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​Daniel Mang (International)

International Guest Teacher from London. Daniel Mang has been doing bodywork professionally for the last 25 years and teaching Contact Improvisation since 1990. His movement background includes Aikido, Feldenkrais and Body Mind Centering. 



Workshop Description: Myriad Shades of Touch

This class will be about listening with your skin; speaking through your body; negotiating boundaries; differentiating qualities of touch; altering the „map of the body“; creating new meanings for touch, movement, gesture. To this end, we will refine our perception of inner space and body rhythms, as well as our outer sensory/spatial awareness. We will focus on working with the basic principles of contact improvisation. We’ll also look at ways of combining contact improvisation and bodywork.



www.danielmang.com/content/contact-improvisation



Caterina Mocciola (Sydney)

​Caterina is an enthusiastic CI practitioner, with extensive experience gained during the year she travelled through CI communities around the world. She has been teaching for the past four years in Australia, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, UK and Argentina. She has studied and practiced with many teachers, amongst which Nancy Stark Smith, Martin Keogh, Ray Chung, Gustavo Lecce, Joerg Hassmann and Jess Curtis. She is the founder of the Sydney Sunday Jam and facilitator of the monthly Underscore. In June, she has been part of the "Underscore Extended Workgroup", a research group on the Underscore facilitated by Nancy in London.

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Workshop Description:
Spirals are still the core of my investigation, and recently they have been particularly so as I believe I am understanding more and more their function in the sharing the dance.
In this workshop we will explore the role of the spirals in the dance. Starting from investigating spirals inside our own bodies, we will explore how they inform a particular way of moving, how they allow us to use different body parts in the dance. We will then progress to observing how they allow us to inhabit the space 3-dimensionally and what is their function in reading movement of our dance partner.​
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Ilan Abrahams

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Anne Sorenson (Perth)

is a physical theatre and dance artist. She has been dancing Contact Improvisation (CI) for over a decade and as a Drama Therapist, she uses Theatre to create social change.  Anne has studied and danced CI in London, New York, Rome, Crete and Paris with teachers such as Nancy Stark Smith, Stephanie Maher, Gustavo Lecce and the Lehrer brothers, Jake and Joey, in Australia.  Anne is an active part of the Perth Contact Improvisation Community and hosts the weekly Perth Improvisation Practice.

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Workshop Description: The Backspace Between Us

This workshop explores the back and the space in between dancers, during trios and the jam.  Walking and falling backwards and forwards in trios, Using our lungs and each other, we open the trio up for more trust, spirals, support and space.





Jacob Lehrer (Perth)

Jacob has been a CI practitioner since 1995. He is an organiser and facilitator of the Australian Contact Improvisation Convergance. He works nationally and internationally as a performer, choreographer, director and teacher. Jacob is interested in real-time choreography and 'not knowing'. He approaches CI as a physical dance technique using natural philosophy principles (gravity, momentum, counterbalance, etc.) as his primary tools. 



Workshop Description: States, Skills and Dancing

we will ebb and flow between somatic states and mechanical skills. We will play with the restriction of instruction and the freedom of finding the dance. Working through grounding, flying and disorientation we will create a fertile environment for exploration, fun and dancing.

 





Sholto Spradbury (Perth)

Sholto has been dancing Contact Improvisation for over a decade. His practice is informed by a deep engagement with the Feldenkrais method of 'Awareness Through Movement' and a passion for investigating the possibilities of bodies in motion.​



Workshop Description: Rolling

Rolling - the floor is our first point of contact, and our engagement with and investigation of it enhances our ability to move with others. Various rolling techniques will be explored, both individually and with partners, with a view to bringing a sense of ease and effortlessness to our movements.

 

 









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