Almost Weightless

Workshop

Instability. The world is heading in an unknown direction, and are we going with it? Falling and flying are very similar, with no clear support. The task is only to recognize support in the fall. Within the same fall, one can collapse or expand, find a foothold.

We will learn to fly together through the following skills in contact improvisation:

In general, we will try to take everything small, without any pretensions to... But dynamic, alive, not frozen in time, not stopped in the ground, nor in the air. The problem of the brain is that it wants to cling to the moment, it is better in the peak experience, although it is possible not, the main thing is to be stable. And we try to take off and not fall, even in dance there is this pattern of anguish. Do you know at least one non-landed bird?

We will study, I would say, the very nature of tenderness in contact dance. And tenderness does not like an axe but can have strength.

Artem Markov

Artem has been engaged in Contemporary dance field since 2002. He worked as a dancer in Ufa (Russia) for a performance group “White Label” 2004-2006. From 2006, he started dancing contact improvisation. He has been teaching CI since 2008. Artem taught at many festivals such as: Dancefulness: Ukraine Festival of Contact Improvisation (2013), Ibiza Contact Festival (2015), Italy Contact Festival (2017), Israel Contact Festival (2019). At the same time, Artem has been engaged in body-work and movement therapy since 2006.

He started participating in somatic workshops and finally had decided to learn somatics professionally. Artem is a graduate of two somatic universities Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy (IBMT) and SomaticBody Training. He teaches at the SomaticBody Training program, and conducts his own somatic courses.