A two day workshop with Moti Mark Zemelman
January 30-31 (Saturday, 10am-4pm & Sunday, 2-6pm)

Deep Listening: Intersections between Contact Improv, Compassionate Communication, and Tantra.

Contact Improv is an honoring of our own bodies and each body that we encounter. Even though CI is a dance form that offers more intimacy than any I know of, there are so many ways we can continue to deepen. Using communication tools from Marshall Rosenberg’s Non-violent Communication, Byron Katie’s “The Work”, and Tantra inspired exercises, we’ll explore our underlying judgments, observations, feelings, and needs, and practice asking for what we truly desire in the dance. In this safe and sacred container we’ll use stillness, breath, slow-motion, eye-contact, and energetic awareness to explore being more deeply present with our partners.
Live music by Moti will accompany this workshop.

Mark Moti Zemelman, MFA, began practicing Contact Improv 21 years ago. Over the past 14 years he has taught and performed across USA, Canada, Guatemala, Mexico, Europe and Israel. In 2008-09 he taught as Professor of Dance at the Instituto Naciónal de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Moti has been a regular teacher and a board member at Earthdance Retreat Center in Massachusetts, USA. Other recent teaching engagements include DanceBase (Edinburgh), Circuit-Est (Montreal), Z in Motion Festival (Helsinki), and Lila Lopez Contemporary Dance Festival (San Luis Potosi, Mexico) He was an original member of Wire Monkey Dance Co., (Holyoke, MA, USA). Other training includes yoga, Action Theater, modern dance, and clowning. He also designs and moderates the new international Contact Improv resource website www.contactimprov.com.