Dancing with Gravity: Improvisational movement workshops with Jesse Johnson
In this six session series, we will open up our creativity and expression by exploring the sacred energy of play through movement and dance.
Each week we will explore a different theme using contact improvisation, moving meditations, movement games and scores to cultivate our skills as movers and improvisers. Participants will:
Mondays 6:00 - 8:15pm, April 14 - May 19, 2014
The Bhakti Center
25 1st Ave, 2nd Fl.
NY, NY
$120 early bird registration
$150 after April 6
In this six session series, we will open up our creativity and expression by exploring the sacred energy of play through movement and dance.
Each week we will explore a different theme using contact improvisation, moving meditations, movement games and scores to cultivate our skills as movers and improvisers. Participants will:
- dance and move with more freedom, comfort, flexibility, ease and expressiveness in all contexts including “jamming” with a group
- develop concrete skills in improvising while dancing with a partner (of many forms) including contact improvisation
- deepen listening skills
- have fun while releasing inhibitions
- collaborate
- cultivate and nurture a dance practice that you can take with you anywhere
Mondays 6:00 - 8:15pm, April 14 - May 19, 2014
The Bhakti Center
25 1st Ave, 2nd Fl.
NY, NY
$120 early bird registration
$150 after April 6
"The prerequisites of creation are playfulness, love, concentration, practice, skill, using the power of limits, using the power of mistakes, risk, surrender, patience, courage and trust." - Stephen Nachmanovitch
Jesse's Bio:
Co-founder of Artist Ashram, long time dancer and teacher of contact improvisation, Jesse is delighted to have the opportunity to dive deeply into playful, co-creative, improvisational art making. As a mediation and math teacher, Jesse is a master educator and creates an amazing container for transformation. This Dancing with Gravity workshop series will change your relationship to your body and expand your freedom both in dancing and in all aspects of living.
Jesse's Bio:
Co-founder of Artist Ashram, long time dancer and teacher of contact improvisation, Jesse is delighted to have the opportunity to dive deeply into playful, co-creative, improvisational art making. As a mediation and math teacher, Jesse is a master educator and creates an amazing container for transformation. This Dancing with Gravity workshop series will change your relationship to your body and expand your freedom both in dancing and in all aspects of living.
