Listening, Following, Supporting, Floating
A Contact Improvisation workshop
with Karl Frost
4/5 July
Kyiv, Ukraine
100% of Karl’s profit from teaching in Ukraine goes to drone defense!
As with most Body Research events, this workshop is “no one turned away for lack of funds”. This means pay what you can in the sliding scale range, and if you can’t afford the lower end, write a note and we can work something out.
This workshop focuses on CI as experiential art practice and research in biomechanical play. We hold a frame of CI explorations as body and physics-based explorations of bodies moving in physical contact.
Listening: What is it that we listen to when we listen to a partner?
Following: When we “hear” something while listening, what does it mean to “follow” it?
Supporting and Floating: as we provide stable support with easy pathways out of and back into the floor, we create an environment where the person being supported is better able to listen and feel and thereby follow and adapt. When we emphasize the feeling of “floating” while being supported or lifted instead of forcing, we allow the support to adapt and offer more diverse, adaptive possibilities.
I’ve been having a lot of really interesting experiences recently diving into different interpretations of “listening” and “following”, mixing well with explorations of ease in support and floating through lifts. By focusing on calm in motion, we start to sense our way through more dynamic movement together, playfully adapting with each other to the unknown.
The workshop will be a mix of technical exercises and open explorations of ideas, going back and forth between the more meditative and the more athletic.
Logistics
Registration and Fees
For information on registration and fees, write Hasia Ola: Olyahas@gmail.com
As with most Body Research events, this workshop is “no one turned away for lack of funds”. This means pay what you can in the sliding scale range, and if you can’t afford the lower end, write a note and we can work something out.
bio: Karl Frost has been teaching and performing contact and related work in body-based creative process since the late 1980s. He is known internationally for his dynamic and articulate movement style, rigor in physical research and teaching, and for the edge-pushing nature of his work in both practice and performance. His work, influenced by studies in contemporary release technique, Alexander technique, and martial arts, has been showcased across the US, Canada, Europe, and South America. His performances, via Body Research Physical Theater, take the body and emotionally and physically felt experience as their reference points, often in highly audience interactive frameworks.
Karl holds a PhD in Ecology (emphasis in Human Ecology and Cultural Evolution Theory), and MFA in Dramatic Arts, and a BA in Physics. He is currently a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig, Germany).