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Faces Of CIANDY CHEN | Momentum Contact Facilitator TrainingWelcome to Faces of CI - the podcast of conversations in Contact Improvisation. We are joined today by our newest graduate of our Momentum Contact Facilitator Training - Andy Chen (USA / Portugal) ● From the episode "I really love the jams where I get to dance with a lot of bodies. There's a little feeling of "ok, I had a dance and it wasn't that great" But I still went back in. Then I had a nice dance. That idea that it's always different, and I get to choose to have another chance of feeling joy. For me that's a big ch...2024-03-0726 min
Faces Of CION AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT | Students of Momentum Contact WorkshopWelcome to Faces of CI - the podcast of conversations in Contact Improvisation. We are joined live from one of our Momentum Beginners Contact Workshops with.. our students! Yes, I wanted to share their voices and insights on the practice about what it means to "move authentically" and "be a dancer". Tune in to find out more. ● ONLINE
www.momentum-contact.com & Instagram @facesofci Dance later, Aalia2024-03-0729 min
Faces Of CIWHAT IS A DANCER? | Students of Momentum Contact WorkshopIn this episode we sit with our students in Momentum Contact Workshop, reflecting upon the questions "What is a dancer?" And "What is flow in your body?". I am in awe of my student's shares each time we do this exercise. Names have been withheld for privacy. • Join us for next upcoming Momentum Contact Workshops https://msha.ke/momentumworkshop Find us on Instagram @facesofci - Aalia2024-02-0913 min
Faces Of CISUNNY & JANICE | Momentum Facilitators Training Bali Nov 2023Welcome to Faces of CI - the podcast of conversations in Contact Improvisation. Our guests today are our new graduate facilitators from the first edition of Momentum Contact Facilitator Training - Sunny Zheng (Beijing, China) and Janice Chen (Berkeley, USA) /// Sunny : "I just completed the 10 day training with so many takeaways. It’s a journey about exploring my inner self and expanding the boundaries of my world. We learned the history and culture of CI, contact skills, as well as useful and practical skills to not be injured and dance safely. Not just dance but beyond the dance, helping us to...2023-12-2418 min
Faces Of CISTUART PHILLIPS | Victoria, CanadaWelcome to Faces of CI - conversations in Contact Improvisation. Our guest today is Stuart Phillips, Contact Teacher since 1980's joining us from Victoria, BC, Canada. From his wild roots at Bates College in the 1980's all day improvising to contact as charades on steriods. We chat about CI as weirdness, allowance, shadowwork, and therapeutic relief from our everyday lives. His style of improvisational contact, empahisis on the improvising, internal choice first over flow. Depatterning and deconditioning our "contact moves." "When I'm getting what I need in a dance, its shifting me - so it makes me more open to...2023-12-2139 min
Faces Of CIPETER BINGHAM | EDAM Dance CompanyWelcome to Faces of CI - conversations in Contact.
Peter Bingham is a force within the world of Contact Improvisation, teaching and creating performance works through his company EDAM Dance in Vancouver, Canada since 1980.
In this episode we discuss his origin story in dance, the physical mechanics of Contact in terms of choreography, his daily morning class for professional dancers, intone voice as hypnotizing state, leading by following, and changes for him with Parkinson's disease.
"EDAM is a place for Contact. And Contact has a place at EDAM. And hopefully that will go on - ad nauseum."
EDAM Dance has...2023-10-0538 min
Faces Of CIAALIA | Solo Episode #2Hey, it me Aalia! Hopping on the ramble about : cultivating joy, play, and weirdness in jams to reset and shake habits. Comedy improv and circling as supportive mirrors to contact improvisation. What it means to be an embodied leader of contact. Navigating self compassion within the dance of life.
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https://linktree.com/facesofci2023-09-2517 min
Faces Of CIOLIVIA SHAFFER | Edam DanceWelcome to Faces of CI ~ conversations in Contact Improvisation. I am delighted to be joined by my first contact teacher, Olivia Shaffer, dancer and assistant director at EDAM Dance Company.
In this episode, we chat about her journey from ballet to Europe to contact to finding her voice, correcting "doing" in contact, staying curious when injured with scores of limitation, pilates and Feldenkrais, dancing as a contact company performance artist, moving grief into art through her choreography work, and wrestling and flying in childhood as precusors to contact.
Find out more about her classes and work at www.oliviashaffer.ca...2023-09-2246 min
Faces Of CIANDREW HARWOOD | Saltspring Contact Festival 2023Welcome to Faces of CI - The podcast on conversations in Contact Improvisation. Our guest today is the legendary Contact teacher Andrew Harwood (Montreal).
Since 1975 Andrew has been instrumental in spreading Contact Improvisation across Canada. We discuss the roots of his beginnings with Nancy Stark Smith, performance and ensemble in CI, contemplative dance, aging in the dancing body, and the secret Contact meeting of first gen CI teachers in Vermont. This episode was recorded for Saltspring Islandd Contact Festival 2023.
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https://linktree.com/facesofci And info on Momentum Facilitator Training : https://aaliahashem.my.canva...2023-09-0550 min
Faces Of CIMOMENTUM FACILITATOR TRAINING | BALIThis solo episode I share about an exciting new training I'll be hosting in Bali ~ Momentum Contact Improv Facilitator Training. NOV 4 - 13, 2023, BALI
Momentum Contact Facilitator Training will change the way you see yourself, the body, and the world around you, as an initiation into leading the Contact Improvisation movement.
Held over 10 days in the south of Bali, we will deep dive into all things Contact, including leadership and facilitation tools, somatic supporting practices, and of course, our tried and true workshop method for sharing the practice with new dancers. In this training you will learn how to lead our...2023-09-0219 min
Faces Of CIMANUEL ROCHETTE & SELENA LA BROOY | Saltspring Island Contact Festival 2023Welcome to Faces of CI - The podcast on conversations in Contact Improvisation.
Our guests today are Selena Lo Brooy & Manuel Rochette, hosts of Saltspring Contact Festival.
We danced for an inspiring 10 days of Contact Improvisation at Rhizome Springs, a dancer's and nature lover's dream on the hillside of Mt. Tuam, featuring panoramic eagle's eye view and hive shaped geodesic dome / spaceship, ready for lift off during Manu's dj'd jam sets.
In this episode, we chat about the history of Contact on Saltspring Island. Keeping one foot in Contact's origins and one in it's future.
Dancing in the dome, with...2023-08-1749 min
Faces Of CILEILANI WEIS | (Chile) at Saltspring Contact FestivalOur guest today is the multi-directional being, Contact Improvisation teacher of 26 years, Leilani Weis. Originally from Chile, she helped develop the CI scenes abroad in Mexico & Italy and currently resides in Barcelona. We discuss her decades long mentorship with Martin Keough, dancing into impossible places, preparing the body-mind for Contact, "the dancer superpowers" and our mutual love of falling. This episode was recorded during Saltspring Contact Festival 2023, on Unceeded Coast Salish Territory in British Columbia, Canada. Faces of CI online //
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https://linktree.com/facesofci2023-07-3135 min
Faces Of CIAALIA | Your Host, Solo EpisodeHello! I'm dancing solo in this episode, where I to get into my dance background. During this one you"ll learn more about me, discovering contact improv at a fusion festival, the 4 dance styles I see at jams, and some Nancy Stark Smith wisdom. Follow along @facesofci on Instagram for more content. Find Nancy Stark Smith's "Mini Solo Underscore": https://bit.ly/3i0ftNk2023-07-2745 min
Faces Of CICHRISTINA DOHR & SANTIAGO ORTIZ HEREDIA | Germany & SpainOur guests today are the dancing teaching duo, Christina Dohr (Germany) and Santiago Ortiz Heredia (Spain). This is another bi-lingual episode, available in Spanish with translation. In this episode, we cover Architecture and Aikido. Touching in both directions. Embodying being seen. Psychomagic storytelling. Cross cultural contact pollination. You can find more of them on IG @black_key and @embodiedchristina. This episode was recorded in Chiang Dao, Thailand for Towards CI51 Conference @towards.contact Faces of CI online //
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https://linktree.com/facesofci2023-07-271h 04
Faces Of CITU ANH LE | VietnamOur guest today is Tu Le, from Vietnam. Tu is an independent movement artist and teacher of Contact Improvisation, with a background in contemporary dance and ballet. In 2017, he founded Contact Improv Hanoi and has been sharing the essence of the practice ever since. For him, dance improvisation is a tool to nurture mindfulness and creativity. In this episode, we dive into learning Contact from Youtube, pacing ourselves in dancing, gender dynamics, gentleness, holding paradox, and the contact scene in Vietnam.
You can find Tu on IG @2anhle and "Contact Improv Hanoi" on Facebook. This episode was recorded in Chiang...2023-07-1842 min
Faces Of CINITIPAT ONG POLCHAI | Bangkok, ThailandOur guest today is Nitipat Ong Polchai of Thailand. Also known as "Ong", he began dancing in performances in the experimental-contact-art scene decades ago in San Francisco, training in Berkeley with Karl Frost. Ong's work spans creative collaborations with other bi-cultural Contact performers for Pride in Thailand, running the Bangkok Contact jam scene for the last 8 years, being a community builder and Physics teacher by day. An advocate for "Queering the practice" of CI to expand from the norms, we discuss dance priveledge, working with blind dancers, social issues, and cultural perspectives on CI.
You can find Ong on IG...2023-07-0148 min
Faces Of CIYASUKICHI SUZUKI | Tokyo, JapanOur guest today is Yasukichi Sazuki (Japan). At 53 years, she has been sharing Contact Improvisation for over two decades in Tokyo, introducing the form to her country.
"Simple is the strongest."
- That's her philosophy.
"We are in Asia. The environment will provide the ingredients. She trusts that and keeps the principles - gravity, fall, expansion, breathing. And offer the space. Focus on the fundamentals. In Asia, it's a culture of caring."
What brings her the most joy in CI? "Encounter with unknown."
This episode was recorded in Chiang Dao, Thailand for Towards 51 CI Conference.
Find more of her at "...2023-06-1632 min
Faces Of CIKIRSTIE SIMSON | Dancing in Resilient TimesWelcome to Faces of CI - conversations in Contact Improvisation.
Today's guest is the legendary improviser Kirstie Simson. Names "a force of nature" by the New York Times, Kirstie is an award-winning dancer and teacher of the practice Contact Improvisation for over 40 years. Her mark in the field reflects her spark of authenticity and virtuoso improvisational performances.
Recorded in Chiang Dao, Thailand, we spoke towards the end of her 3 week dance residency curated as"Resilience and Support in Difficult Times".
In this episode we dive into her journey navigating cancer, environmental philosophies and themes of her work - aikido, creating...2023-01-2951 min
Faces Of CIDAMLA OZCELIK | Towards CI50 ConferenceLive again from Towards CI50 Conference, we welcome Damla özçelik, our guest today and Contact Improvisation Facilitator from Turkey. We dive into Damla's experience with teaching Contact to the blind, to teenage girls as body-self-empowerment, consent in CI, and the fusion of tango-contact! For more of her work visit on Instagram @damlala and @ci_thailand ● Find us online @facesofci on Instagram and learn Contact online at www.contactbody.ca2022-10-2048 min
Faces Of CIFRANCISCO AND GERALDINE | Towards CI50 ConferenceThis episode was recorded in the mountains of Chiang Dao, Thailand, at a mystical monastery. Together 35 contact dances lived by a hot springs Heaven for 10 days, for Part 2 of Towards 50th CI Anniversary Conference. Our guests today are CI teachers and dear sweet friends, Francisco Borges (Portugal) and Geraldine Acevedo Espansa (Columbia) facilitators of Oceandance, water contact and Contact Improvisation in Koh Pha Ngan. We dive deep in this episode into the philosophy of ci, the water and nature body, freedom from rules, and teaching CI without words to village kids on the border of Myanmar. For more of their...2022-08-041h 14
Faces Of CIKASPER BUI | Towards CI50 FestivalThis is my favourite episode thus far! We're live in Chiang Mai, Thailand for Towards 50th CI Anniversary Conference, a month long dance festival intensive. Our guest today is Khuyen "Kasper" Bui, teacher of CI, philosopher, TED speaker, and writer, based in Vietnam. For more of his work: visit www.khuyenbui.com barikim.blogspot.com ● Find us online @facesofci on Instagram and learn Contact online at www.contactbody.ca2022-06-2935 min
Faces Of CIBARI KIM | Towards CI50 FestivalHello and welcome to Faces of CI! We're live in Chiang Mai, Thailand for Towards 50th CI Anniversary Conference, a month long dance festival intensive. Our guest today is Bari Kim, teacher of CI, Body-Mind Centering and choreographer, based in Seoul / Jeju, Korea. Find her work @bari.dance on Instagram and barikim.blogspot.com ● Find us online @facesofci on Instagram and learn Contact online at www.contactbody.ca2022-06-2026 min
Faces Of CIANNE COOPER | Edam DanceHello and welcome to our latest episode! We are here in Vancouver, Canada at Edam Dance Company, which holds a special place in my heart as it's the first studio I learned contact at and a beautiful space. Today I'm pleased to interview Anne Cooper, a Contact Improvisation teacher at Edam for 20+ years, artist, performer, and choreographer. Her Sunday classes are super welcoming for newcomers with her patient inquiring approach to Improvisation. We discuss performance, choreography, improv at a distance during Covid, funding for dancers, and.. how Contact is a metaphor for a perfect day at the beach! ● Follow along @fa...2022-06-1954 min
Faces Of CIUBUD BALI | The InterviewsHello and welcome to the (long awaited) Ubud, Bali episode! Ubud holds a special place in my heart as I've now spent 9 months this year here and it's my unofficial new home. We're joined by teachers and dancers in the local community ~ Helena Kober, Somaji Surya, Fay Yeo Un Kim and Anika Gunawan. Follow along @facesofci on Instagram for more.2022-06-191h 37
Faces Of CIKOH PHA NGAN | The InterviewsWelcome to Faces of CI! Here we talk all things contact improvisation with CI dancers, teachers, strangers and friends. Today we're in Koh Pha Ngan, Thailand, joined by Bernd Vollmer, Astrid Van Zon and Dolores Dewhurst Marks, discussing dance as life philosophies, dance highs, yoga into CI journeys and the magic of not knowing. Follow us on Instagram @facesofci for more!2022-06-191h 06
Faces Of CICHIANG MAI | The InterviewsWelcome to Faces of CI! Here we talk all things contact improvisation with CI dancers, teachers, strangers and friends. Today we're in Chang Mai, Thailand, joined by CI teachers Vangelis Legakis and Man Yee Cheung to discuss their current dance projects and teaching methods (or "sharing" as Man Yee puts it) . Follow us on Instagram @facesofci for more!2022-06-1934 min
Faces Of CIARAMBOL INDIA | The InterviewsHello and welcome to our first episode of Faces of CI. We'll talk all things contact improvisation, with dancers, teachers, strangers and friends. Today we're in Arambol, India interviewing fellow dancers ~ Orion Freeman, Vega Luukkonen, Ambarish Shiva, Harmandeep Singh and Nati Nita. We cover our first impressions of this practice, teaching, CI as a metaphor for life, finding the ultimate connection in a dance partner and much more! Follow us on Instagram @facesofci and hit subscribe!2022-06-1933 minFaces Of CIFaces of CI • Staying Grounded During COVID-19No interviews today • Deviating from our regular format . My thoughts on staying grounded in these time of media chaos and what's happening in the dance community (Corona Corona). Featuring guitar meditation interlude by Jim Sagevid from Sweden. Follow along on Instagram @facesofci2020-03-1419 min