The next lab willl be inspired by Hannah Yohalem’s article: Displacing vision: Contact Improvisation, Anarchy and Empathy. It will offer us a starting point for our physical practice.

We see labbing in Contact Improvisation as a way to question, challenge, and advance the form with our own experimentation. We feel experimentation is a great way to inhabit the form, to make it embodied, current and relevant to the culture, the place and time we live in.

It also feels like a great set up for these challenging pandemic times, as we research together but within the parameter of having a fixed partner.

We want to propose a structure for the 2h lab:
-Led warm-up encompassing Contact Improvisation principles
-Distanced circle and gathering of interests and questions
-Choice of lab topic
-Focused research with our fixed partner (mainly embodied, can also be with written or drawn elements to accompany the research)
-Sharing of findings (the format is flexible)
-Closing circle

Requirements:
– previous experience in contact improvisation
– come with your own partner (either someone you live with or someone who you are in a support bubble with)

Please let us know if you want to attend and who your partner is. The number of participants will be limited to 10