A two day Contact Improve workshop: CLOUD TECTONICS: LIFT, LOFT & DRIFT IN w/Ezra LeBank
September 30th, Saturday 12:15pm-6pm
October 1st, Sunday 12:15pm-3pm
Regular: $150
Low Income: $120
Supporting: $180+
**$20 discount on all prices for POC Participants.
REGISTER: https://forms.gle/LYthDYHn6krg5iSs8
Is it possible for us to fly and fall without noticing much? Can the drift inherent in momentum compel us toward intuitive pathways above and along each other?
We will begin with Dirt Work: physical training to expand, integrate, and ready our bodies in conversation with gravity and the earth to prepare for Cloud Tectonics – work that aims to reframe our experiences of lift, loft, and drift. Detailed and buoyant exercises will guide us toward a dancing experience that feels full of abundant and radically free choice-making in vertical and spherical space for both ourselves and those we dance with. Instead of relying on each other, we imagine a dance we co-create amidst simultaneous independence and communion while in flight.
Arrive prepared to sweat, learn, and play. All levels are welcome. All are welcome, some previous CI experiences assumed.
Ezra LeBank is a Professor of Movement at California State University Long Beach. Meditation, Aikido, and acrobatics work their way into his curiosity of CI. His approach is inspired by many wonderful teachers including Nancy Stark Smith, Ray Chung, Mike Vargas, Nita Little, and Andrew Harwood. He has been invited as a teacher at International Contact Festival Freiburg, West Coast Contact Improv Jam, Seattle Festival for Dance Improvisation, Poland Contact Festival, Oberlin CI@50, and many more. Through his research company Bad Goat Dance, he studies Dirt Work & Cloud Tectonics as methods of bringing ourselves closer to the earth and to each other.
Photo credit: @EricAllenPhoto