Body-Mind Centering®
and Contact Improvisation Techniques

with Cathie Caraker
and Miriam Wolodarski

March 1-2
Berkeley Finnish Hall
Sat 1:30-5:30PM, Sun 11AM-5PM

Email contactsenseobject@gmail.com to register

Somatic Strategies for Resilience (BMC)

“Tone is the readiness to move.” - Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

“All real living is meeting” - Martin Buber

How do we cultivate safety and connection through our embodied artistic practices? Can we meet this challenging moment in our shared history with a tone that’s active and resilient?

We’ll begin with the somatic practice of Cellular Breathing as a non-hierarchical paradigm for nourishing self and community. Respecting our cyclic needs for cocooning into action, we’ll explore the tonal continuum of active yielding/ pushing/ reaching/ pulling: practices that foster resilience in the midst of change.

Improvising with the dynamic states of the fluids systems, we’ll play with boundaries, tune our spidey-senses, ride cyclical flow, shake it all out and more. Integrating what comes up through the collective practices of Authentic Movement and Contact Improvisation, together we’ll evolve dance scores for the moment we’re in.


Centers of Power (CI)

This Contact Improvisation work about finding power, identifying and contextualizing many different modes of embodied potential in contact improvisation.  Mass, mobility, momentum, tone, tuning, and more come into play as we ask ourselves how we move on, move over, move through. From center to periphery, every part of us has myriad locomotive possibilities to offer. Let’s gather up our resources for staying safe, staying present, and sharing weight.