Contact Improv Workshop, 7/22

arthursimone · Post by **arthursimone** » July 13th, 2006, 1:06 pm

â€œThe earth is much bigger than you are so you'd better learn to co-ordinate with it.â€

beardedlamb · Post by **beardedlamb** » July 13th, 2006, 1:17 pm

i'm surprisingly all about this. i have a strange fascination with contact improv. i think it reveals many things about other players and simplifies so many fundamental improv rules. it also becomes meditative and mind-flushing after you've been doing it for an hour or so.

much can be learned about improv when talking is not involved.

i'm there.

b

Rachel · Post by **Rachel** » July 19th, 2006, 4:10 pm

will the floors be cleaned first?

thank you,
Anal Annie
: )

arthursimone · Post by **arthursimone** » July 19th, 2006, 4:30 pm

I'm totally gonna clean the green room floor, move some of the junk out temporarily to make more floor space.

Rachel · Post by **Rachel** » July 19th, 2006, 4:57 pm

acrouch · Post by **acrouch** » July 20th, 2006, 12:14 am

I would like to take this workshop that terrifies me.

arthursimone · Post by **arthursimone** » July 20th, 2006, 10:05 am

acrouch wrote:I would like to take this workshop that terrifies me.

precisely why you should take it!

seriously, though, I don't want anyone to be intimidated by this. I ain't making you do plies or spinny twisty golden handstands, I'm just teaching Contact. And Contact is FUN!

arthursimone · Post by **arthursimone** » July 21st, 2006, 12:53 pm

someone asked so here:

I hold a degree in theatre from Oberlin College, with a minor in dance. The Theatre program was in the same building as the Dance, so that was kind of hard to avoid. Contact Improvisation was first performed at Oberlin in 1972, so the program proudly offers several levels of instruction, all of which I fell in love with.

Contact attributes its success to its accessibility. In addition to 'regular' dancers, fellow performers included stoned-beyond-belief hippies, out-of-shape actors wanting to connect with their bodies, fiftysomething professors... there was even this blind math major who signed on and blew everyone's minds with his absolute committment and trust.

1pm tomorrow! Come dressed in something comfortable.

arthursimone · Post by **arthursimone** » July 22nd, 2006, 10:23 am

TODAY!
1pm!