14th June Taster Workshop + Touch Talk
1st -10th September 10.00-17.00 (Sat 6th day off) €600. Offer ends May 31st.
How we touch is concerned with how we relate to the world, how receptive we are to our feelings, energy and emotions and how we communicate our needs, limits and desires.
The Touch Training introduces a vocabulary of Listening, Light and Deep touch techniques, I have developed through investigating how dancers touch in Contact Improvisation. In the training, we re-apply these techniques in CI partnering, contemporary phrases, somatic bodywork and composition play. The training covers themes of gravity, differentiating tone, fluidity, momentum, spirals, fascia and flight. We will embody touch in an active and receptive sense and work on developing structural bonds to support alignment, balance, expressive agency, integrity, and intimate connections with oneself and the environment. The training represents a unique opportunity to enhance both dance and communication skills and for growing empathy and compassion in how we relate to ourselves, our partners and the more than the human world.
This year The Touch Training will be taught as an Intensive Workshop over 9 days
1st -10th September 10.00-17.00 (with Saturday 6th as a day off)
Participants joining in full will receive priority, but if you would like to attend just part of the training, please get in touch, and we will see what can be arranged.
Taster Workshop 14th June 10.30-13.00 + a Lunchtime Talk in which I will share about my PhD research findings 13.30-14.30pm
The talk is free to attend and the workshop costs €20-25 which will be discounted for participants signing up to the full September training.
The Vocabulary of Touch essentially represents an outcome of my background training in Contact Improvisation and Somatic practices, including Body Mind Centering, Skinner Release Technique, Authentic Movement, Axis Syllabus, and a PhD project that researched how touch enables encounters with Otherness and the vocabulary of touch applied and experienced in Contact Improvisation. Resources from these sources will be provided during the training.
Sign up below for the Early Bird €600. Offer ends May 31st.
All at Tanzfabrik, Möckernstrasse 68, 10965 Berlin, Studio 3
Sign up below for the Early Bird €600. Offer ends May 31st.
The price includes in-person teaching, resources and personal 1-to-1 feedback sessions. Full Course: €660-900, Single modules: €240-300
Deposit: €100. Installment plans can be arranged.
Thank you!
Rosalind Holgate Smith (UK) is Dance Artist, Choreographer & Somatic Educator based in Berlin. As a CI teacher of over 15 years, she incorporates approaches from Body-Mind Centering, Skinner Release Technique, Authentic movement, martial arts and her practice of dancing outdoors, in water, with trees and with raw matter, including soil. Over the past 4 years she has been working on a PhD, investigating Touch as an encounter with Otherness and the Vocabulary of touch used in Contact, the touch training represents an outcome of this research.