International Contact Improvisation and Performance Festival / Международный Фестиваль Контактной импровизации и перформанса

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International Contact Improvisation and Performace Festival

Alexander Girshon

Alexander Girshon Dancer, improviser, psychologist, dance therapist, teacher;
Studied movement and improvisation with Oleg Ignatiev (Yaroslavl), Oleg Sulimenko (Moscow-Vienna), contemporary dance and butoh with Paula Josa-Jones (USA), contact improvisation with Danny Lepkoff (USA).Studied transpersonal psychology, as well as different approaches in personal development. Co-founder of the Great Net Theater (Yaroslavl, 88-92) and Studio of Dance Improvisation (Yaroslavl, 94-97). Artistic Director of the Performance-Trio (1997-2002), and Alexander Girshon's Performance Project (Moscow, since 2002). He has participated in numerous local, national and international dance events, festivals and collaborations. He is also a dance researcher and author of many articles about improvisation and dance therapy.
He developed the integrative approach in dance-movement therapy, and continues teaching workshops and long-term programs in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Israel, Kazakhstan, Latvia and Lithuania.

Intensive teachers	CI classes teachers	Special Workshops teachers

Charlie Morrissey	Adrian Russi	Eckhard Müller and Daniela Schwartz
Eckhard Müller & Daniela Schwartz	Caroline Waters	Ester Momblant-Ribas
Ilanit Tadmor	Alexandra Bezrodnova	Nancy Stark Smith & Mike Vargas
Nancy Stark Smith & Mike Vargas	Elske Seidel	Steve Batts
	Ilanit Tadmor
	Jean-Hugues Miredin
	Lior Ophir
	Manuela Blanchard
	Mike Vargas
	Robert Anderson
	Alexey & Anastasia Saevich
	Alexander Girshon

Alexander Girshon

master-class
«Bodywork into Contact»

About master-class:

Level: intermediate.
Entering the dance through bodywork is a nice way to find the “heart of contact improvisation”, make a step from involvement into outside activity to inside listening, silence, and calmness… to open the dance in a new way. We will focus on establishing contact, balancing relaxation and effort, intention and letting go, activating and relaxing different muscles, finding a natural way into dancing.
Festival is the time of absorbing lots of information while learning, communicating and dancing. That is why it is important to take care of “digesting” this information. This class is for self integration in the dance.

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