Contact Improvisation

Monday 17:00 – 18:30

Tuesday 18:00 – 20:00

Wednesday 10:00 – 12:00

The new course begins on 13th February.

It’s a form of movement, dance, where we sense each other through touch. Through touch we give a support to each other, we lead and we let us be led, we take on the weight of the other or transfer our weight to them, we provoke and temper a fall, give energy to fly and fly, carried away by a place where we touch our partner. All the time with the feeling of freedom, efortlessly, using physical laws that, after some practice, are well understandable for our body itself, rather than let it be controlled by our mind. Our mind just watches, wonders and enjoys.

Contact improvization is purely physical thing. It is also a way to be together and a way to communicate. Lessons, in which we are going to explore the potential of a touch, discover our ability to experience anything through touch, communicate anything through touch, share the space, movement, emotion or the state of our mind through touch…

The key is to listen. In the first moment just listen and listen and listen… to everything, to ourselves, to partner… and believe our feelings, then do the only one thing that can happen at the moment and then listen again. And continue doing this in every upcoming moment.

For contact improvization to work, it is impossible to stay at the surface. It is needful to face everything our partner embodies (whether we like it or not) and show who I really am at the moment. Do what I want to do. Then the interplay is becoming possible.

There are a lot of ways how to touch. In an ordinary life, as well as in the contact improvization, we usually use just few from the whole possible spectrum. The quality of our touch decides about how our partner is going to react, how much we will connect and what will come out of it. We will learn how to disentangle from our old habits. We will try to discover the whole scale of forms of touch. Develop the qualities that are not inherent to us, not just use them, but become them, until they are varied by another form. The lessons can be very colourful, beneficial, incitory and alluring for both the beginners and the advanced, who want to investigate their potential up to the boundaries. It is the time for us to broaden our horizons and let our glimmerings physical fulfillment.

Zita Pavlištová

She is one of the few teachers of contact improvisation in Czech Republic. She operates in Prague. In her work, she connected the technique of contemporary dance with contact improvisation. She shares the art of the movement based on listening to our body. In her work, she seeks for limits and loves extremes. She inquires into the body in movement and its connection with mind. She uses long, still and conscious watching to the inner movement, as well as pace, lose of control and risk – situations where body needs to be given an implicit trust.

„Through the body, it’s possible to understand a lot. Just listen to the ways how it speaks to us. My body is wise, it teaches me much more than all of my teachers. And at the same time it is willing to be taught. It’s not a good idea to force it in any way, it’s better to trust it boundlessly. Then it manages things that we have never even dreamed about.“

Zita


The price is 200 CZK if you pay individually for each lesson. You can ask about advance payment by 31st January with the 1/4 discount at the email druna@druna.cz. Within this advance payment, other lessons of Contact improvisation are available for you (unless the capacity of the hall is filled).


DRUNA – NÁHORNÍ PLANINA, Karlovo náměstí 24, Praha 1

www.druna.cz