We invite you to join us when we open our space under the skylights at VIRKELIG once again for a CACAO AND CONTACT IMPROVISATION.
🤎 We are professional Alexander Technique teachers and amateur Contact Improvisation dancers. And on this evening we invite you to explore listening touch and conscious contact work in the framework of cacao and contact improvisation dancing.
🤎 We love cacao for its delicious taste and its sensation-enhancing effects. We will be serving a raw cacao from Bolivia that is wild-harvested in the rainforest.
🤎 We enjoy Contact Improvisation dancing as a playground for exploring listening touch, internal flow, external co-creation and exploration of social interaction.
PROGRAM
19.00-19.30 ARRIVAL: doors open and cacao is served
19.30-20.30 OPENING CIRCLE AND GUIDED WARM UP: cacao contact introduction and listening touch warm up
20.30-21.45 JAM: open dance floor
21.45-22.00 CLOSING CIRCLE: reflections and good night
ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE AND LISTENING TOUCH
Alexander Technique is a type of bodywork that applies a listening quality in hands-on touch, which allows the nervous systems to communicate through contact.
The contact can help bring awareness to subtle internal sensations and to the constant interplay happening between body and awareness within yourself and with other bodies.
With the listening touch as the main tool we can direct our attention either inwards or outwards.
Inwards to listening to the subtle internal sensations, and outwards to organizing and structuring the mechanical body into coordinated movements.
Alexander Technique reveals that there is little to be taken for granted about bodily experiences.
Bodily sensations are multifarious and plastic - they can be uncovered, amplified, explored and articulated through conscious, intentional work.
The magic lies in the simple listening touch!
CONTACT IMPROVISATION
Contact Improvisation, also known as CI, is an improvised dance form, originated by Steve Paxton in the 1970's in the US, and is now practiced all over the globe. In Contact Improvisation touch and weight-sharing are the central drivers of exploring movement. Bringing an awareness of 'listening touch' into our CI-practice enables us to curiously investigate where the impulse to move comes from.
WHAT TO EXPECT
This is a social playground for Contact Improvisation. We provide a space, serve cacao and give a short guided warm up and introduction to listening touch. The rest is co-created by the participants.
The shared dance floor is an excellent setting for experiencing and exploring yourself in relation to other people. Practicing approaching and going into contact - leaving a contact or dance - or being left. This kind of exploration and the process of making these dynamics conscious is warmly welcome in the space. You are always welcome to reach out to one of us for support in processing your experiences.
No previous experience of contact improvisation is needed - all levels are welcome.
PRICES
We offer this event at two pricing levels. If you are a student, retired or for some other reason have limited financial means, feel free to sign up at the reduced price.
Don't hesitate to get in touch with us if you have any questions.
It all takes place in the VIRKELIG studio, Tagensvej 85c, 2200 København N
FACILITATORS
Ida and Sarah are both Alexander Technique teachers, and work with teaching people to sense their own nervous systems and connect to themselves. Learning to sense oneself better is crucial for being able to acknowledge one's own needs, desires and boundaries. Learning to sense oneself and others more and better can also be a way to access deeper and richer experiences of meaning and connectedness in general.
DATES
2025
- January 23rd, 19:00-22:00
- February 7th, 19.00-22:00
- March 7th, 19.00-22:00
- April 11th, 19.00-22:00
- May 9th, 19.00-22:00
- June 13th, 19.00-22.00
CONTACT AND SIGN UP
Get your tickets through the link below or contact us directly.
We offer this event at two pricing levels. If you are a student, retired or for some other reason have limited financial means, feel free to sign up at the reduced price.
sarah@virkelig.nu, 60718092
ida@virkelig.nu, 60936683
