Movement Practices
Contact Improvisation with Joey Lehrer
Contact Improvisation is a highly enjoyable dance form that involves the dynamic interplay of natural forces, such gravity & momentum, with the communicative ability of touch & contact.
Classes are open to all levels of experience and will include playful explorations of general embodiment through movement, dancing states for improvisation & fundamental Contact Improvisation skills.
Participants should expect to feel invigorated, yet relaxed, with an increased sense of body awareness and intergration.
October/November : Welcoming the Weight
- Workshop A: Sat 16 Oct, 1pm - 5.30pm
- Workshop B: Sat 06 Nov, 1pm - 5.30pm
- Workshop C: Sat 20 Nov, 1pm - 5.30pm
The workshops follow a theme together, but each stands alone.
These workshops will explore the rich texture of support, freedom and communication that investing in weight gives our dance. We will deepen our ability to give, receive and distribute weight; as well as increase our sensitivity to the timing ‘sweet-spot’ of weight-exchange.
Costs:
- single workshop - $50 / $45conc.
- Any two workshops - $95 / $85conc.
- All three workshops - $135 / $120conc.
Bookings are essential.
For All Enquiries & Bookings T: 0403 167 584, E: lehrerjoey@gmail.com
Joey Lehrer is an improvisational performance artist, movement teacher and somatic practitioner. He is a respected teacher, writer and performer of the CI form - having taught extensively across Australia and New Zealand. Joey enjoys creating a sense of playful focus, a space for exploration and fun, where improvisation does not get lost in concepts or skill.
Check Joey's amazing Contact Improvisation videos on Youtube:
Physi.kine.soma with Lucy Angell
Movement classes that are physically engaging, kinetically charged and somatically grounded. Be enlivened, embodied and energised.
WHAT WILL WE DO?
Your sessions are designed for you, to suit your needs, learning style and interests. This may include strengthening and toning exercises, learning more about movement patterns and their underlying muscular support, creative movement and improvisation and writing or drawing to make meaning of your movement experiences. Sessions may also include manual coaching and hands-on facilitation to encourage anatomical awareness and efficient muscular engagement.
What can I expect to experience and notice?
- Move with freedom and learn more about your moving body.
- Expand your physical range, capacity and awareness.
- Increased agility, mobility and interest in your exercise (which means you'll want to do more!)
- Increased movement range, strength and capability.
- A feeling of embodied and enlivened relaxation after every session!
People who work hard all day long...
Find easy ways to recuperate throughout the repetitious patterns of your working day – desk work, trade, teaching, movement practitioners, parents. Discover how to feel embodied and enlivened in whatever you do in your life!
Pilates, Yoga instructors, Personal Trainers
Expand your coaching vocabulary to suit all types of learners and learn new ways to recognise movement patterns and habits in your clients. Enliven your repertoire with a new dimension of movement knowledge.
Actors, Dancers, Performers
Challenge your physically expressive range and learn techniques to bring fuller embodiment to any style of character, choreography or performance. Give yourself a language for physical choices and creativity. Get individual coaching or come with your cast/fellow performers and develop for a show in a Small Group session.
Drama, Dance, Sports/Exercise Teachers
Inject new creativity into your lesson plans with this highly accessible system of understanding movement and creating exercises and games.
ABOUT ME
I will design and facilitate your movement sessions drawing on my experience and training in Laban Movement Analysis (LMA). LMA is a constantly evolving and vibrant framework of vocabulary, ideas and movement experiences that offer new understanding and perception of the moving body. It offers the individual awareness, access and choice within the full realm of movement possibility. It has developed over the last 80 years from the work of dance and movement revolutionary Rudolf Laban, as well as the physiotherapy work of Irmgard Bartenieff. LMA is used worldwide in a vast breath of fields including dance therapy, psychology, athlete training, dance, theatre and animation. My own movement practice also includes extensive training in Pilates, Yoga, Contact Improvisation, corporeal mime, voice, acting and classical dance and elements of these inform my teaching and what I can offer you.
TO BOOK A SESSION
Contact Lucy: 0400 582 910, couldbelucy@gmail.com
Solo Session: $55/hr concession/student $45/hr
Small Group Session: $75/hr (2-5 ppl), $95/hr (5-10 ppl)
Sessions available on request at a location provided by you for discounted cost, contact to discuss space requirements.
ALSO AVAILABLE:
Laban Movement Analysis coaching and specialised training for drama/dance teachers, dance therapists and those who have come across parts of the LMA system and would like to specify their knowledge as well as learn techniques and tools that can immediately translate to classroom or client work. Small Group sessions are especially well suited to this.
Utilise and integrate all aspects of this profound yet easily accessible (and immediately moveable!) methodology, and make it work for you.
COMING THIS SPRING!
Embodied fitness and exercise sessions; Personal training with the somatic difference. Invigorate and tone your body without losing your mind! Contact Lucy to express your interest.
Skinner Releasing Workshops
Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT) is a dance technique that facilitates a deep kinesthetic experience of movement. SRT utilises imagery to ease tensions and promote an effortless kind of moving, integrated with alignment of the whole body. Tactile exercises are used to give the imagery immediate kinesthetic effect. SRT smoothly integrates technical growth with creative process. Dancers, seasoned Releasers and people without formal dance training are welcome.
About Wendy Smith Wendy is currently Australia’s only qualified SRT teacher. She has studied with Joan Skinner in Seattle over many years and has been teaching this work for over 15 years.
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BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL: call us 03 95258164 or email us.
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