Giddy-Up! Contact Improvisation

Giddy-Up! Contact Improvisation Not meeting weekly now. Stay tuned for workshops and CI events. With the energy of authenticity we'll deeply tune our senses as well as playfully improvise.

With organizers Lauren Tietz, Brandon Gonzalez, and Special Guest Artists

Originally inspired by martial arts, CI helps us to rediscover our natural link to gravity, space and the physics of movement while dancing with another. In this invigorating practice our body reveals its inherent intelligence and our mind its malleability. In the Fundamentals Class we will touch on: Release of excess tensi

on and ‘over’ reaction to cultivate power and grace - The physical mechanics of supporting, lifting, flying - Following the flow of momentum with a partner - Listening, improvising & composing in the moment - Dynamics include: resisting/releasing, leading/following, pushing/pulling, and stillness/flow. During the LAB we’ll take the principles of Contact Improvisation into action supported by silence, live and recorded music as well as the occasional simple score that brings a group focus to our practice.

Daven Dowse 2 - Big Bend Update
05/16/2016

Daven Dowse 2 - Big Bend Update

It's happening soon!Come dance with an amazing group of movers and Karen Nelson!
09/10/2012

It's happening soon!
Come dance with an amazing group of movers and Karen Nelson!

Special thanks to Humberto Perez and the Connally High School Video Technology Dept. and their students for this great video that tells you all about Body Shift!

07/31/2012

Hey everyone: CLASS CANCELLED TONIGHT!
Sorry, I am fevery sick and Brandon is out of town, and we haven't found a sub yet.
See you next week!

xoLauren

06/05/2012
..."The essence of intelligence is making decisions. And the concluding advice, when it comes to improving your mental ...
05/24/2012

..."The essence of intelligence is making decisions. And the concluding advice, when it comes to improving your mental acuity, is to involve yourself in activities which require split-second rapid-fire decision making, as opposed to rote memory (retracing the same well-worn paths), or just working on your physical style.

One way to do that is to learn something new. Not just dancing, but anything new. Don't worry about the probability that you'll never use it in the future. Take a class to challenge your mind. It will stimulate the connectivity of your brain by generating the need for new pathways. Difficult and even frustrating classes are better for you, as they will create a greater need for new neural pathways.

Then take a dance class, which can be even better. Dancing integrates several brain functions at once, increasing your connectivity. Dancing simultaneously involves kinesthetic, rational, musical and emotional processes. ..

Does any kind of dancing lead to increased mental acuity? No, not all forms of dancing will produce this benefit. Not dancing which, like golf or swimming, mostly works on style or retracing the same memorized paths. The key is the decision-making. Remember (from this page), Jean Piaget suggested that intelligence is what we use when we don't already know what to do..."


Improvisation, yeah!!!



http://socialdance.stanford.edu/syllabi/smarter.htm?mid=56

04/25/2012

Great news! Ray Chung will be the guest artist for the 4th annual TDIF 2012 in Ft. Worth at TCU, facilitated by Nina Martin October 4-6, 2012!

Ray Chung is a performer, teacher, engineer, and artist with a passion for dancing which he likes to share with other people. His main focus is improvisation. He has worked with Contact Improvisation since 1979 as part of his improvisational performance practice. He regularly collaborates with dancers, musicians, and other artists, and has worked with Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith, Chris Aiken, and Lisa Nelson among others. Ray integrates other movement forms into his work, including martial arts, bodywork and Authentic Movement. He has worked with the leading proponents of Contact Improvisation and regularly collaborates with dancers, musicians, and other artists. Ray’s work has been featured at numerous national and international festivals andvenues. Currently based in San Francisco & Sweden, he regularly teaches abroad.

04/24/2012

Hey everyone, come to class tonight if you're free!
If we are a large group we can work on big falls, ie. big flying!

Heya folks, Julie Nathanielsz will be our guest teacher this Tuesday January 31st. http://julienathanielsz.com/Home.html...
01/31/2012

Heya folks,

Julie Nathanielsz will be our guest teacher this Tuesday January 31st.
http://julienathanielsz.com/Home.html
It will be a lovely class, hope you can make it!
And, I'll see you next week.

;-)
Lauren

Miss you giddy-up kids! Love research starting to move along here in AZ. See ya soon, B
01/29/2012

Miss you giddy-up kids! Love research starting to move along here in AZ. See ya soon, B

Thanks again for playing for us Joel. It's such a pleasure to have your talent in class + the lab! I love love love the ...
01/27/2012

Thanks again for playing for us Joel.
It's such a pleasure to have your talent in class + the lab! I love love love the music! A gift.
Joel Laviolette people, give it up for him, and come see his band play Sat at Ruta Maya!
http://www.rattletree.com/

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