Contact Improvisation - the art of flowing pathways - 31 July 2016, Brisbane
1:15-4:30pm Hamilton Town Hall
Contact improvisation is a dance between two or more people, using a point of contact to explore new intuitive ways of moving and interacting. In this workshop we will focus on the concept of counterbalance and practising pathways between one form of balance to the next. We will reaffirm the basic skills through sequential activities that encourage profound contact, listening, and constant flow through space. Contact improvisation is lots of fun and a fantastic tool for cultivating mindfulness and enriching our movement with physical and emotive presence. Open to everyone of all abilities.
Price: Early Bird $50 (...if paid before 17 July); $65 if paid after.
https://www.trybooking.com/Booking/BookingEventSummary.aspx?eid=209942
Contact improvisation is a dance between two or more people, using a point of contact to explore new intuitive ways of moving and interacting. In this workshop we will focus on the concept of counterbalance and practising pathways between one form of balance to the next. We will reaffirm the basic skills through sequential activities that encourage profound contact, listening, and constant flow through space. Contact improvisation is lots of fun and a fantastic tool for cultivating mindfulness and enriching our movement with physical and emotive presence. Open to everyone of all abilities.
Price: Early Bird $50 (...if paid before 17 July); $65 if paid after.
https://www.trybooking.com/Booking/BookingEventSummary.aspx?eid=209942
Past workshop examples
The Art of Contact Improvisation
April 2016
In this workshop Rita will guide you through her latest creative exercises that explore counterbalance, momentum, listening through touch, reactivity, and blind folded spatial exploration.
Absolutely no dance experience required, this is an inclusive event.
Absolutely no dance experience required, this is an inclusive event.
I really enjoyed Contact, I was delighted to witness all the narratives and connections that arise from spontaneous movement, such great tool for devising theatre! In a personal note I enjoyed exploring movement without justifying actions, it was a great tool for active meditation and mindfulness. There's much more, it was an enriching opportunity, I want to learn and practice more! And of course, there is you. You are a great facilitator: gentle yet direct, friendly and creative, bold and inspiring. - Olga
Thank you for a really beautiful class yesterday. The activities were creative and expressive and I am feeling refreshed, grounded in my body and inspired! I can't wait to do it again. ~ Georgia
Thanks Rita for an exquisite afternoon of connection, exploration and fun! Great workshop. ~ Marcus
Beautiful Spins and Space Sequences
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Contact Improvisation: Deeply knowing momentum
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CONTEMPORARY/ MIDDLE EASTERN FUSION CHOREOGRAPHY
PROUDLY PRESENTED BY SOUL DANCE
22 November 2015, Kedron
Recently inspired by the DisOrientation project performed by Amber Hansen, Rita is creating a choreography that brings together her experience - in dance and visceral emotion - of being between worlds. Drawing on contemporary dance, physical theatre, Middle Eastern dance and American Tribal Style (R) Bellydance, Rita's offering will represent an uncanny and dialectic force - encouraging dancers to embrace a broad range of technique and divergent performance dynamics.
The choreography is to an evocative song from the Blak soundtrack (Bangarra Dance Company), representing another layer of conversation between cultures.
This workshop involves some floorwork and task work in the contemporary dance tradition.
PROUDLY PRESENTED BY SOUL DANCE
22 November 2015, Kedron
Recently inspired by the DisOrientation project performed by Amber Hansen, Rita is creating a choreography that brings together her experience - in dance and visceral emotion - of being between worlds. Drawing on contemporary dance, physical theatre, Middle Eastern dance and American Tribal Style (R) Bellydance, Rita's offering will represent an uncanny and dialectic force - encouraging dancers to embrace a broad range of technique and divergent performance dynamics.
The choreography is to an evocative song from the Blak soundtrack (Bangarra Dance Company), representing another layer of conversation between cultures.
This workshop involves some floorwork and task work in the contemporary dance tradition.
Rita - today you bent my mind and body in all sorts of new ways. It was exciting, enthralling, challenging and rewarding. It was a great experience and I'm super happy I participated.
Workshop participant: Dominique
Intuitive Dance
Workshop with Rita Markwell
National Folk Festival, Canberra
Mon, 6 April 2015, 9:30am @ Coorong
The ability to dance freely and gracefully comes from a intuitive part of our brain that can grow stronger through exercise. This workshop uses fun activities (including contact improvisation) to make movement and dance a sublime experience for ordinary men and women of all abilities
Workshop with Rita Markwell
National Folk Festival, Canberra
Mon, 6 April 2015, 9:30am @ Coorong
The ability to dance freely and gracefully comes from a intuitive part of our brain that can grow stronger through exercise. This workshop uses fun activities (including contact improvisation) to make movement and dance a sublime experience for ordinary men and women of all abilities
Contact Improvisation, The Art of Letting Go
Sunday 2 November 2014, 1-4pm Vida Yoga Fitness Studios, Annerley, Brisbane
A modern dance tradition originating from the USA in the 1970s, contact improvisation is a free flowing dance that starts from a point of contact between two or more dancers. It explores the nature of moving contact, use of momentum, surrender, weight transfer, balance, emotional connection and amongst more experienced dancers, body lifting and rolls. It is best carried out in a state of 'headlessness' without thinking and planning, and can be a very healing and uplifting experience for participants. It is often taught in university dance education and used to develop natural looking, complex and fluid performances by choreographers. Rita absolutely loves to teach and practise contact improvisation, which she calls the art of letting go.
Sunday 2 November 2014, 1-4pm Vida Yoga Fitness Studios, Annerley, Brisbane
A modern dance tradition originating from the USA in the 1970s, contact improvisation is a free flowing dance that starts from a point of contact between two or more dancers. It explores the nature of moving contact, use of momentum, surrender, weight transfer, balance, emotional connection and amongst more experienced dancers, body lifting and rolls. It is best carried out in a state of 'headlessness' without thinking and planning, and can be a very healing and uplifting experience for participants. It is often taught in university dance education and used to develop natural looking, complex and fluid performances by choreographers. Rita absolutely loves to teach and practise contact improvisation, which she calls the art of letting go.
