Principle/Form

with Andrew Wass

16.3.2025, 15:00–18:45

Level requirements: beginning level, for people who want to expand their range of partnering pathways to improvise their way into, through, and out of known moments.

Workshop Description

Principle/Form

March 16, 2025

15:00 - 19:00

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Every principle can be generate multiple forms.

Every form embodies multiple principles

Part workshop, part laboratory, this workshop will explore nuances and facets of different partnering pathways. We will attune into ourselves, gravity, and partners using foundational principles of contact improvisation. My intention for this workshop is to deconstruct several forms so that people new-ish to CI can gain familiarity with them. We will practice individual partnering pathways, linking them in various sequences, and then improving the through, around, and between them. This will enable us to flow through the 3 stages of improvisation: listening, flowing, improvising.

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Fee:

30€ member price

40€ non-member price

About Andrew Wass

By experimenting with aleatoric processes, Andrew Wass formalizes the coincidental and emphasizes the conscious processes of composition that are the generative source of much of his works. Influenced heavily by his undergraduate studies of Biochemistry at U.C. San Diego, Andrew works by creating a defined, almost crystalline palette in order to generate a myriad of possibilities. His performance work has been shown in San Diego, LA, San Francisco, Marfa, Tijuana, Berlin, Seattle, Tokyo, and New York. He has been investigating Contact Improvisation for over 20 years and taught at festivals, studios, and universities in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Along with his colleagues of the Lower Left Performance Collective, he organizes March 2 Marfa, a performance lab for experienced dance makers.