Contact Improvisation

Johan Nilsson and Maja Kjellerås

Workshop Description:

In this workshop we will be exploring the capacities in movement that the human body holds and the beauty behind them.Contact Improvisation as an art of communicating through physicality, using body awareness and physical exercises to look at social relations and communication Using listening and sensitivity through corporal movement in order to be close to ourselves, our feelings, and to others.Explore what it is to be alive, in a living body. And to find the connection between our bodies and the earth. All done in a playful, dancing, mood. And preferably in soft, relaxed, clothes.Maja Kjellerås has, for the past 15 years, explored different techniques in dance, movement and physical treatments with body awareness and play as guiding tools. She has studied at Danshögskolans Pedagogutbildning in Stockholm and taken exam in Psykomotorik and Avspänningspedagogik in Denmark. With Contact Improvisation as a base she has taught and and performed around Europe. As a teacher Maja is appreciated for her presence and her ability to make the group feel grounded and at the same time create a playful atmosphere.Johan Nilsson have been training and teaching Contact Improvisation for a few years. He is interested in how we can train methods of communication through physical exercises and with them as a tool find ways, and inner certainty, to deal with social interaction. He is also a trained Biodynamic Gardener and likes to connect dancing to work and to explore and use body awareness and senses in daily life.