Today is our CI workshop with Carl Rudman from Portland, ME. I’m very excited to get the chance to practice Contact in Bangor. Usually it involves traveling and is at least a day long commitment. But today, Contact comes here! It’s a wonderful dance form-improvisation, flying, practicing being in the moment, and inhabiting the body.
This is a pretty cool video-maybe we’ll get a group doing Parkour/Contact on the streets of Bangor.
It’s odd to watch CI if you’ve never done it…in some ways it’s like seeing a Jackson Pollack painting-you might think, well I could splash some paint on a canvas…no problem! But it’s learning the technique, learning to trust a dance partner, and being open to whatever happens that really makes things fun. In October, we (co-organizer Connie and I) hope to have another jam/class but with improvisational music for the 2nd half.