Contact Improvisation is a partnering dance form which arises from the communication between bodies through touch. The technique focuses on giving and supporting weight, and coordinating with gravity and momentum, to create spontaneous relational dances. The emergent nature of this dance form challenges dancers to listen and adapt to another’s physical impulses, states, and creative impulses while tracking their own sensations.
Contact Improvisation is both a come-as-you-are practice (meaning anyone can join) and a skill-based practice (why people keep coming back). It's been called an "art-sport" and "exercise-massage".
These drop-in classes are taught by Gabrielle Revlock and will be held at 100 Grand St, New York, NY 10012. Ring "Bill Young Dance 2nd Floor" and take the stairs.
Gabrielle Revlock is a creator, performer, improviser, collaborator, and educator. She is a New York City Bessie Award-winning choreographer and has been a practitioner of Contact Improvisation (CI) for over 20 years. Her research on therapeutic touch and movement is published in Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50 and has been presented at various conferences including CI@50, the Embodiment Conference, Dance & Somatics Conference, European Contact Improvisation Teachers' Exchange (ECITE), and the Future of CI Conference. As a CI teacher, recent teaching engagements include the Ontario Regional Contact Improv Dance Jam, Montreal Annual Jam pre-festival, DNE Dance Camp, The School for Contemporary Dance & Though, Soho Contact Improv Collective, West Cost Contact Improvisation Jam (wcciJam), Salt Spring Island Contact Improvisation Festival, Brince Galicia Contact Festival, and Earthdance. As a dancer, Gabrielle has performed for Lucinda Childs, Makini (jumatatu m. poe), Susan Rethorst, David Gordon, Bebe Miller & Angie Hauser, Christopher Williams, Alex Davis, Vicky Shick, Bill Young, Almanac Dance Circus Theater, Jane Comfort, and Susan Marshall. Revlock holds an MFA in Dance from Smith College. To learn more about her creative projects, visit GabrielleRevlock.com
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