Dialects of Momentum with Ray Chung

About this event

Dialects of Momentum: Improvising Contact with Ray Chung. Using Contact Improvisation (CI) as a foundation, participants create ways to improvise dancing in duo, trio, and ensemble. A detailed survey of CI essentials, with a focus on efficient, effortless use of technical skills, develops facility for and availability to changing physical states and levels of touch and weight. The workshop works with strategies for improvising, or how we improvise the way we improvise — come prepared for focused playfulness within committed practice. The intensive consists of one 3-hour session with Ray each day, morning or evening (evenings 24–25 March, 17:00–20:00; mornings 26–29 March, 10:00–13:00; final evening 30 March, 17:00–20:00). The venue hosts a Focused Jam during the other part of each day. Full participation is required, arriving punctually for all sessions. Held at Chaloklum, Koh Phangan, Thailand. Open to all levels of movement experience. A limited number of scholarship (pay-what-you-can) places are available for dedicated CI practitioners who would not otherwise be able to participate, and for Thai or Burmese nationals wishing to study Contact Improvisation.