Techniques of Wellbeing

A Site Specific Contemporary Dance Class

by maRia Probst and assistance

Invitation to participate in a practical dialogue between the particularities of a certain space and questions of dance training.

How do we want to face the highly specific yet continous changing demands in the field of dance? We will ask this question by taking on the premiss that any condition is exactly the right one. By practicing to say yes to all aspects of a given moment we create the bases for a state of wellbeing.

Keeping this attitude as a general baseline we follow our distinct interest and use any condition in order to support it.

We meet in different locations in town. Using aspects of Contact Improvisation we approach the landscape as a partner, surrendering into the condition of any surface. We then play with certain parameters of dance and movement training such as alignment, articulation, strength, length, level change, taking on weight, getting up high, jumps, locomotion, yielding.

I will offer entrance routes into some of those issues, adress individual questions and pass on questions to the group trusting that we know more together than we could ever know individually.

We will use the specific demands of the space and our questions of training including our focus on wellbeing in order to reconnect to the joy of dance.

Based on this mode of being, practicing and connecting we occasionally shift perspective and observe what kind of composition arises from that place.