Nita Little

Somatic Communication: Relational Intelligence in Contact Improvisation

This is a four-day dive into the fabric of touch that is key to our relational practices in the movement of
Contact Improvisation – and for many of us, in the living of life itself. Steeped in somatic communication, this
adventure into our movement life begins within ourselves, but moves outwardly, to where selfhood refuses
to be stable, set and limiting. Instead, its instability is key to its creativity, the play that appears when our
relational communication is fluid, Movement scores throughout the weekend will make this connection. In
this workshop we will form and reform what we know as touch, exploring how this touch translates into the
flow of movement. We increase the strength of our moving together with the human and the more than
human worlds we also are. Creative, thoughtful, heart based, skill based, our learning will be anchored in the core principles of Contact
Improvisation, such as: how to move weight like water – actions of cascading. The details of touching within
weight exchange. The rising and hanging of the body – each mode significant to communication. How
attention lives in the very small. Extending to form surfaces that arc. Learning to trust the physicality of our
extended intelligence. Movement practices include lots of dancing both as skills building and exploration. Although, in many cases
these will be the same thing.
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Logistics:
28. June Friday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
29. June Saturday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
30. June Sunday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
1. July Monday 10:00 am – 4:00 pm