and possibilities call us into action. As babies we explore movement patterns, each one being the base for the next.
As adults we can revisit these inherent patters for the joy of it or to find missing links and to expand our variety of movement.

Every day we will dive into BMC Material and hands-on touch to develop from there a soft way into Contact Improvisation techniques.
We will investigate into the patterns of yield, push, reach and pull – to orientate towards gravity, space and the other by initiating movement from the spine, from the upper and lower limbs, the sides and finally finding rotation. Sensing a deep center connection, easy weight shifts into take off and leaving the ground.

Where
We will meet, dance and live together in SerVivo,
a community project and event centre in the Arrábida Nature Parc, 40 minutes from Lisbon.

“SerVivo is a venue, which holds space for living and exploring authenticity, connection and joy. We support integral human development, co-creating a global culture of trust and heartful connection, inspired by the wisdom of nature.” (www.servivo.earth)

Body-Mind Centering® (BMC)

BMC is a somatic approach that engages itself towards movement patterns, reflexes and the lively interplay of different body systems, like bones, fascia, muscles, organs, fluids and the nervous system. 
 
BMC provides anatomical and physiological studies as a base to integrate movement patterns and psychophysical aspects through movement awareness and touch facilitation.

Jennie Zimmermann
offers embodied anatomy and movement improvisation based classes, facilitates workshops. Her work is influenced by many years of Contact Improvisation and the Body-Mind Centering® approach. As a musician she arranges minimalistic setups for performance and dance, experimenting with layers of subtle sounds, voice and field recordings. 

Angela-Mara Florant
had her first experience with CI during her performance arts studies in Besançon, France. In 2005 she moved to Hamburg. She teaches several regular contact classes, gives workshops and organizes jams and festivals (NORDTANZ Festival).
Since 2015, she is co- director of the dance studio “Triade” in Hamburg.
When Angela-Mara is not dancing or teaching contact she is teaching Pilates, directing independent theater productions,
choreographing dance pieces (mostly based on CI) and teaching theater and dance to children.

“For me CI is an art form.
I love allowing my dance to be inspired by the composition of the room.
CI opens up space,
Space within me and outside of me,
Creative space unfolding.

I enjoy looking at movement from an anatomical perspective and at the same time love the playful unfolding of stories that can occur while dancing CI. Over and over again finding and reinventing myself while continuously rediscovering and uncovering new aspects of the form are my favorite subjects of my ongoing research.”
(www.angelamaraflorant.de)

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