20 sept 2015 Sweet Sunday Contact Jam met Bar Altshuler
Workshop
Heart – Technique – Practice
Those are the basics of the workshop and my teaching.
Heart – Willing to share a dance; to open our heart to this meeting.
Technique - Sharing weight between two bodies is one magic core in contact improvisation, but not always easy to reach. During the years some technique has developed to understand this core. Its important to learn it in order to go deeper into the practice. That way we can choose how and if to use it later.
Practice - Those two - heart qualities and technical skills - need a place and people to practice with, in order to integrate them into the dance. The workshop is the space and time for it, to learn and practice together. To Dance!
Technique focus - Pelvis and center area
The pelvis and the area above are important to the sharing weight practice and lifts skills. The pelvis is one of the most heavy bones in our body; the area above is the connection to the upper part, ribs, hands and head. In order to lift another body organically and to support its full weight, its useful to take care of those two, as well using them in our body as a surface to fly.The rest will follow.
Over Bar Altshuler
Here
I am a mover and young creator, currently living in Brussels (Belgium). My main interest lies in the research of movement and its many connections to our personal life, both socially and individually.
I am now in the process of creating my own project, "Dancing Dharma". My aim is to express the Buddhist fundamentals through dance. While teaching contact improvisation and dance collaborating, further enriching it with photography and cinema.
I will also continue to expand my own physical training through the Axis syllabus and the practice of contact improvisation abroad. I am also doing a teacher-training program at the MBS Academy, which is based on the Feldenkrais method.
A bit before
I was born in the North of Israel in 1991, where I studied dance from an early age. I got my high school diploma in dance, and in 2007, I received a dance scholarship as "excellent dancer of the periphery". After high school, I was admitted in the dancer training annual program at Vertigo Dance Company, based in Jerusalem (2009-2011). I stayed in Jerusalem, performing as a street artist and teaching dance. Between 2012 and 2014, I lived in Berlin and Belgium, performing and collaborating with video and local artists, among them: "Art Connect" - Berlin, "Self Portrait" - Berlin, "Young tree" – Belgium...
I am inspired by cinema, poetry, nature, Buddhism, the choreographers, Inabl Pinto and the Avshalom Polak Company, 'Shen Wie' and 'Vertigo Dance Company'
More info on her site baraltshuler.com
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