Intermediate CI Workshop:
Travels Over Feeling
with Bradley Teal Ellis
Saturday & Sunday, March 29-30 in Cambridge
Travels Over Feelings:
Strategies and practical physical studies in Contact Improvisation
Deepen your Contact Improvisation practice through a blend of attunement, risk, and structural clarity.
This is an Intermediate Level Workshop, designed for dancers who seriously strive to advance their CI practice and regularly participate in the form.
Skills expected for those joining this workshop:
• Have a solid understanding of weight-sharing, momentum, and physical listening: on your feet, on the floor and in transition between these
• Explore dynamic lifts and weight exchanges with control and safety
• Make conscious choices and respond to partner dynamics in the moment
• Navigate disorientation in motion (right side up, sideways, and upside down)
• Commit to being emotionally clear and present while dancing
• Accept responsibility for your own safety and boundaries
ABOUT THE CONTENT: Bradley Says...
We will explore how attention shapes movement, how sensation informs choice, and how cultivating a responsive body allows for more dynamic and easeful dancing.
Through structured improvisations, weight-sharing studies, and physical problem-solving, we will develop practical tools for navigating shared balance, timing, and support.
We will investigate the mechanics that allow for continuity, fluidity, and adaptability in partnering - where is the support, where is the momentum, how can we ride it?
REGARDING BOUNDARIES: 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.
WEEKEND SCHEDULE: March 29-30, 2025
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....................................2:30-5:30pm
Sunday (Long afternoon workshop)
Doors open for personal warm-up...................................1:15pm
Workshop Period (snack break, sometime)...............1:30-6:30pm
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 Wednesday 03/26 at midnight
$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
OUT-OF-TOWNERS:
If you live outside of the local area you are welcome to attend this workshop. However, unlike some other events, CIB cannot be responsible to organize overnight accommodations for you. Please contact your personal Boston area friends, if you need help staying overnight.
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 may be some spots in the church lot behind the building; check there first. Street parking is not restricted on Sundays.
COVID AND HEALTH CONSIDERATIONS:
Contact Improv Boston does not require participants to wear masks or provide proof of vaccination. Please respect this optional 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.
CONTACT THE REGISTRAR WITH A QUESTION:
Please do not hesitate to contact us with a question or comment.
Registrations@ContactImprovBoston.com. Thanks
ARTISTS' BIO:
Bradley Teal Ellis (He/Him): Lives in New York and is a dance improviser. He has practiced Contact Improvisation for 27 years, and frequently collaborates in process and performance with other artists. Bradley has taught as adjunct faculty at NYU’s Tisch - Experimental Theatre Wing and the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College since 2014.
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!