September Pop-Up Contact Improv Workshop

The HFX Contact Improvisation community has been on hiatus, but it is time to warm up your spines and dust off your knee pads!! Please join community CI enthusiasts for an evening of CI dancing.

Exploring CI as a question rather than an a rote form, together we will explore the principles and practice of contact improvisation. This pop-up practice will be a mix of physical skill work, perceptual tuning, body puzzles, and improvisational scores for open free dancing.

Join us to tune our bodies collectively to the earth’s (and Moon’s) physical forces and with each other, finding release and new discoveries in the point of contact, falling, folding, leading and following, changing level, and flying. Unlock your potential and challenge the art of adaptability to discover the dance that is already there!

Guidelines for creating a safe and creative space will be reviewed at the start of the evening.

Suggested Drop-in Rate: $15, or PWYC
ALL LEVELS – intro friendly
About the Facilitator:

SARA COFFIN is a choreographer, improviser, dance educator, and Co-Artistic Director of Mocean Dance in K’jipuktuk/Halifax.

She is eager to share her wealth of experience and CI knowledge with the community and co-facilitate with others who are passionate about CI to help the Atlantic CI community to grow.
Deeply passionate about somatic-based learning, inquiry, and as a source for creativity Sara has been involved in the world of Contact Improvisation for twenty years. Sara has taught semester-long Contact Improvisation courses at Smith College and Hampshire College, and special workshops at Earthdance, and the American College Dance Festival Association (New England Conference), along with workshops across Nova Scotia and British Columbia.

Continually inspired by the philosophy and poetics of unpredictability Sara has studied CI intensively with Peter Bingham at EDAM (Vancouver) and with some of the forms most outstanding artists and teachers including: Chris Aiken, Ray Chung, Daniel Lepkoff, Andrew de L. Harwood, Scott Wells, Daelik & Delia Brett (MACHiNENOiSY), Anne Cooper, Angie Hauser, KJ Holmes, Collen Thomas, Marc Boivin, Nancy Stark Smith, and fortunate enough to attend intensives led by CI founder, Steve Paxton.