Cathie Caraker
Class Description: The Tonal Continuum in CI
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"Tone is the readiness to move" - Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
In Contact Improvisation our physical tone is ever-shifting and adapting to our changing environments - a partner's body, the quality of touch, the direction of gravity... as well as our personal histories, movement patterns, sensations and feelings. In this session we'll explore some strategies for balancing tone, working with intentional touch, developmental movement patterns and reflexes, and CI scores.
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Cathie Caraker is a dance artist and somatic movement educator who’s been working in the field for 35 years. Her teaching work integrates her extensive background in post-modern dance practices and somatics. She worked extensively with the founders of Contact Improvisation, including Nancy Stark Smith and Steve Paxton, and has been profoundly influenced by their research. She has taught at institutions including the
New York Improvisation Festival, Movement Research, Omega Institute, Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation, wcciJAM, Moving On Center, the School for New Dance Development, Contact Festival Freiburg, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Barcelona Contact Festival, Contredanse Brussels, de Beweging Antwerp, and others. She has organized CI events including wcciJAM and the European CI Teaching Exchange (ECITE). She is a Body-Mind Centering® teacher, a Somatic Movement Educator and an instructor of the Pilates and Gyrotonic methods. Her writings on Body-Mind Centering® as a somatic approach to dance education have been published by Nouvelles de Danse. www.cathiecaraker.com