Alicia Grayson of the TumbleBones CI Collective is back in Asheville all the way from Colorado!
Swimming in the Ocean of Possibility: Contact Improvisation and Mindfulness
This workshop offers specific explorations in Contact Improvisation and embodied mindfulness practices, guiding us toward fully engaged presence. Whether you are brand new to C.I. or mindfulness practices or a long time practitioner, engaged presence and embodied action are available to all of us.We will draw on meditation, Body Mind Centering, Authentic Movement and visualizations as we move in and out of solo and partner dancing. Our mindfulness practice will enhance our fluency with important CI skills, such as refining our sensitivity in listening and responding to touch, following the point of contact, giving and receiving weight with ease and using momentum.
Cultivating presence allows us to be open in any moment to an infinite number of choices in the dance. For those new to CI, you will be supported to listen deeply to your whole body self as you attune to your partner, creating the ground for delicious dancing, based in listening, awareness and spontaneous action.
For those of us who have practiced CI for years we can become habituated to particular choices and find ourselves unconsciously swimming in the same pattern, body system or tempo. This series will help us recognize that a multitude of choices are available at any moment, allowing a whole new world of experience to emerge.
Time:
Saturday Feb. 13th 12-6pm
Sunday Feb. 14th 10am-5pm
Sunday Feb. 14th 10am-5pm
Cost:
Suggested Sliding Scale
$75-150 for whole workshop
$50-100 for Saturday only
$60-110 for Sunday**
**Sunday only attendance by permission only. Please contact if you’d like to attend only on Sunday. Open to those with previous CI experience only.**
That’s what we need to average to put this event on. Pay what you feel is right for your financial situation and how much you value the offering. It can be above or below the scale range.
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Location:
About the Teacher:
Alicia Grayson has been passionately involved with dancing, teaching and performing CI for the past 27 years. She has taught contact improvisation as an adjunct faculty at George Washington University, University of Denver, Naropa University and Shenandoah University. She teaches CI, yoga and pilates classes in Boulder and regularly travels nationally and internationally to teach. Her long time practices of authentic movement, yoga and meditation are important influences on her dancing and teaching. She is a certified Hakomi Therapist and Perinatal Somatic Therapist. She delights in exploring and discovering new depths to contact improvisation and related disciplines and is particularly interested int he intersection of physics and expression and the mind/body relationship.
