[NEohioPAL] Contact Improvisation in Akron!

[Slowiak,James R]

CATAC
presents

Fall into Falling
Two Contact Improvisation Classes and Jam Sessions
guided by
Colleen Clark and Larry Muha
Akron, OH--The Center for Applied Theatre and Active Culture (CATAC) is pleased to present “Fall into Falling,” two days of contact improvisation on Sunday April 29 and Sunday May 6, 2pm-4pm, at The Balch Street Theatre, 220 South Balch Street, Akron, OH 44302.  Each day there will be a class session followed by an open jam.  All sessions are open to beginners and more advanced practicioners of contact improvisation.  These sessions will be guided by guest artists Colleen Clark and Larry Muha.  Admission is free.

Fall into falling.  Fall into gravity.  Fall into earth.  Fall into yourself.  Fall into your partner.  Fall into sensation.  Fall into dancing.  Contact Improvisation is a movement form that allows two or more people to spontaneously move together as one body. It explores the give and take of weight through a shared point of contact and discovers the easiest pathway for mutual movement. The form is based on communication by touch and sensitivity to balance, momentum, gravity and the interpersonal dynamics of shared space. Although Contact Improvisation has been influential in the development of dancers and contemporary modern dance, it is not a form that is limited to utilization by trained professionals. In other words, anyone can do it.

Larry Muha has been doing various forms of dance since 1980. He began practicing Contact Improvisation in 1982 and has since used it to inform his dancing and his life. He has performed with the Cleveland State Dance Company, Shalhevet International Folk Ensemble, Cleveland Opera and the Mather Dance Collective at CWRU. He has also participated in many improvised performances with assorted groups of dancers, musicians and artists.  Colleen Clark, MFA, RYT, has been teaching a variety of movement forms for over 3 decades.  Larry and Colleen have been doing Contact Improvisation together since 1982.  They love exploring the utter simplicity and deep complexities of this athletic, social, therapeutic, and enlivening movement form.

Join them in Akron for an afternoon of basics that can carry you through lifetimes of experimentation.

For more information, call 330-867-3299, email nwplab at gmail.com<mailto:nwplab at gmail.com> or visit CATAC’s website at www.nwplab.com<http://www.nwplab.com>


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