Saturday CI Workshop: Terrestrial Oddities

Acland Burghley School studios, Tufnell Park

Saturday May 18th, 2-7pm

In this workshop, we will explore the intricacies of working close to the floor in groups.

Carrying on from Aerial Oddities, we will be exploring trios but this time rooting deeply downward so our bodies will become terrain for each other.

Multiple partners will allow us to spread our weight into multiple points of contact and into new possibilities.

I will be breaking down the dropping under / following on technique, which I think is the key to improving CI dancing.

As always with my workshops, you can choose your own level of challenge. Technical study will evolve into free Contact Dancing, where we can explore and integrate new learnings into improvisation.

This workshop is open to beginners.

Saturday CI Workshop: Spacial Oddities

Acland Burghley School studios, Tufnell Park

Saturday June 22nd, 2-7pm

As always with my workshops, you can choose your own level of challenge. Technical study will evolve into free Contact Dancing, where we can explore and integrate new learnings into improvisation.

Where: Acland Burghley School Sports Centre, Churchill Rd, London NW5 1AN (5 minute walk from Tufnell Park Tube, 10 mins walk from Gospel Oak Overground, 12 mins walk from Kentish Town Thameslink)

Tickets: £30 (£25 Concessions), Jam only £10

Info: dancenodine@gmail.com

Saturday Contact Improvisation Workshops & Jams

Acland Burghley School studios, Tufnell Park

Next dates: May 18th and June 22nd

Where: Acland Burghley School Sports Centre, Churchill Rd, London NW5 1AN (5 minute walk from Tufnell Park Tube, 10 mins walk from Gospel Oak Overground, 12 mins walk from Kentish Town Thameslink)

Who’s it for? Everyone

Tickets: £30 (£25 Concessions), Jam only £10

Info: dancenodine@gmail.com

Contact in Cambridge

St Philip's Church, Cambridge

Saturday June 29th, 10:30am to 4:00pm

As always with my workshops, you can choose your own level of challenge. Technical study will evolve into free Contact Dancing, where we can explore and integrate new learnings into improvisation.

This workshop is open to beginners

Who’s it for? Everyone

Tickets: £40 (£35 Concessions)

Info: dancenodine@gmail.com

Pattern Recognition

Our bodies are pattern recognition machines, from the synaptic patterns our neuroplastic brains build when we learn something new to our ability to perceive when an image, movement or sound repeats. We learn and reuse patterns all the time when we improvise. In this workshop I will teach some classic CI patterns as choreography to be learned and then I will point to the core principles embedded within these movements for discussion and exploration. Various invitations to improvise using these principles with or without the patterns will highlight the drift from known to unknown that is so common within CI pedagogy.