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Experimental Contact Improvisation Laboratory

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Course conducted by Giovanni Zappulla

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what is contact improvisation?

It is a form of movement based on the spontaneous interaction of two or more people playing with mass, momentum and gravity. Pulse, weight and speed are communicated through a physical contact point that includes listening to each other and cultivating strength and sensitivity. Started by its founder Steve Paxton as a space for community interaction, since the 1980s it has been used extensively in the training of contemporary dancers in many conservatories and dance academies worldwide.

Founded by a group of New York dancers led by Steve Paxton, CI is a movement technique born in the early 70s, as a search for new possibilities of movement through physical and sensory contact. It is based on mutual trust and fluidity. It uses the force of gravity and the floor as two partners: moving while maintaining contact with each other, trying to solve every action in simple and continuous steps. Enhance relationship skills and sensory perception. The body is educated in weight, in dynamic weight, in space / time, and thus acquires a personal awareness that allows it to master the very laws of physics. CI also drew upon other techniques and disciplines in its development: Aikido, TaiChi, meditation, gymnastics and dance.

Initially practiced as a training for dancers, it is now definitively recognized as one of the most practiced contemporary dance techniques.

The jam is a space-time in which the users of the Contact Improvisation technique meet to dance together in a spontaneous way (it is not a lesson). Anyone with knowledge of the technique and / or just curious can try their hand at dancing in the jam. a warm-up or technical introduction to the movement. In the jams there can be musicians playing live, Replicated stereo music.

What is a CONTACT JAM?

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