Contact Improv: Weight, Gravity and Connection | Jennifer Clarke | DJD

This workshop explores Contact Improvisation through the physical principles at the heart of the form: gravity, weight, momentum, reflex. All essential factors when responding to the changing relationship between bodies in motion.

We begin with our body's connection to the floor, our first partner. We will develop sensitivity to weight, gravity, and the body's capacity to yield, roll, rebound, and reorganize. From this foundation, we move into partnering: offering and receiving weight, carrying others' weight, and finding the rolling point of contact through which momentum and propulsion

Rather than imposing movement, we work with the physical information that arises through contact: changes in weight, direction, balance, momentum, and support. We will explore how to remain responsive as contact shifts, including how to stay connected to the flow of another body while maintaining connection to our own weight and flow.

The practice is an ongoing negotiation between centre an