Contact Improvisation is a dance form started in 1972 by the American choreographer Steve Paxton and other dancers. It proposes an improvised dialogue between bodies through touch, focusing on physical elements such as gravity, leverages, momentum, friction, centripetal and centrifugal forces, spirals, among others, that provide many possibilities for exploring and improvising.

In this class we will explore one of the main principles of this dance form, which is the exchange of weight, working with different ways to sense and manage our weight and organising the structure of the body to receive and give weight, which is also an experimentation about the awareness of our different supports and feelings around trust and safety in the relationship with our and other bodies.

Date & time: September 21th. 16h - 18h

Place: Mezonos 66, floor 2, doorbell Aether / AthenShibari

Short bio:

Pedro Penuela is a dancer, psychologist and PhD in performing arts from Brazil. In his PhD he researched forms of presence in the works of Steve Paxton, Pina Bausch and Kazuo Ohno, having had the opportunity of interviewing Paxton twice. He has been dancing and practicing Contact Improvisation since 2006, having studied with many different teachers such as Nita Little, Ray Chung, Daniel Lepkoff, Otto Ramstad, Lisa Nelson, and many others from different countries. Pedro has given workshops and classes in Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Italy, Israel, France and Greece. In this year he was part of the curating team of the ECITE (European Contact Improvisation Teachers Exchange).

Website: http://pedropenuelaeng.wordpress.com