This class is open to all but will be enjoyable and challenging for people with experience of dancing and moving. If you have a specific question please get in touch. All are welcome and do stay for a cup of tea and a chat afterwards!
About Contact Improvisation
Contact Improvisation is a dance-movement practice that deals with the creative and poetic possibilities and limits of moving in physical touch and close proximity without a plan.
Most partner forms of dance emphasise modules of movement and a particular “feel”. In Contact Improvisation the emphasis is rather on understanding the principles of shared movement so that we can simply meet and create dances from there.
Contact Improvisation dances can be slow, fast, gentle, tender, athletic, boisterous and humorous. They are created through the meeting of two people in physical contact with no fixed intention beyond creating a dance together, and with no fixed leadership role.
Because Contact Improvisation approaches movement in an organic and natural way no-one really arrives as a beginner. We all have movement possibilities and we all understand to some extent, momentum, support, how to bear weight, how to move with and alongside someone else, how to travel up and down alone or together, how to deal with and enjoy gravity, how to adapt to the decisions and movements of a partner and how to understand and appreciate ones own decisions and intuitions as well as those of other people. Contact Improvisation is founded on this natural understanding and it refines and deepens it, opening up the opportunity for a rich expression of the human improvisatory, poetic, sensibility in interactive movement.
Contact is a key influence on Echo Echo's unique movement style and Artistic Director, Steve Batts, describes Contact as "one of the great joys in my life".
Echo Echo regularly hosts Contact Improvisation workshops, classes, performances and jams over the last 20 years.
Festival Tickets
Alternatively please get in touch with us:
Email: info@echoechodance.com
Phone (NI): 02871308883
Phone (ROI): 04871308883
Phone (Int'l): +442871308883
Box Office: Call into Echo Echo Studios, Hangman's Bastion, Magazine Street
Ticket Prices
Ockham's Razor £12 Full / £10 Conc / £8 - Under 16yrs / Group of 4 for £35
Collective B / Mixed Bill / Ferenc Fehér - £10 / £8
Ayesha Mailey - £8 / £6
Nic Gareiss £8 / £6 (pre-booking essential)
Echo Echo Ensemble £5 / £15 for group of 4
CAAKE performance Donations (Tue) / £5 (Sat)
Classes £5
Symposium Free
Festival Party with Bounce £5
Festival Passes
Performance Pass £50
Access All Events £70
Groups
Discounts for larger groups may be available by prior arrangement. Please contact Echo Echo Festival box office 02871308883 in advance.
Access information
Our sincere apologies - still no wheelchair access at Echo Echo Studios due to technical defect with platform lift, despite our best efforts. Several Festival events are programmed in other accessible venues and locations. Please contact us if you have a specific access requirement or query and we will be very happy to help.
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