Balancing CI Technique Training... with Wildness
This Fundamentals workshop is appropriate for beginners and experienced dancers studying in their beginner's mind
Techniques to be woven into
the fabric of the workshop:
• Listening with your body
• Commitment to a shared center
• On your feet, on the floor, in the air
• Entering & Ending Dances
• Solos, Duets, and Groups
• Embodied Presence
Balancing technique training with wildness, the workshop will focus on bringing awareness to inner sensation that can reveal the body's instincts and inherent musicality.
We will study fundamental coordination patterns that support a reliable and playful relationship to the physical forces that govern our bodies in motion.
Proximity and touch:
In this workshop, participants will be invited to partner-up and practice the form in contact. As always, everyone has free agency to engage in the exercises to their own degree of comfort.
SCHEDULE:
Saturday, July 12th, 2025
Doors open ............................9:30am
Registration and warm-up
Workshop activities................10:00-6:00pm
1.5-Hour Lunch break (BYO, please)
Out of the space ....................6:30pm
Food note: Lunch break will have a fairly quick turn-around.
Please BYO or make a quick trip to a local restaurant. CIB will provide some snack stuff, but bring your own as well.
COSTS & REGISTRATION:
Register soon. Registration is limited to 30 participants.
On-line Discount Pricing:
Discount on-line registration closes midnight, Wednesday, 7/9/2023
$85 - Regular rate
Employed, retired, self employed.
$95 - Professionals and Well-employed rate
Please pay this if you can.
$70 - Reduced rate
For severe economic situation
$105 - Supporting the arts rate
Financial aid fund:
To Apply: If the lowest level of our sliding scale is too expensive for you, we offer a limited number of applicants $20 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.
Help with financial aid when you register online.
♦♦ Link to Online Registration ♦♦
At the door pricing: (if available)
$95 - Regular rate
Employed, retired, self employed.
$105 - Professionals and Well-employed rate
Please pay this if you can.
$75 - Reduced rate
For severe economic situation
$120 - Supporting the arts rate
LOCATION (this venue has air conditioning):
St. Mary Orthodox Church, 8 Inman St, Cambridge (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 parking spots in the lot behind the church; check there first.
Covid considerations:
Contact Improv Boston does not require masks or vaccinations.
Please be mindful of your activities particularly in the week before the workshop and take an antigen test in the 24 hours before the workshop, if possible. We will have tests available when you arrive at the church.
Do not attend if you test positive (even without symptoms), or if you are feeling sick (even with a negative test), or if you have been in close contact with somebody with active Covid symptoms in the last few days. Your registration fee will be refunded. You must notify the registrar in order to receive this refund.
TEACHER BIO AND QUESTIONS:
Stephanie Turner: Researching through the body, I’m continually surprised how physical and creative practices build new language for connection. My teaching is informed by many years of training in contact improvisation, various dance disciplines, martial arts, sports and choreography. Each discipline possesses valuable lessons and a unique vocabulary for connection to self, others and the environment.
I found over time that as my functional and expressive vocabulary expanded, so did my capacity for vulnerability and my ability to exercise clear boundaries. It’s powerful to have a direct experience of this through the body in real time. I’m interested in how these skills can support a playful relationship with physics and love to share what I have learned in hopes that others feel less bound by laws of physics and instead experience a more creative and flexible partnership with them.
Stephanie facilitates ongoing classes and jams for Contact Improv Providence and is currently on faculty in the performing arts departments MIT and Roger Williams University.
Questions:
About the workshop, email Steph: turnermovingcompany@gmail.com
About registration, email Matt: registrations@contactimprovboston.com
THE FINE PRINT:
Cancellation Policy:
• If CIB finds it necessary to cancel the entire event for any reason, we will refund the full registration fee of registered participants.
• If a registered participant withdraws from an event for any reason by midnight, Friday, 1 week before the event, we will fully refund their registration fee.
• If a registered participant withdraws closer to the event for health reasons (or Covid exposure) 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!