Listening Bodies, Moving Relations
We begin by listening with the whole body.
Through breath, sensation, the support of the ground, and changes in weight and center, we explore how movement begins and continues in our bodies.
Through contact, we share weight and momentum with others. We explore pushing, pulling, leaning, releasing, and different ways of moving together.
We investigate movement dynamics through inertia, speed, direction, rotation, falling, and recovery. Sometimes we follow the flow, and sometimes we pause or change direction. Through our relationships with others, we discover new possibilities for movement.
Contact is not about depending on another person without question. It is a process of listening, choosing, and negotiating. We support one another while respecting each person’s center, autonomy, and freedom.
Through this workshop, we will explore how weight and touch can become more than physical challenges or techniques. They can become opportunities to discover freedom, play, and connection through movement.
Tomer - Falling with Presence. In the first encounter with Beomgeon, the conversation was immediately flowing and fascinating. We communicated not through any verbal language, but through the language of weight, of directionality, of momentum, of fall, and of playfulness with all of these physical forces.
And so, in this shared encounter with you we will research and play with the same tools: balance, imbalance, contrabalance, directionality and fall. How can we control the fall and make it continuous and present? How can we control its direction, speed and softness? We will meet each other also from imbalance and fall, but we will learn various tools that will allow us to do so softly, and allow us to channel the partner’s direction and weight to balanced, pleasant and clear places. What kind of conversation is created from such an imbalance meeting, from a game with gravity?
(Beomgeon Lee)
Beomgeon Lee is a dancer, choreographer, and movement educator. He completed a master’s program in choreography at Korea National University of Arts and has explored and taught Contact Improvisation, somatic movement, floorwork, and fundamental movement principles. His interests extend across dance, psychology, street art, theatre, arts education, and movement coaching. Through his practice, he explores the possibilities of culture, communication, and connection through movement with individuals, groups, and
Tomer Navot
Tomer Navot is a dancer, choreographer, teacher of floorwork and Contact Improvisation, rehearsal director and musician. He has a degree in linguistics and cognitive science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and he teaches Contact and floorwork in the Vertigo International Dance Programs, and in other programs in Israel and internationally. As a dancer, he has worked with diverse companies and choreographers, such as Vertigo, Sharon Fridman, Anna Halprin and Gil Kerer. As an educator and performer, he is interested in the connection between the physical and the personal. How do the physical forces that influence us contribute to our dance, our feelings and our connection and conversation with our partner.