Faces Of CI Marriki

Welcome to Faces of CI - the podcast of conversations in Contact Improvisation. We are joined today by our newest graduate of our Momentum Contact Facilitator Training - Andy Chen (USA / Portugal) ● From the episode "I really love the jams where I get to dance with a lot of bodies. There's a little feeling of "ok, I had a dance and it wasn't that great" But I still went back in. Then I had a nice dance. That idea that it's always different, and I get to choose to have another chance of feeling joy. For me that's a big change in my mindset. Where in other forms of activities, I might just leave and not come back. For some reason with contact, I keep wanting to go back. That's what it's about." ● Join our next trainings online and in person at www.momentum-contact.com Find Andy on Instagram @casa_eira and @charlopants and us @facesofci Dance later, Aalia

Welcome to Faces of CI - the podcast of conversations in Contact Improvisation. We are joined live from one of our Momentum Beginners Contact Workshops with.. our students! Yes, I wanted to share their voices and insights on the practice about what it means to "move authentically" and "be a dancer". Tune in to find out more. ● ONLINE 

www.momentum-contact.com & Instagram @facesofci Dance later, Aalia

In this episode we sit with our students in Momentum Contact Workshop, reflecting upon the questions "What is a dancer?" And "What is flow in your body?". I am in awe of my student's shares each time we do this exercise. Names have been withheld for privacy. • Join us for next upcoming Momentum Contact Workshops https://msha.ke/momentumworkshop Find us on Instagram @facesofci - Aalia

Welcome to Faces of CI - the podcast of conversations in Contact Improvisation. Our guests today are our new graduate facilitators from the first edition of Momentum Contact Facilitator Training - Sunny Zheng (Beijing, China) and Janice Chen (Berkeley, USA) /// Sunny : "I just completed the 10 day training with so many takeaways. It’s a journey about exploring my inner self and expanding the boundaries of my world. We learned the history and culture of CI, contact skills, as well as useful and practical skills to not be injured and dance safely. Not just dance but beyond the dance, helping us to become independent facilitators. Before this, I was not sure if I could make it, because maybe I don’t know how to communicate, but it happened naturally in the teaching, because of all that we learned here - with Aalia’s trust and guidance. This is more than knowledge, but confidence and support. I’m so lucky to be a part of this. I can’t wait to share this in my China Contact Community. If you want to be a facilitator, come and join us - it’s so worthwhile!"  // Join our next Momentum Contact Facilitator Training Feb 10 - 19, 2024 in Bali 

www.momentum-contact.com And find us on Instagram @facesofci Dance later, Aalia

Welcome to Faces of CI - conversations in Contact Improvisation. Our guest today is Stuart Phillips, Contact Teacher since 1980's joining us from Victoria, BC, Canada. From his wild roots at Bates College in the 1980's all day improvising to contact as charades on steriods. We chat about CI as weirdness, allowance, shadowwork, and therapeutic relief from our everyday lives. His style of improvisational contact, empahisis on the improvising, internal choice first over flow. Depatterning and deconditioning our "contact moves." "When I'm getting what I need in a dance, its shifting me - so it makes me more open to the world. It takes so much patience. It's such a mystery."
Find out more on www.stulips.org
Join our upcoming Momentum Contact Facilitator Training Feb 10 - 19, 2024 in Bali
www.momentum-contact.com And find us on Instagram @facesofci Dance later, Aalia

Welcome to Faces of CI - conversations in Contact.

Peter Bingham is a force within the world of Contact Improvisation, teaching and creating performance works through his company EDAM Dance in Vancouver, Canada since 1980.

In this episode we discuss his origin story in dance, the physical mechanics of Contact in terms of choreography, his daily morning class for professional dancers, intone voice as hypnotizing state, leading by following, and changes for him with Parkinson's disease.

"EDAM is a place for Contact. And Contact has a place at EDAM. And hopefully that will go on - ad nauseum."

EDAM Dance has been a nest held by Peter, a thread holding a big part of the contact world. It's floors hold "Contact energy" having been graced by Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith, Ray Chung, Nita Little, and many other high level dancers for decades. // Find EDAM's Schedule at www.edamdance.org // Faces of CI and Aalia online //
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