About
This intensive is for movers, dancers, body workers, therapists and is open to anyone with basic experience of movement, dance and/or bodywork.
Get ready for this deep dive transformational journey where we invite the full range of embodied humanness to experience and express our greatest potential. We utilize the practices of contact improvisation, improvisational dance, authentic movement, bodywork, breath work, interaction with nature, language and ritual to support this voyage of coming home to ourselves through our bodies.
Here is are some links with Alicia Grayson and Sabine Parzar as they describe their teaching methods, influences and the process.
Short version (3 mins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1AUwuzhNzo
Deeper Discussion (28 mins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1AUwuzhNzo
We will explore the play between the acrobatic/subtle, active/receptive qualities of being and dancing. We open a space for healing and nurturing the unseen, unknown and secret places within the Self and celebrate subtle power, clarity and expansion. We use dance and related techniques to let the bodies speak, to physicalize content and to embody wisdom from within. Meditations and visualizations clarify our intent, bodywork and somatic investigations support our integration. We work with solo, partnering and group processes.
The workshop is within a frame of the context of our larger lives and connects with deeper longings that yearn to be known and manifested. We will give tools and practices to take the insights and discoveries of the workshop back into our lives.
Payment
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$300 deposit is required to save your spot. This is non-refundable
Balance due August 1, 2023
Paid by email transfer to info@RhizomeSprings.com
International students can use Wise at the same address.
Payment refundable, less $300 deposit until July 31, 2023
No refunds after August 1st, 2023
Cost
Sliding scale pricing includes tuition, camping, 3 meals/day in CAD$:
$1,850 for the economically constrained, students or underemployed.
$1,950 for the economically balanced, artists, farmers etc..
$2,150 for the economically abundant, happily sustained, supporting the art.
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Payment refundable, less $300 deposit until July 31, 2023
No refunds after August 1st, 2023
Details
We have showers. The ocean or lake are within a 10 min drive.
We are on a sensitive ecosystem and count on you to respect and honour this land by cleaning up after yourself, preserving water, being fauna and flora aware and embodying the animal this land asks for.
Food: Meals are mostly vegetarian. Please complete registration to inform us of any dietary restrictions or allergies. We source from local and organic foods as much as possible.
In case of cancelation of this gathering, all deposits will be refunded minus $40 for administrative costs.
Teachers
Alicia Grayson
Alicia has been passionately involved with dancing, teaching and performing Contact Improvisation for the past 34 years. She has taught CI as an adjunct faculty at George Washington University, University of Denver, Naropa University and Shenandoah University. She teaches CI classes in Boulder, CO, and regularly travels nationally and internationally to teach. Her long time practices of authentic movement, yoga and pilates and her love of nature are important influences on her dancing and teaching. She facilitates somatically based transformational workshops, teaches yoga and pilates and works with individuals in-person and online. She is a certified Hakomi therapist, certified perinatal somatic attachment therapist, certified Feminine Power transformational coach and facilitator and certified Biodynamic Breath and Trauma Release practitioner. She delights in exploring and discovering new depths to contact improvisation and related disciplines and is particularly interested in the intersection of physics and expression and the mind/body relationship. She is dedicated to supporting her fellow humans to be the most amazing embodied beings that we are!
Sabine Parzer (AT)
Is head and founder of the Holistic Dance Institute (founded 2010). In 2012 she also created the Contact Festival Austria, which she has been the artistic director of until 2017. Her professional experience spans 30 years of teaching, performing, choreographing and researching in the USA, Europe, Russia, Israel and Brazil.
Sabine has a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia College Chicago in Modern Dance, and an education in Systemische und Integrative Bewegungslehre® (an extended Feldenkrais® Training). The in depth practice of Contact Improvisation and Authentic Movement begins 1997. Ongoing trainings since 1995 in Kleintechnique, ZenBodytherapy®, Yoga, White Crane Silat, Rosen Method®, Kashmirian Massage, Psychotherapy and family constellations a.o. She is currently studying Visionary Cranialsacral Work with Hugh Milne.
Sabine is a dancer, choreographer, dance-pedagogue, bodyworker, organizer and business owner. In her institute dancers, artists, bodyworkers, social pedagogues and psychotherapists are trained in Holistic Dance Teachers Trainings, Advanced Teachers Trainings, Retreats and open workshops. She teaches regularly at international dance festivals such as Impulstanz Vienna, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Tanzquartier Wien, Potsdamer Tanztage and has taught intensives at many contact festivals such as Israeli Contact Festival, Moscow Contact Festival, Kontakt Budapest, Contact in Rio de Janeiro, Osterimprofestival Göttingen, Ibiza Contact Festival and more.
Her choreographies and improvisational scores have been performed since 1990 in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Berlin, Moscow, Vienna, amongst other cities.
Between 1999 and 2013 she also worked as dance therapist at a rehabilitation center for people after work and traffic accidents.
She is a mother of two children.