Dear Contact Improvisation dancers!
I’m delighted to be offering this weekend intensive in Århus!
This intensive is open to experienced and beginners, though basic skills in CI is an advantage.

We will take a starting point from what I call a “natural place” in us; through somatic guided CI practices we will aim to access a natural flow and being-ness from where to explore the dance in all it’s colors and dimensions:
momentum, weight, textures of touch and the relation to time and space. We will play with space-time awareness in our dancing in a light and playful way, through stimulating a sensation and awareness of instant composition, design, group work. Unleashing a free and connected bond with our body; we will “train” the muscles and skills of accessing an expanded awareness of the bigger totality of our dance: the others, the space and the compositions and creations in space.
How can we read and serve best what the space needs, while being in absolute connection to ourselves? It will be an invitation and inquiry into what truly happens when we meet in an improvisation: ourselves, others, witnesses and movers, and the composition/musicality of a dance in the space.. Inspired by the very roots and early years of CI where the practice was witnessed by each other and an audience, we will play with conscious and subconscious composition, in solo, duet, trio and as an ensemble, including (embodied) witnessing as an essential part of the practice.
“Undoing. Wild, untamed. Safe, yet at the very edge of our being…”
I look forward to seeing you!

Jori

Practical Information

Schedule:
Saturday the 26th of October
9-10 arrival / registration
10-13 Morning session
13-15 Lunch
(Bring a lunch, there are cups, plates and cutlery, as well as water for tea in the space)
15-18 Afternoon session

Sunday 27th of October
9-10 arrival
10-14 Morning session and closure
14-16 common lunch (putlock) and cleaning

What to bring:
Easy movable clothes, long pants are advisable.
Kneepads if you have. Water bottle and lunch. Notebook if you want to take notes.

Costs:
For both days (advisable to participate in both days!):
Early bird: 650 kr, before October the 10th
After the 10th of October:
850 kr for members of Kimpro Aarhus
950 kr for non-members.
(If you are financially challenged, contact Kimpro Aarhus at kimproaarhus@gmail.com to see if we can find a solution.)

Registration:
To make sure you book your place: write an email and pay Kimpro:
kimproaarhus@gmail.com
Mobile Pay: 12534

Places are limited (max 27), to ensure your place in the workshop,
book early!
(If you can only join the Saturday or the Sunday, please send Jori an email).
For questions and/or other queries, contact:
Jori Snell
jorisnell@hotmail.com
+45 60713075
For more info on the workshop, see Facebook group: Contact improvisation in Aarhus (Kimpro)

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Jori Snell
is a physical performing-and visual artist from Holland/Denmark (1972). She works as a freelance performer, improviser, director and teacher, transforming her training in physical theatre, contact improvisation (CI), butoh/martial arts and visual arts into a personal language. Companies she has worked with are: Odin Teatret (DK), Teatret OM (DK), Corona la Balance/ZeBU(DK) and Panthéâtre (Roy Hart Theatre, FR), Su-En Butoh company (SE). Between 2008-2016, based in Cape Town, South Africa, she created works for/with companies such as FTH:K & Ubom! (Physical/Visual Theatres) and Remix Dance Company (Mixed Ability Dance). She initiated and sustained the CI scene in Cape Town. Her inspiration in Butoh, CI and Improvisation has grown and developed through her meetings with Tadashi Endo, Su-En, Kitt Johnson, Kirstie Simson, Katie Duck, Lucia Walker, Ray Chung, Nancy Stark Smith and many others. Since 2016 she has collaborated intensively with Andrew de Lotbinière Harwood, teaching and performing in Canada, Denmark, South Africa and Costa Rica. Now based in Costa Rica, she is passionate about sharing her work in local dance and art communities.
In her work and teaching she aims to bring alive an authentic expression in body, mind and space, moving between dance, myth & poetry with a love for spontaneous, alive and improvised image-making.
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