Contact meets Contemporary: Partnering with all parts
This workshop will integrate traditional partnering work and Contact Improvisation (CI) using elements of both to create unconventional and unusual partnering infused with more traditional architectural body structure. In the CI realm, the workshop will examine using full-body, multiple surface launch/receive points; equal use of front and back space; unusual fulcrum points as well as fluid, articulated and decentralized use of anatomic structural elements: joints, spine, limbs, head/tail etc. It will combine these elements with the more traditional aspects of extension, line, awareness of body shape, support patterns and use of the arms/hands as well as inter-body architecture. Cyrus Khambatta, has studied the integration of these forms for over 20 years specializing in creating partnering choreography that has been commissioned by companies in the Contemporary/Modern, Ballet and Contemporary Ballet forms. The exercises are designed to be intuitive and progressive, creating synergistic correlations between the forms that can be easily physically integrated into the body.
