Pause in Motion

photo: Oceana Burke

April 15-17, Liverpool, England

a Contact Improvisation workshop with

Katy Dymoke and Karl Frost

Exploring intersections of CI with somatics and techniques for sensitivity, power, and adaptive presence from the internal martial arts.

Katy and Karl are offering weekend workshops based in Contact Improvisation. We will facilitate lines of inquiry for the group which will involve engaging in fundamental principles of somatic awareness, support and dialogue – with self and other. The senses bring awareness of inner and external impulses and influences, and we respond, this may be imperceptibly fast or a longer term reflective process. Within this process there is pause, and motion in the pause – for assimilation or digestion, or revelation and expression. Let’s see where we go?

DATE AND TIMES: April 15-17^th 2016. Time – Friday 7pm – 10pm, Saturday 12- 6 and Sunday 12-6.

COST: £80 and £50 unwaged. Early registration discount by April 1 £75 and £45 unwaged

REGISTRATION: use the paypal button below to pay or contact Katy at katydymoke@gmail.com

Photo Karl Frost

Daily rate to be considered but preference will go to full weekend participation.

LOCATION: Liverpool John Moores IM Marsh Campus. Barkhill Rd Liverpool.

Closest Mersey Rail station, Aigburth. British Rail, Mossly Hill, West Allerton.

Registration

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Katy Dymoke is a Body-Mind Centering^® BMC^® practitioner and Teacher, she is program director of the licensed programs in the UK. www.embody-move.co.uk As director of Touchdown Dance she has co-created performances and dance film with the company and delivers dance to all ages and abilities. The line of enquiry in her PhD is the use of touch in dance movement psychotherapy as an integrative and integral aspect of human communication. Katy considers Contact Improvisation as more than a movement practice, it establishes a realm in which bodies enact the unspoken and allow inner ‘voices’ to express. With BMC content the movement experience enables the self to relocate in the corporeal – it is like going to the source and finding an infinite palette of possibilities.

Karl Frost (California) has been teaching contact improvisation since the 1980s and directs dance theater and interactive performance work via his company, Body Research (www.bodyresearch.org). His performance work is post-dramatic, being more about revealing real phenomena in the moment than about representation, and has roots in contemporary dance, somatic psychology, martial arts, and Grotowskian paratheatrical exploration. His contact exploration ranges from the dynamic and acrobatic to the sensory and internal/experientially focused. He has developed an approach to contact improvisation, the Passive Sequencing work, that cultivates an awareness of reactivity in one’s own and other’s bodies in order to facilitate more free, aware, and 3 dimensionally dynamic movement. He is also finishing his PhD in Human ecology at the University of California, Davis, where he studies the somatic influences on human cooperation and conflict.