Contact Improvisation - Principles of Flying

A series of intermediate and beginner lessons focused on the play of subtle forces, mutual influencing in movement, balancing, weight shifting and holding in flight. We will look at movement in three-dimensional trajectories and explore the movement paths into the space onto the partner and above him. We will learn the intelligence of the body carried by motion and its kinetic instincts much faster than conscious actions. Instead of searching for support at a fixed point, we will look at what it looks like when our nervous system begins to focus on the progression of the movement. How a moving body seeks support in invisible directions or in a moving partner.
We will continuously work with varied material collected during many years of studies in different movement worlds. Through creative experimenting we will try to remove barriers of routine cathegories to open new possibilities in dance and communication.
Work in closed group will ensure faster acquiring, building on what we have learnt already and unceasing development of possibilities.

Zita Pavlištová (CZ) 

She teaches contact improvisation, dance and movement work with body. She passes on art of movement arousing feelings of strength, agility and enchantement. With her, you find out that physical activity brings a lot of energy if mind is correctly engaged and if imagination and physical perception are developed. Her lessons connect joy of movement, game and fantasy, the enhance perceptiveness of senses and their use for light and effortless movement.

As for her, movement and physical contact are not just a way to express oneself but also a way how to communicate with others. To become sensitive, know how to read intentions, make and change decisions in every minute, not being worried by possible mistakes. When you work with her you surpass your boundaries and you learn unstoppably, you explore new views on your body, on yourself and the world. She appeals you to new aspects and looks for ways to develop your abilities while feeling joy and desire to search further.
She is one of the few teachers of contact improvisation in the Czech Republic. She teaches in Prague wher she founded Druna – space for development of artistic and therapeutic disciplines which are closely connected to body. She also provides workshops in Brno, Spain, Poland, Germany and Philipines.

https://www.druna.cz/en

Contact Improvisation

It’s a form of movement, dance, where we sense each other through touch. Through touch we give a support to each other, we lead and we let us be led, we take on the weight of the other or transfer our weight to them, we provoke and temper a fall, give energy to fly and fly, carried away by a place where we touch our partner. All the time with the feeling of freedom, efortlessly, using physical laws that, after some practice, are well understandable for our body itself, rather than let it be controlled by our mind. Our mind just watches, wonders and enjoys.
There are a lot of ways how to touch. In an ordinary life, as well as in the contact improvization, we usually use just few from the whole possible spectrum. The quality of our touch decides about how our partner is going to react, how much we will connect and what will come out of it. We will learn how to disentangle from our old habits. We will try to discover the whole scale of forms of touch. Develop the qualities that are not inherent to us, not just use them, but become them, until they are varied by another form. The lessons can be very colourful, beneficial, incitory and alluring for both the beginners and the advanced, who want to investigate their potential up to the boundaries. It is the time for us to broaden our horizons and let our glimmerings physical fulfillment.