Compositional Awareness in Contact Improvisation with Andrew Harwood
Andrew Harwood comes to Bellingham!
NEW!!: Drop in option on Saturday April 5
Sliding Scale $90-150
April 5 and 6
10 am - 4:30pm
Open Saturday JAM with live music by Augie Ballew
7-10pm
Workshop and evening Jam
Sliding scale: $170 -$270
Jam only:
$10-20 (paid at door)
Registration
CI offers us a container for the practice of non-verbal communication, of expanded awareness, and for creative expression while allowing what is unexpected to emerge. As we ground ourselves in the core principles of CI, focusing on the dynamics and subtleties of touch, tone, texture, weight, momentum, and moving support, we will expand our awareness to include space, time, image, gesture and feeling, through solo, duet, trio and ensemble dancing. We will consider how a lightly held compositional awareness and feeling can support our efforts to connect and find meaning when we are dancing. This work can be viewed not only as a means for creative expression but as a process for developing our capacity to collaborate and build a community that holds space for each individual.
Andrew:“My wish for this time together is to create a vibrant, inclusive, and safe container for the practice of contact improvisation. For me this means thinking of others and the spaces we inhabit as important and worthy of consideration, creating an environment that is respectful and caring, approaching consent as an ongoing and active practice which in turn generates conscious intention, and action. I will listen, observe and offer what I have learned from five decades of experience. I do not have all the answers, but will strive to create a focused space that aims to promote inclusivity and respect throughout our shared time together.”
Andrew de Lotbinière Harwood is renowned as a leading light in the field of dance improvisation. He is an internationally recognized pioneer of contact improvisation (CI) and a master teacher/performer in both real-time composition and CI. He has dedicated himself to the research, development, education, collaboration and dissemination of these rigorous artistic practices as sophisticated performing arts for the past 50 years. His journey has evolved through the development of consciousness, various investigations of perceptual awareness, an in-depth interest in design/composition as well as an abundance of collaborative performances around the globe with the likes of Peter Bingham, Chris Aiken, Ray Chung, Daniel Lepkoff, Kirstie Simpson, Alito Alessi, Karen Nelson, K.J. Holmes, Lisa Nelson, Julyen Hamilton, Benno Voorham and Benoit Lachambre, to name a few.