"Elastic Attention"                                   CI workshop with Anjelika Doniy

14th-16th of February 2025, three days!!!

If you want to join this great workshop, please register here.

 

Times:
Friday: 11 - 18 (incluing 1,5h break)
Saturday 11 - 18 (including 1,5h break)
Sunday 11 - 16 (including 1,5h break)

 

Price:

330 € - 220 € > early bird discount, if payment is received by 14.1.2025
330 € - 280 € > afterwards
Sliding scale: The minimum fee is for people with a low income.

 

 

Place: Triade Tanzforum e.V., Bernstorffstr. 117, 22767 Hamburg

Elastic Attention
For those intrigued by the space between dancing bodies, by what invisibly supports us in the dance, like the air we breathe.  
Attention is what drives us when we are small, and it is what we create our reality with when we are big. How does the witness affect the dancer? How does the dancer affect the witness?
What is the ecological transition from one role to another and back again?
It's the student/teacher relationship within ourselves. 
In this workshop we will explore ourselves as a process of multi-faceted learning: 
  • discipleship and transfer of knowledge, 
  • leading and following, 
  • letting go of roles, "grazing", "fluttering", experiencing ourselves as  elastic's attention, transforming attention, 
  • telescopic awareness, 
  • attention to big and small details.
What interests me: 
  • Dance as such, without names and labels. I will guide you through the territories of dance by touching ancient rhythms, pulses, synchronicities, and spirals.  
  • The shamanic aspect of dance—its primal, life-giving animal in the body. I will offer an exploration of collective, spontaneous movement, where, there is room for flying and falling, connecting and supporting.  
  • Archetypal images revealing their qualities and nourishing vital forces, such as the elements: earth, water, air, fire. 
  • Relaxation techniques that release tension and attune us to the dance itself. 
I am interested in movement within small groups, where there are more than two partners. Moving within the kinespheric space, nurturing awareness of the space behind, and placing disorientation on the dance map. Rewriting our usual speeds.  
Bring notebooks and pens. There will be conversations about meanings, dreams, and wonders.  
Contact Improvisation  
What will be happening?

 

Some fundamentally important aspects of CI, persistently and often trained, such as:
  • Soft contact with the floor.
  • Building your body through touch, bodywork, body integration system and early patterns of movement development.
  • Practice skills of falling and spinning.
  • Somersaults, rolls on the floor by yourself and with a partner.
  • Moving the body up and down, inverted positions and technical secrets.
  • Use of spherical space (360 degrees). Three-dimensional motion trajectories, spiral, curved, rounded lines of motion of the body. These trajectories are closely related to the physical tasks of lifting weight and falling with minimal effort.

 

Through all of which we will try to meet Contact Improvisation.
Exercises are important, but they cannot be more important than contact, flow, interaction of forces, inertia, that is already happening right now.

 

By practicing "Small Dance" we will learn to focus our attention on the inner space of the body.

 

We will meet with moving, rolling, sliding of the point of contact, when contact of two bodies gives importance to the search for mutual spatial trajectories.

 

The secrets of dance are revealed in space. Pauses, back space, entry into and exit from the dance, beginning and end, emptiness and fullness. We will learn to change states. And those states will be many.

About Anjelika

Anjelika Doniy is a dance improviser, choreographer and teacher focused on contact.

 

After 5 years of formal studies of choreography, ballet dance and other stage disciplines at the Higher School of Culture (St-Petersburg), she worked for 10 Years as a theater choreographer. Until…

 

From 2002 she started facilitating first jams and CI workshops in Russia and initiated International Contact Improvisation and Performance Festival in Moscow in 2006–2010.

 

Anjelika is grateful to have met and studied with such teachers as Regine Chopinot, Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith, Danny Lepkoff, Benno Voorham, Lisa Nelson, Esther Gal, Yaniv Mintzer, Martin Keo and many others.