Choreo Lab — Workshop

Our movement practice and choreography had been greatly influenced for the last 8 years by a physical body method called ConTact C.A.R.E (a method to release ‘flinchlocked’ bones from surprise impacts).

We are interested in how this shapes and directs the pathways we take with our bodies, so we can better understand the depth to which our own unique bone pressures, the impacts that it may have had into the skeleton and sensory perceptions and how this all impacts our ability to survive and thrive.

We dance by using both our functional movement choices and the expressive movement that comes from our own life experiences. Sometimes these things can happen simultaneously but sometimes they are in conflict. Understanding why you might decide one thing with your mind but your body wants to do another is something which can be revealed in the bodies own story and the difference between brain driven movement and instinctual movement.

Even though ConTact C.A.R.E exists as a tool for injury and impact resolution, we have found that the foundational beliefs, which support the methods ability to be successful, reveal physical truths and stimulate a very interesting conversation about movement, relationship, motivations and our perception of the world.

Our motivation for these workshops is to share ideas and perspectives on why we create the movements we instinctually do and to introduce how the ConTact C.A.R.E method can help you to understand your bodies unique movement impulses and the connection to the natural rhythms of life. To delve further into the ideas held in physics, earths gravity and our reflexes/impulses which become our constant partners in life.

There is lots of things we know combined with lots of things we are hoping to discover, this is the fun part of working with others and we look forward to engaging and expanding the conversation of what motivates us to move, as we all find ways to improve our lives and those around us.