Dancing upside down 

 

I really like inverted positions, and I was always interested in what happens to my feelings, senses and ability to listen when I'm upside down in a dance. The distances change, the directions change, there are senses that sharpen and there are sensations that just suddenly disappear. Maybe what I like about it is that it makes me meet my senses in a new way. And maybe it also expands the limits of my daring in the dance.

 

In this class we will try different options to combine inverted situations, and support inverted situations in dance. We will examine what happens to our senses, and how we can support our partners, and gain more confidence. We will find ways to use the momentum of rolling, falling and inverting to take weight. And explore courage and support, through upside down experience.
 

Liat Barkan -
 

For many years now I’m rolling, getting up and falling again, dancing and teaching contact.

 

On 2001 I founded with some friends the dance school “Hakvutza” ("The Group") in Tel Aviv, out of a desire to create a dance school for adoults who didn't neseserly danced from urly age. From the very begining, CI and improvisation got a central place in the curriculum; just as much as Ballet did. It was a journey of creativity and courage that accompanies me to this day. Today I teach contact-improvisation in the full two-year dance studies program, and work as the coordinator of the school's curriculum.

 

 I am also a graduate of Shiatsu studies at Tamurot College, and a mother of three (:

 

A member of the Contact Association and a partner in organizing the annual Contact Conference in Israel