CONTACT AND SILENCE – Lior Ophir
Towards the upcoming winter contact silence retreat I was asked to write a “brief text about dance and silence”. Sitting down to write my text, I realize that what I can and what I wish is to share some personal thoughts, feelings and curiosities towards the upcoming meeting. I hope this text can inspire also […]
CONSENT IMPROVISATION – Defne Erdur
silently and gently getting back to touch, reclaiming contact with careAfter a long, precarious period of witnessing our own inner movements and surviving small, confined spaces for moving, maybe witnessing others via online platforms we will now meet in opening bodies in open spaces!As always, we will all be coming from different places and shades […]
YES, WE ARE HAPPY – Alessandro Papalini
Since our project started, we have been able to welcome five wonderful groups of dancing meditators, coping in our own way with the pandemic and all that this entails. It was immediately clear to us, but also to the participants and to the people involved in the project that what we were doing was special, […]
NATURAL RYTHM – Nina Radovanovich
I used to think that I hate a routine and I was always running away from fixed schedules, fixed places and definite time, searching for freedom of making decisions in a moment, guided by my volatile desires. Few years ago, I found myself in an ashram in India, where I had no space for personal […]
IL SILENZIO DEL CORPO – Elisa Ghion
As I think about the next CSR, I wonder what relationship exists between the silence of the word and the silence of the body. It is not easy to speak and listen at the same time. Either you do one thing, or you do the other.The silence of the listener is an active silence, organized to […]
QUANDO IL SILENZIO SI FA DANZA – Michele Marchesani
“Tra un suono e l’altro cerco lo spazio di un gesto, sfiorando confini che da un lato sono musica dall’altro braccio, testa, gambe.” Come sarebbe bello rendere il suono “sospensione” e il silenzio “stabilità”. Invertire il ruolo di chi è “pausa.” Aprire un varco di ricchezza lì dove normalmente si pensa ci sia staticità, […]
YOUR BEST CI DANCE EVER – Anthony Trahair
When you wrap yourself up in SILENCE in nature to DANCE contact and MEDITATE incredible things start to happen! Time stretches, movements become super smooth and delicious, your brain quits dancing and joyfully hands it all over to the body. What I love about the 5 day contact silence retreat is the stillness of being, the […]
HONOR THIS SILENCE – Caterina Mocciola
After months of body silence, I found myself in a slow awakening of sensations, movements, relationships … I realized that there is a lot of energy, partly dictated by the enthusiasm of starting over, of throwing back, of rediscovering.It is my desire to honor this silence, during which the body has had the opportunity to […]
BODY MATTERS – Georgia Petrali
During this “new era of our global pandemic”, I do feel that the essentials of contact improvisation seem to be more relevant than ever. In times where the core of nature and humanity are falling apart, our senses need to dive even deeper into the origins of our own existence, so that we can face […]
CI A SYNAPTIC ARCHITECTURE – Andrew Wass
Part of the learning process for me is taking ideas/thoughts/nuggets/movements/pathways that I have gathered from teachers I have met along the way and modifying them, putting them in different contexts, doing them (in)correctly. Even though I have only taken a few classes from Daniel Lepkoff, I find his text Contact Improvisation: A Question to be quite […]