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Contact Improvisation continues to revolutionise the physical potentials of human relations by investigating and challenging the edge of what dancers know, sense, and do together. The edge is physical, but it is also cultural, ideological, and practice based. The edge both frees and limits us, yet it weaves us together into an ecology - dancers and their worlds of motion. It shapes the communication of touch by which we exchange our immediate physical possibility. The edge defines our identity. Yet, if we open it, we are able to know more and identify with an expanded sense of self.
In this Workshop we extend the edge of our knowing and sharing by pressing on current boundaries of space and time, becoming smarter, faster, fuller. With strong technical abilities, our work researches how dancers attend to and share felt experience, mutual curiosity, and care. By training the physicality of attention, intensive dancers move away from their limiting, domesticated, and culturally entrained ideas of themselves and toward ever-expanding creative capacities. This shift takes each of us beyond our bound bodies and into our elastic bodyminds.
Nita Little
