Contact improvisation dance returns to Colorado’s Regional Burning Man event Apogaea June 2010 with Contact Improvisation Camp!
Would you like to an arts festival in the mountain wilderness of Colorado where you can dance like you mean it, listen to and play live music, participate in creating community in a sustainable setting, engage in a gift economy, relax in nature, act outside the box, or go just plain crazy in fits of self-expression? Apogaea, Colorado’s regional burn with 10 years in existence, is happening again this year the weekend of June 10, and we’d love to see you there!
A group of us are organizing a Contact Improvisation Camp again this year, and we’ll have contact improvisation workshops/laboratories, jams, and performance with an opportunity for community circles, all on a billboard vinyl cushioned floor in the mountains of Colorado. Events include Creating Community through Contact Improvisation (discussion & lab), Massage & Contact Improv (workshop), Mentor/Mentee How-To (workshop), Contact Improvisation Flash Mob, and contact improvisation jams with live acoustic music. A camp community kitchen will also be available (but bring your own food, water, and propane)! Children, elders, newcomers, and different abilities welcome. Kneepads available.
Go to www.apogaea.com for information about Apogaea, see Apogaea’s event page on Facebook, or for more information about Contact Improvisation Camp at Apogaea contact Susan Coates at 303-455-0852 or email livinglaundry@gmail.com.
Apogaea is a collaborative outdoor arts and music festival held in the beautiful mountains of Colorado. Here you will find an experiential forum where our ever-expanding community practices freedom of expression in an environment of participation, sharing, and creativity. Located at Happy Ass Ranch in Lake George, Colorado, June 10–13.
Contact Improvisation Dance is a movement form that originated in the 60′s–70′s when individuals doing performance art and modern dancers decided to try to see what would happen when two bodies collide through space. Beginning as a purely physical experiment, contact improvisation dance quickly became known as a microcosm of human/relationships to self, other, and the environment. When you trust, a beautiful dance can happen. When you fear, you might fall or lose the connection. Unlike many dance forms, contact improv dance needs community to thrive. It is highly participatory, whether you want to have a slow, massaging dance, a fast, acrobatic dance, or participate as a witness. Contact improv dance is known as a unique movement form because it changes lives—literally moves what we might think is our DNA or inherent, to an unknown and exciting space that can nourish needs and realize boundaries.
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