Serious Fun! CI workshop Berlin with Karl Frost
a contact improvisation workshop with Karl Frost
Berlin, Germany
November 2024
(date and location TBA)
Contact improvisation is a 50 year old artsport exploring the possibilities of bodies moving in physical contact. We play with the physics and sensory experience of shared structure and weight, mutual influence, moving and being moved by each other.
Two dancers lean or fall into each other, offer and take support, and adapt to the unpredictable possibilities generated from mutual following, initiative, and spontaneous choice-making. Sometimes quiet and meditative and sometimes more athletic with lifts, dynamic supports and 3 dimensional falling together through the space. Light hearted fun blending with a serious investigation body mechanics and the felt sense of body and contact.
Sourced in Karl’s three and a half decades of CI practice, this workshop will be an improvised flow of technical exercises, movement and lift vocabulary, and more open explorations of physical sensing and process. We aim to push our physical learning edges and together feed our shared curiosity in the body.
The workshop will be equal parts…
- focused exercises exploring movement principles,
- lifts, tricks, and movement vocabulary
- open exploration of themes of classic contact improvisation
An open level workshop for the physically adventurous.
All are expected to be excited to challenge themselves physically and to be comfortable moving through physical contact with another body. If you have questions if the workshop is appropriate, feel free to write with questions to info@bodyresearch.org
Space is limited to 24, so early registration is recommended.
Registration and Fees
Fees
Early registration (Before 1 November): 100-250 euros sliding scale
regular (After 2 February): 150-250 euros sliding scale
As with most Body Research events, this workshop is “no one turned away for lack of funds”. This means pay what you can in the sliding scale range, and if you can’t afford the lower end, write a note and we can work something out.
Registration…
To register, do both of the following
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- send payment via bank transfer to Karl Frost (IBAN DE03860700240162275200) and
- fill out the google doc here
Workshop in English
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Bio: Karl Frost started dance in the SF Bay Area in the 1980s and has been teaching, practicing, and performing works based in or inspired by contact improvisation since then. His work has been showcased internationally and he is recognized for his articulate teaching work, dynamic and sensitive technical work, and for the psychologically and physically edge-pushing nature of the performances he directs. His company, Body Research, is devoted to exploring how we live, think, and feel through the body. Much of the work is highly audience-interactive, with roots in somatic psychology and in Grotowskian paratheatrical exploration. He has a BA in Physics (UC Berkeley), and MFA in Dramatic Arts (UC Davis), and a PhD in Ecology (UC Davis) and currently works as a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, Department of Human Behavior, Ecology, and Culture.