Future of CI Day 3

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Sunday, Session 1

Digital Technologies, Access and Dancing with All Abilities

Anne Chérel, Germany/Luxembourg

Facilitated Conversation, English

Room A: 9:00am – 9:55am

For over a year now, a global pandemic defines our personal lives and leaves its marks. A public health crisis affecting us all shows us the importance of technology in everyday life in order to stay connected and move forward in ways that were hardly imaginable before. For both disabled and non-disabled dancers, digital technologies are providing new levels of access. In this facilitated conversation, we will ask questions about how that access can be maintained (and not just forgotten) as the pandemic diminishes, and about how we can continue to improve the access technology provides, acknowledging its huge challenges for CI and DanceAbility’s touch-based practices. Please come and share your thoughts!

Anne Chérel, teacher, DanceAbility Master Teacher.

Am I disabled? I never saw myself as such. I feel and live my impairment, but disability is mainly apparent through outside barriers and boundaries, manmade or natural, physical or psychological and judgmental. Dance makes me forget about those, makes me wish to explore my capacities, to be curious about my own self through methods that are neither medical nor therapeutical that try to change my body into become more functional so it fits into blurry rules defined to be normative. As a wheelchair user and impaired artist trained in DanceAbility, I view dance, in all its forms and especially dance for ALL bodies as the most beautiful and effective way to bring forward inclusion and equity for everyone, when “misconceptions and/or prejudices that able-bodied or disabled people might have about themselves and each other are uprooted.” (Alito Alessi)

Personal, performative, physical, political, practical
Andrew Wass, Paul Singh, Caterina Mocciola, Andrzej Wożniak, David Lim, Germany, Malaysia, Italy, Poland, USA
Panel Discussion, English
Room B: 9:00am – 10:25am

In order to ask how CI can grow and change, we first need to know what/where/when/how/what it is in the current moment. By charting out the journeys of 5 people who teach, perform, write about CI, and organize CI events, we hope to gain an understanding of this moment of CI. What definitions/descriptions of CI do these dancers have? How does it guide their teaching, their performing, their dance? Do these ideas of CI allow for variation, change, development? Each of the panelists will offer a brief outline of their background, how they first encountered CI, how their understanding of it has changed over time. We will then discuss how we see CI relating to extant definitions and descriptions of CI and how we relate to those.

First encountering CI in ’97, Andrew Wass has performed and taught CI in academic institutions, festivals, and theaters. Using performance, teaching, and academic research, he continually questions his practice. A member of Lower Left, Wass is pursuing a PhD in Dance at Texas Woman’s University.

Paul Singh earned his BFA in Dance from the University of Illinois, USA. He has performed his own work and that of other choreographers in many venues on both sides of the Atlantic. Singh teaches CI at festivals in Israel, India, throughout Europe, and at institutions in the US.   

Establishing a dance center in the Apennines, Caterina Mocciola is a dance performer, choreographer, teacher, Underscore facilitator and creative producer. She has taught in Australia, New Zealand, all over Europe, Japan, Israel, Russia and South America. Mocciola also translates CI and anatomy related texts and interprets for teachers in Italy. 

Andrzej Woźniak was born and lives in Warsaw, Poland where he has been teaching contact improvisation since 2012. he’s interested in the improvisational and compositional aspects of the form. Woźniak writes and publishes poetry. Occasionally performs he performs.

David Lim discovered contact improvisation in 2005. He has taught CI workshops in Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia, Thailand, Taiwan, South Korea and Germany. In 2011, he founded the annual Contact Festival Kuala Lumpur. David loves to discover the ease and efficiency in moving, to chance upon the pleasures of not knowing. 
 

The Future of CI does not Include
Eroca Nicols, Canada
Lecture, English
Keywords: Consent, Trauma
Room A: 10:00am – 10:55am

Eroca will deliver a list of events of harassment and threats that have transpired over the course of their teaching and dancing career in CI entitled, “The Future of CI Does Not Include.”

Eroca Nicols is a choreographer, consent educator and martial artist. They have been working to undermine racism, cis heteronormativity, misogyny, queer and transphobia in contact and contemporary dance for more than a decade.
 

Contact Improvisation in a Time of Crisis/Contact Improvisation as a High-Risk Practice
Anya Cloud/ mayfield brooks/ Charlie Morrissey / Alejandra Garavita Aguilar / Karen Nelson / Erik Ferguson, UK, USA, Guatemala
Panel Discussion, English
Keywords: Pandemic, Race, Climate
Room B: 10:30am – 11:55am

Contact Improvisation is a high-risk high-stakes dance practice. Orienting from our identities and lived experience in convergence with one another we will bravely honor/tackle/question/queer/provoke the intersecting realities of CI to imagine how we might individually and collectively acknowledge the past, calibrate to the present, and engender a better future.

Anja Cloud: Originally from Alaska, Anya Cloud has been devoted to practicing, researching, teaching, and performing CI for 19 years. As a queer, cis, female, white person she orients her work to cultivate radical aliveness as an activist practice; collaboration is central. She is currently Assistant Professor of Dance at CU Boulder.

mayfield brooks: mayfield improvises while black, and is currently based in brooklyn, new york on lenapehoking land, the homeland of the lenape people. mayfield is a movement-based performance artist, vocalist, urban farmer, writer, and wanderer. they are currently an artist in residence at the center for performance research (cpr) and abrons arts center in new york city/lenapehoking, is faculty at movement research nyc and the editor-in-chief of the movement research performance journal. mayfield teaches and performs practices that arise from their life/art/movement work, improvising while black (iwb). mayfield was the recent recipient of the biannual 2021 Merce Cunningham Award in dance granted by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. 

Charlie Morrissey: Charlie is a director/choreographer, performer, teacher, and researcher working in the field of performance for nearly 30 years. He creates large and small-scale site-specific and theatre and gallery based performance work in diverse contexts and locations; he organises and collaborates in a variety of performance research projects; and performs and collaborates in the work of other performance makers. His work is influenced by long-term working relationships with Steve Paxton, Siobhan Davies, Lisa Nelson, Kirstie Simson, Scott Smith, Katye Coe, K.J.Holmes, Katie Duck and others. Teaching is central to his practice and his classes are laboratories for exploration and discovery. He teaches for dance and theatre companies, institutions, festivals and independent organisations internationally. Charlie is currently developing an international programme of workshops, performances and artist led dance activities at Wainsgate Chapel in Yorkshire, England.

Alejandra Garavita Aguilar: Alejandra was born in Guatemala City. She is a choreographer, dancer, cultural manager and psychologist who is love with Contact Improvisation (CI) as a transpersonal exploration, expression tool and performative proposal. Alejandra wrote the thesis “CI for the strengthening of social skills with institutionalized adolescents.” She co-founded CONNATURAL – Contemporary Dance Camp and has studied and danced with national and international teachers, including Sabrina Castillo Gallusser, Moti Zemelman, Susanne Martín, Ilona Kenova and Paolo Cingolani. She was a professor in the Bachelor of Dance at the Escuela Superior de Arte Usac and has taught movement and CI classes in Guatemala, the United States, Costa Rica, Ukraine, Poland and Italy.

karen nelson (dancer/choreographer, performer, teacher and organizer) interrogates whiteness, able-ness and dominant power structures in embodiment practices through community tellings and organizing— from 2019’s FISSURE (with mayfield brooks + ray chung) to “CI interrogates it’s own history” (2016-present)— powerful visions, stories and actions of liberation emerge.

Erik Ferguson is an anti-virtuoso movement artist living in Portland, Oregon, and co-founder of Wobbly Dance. He got his start studying improvisation with Alito Alessi in Trier, Germany in 2003 and has performed and taught DanceAbility and contact improvisation throughout the Pacific Northwest, as well as the UK, Oaxaca, and British Columbia. He has most recently studied improvisation with Deborah Hay and Barbara Dilly. He is a perpetual student of Butoh who has studied with various teachers including Akira Kasai, Koichi and Hiroko Tamano, Mizu Desierto and many others. His performances range from storytelling to dance theatre exploring themes of embodiment, gender identity, and extremes of human emotion.

Sanctuaries of CI Practice in Europe
Julija Melnk, Sara Biglieri, 
Lithuania, France
Panel Discussion, English
Keywords: Place, Community
Room A: 11:00am – 11:55am

In this discussion we will question and share: How to maintain CI practice, keep it healthy, evolving and accessible? We will approach :
  – paradigm shift: from focusing on problems towards focusing on solutions or great values,
  – importance to establish a clear ethics code,
  – one possible vision of CI practice in small communities – sanctuaries
  – practical experience of CI practice, in the times of restriction (ex. covid)
  – examples from PhD research on “resisting” in order to continue CI practice
We will invite you to share your experience, especially if you had an occasion to be isolated together with other CI dancers, or kept practicing CI in you couple, family or region.


Julija Melnik is an investigator of different worlds of dance, with a master’s degree in educational sciences. Since 2006 teaching CI, formed by great teachers including the founders. Practices meditative dances, Samara Yoga and is trained in constellations, energetic techniques, meditations, massages. A traveller, cook, gardener and seeker of truth.

Sara Biglieri dances to explore the world and to explore herself. Sara is a PhD candidate at the Sorbonne University in Paris and with a focus on art thinking, and the subversive dimension of art.
 

Fair Festivals Lab
Samuli Lehesaari, Markus Hoft
Lab, English
Keywords: Festivals, Equity
Room C: 10:30am – 11:55am

This lab builds on the conversation on Monday 23 April “Envisioning Fair Festivals”. Let’s dream about an utopian festival. How do we want to come together as a community? How do we relate our practice to the bigger world that we are part of? What does fair payment mean? How can we be more than CI-consumers? What would be the ethics and the values, if I had the power to set a new standard?

Sunday, Session 2

“Post-pandemic” consent in CI-jams 
Jenny Döll and Adriana Pegorer, Germany, UK
Faciltated Conversation, English
Keywords: Consent, Pandemic
Room A: 2:00pm – 3:00pm 

What do I need in order to feel safe to practice CI – in relation to a (post-)pandemic situation? In CI we negotiate each move with each other. How can we negotiate ideas, wishes, boundaries, power dynamics? What do I want a jam to feel like?  To touch or not to touch? Will I be overly sensitive or desensitized? Will I be overwhelmed? What are my boundaries? What are yours? How can we deal with the fact they might be different? These are questions we would like to engage in together with you.

Jenny Döll is a dancer, performer and teacher. She loves CI since she came across it in 2002 and though questioning the form she repeatedly renews her fascination with it. In 2019 she joined Nita Little’s Institute for the Study of Somatic Communication. She’s neurodivergent, critical, curious, and stubborn.

Adriana Pegorer [she/her] (Italy/UK). I first met CI -and movement in general- in 1995 via Jacky Adkins at Morley College, London. That same year I also started Tango Argentino, and began mixing the two in what is now generally called Contact Tango. I am passionate about Ideokinesis, interested in intersectionality, and my research broadly revolves around gender and sex dynamics in socio-cultural contexts. During the pandemic, I continued to work in outdoor farmers’ markets, volunteered at a local allotment and recovered from surgery. I also carried on with my studies for an MA in Dance Anthropology at Roehampton University. I am fortunate to have lived through the various lockdowns with my wife. 
 

Reflections and Breathing Space: Long Table Discussion
Colleen Bartley, UK / USA
Facilitated Conversation, English
Room B: 2:00pm – 3:25pm

The Long Table Format, invented by Lois Weaver, is a kind of “score” for an open discussion that attempts to approach non-hierarchy, similar in spirit to the practice of CI. It invites open-topic community knowledge gathering, and cultivates active listening. This experiential space adapted for Zoom is a chance to breath and learn, an antidote to the overwhelm of hierarchical knowledge sourcing and the pace of big events. Let’s talk, listen and learn together.

Colleen Bartley is an independent dance artist living with an invisible disability. She makes films, performance, teaches all-ages/abilities dance, co-edits CQ’s online Rolling Edition, co-ordinates London Contact Improvisation (UK), is degreed and diploma-ed in Laban, Dance, English, Education, and with Nancy Stark Smith co-edited CQ CI Newsletter for 7 years and the Steering Committee of RRP and is currently a Global Underscore coordinator.
 

Solo Contact Improv for home dancing
Tchivett, Germany
Movement, English
Keywords: Consent, Touch, Desire, Solo dancing
Room C: 2:00pm – 2:55pm

I will share some elements of my choreographic research and offer a workshop for the online solo contact improvistion dancer. It will include a somatic work integrating the three dimensional perception (touch and sight) and movement to one another, and an experimental movement research based on embodied consent training practices.

Tchivett is a berlin based queer artist, performer, choreographer and dance teacher. They graduated from the HZT-berlin Choreography masters in 2018, they teach contact improv and butoh dance, and draw inspiration from the queer alternative culture, trans & feminist activism. Their current research explores touch, consent, intimacy and desire.
 

Bailando al margen del binario de género / Dancing outside the gender binary

Calu and Ali Salguero, Mexico, UK
Panel, En español/inglés, Spanish and English
Keywords: Gender, Queer
Room A: 3:00pm – 3:55pm

Charla complementada con exploración corporal alrededor de la construcción del género donde problematizaremos el pensamiento binarista y cissexista en la danza y la improvisación de contacto desde la experiencia de dos personas no binarias.

Movement exploration-complemented discussion around the construction of gender where we will problematize binarist and cissexist thinking in dance and contact improvisation from the experience of two non binary people.
 

CI Bystander Intervention
Kathleen Rea and Patrick Crowley, Canada, USA
Conversation, English
Keywords: Conflict, Care, Community
Room C: 3:00pm – 3:55pm

We will initiate a conversation about concerns and strategies about being an active bystander both verbally and through movement. There will be some experiential role playing to help us embody what we are exploring.

Kathleen Rea, MA, danced with Canada’s Ballet Jorgen, National Ballet of Canada, and Tiroler Landestheater, and then fell in love with CI. Director of REAson d’etre dance, she choreographed over 50 dance-works, authored “The Healing Dance”, and produces dance jams, film festivals and dance-theatre productions. She is passionate about parenting, fucntional movement health, dance and neural-diversity.

Patrick Crowley has been studying Contact Improvisation since 1984 and the Underscore since 1990. He trained extensively with Nancy Stark Smith and other longtime teachers of CI. He teaches Democracy of the Body as a concept for increasing perception, inclusion, consent, and equality— internally, in space, and with others.
 

Dynamic Definitions: Conversations on a Consent Culture Language Bank
Consent Culture Language Bank: Sarah Gottlieb, Kata Kovács, Devin Pastika, Lea Richtmann, Stéphanie Auberville, (International)
Facilitated Conversation, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, English
Keywords: Consent
Room B: 3:30pm – 4:55pm

The consent culture language bank is a collaborative initiative to facilitate common access to terminology and knowledge about consent and sexuality, for the purpose of integrating consent culture into CI and the art field. The project was born out CI Consent Culture Symposium held virtually at Earthdance in 2020. For the Future of CI, we propose to share a consent culture language bank session. The format is close to a conversation: We gather in little groups using different languages. We pick words or concepts from culture consent up and exchange about them. There is no place for the “I know” position, it’s all about sharing and listening and being transformed by the words. We created this practice because we want to root consent culture in our non-American cultures and be able to translate the concepts into other languages.

We are 5 artist-activists Sarah Gottlieb living in Madrid, Stéphanie Auberville in Brussels, Kata Kovács in Berlin, Lea Richtmann in Geneva and Devin Pastika Oakland/Berkeley with different backgrounds as sound-artist, choreographer, dancer, all linked with the social justice activism as feminist and queer. We are speaking French, German, Hungarian, English as first language and using Spanish, French, German, English in the everydays. 
 

The political relevance of some CI principles
Pedro Penuela, Brazil
Lecture, English
Keywords: Politics
Room A: 4:00pm – 4:55pm

In this lecture I’ll expose and open to discussion some of what I consider important political implications of CI principles such as: an expanded and decelerated sense of time; a critical approach of resistance; the subversion of a cultural demand for productivity and a complex and expanded notion of community.

Pedro Penuela is a dancer based in the coast of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He’s also a Psychologist and PhD in Performing Arts, having investigated the work of Steve Paxton and other two dance artists (Kazuo Ohno and Pina Bausch), under a philosophical approach regarding the theme of presence.
 

CI as an Opportunity to Acknowledge and Transcend Hegemony
Fatima Adamu-Good, USA
Lecture, English
Keywords: Race, Equity
Room C: 4:00pm – 4:55pm

How do I surrender to the unique rhythms of CI while inhabiting a marginalized body? How do I process the dehumanizing, degrading and demoralizing connotations of race while flying in a duet? Surrender? Resist? CI challenges me to be intimate with a body that has been subjugated and reviled for so much of its history. CI’s equitable future will require acknowledgement and reflection on this distinct facet of human existence.

Fatima is a mover, singer, writer and painter who practices occupational therapy with a focus on geriatrics and the upper extremity. She has been a CI dancer for 12 years.
 

Between Sessions 2 and 3 Listening Session with Earthdance

5:30-7:00pm

FofCI Café (Please see participants’ Hub page for link)

This is a space for sharing; a place for participants to voice thoughts, concerns, and questions in regards to Earthdance and the conference themes. Earthdance representatives will be there to listen and respond in dialogue, sharing Earthdance current Equity & Access work as relevant.

We do assume there will be ends left open. We assume we will not be able to properly address the complexity of personal experiences and harm done. We do hope this space is supportive of a dialogue and for folks to feel heard and seen. We can offer follow-up for open ends. We intend to offer a follow-up listening session after the conference, date and time to be sent in follow-up email. 

This is an open container, you are invited to enter and exit this space. We ask that attendees review and keep in mind the Community Agreements and to use the “raise hand” button if you’d like to speak. 
This session will not be recorded.

If you prefer to email your thought/question, you can do so at feedback@earthdance.net

Words from space holders: 
 

Amii LeGendre (she/hers)

I encountered Earthdance 15 years ago and have returned many times as a participant, community member, and teacher. I’ve been on the Board for 3 years, and the Board President for under a year. I am a social worker, dancer, and mother.  I aim to collaborate with those who guide this organization and the people who are touched by it while reckoning with the power and privilege that comes with Board membership. I am moved by past leaders, teachers, and community members who have used their considerable improvisation skills toward greater equity, access and accountability. 

– Earthdance Board Member since Fall 2018. Serving on the Equity & Access Committee, past presence on Programming Committee and the temporarily inactive Earthdance Institute Committee.

Meta Bobbe (she/hers)

Since moving to the area in 2017, I have been an active and excited participant at Earthdance. Compared to many, I am a ‘newbie’ and it is with this lens I acknowledge the complexity of the past and how it creates and affects current Earthdance culture.  I acknowledge my position as a board member holds a lot of power and privilege in the community and aim to be responsible and be held accountable in my decisions and actions and non-actions. 

– Earthdance Board Member since March 2020. Currently serving on Board Committees: Equity & Access and Programming Committee. Earthdance CICo Member since Spring 2019.

Sunday, Session 3

Invenciones y reinvenciones, estrategias para seguir en contacto durante la pandemia. 
Inventions and reinventions, strategies for continuing with Contact during the pandemic.
Elisa, Laura y Yasmin (Epiico, Mexico) + Cristina Turdo, Andrea Fernández, Laura Barceló y Paula Zacharías (Argentina)
Panel, En español/Spanish with translation
Keywords: Pandemic,Context
Room A: 8:00pm – 9:25pm

Encuentro e intercambio entre practicantes de CI sobre sus experiencias de movimiento durante el distanciamiento social, para la retroalimentación y motivación hacia el futuro. (Panel en español)

Encounter and exchange between CI practitioners about their experiences of movement during the social distancing, for feedback and motivation towards the future. (Panel in Spanish)

Colectivo EPIICOse crea en 2014 para investigar, practicar y difundir la Improvisación de Contacto en México. A lo largo de siete años ha gestado más de 20 talleres con profesores de distintas nacionalidades. Ha celbrado seis encuentros nacionales y ha creado 2 piezas coreográficas, Somos y Ser Manada.

In 2014, EPIICO Collective was created to investigate, practice and spread Contact Improvisation in Mexico. Over seven years, more than twenty workshops have been held with teachers of different nationalities. They have organised six national meetings and created two choreographic pieces, Somos y Ser Manada.

Cristina Turdo es investigadora, maestra y activista del CI desde los”80. Docente titular de CI en la Universidad Nacional de las Artes, y en los Posgrados “Nuevas Tendencias de la Danza”, y “Danza Movimiento Terapia”. Co-coordina el Global UnderScore en Bs As desde el año 2000. Estudió y se formó en Medicina China, Masaje Shiatzu; práticas somáticas como BMC, y en Lenguajes Sagrados. Es practicante Zen desde más 20 años. Creó el Proyectro “Expandiendo Fronteras” que alienta el intercambio del CI con maestres y practicantes de todo el mundo. Vive en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Andrea Fernández. Bailarina y maestra involucrada en el estudio, la práctica y la enseñanza del Contact Improvisación desde hace más de 30 años.Docente certificada y Formadora de formadores en el Método DanceAbility®️. Co-directora del proyecto Danza Sin Límites cuya misión es promover la diversidad en la danza. Dancer and teacher involved in the study, practice and teaching of Contact Improvisation for over 30 years. Certified teacher and trainer of trainers in the DanceAbility®️ Method. Co-director of the project Danza Sin Límites whose mission is to promote diversity in dance.

Laura Barceló. Bailarina, maestra, estudiante y difusora del CI involucrada en la práctica desde hace más de 30 años. Investiga en técnicas de toque terapéutico y educación somática (Osteopatía y BMC®️, entre otras). Formada también en artes escénicas y visuales. Trabaja además en paisajismo comestible mediante talleres y proyectos agroecológicos. Dancer, teacher, student and disseminator of CI involved in the practice for more than 30 years. Researches in therapeutic touch techniques and somatic education (Osteopathy and BMC®️, among others). She is also trained in performing and visual arts. She works in edible landscaping through workshops and agroecological projects.

Paula Zacharías. Docente, bailarina e investigadora independiente. Involucrada en la práctica, promoción y enseñanza del CI desde hace más de 30 años. Prof. de Técnica Alexander. Fotógrafa, videasta y Lic.en Ciencias de la comunicación. Formada además en danza contemporánea y Butoh. Su trabajo actual está inspirado en las prácticas de Tuning scores (de Lisa Nelson) para la improvisación y composición escénicas. Independent teacher, dancer and investigator.Involved in the practice, promotion and teaching of ci for more than 30 years. Alexander Technique teacher. Photographer, videomaker and Bachelor in Communication Sciences. Also trained in contemporary dance and Butoh. Her current work is inspired by the practices of Tuning scores (by Lisa Nelson) for improvisation and scenic composition.

Unísonos en contacto : Ritual de la pequeña danza/
Unisons In Contact : Small Dance Ritual
Andrea Fernandez, Paula Zacharias, Laura Barcelo (Argentina)
Movement Workshop, En español/Spanish with translation
Keywords: Movement, Reflecting
Rooms A and B: 9:30pm – 9:55pm

Práctica de la pequeña danza al unísono con un momento intermedio de improvisación.
Practice of the small dance in unison with an intervening moment of improvisation.

Andrea Fernández. Bailarina y maestra involucrada en el estudio, la práctica y la enseñanza del Contact Improvisación desde hace más de 30 años.Docente certificada y Formadora de formadores en el Método DanceAbility®️. Co-directora del proyecto Danza Sin Límites cuya misión es promover la diversidad en la danza. Dancer and teacher involved in the study, practice and teaching of Contact Improvisation for over 30 years. Certified teacher and trainer of trainers in the DanceAbility®️ Method. Co-director of the project Danza Sin Límites whose mission is to promote diversity in dance.

Laura Barceló. Bailarina, maestra, estudiante y difusora del CI involucrada en la práctica desde hace más de 30 años. Investiga en técnicas de toque terapéutico y educación somática (Osteopatía y BMC®️, entre otras). Formada también en artes escénicas y visuales. Trabaja además en paisajismo comestible mediante talleres y proyectos agroecológicos. Dancer, teacher, student and disseminator of CI involved in the practice for more than 30 years. Researches in therapeutic touch techniques and somatic education (Osteopathy and BMC®️, among others). She is also trained in performing and visual arts. She works in edible landscaping through workshops and agroecological projects.

Paula Zacharías. Docente, bailarina e investigadora independiente. Involucrada en la práctica, promoción y enseñanza del CI desde hace más de 30 años. Prof. de Técnica Alexander. Fotógrafa, videasta y Lic.en Ciencias de la comunicación. Formada además en danza contemporánea y Butoh. Su trabajo actual está inspirado en las prácticas de Tuning scores (de Lisa Nelson) para la improvisación y composición escénicas. Independent teacher, dancer and investigator.Involved in the practice, promotion and teaching of ci for more than 30 years. Alexander Technique teacher. Photographer, videomaker and Bachelor in Communication Sciences. Also trained in contemporary dance and Butoh. Her current work is inspired by the practices of Tuning scores (by Lisa Nelson) for improvisation and scenic composition.
 

Restorative Contact
Gabrielle Revlock, USA
Movement, English
Keywords: Mindfulness, In person partner required
Room B: 8:00pm – 9:25pm

Restorative Contact is a touch-based mindfulness practice. In the workshop you’ll work with your IRL partner as I guide you through a sequence of gentle to moderate weight-sharing, where we slow down, invite stillness, cultivate presence, and allow the body to rest.

Gabrielle Revlock is a Bessie Award-winning choreographer, performer, improviser and creator of Restorative Contact, a mindful touch-based movement practice. She has been a practitioner of contact improvisation since 2003 and is a facilitator of the Brooklyn Contact Jam. More at GabrielleRevlock.com and http://RestorativeContact.com.
 

Politics and CI
Leslie Castellano and others, USA
Facilitated Conversation, English
Keywords: Politics, Social justice, Community organising
Room C: 8:00pm – 8:55pm

In this conversation about politics and CI, conference participants who have experience engaging with social/environmental justice work, electoral politics, and/or community organizing will come together to share their experiences and talk about the ways CI has affected their work and how it could be used in the future.

Leslie Castellano is a community organizer, contact improvisation practitioner (20 years), performing artist, and politician (city council) living in Eureka, California. Principles of CI guide her political practice.
 

Intentional Reemergence: dreaming the aftertime
Nicole Bindler, USA
Lecture, English
Keywords: Equity, Pandemic
Room C: 9:00pm – 9:55pm

In January 2021 I taught a workshop series in which participants dreamed, schemed, and moved together online using tools from consent practices and polyvagal theory to envision rebuilding CI in ways that tangibly address the inequities laid bare by the pandemic. In this lecture I will share ideas we crowdsourced for a thINKingDANCE article from those conversations.

Nicole Bindler is a dance-maker, Body-Mind Centering® practitioner, writer, and activist. Her performance work and teaching have been presented internationally. Her recent projects include teaching about consent culture and disability justice in contact improvisation; somatic research on the embryology of the genitalia from a non-binary perspective; and collaborations with Diyar Theatre in Bethlehem, Palestine.