Contacting…Connecting…Emerging

My first contact improvisation class in SF, its original home. To summarise; listening, awareness, meditation, receptivity….The focus of the class was knowledge - how much does your partner know when you connect and dance together, how much can you give, are willing to give and how much can you receive? I find contact improvisation constantly fascinating and intellectually stimulating; it requires focus, awareness, receptivity and internal strength with external softness. Positing the question, can the body find a balance between reacting and responding, the mover is invited to explore how the body informs one’s knowledge of one’s life. This of course, is a subject of constant flux, dependable on one’s emotional body and its physical openness and that of one’s partner. The beauty in this form, is its very quality to confront and corrode such barriers, to challenge issues of personal space and invite trust into oneself and one’s partner body.Amazing!...