Workshop with Katarina Eriksson

Join this workshop with Katarina Eriksson and get two unique and exciting days of Contact Improvisation!

With an eye to clarity and sensitivity in our dancing, and with curiosity to where the principles of Contact Improvisation can take us moment by moment, we will study:

1. Falling; finding the edge of our comfort zones, and making use of kinetic energy for ease of movement.
2. Weigh articulation; discovering all the micro-grades on the scale for giving and receiving weight – respecting our own and our partners’ limitations without letting «politeness» dull the dance.
3. Center awareness; cultivating direct and safe responses to gravity, with and without partner (-s).
4. These concepts will be explored in solo, duo and as group improvisations in the spirit of collaboration, diversity of expression, and «beginner’s mind».

About Katarina Eriksson

Katarina Eriksson has been involved with improvisational dance since 1989, collaborating with artists such as, Julyen Hamilton, Ray Chung, and Karen Nelson.  She teaches Contact Improvisation and other improvisational forms in Europe and the US, and since 2000 she curates the performance series Moment’s Notice in Berkeley. Katarina has worked at The Gothenburg State Theater and Opera, as well as with numerous choreographers and dance companies in Sweden. Recent performance endeavours include; Artist in Residency with Cathie Caraker at CounterPULSE and a clown piece with Christina Lewis, San Francisco, directing inter-disciplinary performances in New York and Massachusetts, touring in Europe with improv troupe Hoppalappa, and co-creating a site-specific dance piece in Beirut.

Practical information / registration

This workshop is open to both PRODA-members and others with experience and interest in movement and dance. You can choose to participate at either one or both days, please register by sending an e-mail to eivind@dansit.no (or click at the button beneath) within the 22nd of May. The e-mail should contain:

1. Name
2. Background (are you a dance artist or do you have an other background?)
3. If you are a PRODA-member, the number of your membership
4. Contact information (mail address and phone number)

 Register now!

Hotel offer

For those who are not living in Trondheim, DansiT has a collaboration with Clarion Collection Hotel Bakeriet.

Prices:

1. Single room: 695 kr. a night
2. Double room: 845 kr. a night

The prices include breakfast, waffles between 3pm and 6 pm and evening supper from 6 pm to 9 pm. In addition, the hotel offers free coffee/tee and wireless internet all day and night. Please contact DansiT at tone@dansit.no to get a booking code.