Contact on the Road

This time we will go on a four-day journey together in a group, a journey that seeks to meet the road with the body, in a joint movement of the group in the desert space of Israel, in the special character created in the spaces of contact improvisation, physical and social in a different way…

This is a special opportunity to see what is kept and remembered in the bodies of the individual and the group within the changing landscape. We will follow the internal discourse on the range between the memory in the tissues of the body and nature, and what is actually happening right now.

In the evenings we will move from nature to the studio, familiar to unfamiliar. To the straight floor, that compared to nature  is updated from moment to moment,  where no step is like the previous one. In nature we explore how  the body adapts itself to the material. To its various modes and states. In the studio, we will take these experiences to meet ourselves and other bodies. There, perhaps, a wider language will develop, of moods and states of body and mind,  that change even between four walls.
What is the experience of the self within a group after long periods in which we were in place, or moved mostly alone?

Every day we will go through an intensive - a workshop of several hours in nature. In the evenings we will meet at the studio to digest and dance some more. We will prepare the food together, and travel together on the road. A cook and a musician will join us to anchor, play and create with us.

This year Alesandro Rivellino, Noa Dar and Dafna Hemmendinger will be teaching the trip workshops. 
 
We will travel to the southern districts - the Dead Sea, the northern steppe, Ramon Crater, and the Nitsana area. We will stay, move and dance in these beautiful landscapes with soft and supportive guidance