Freedom Within Form:
This two-day workshop provides a container where mutual flow and deep play manifests the emergence of a consensual dance.
An Intermediate Level* workshop designed for dancers who seriously strive to advance their CI practice and regularly participate in the form.
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Olivier sez:
• We prepare the body by introducing and dissecting techniques to grow our understanding of physical possibilities.
• We look at our own tendencies and expectations.
• We make room for the unknown with the notion of allowing for empty space.
• We show up in the dance, more fully present and experience freedom within form.
EXPECTATIONS and BOUNDARIES:
What is Intermediate Level* CI experience?
A metric for this might be:
You have attended multiple classes or jams and have gained a sense of how to share and listen to weight, both your own and a partner's. You regularly participate in the form.
You are familiar with being off-balance: right side up, sideways and even sometimes upside down. You are comfortable on your feet, on the floor, and in transition between these. Your CI practice balances risk with safety.
Consent and Touch:
As always, participants have free agency to engage in any part of this workshop to their own degree of comfort. Dancers will be invited to partner-up and practice the form in-contact. You have the option to choose (or choose not) to engage in any exercise or partnership, also to end any interaction at any time.
Contact the registrar if you have questions about expectations or boundaries.
WEEKEND SCHEDULE: November 23-24, 2024
Saturday (All-day workshop)
Doors open for late registration, personal warm-up........9:30am
Morning Workshop Period..........................................10am-1pm
Lunch break (BYO).......................................................1-2:30pm
Afternoon Workshop Period.........................................2:30-5:30
Out of the space by..............................................................6pm
Sunday (Long afternoon workshop)
Doors open for personal warm-up...................................1:30pm
Workshop Period (snack break, sometime)........................2-6pm
Out of the space by........................................................ 6:30pm
Food note: Saturday lunch and Sunday break will have quick turn-arounds.
Please BYO or make a quick trip to a local restaurant. CIB will provide some snack stuff for Sunday, but bring your own as well.
Register ASAP! This workshop will fill quickly. Registration is limited to 30 participants and the teacher is very well regarded.
On-line Discount Pricing:
Discount on-line registration closes midnight, Wednesday, 11/20/2024
$175 - Regular rate - Employed, retired, self-employed.
$135 - Reduced rate - Hard economic situations (Also see Financial Aid, below)
$185 - Well-employed rate - Please pay this if you can. Help keep other rates low.
$205 - Supporting the arts rate
Financial aid and contributions for future financial aid:
To Apply: If the lowest level of our sliding scale is too expensive for you, we offer a limited number of applicants $45 off their fee on a first-come-first-served basis. Apply on the registration form.
To Contribute: If you have even a little extra, please contribute to the Financial Aid Fund as you register. Your support enables more dancers to attend CIB events. Contribute when you register online.
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At the door pricing: (If available)
$185 - Regular rate - Employed, retired, self-employed.
$140 - Reduced rate - Hard economic situations (Also see Financial Aid, above)
$205 - Well-employed rate - Please pay this if you can. Help keep other rates low.
$225 - Supporting the arts rate
COVID CONSIDERATIONS:
Contact Improv Boston does not require participants to wear masks or provide proof of vaccination. This is optional at the choice of each dancer.
Please be mindful of your activities particularly in the week before the workshop and do a covid test in the 24 hours before the workshop, if possible.
Do not attend if you tested positive for Covid in the last 24hrs (even without symptoms), or if you are feeling sick in any way (even with a negative Covid test), or if you have been in contact with somebody with obvious Covid symptoms in the last 48 hrs.
You must notify the registrar in order to receive a refund.
See full cancellation policy, below.
OUT-OF-TOWNERS:
If you live outside of the local area you are welcome to attend this workshop. However, unlike some past events, CIB cannot be responsible to organize overnight accommodations for you. Please contact your personal Boston area friends, if you need help staying overnight.
Covid is still with us and different people have different comfort levels - hosts and guests might have different goals. The event organizers decided that the complexity of making such arrangements was too great a responsibility.
LOCATION:
St. Mary Orthodox Church, 8 Inman St, Cambridge
Our usual Tuesday night space (Central Sq: right behind Life Alive Cafe)
Transportation: Accessible by T (Red line to Central Square) or if you drive, allow time to find parking. There are some spots in the church lot behind the building; check there first.
CONTACT THE REGISTRAR WITH A QUESTION:
Please do not hesitate to contact us with a question or comment.
Registrations@ContactImprovBoston.com. Thanks
ARTISTS' BIO:
Olivier Besson has been involved with the study of improvisation and contact improvisation since 1980. His performance work has been presented in Japan, Russia, France, Taiwan, India, and throughout the US. He initiated and ran the Movement Improv Jam with Live Music at the Dance Complex.
Olivier currently teaches dancers and actors at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. He also curates Moment's Notice, an interdisciplinary improv performance series produced by the school.
CANCELLATION POLICY:
• If CIB finds it necessary to cancel the event for any reason, we will refund the entire registration fee of registered participants.
• If a registered participant withdraws from an event for any reason by midnight, Friday, one week before the event, we will fully refund their registration fee.
• If a registered participant withdraws closer to the event for health (or Covid exposure) reasons and notifies the registrar, a full refund will be issued.
• If a registered participant withdraws closer to the event date for non-health related reasons or does not notify us, no refund will be issued. Also applies to no-show.
• We will consider hardship situations for refunds before and during the event. Please notify the registrar.
HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE AND DANCE!