Root & Wind: 5 Day CI Intensive with Bari Kim in Koh Phangan

About this event

Root & Wind explores the relationship between rooting and flying, stability and freedom, presence and movement. Like birds, we will learn not simply to fly, but to listen to the wind. Through Contact Improvisation, solo practice, partnering, and group exploration, we will work with weight, gravity, breath, touch, falling, suspension, and collective improvisation, cultivating listening, sensitivity, and responsiveness while investigating how the body can remain grounded and open to change. We will approach movement as something that emerges through relationship. Wind reveals itself through breath, touch, attention, shared weight, and presence. Inspired by the Buddhist contemplation of the four elements (earth, water, fire, and wind), we will explore the body not as a fixed identity, but as a living process of continuous transformation. Together, we will explore questions such as: how do we root, how do we listen, how does movement emerge, how does the wind move through us. Over five days, we will experience dance as a transformative state, discovering how roots become wind, how wind becomes roots, and how both continuously transform one another. This workshop welcomes dancers of all backgrounds who are interested in Contact Improvisation, embodied awareness, and the living dialogue between rootedness and openness. Daily intensive sessions run 10:00-14:00, with three additional evening sessions. Note: accommodation is not included; most bungalows are a short scooter ride away.

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