3 Drop in class + a jam with Live Music with CYRUS!!!

Tuesday the 24th Oct 7:30-9:30 pm

Wednesday the 15th Oct 8-10 pm

Friday the 27th Oct 6-8 pm

Jam with live music: Friday 8-10 pm

Location: BIG GYMHALLS, details coming soon..

FITTING IN: FROM BASIC TO BALLISTICS WITH NO EFFORT

Beginning with a slow, total-release warm-up we will initiate exploring the depth of settling into the floor and the energy/inspiration that can spring from the permission to let go of time. We will work by shifting between different perceptual/sensorial modes: the intimacy of the fitting of bodies and the sensing of each shift of the mountains and valleys (concave and convex) of our partners terrain. We will explore committing to the time signature of each sensation (corresponding to the nature of each “fit”) and how this can move us out of the floor, finding ledges and lifts with no effort at all. We will explore how to instantly mould ourselves to find our partners most absolute center, being able to use our partners center to support us in different and unusual ways. And lastly we will explore combining this use of center with timing, precision and momentum to let our bodies move faster and more integrated than our minds can think of what to do or guide us in doing it. This workshop will cover all the basics but you will never know you are doing them and it will get you to the ballistics, but you will never know you are doing them. The most amazing contact dances come from simplicity that produces surprise. We will work on being surprised in small, minute ways and large and fantastic ways.

Cyrus Khambatta

graduated from New York University where he founded The Phffft! Dance Theatre Company. He has created and/or performed

both improvised and Contact-inspired choreographed works presented in nine US states, throughout Europe, Russia and Latin

America by companies such as Ririe Woodbury Dance (Salt Lake City), Pisorojo (Caracas) Donald Byrd‘s Spectrum Dance (Seattle), Evergreen Ballet, as well as his own, Phffft! and others. His Contact Imrovisation-inspired work received California‘s Daman New Choreography Award in 2003, and he was chosen for the National Dance Project‘s Regional Dance Development Initiative in 2004. His work with his company has been presented by venues including The Spoleto Festival (NC) The Innovators Series (VA), Choreographic Center of Tours (France), The World Expo (Lisbon), GREC Festival (Barcelona), The Aula Magna (Caracas) and received the support of over fifteen funding organizations in the U.S. and abroad. As an improvisor he has performed/taught at The New York and Washington D.C. Improvisation festival, Seattle Festival of Dance and Improvisation, Dartington College (UK), Bialystok Dance Festival, Kontakt Budapest and others. He runs the Wild Meadows

Farm Improvisation Intensive, advises the Wash. D.C. Improvisation festival, and runs The Centrum Jam as well as produces Beyond the Threshold Seattle‘s International Dance Festival which has presented site-specific and theatrical performances of Contact Improvisation/ Contemporary Dance with over 150 artists from 15 countries in its 4 years of existence.

Price per class 150 kr

Friday jam only 75 kr

Friday calss and jam 200 kr

COMBO (all events): 400 kr