CI WS

CONTACT IMPROVISATION
with Daniela Schwartz & Jurij Konjar

23-24 of February, Saturday+Sunday
12-16h (8 hours all together)

At Cumana studio
Konstantinoupoleos 38, Gazi. Athens

REGISTRATION: just send an EMAIL to: email(at)jurijkonjar(dot)com
and your place will be secured. Then come!, and pay on the spot.

Daniela Schwartz and Jurij Konjar have met in Salvador da Bahia eight years ago and fell in-love with dancing together. Since then they have shared Tuning Practice observatories, festivals, travels, each others’ workshops and workshops of others, research periods, lots of good food and unique dances.

Dani (Argentina / France) is a nomad artist, actively involved in the practice, the performance and the teaching of Contact Improvisation, Composition & Improvisation since 1998. She moves through
Europe and the Americas facilitating workshops and creating projects in various institutional and private contexts. In Strasbourg, her base for action, she is a member of the Cie Dégadézo since 2003 and she is part of a transdisciplinary improvisation collective LdB. In Buenos Aires, she is the co-creator of MOV&FILO transdisciplinary meetings of Dance Improvisation and Philosophy since 2015.She is the co-organizer of the contactfestival Freiburg in Germany.

Jurij Konjar (Slovenia) is a performer of improvisation, born in 1978 in Ljubljana. He trained Judo and singing from an early age, then began dancing with ballroom competitions. For some reason he never stopped dancing, while dancing for him became many things previously unimaginable… In 2007 he suffered a head injury that shifted the focus of his work towards the potential of the present moment. A years-long, in-depth observation of Steve Paxton’s Goldberg Variations video started an ongoing process of discovery, that turned into an improvisation practice.

Their dancing has gone through many phases, was never limited to CI only, but CI was always a part of it. Included elements are also improvisation, continuous awareness, curiosity and learning, writing about dance and writing the dance. Letting dances feeding the search for structures that facilitate it. Letting the dance feed the teaching and sharing. Finding out what makes them move, and the mechanics of how they respond to that stimuli. Their love for physicality, and their love for not knowing what is around the corner, while still being ready for it.
For this workshop Dani and Jurij will teach Contact Improvisation in an active, physical way. The goal is to be survive a jam, to flow in the unknown and let the body take care of you, take care of itself. We’ll get there through training, awareness, practicing the core principles of Contact Improvisation. Come early, so you have time to breathe out before we start, on time.

The video
https://vimeo.com/117331939
is from 2015, and today is a new day. But it can perhaps give a taste, of one phase of this dialogue.

MORE about Daniela here: http://dani-ecki.com/about-us/
MORE about Jurij here: http://ski.emanat.si/jurij-konjar/