CHRIS AIKEN & ANGIE HAUSER
Performance
photo by Derek Fowles
Chris Aiken and Angie Hauser direct a new improvisation, performed with the EDAM ensemble.
Across three-days Aiken and Hauser will co-teach Resiliency, Resistance and Flow, a Contact Improvisation workshop, with EDAM’s community, and engage in process-focused rehearsals with the Company. This intensive three-day teaching and research period will form the basis for a 45-60 minute scored performance.
Foregrounding Aiken and Hauser’s practice is a focus on compositional minds, which involves a deep consideration of timing, proximity, effort, stillness and the syntax of movement. Converging through the shared language of Contact Improvisation, improvisation, and performance, this collaboration between EDAM, Aiken, and Hauser provides a platform for creative exchange and attuning to new perspectives on embodied performance and collaborative art-making.
Performers: Chris Aiken, Anne Cooper, Francesca Frewer, Hayley Gawthrop, Angie Hauser, Alex Mah, Olivia Shaffer
CHRIS AIKEN & ANGIE HAUSER
Workshop
In this workshop, we explore how our practice of Contact Improvisation can grow when we connect our physical intelligence and poetic sensibilities. Our perceptual skills connect us to ourselves, others, and the environment as we meet the physical, emotional, and creative demands of the moment. In this workshop, we engage our compositional minds considering timing, proximity, effort, stillness, and the syntax of our movements. We keep the physical principles of contact improvisation at the center of our work – how we move and find support and possibilities through improvisation. We explore ways the event of touch and the ebb and flow of weight exchange can invigorate our dance practice. We seek to create containers for focused dancing that bring energy, care, strength, and resilience.