Being With Without Losing Yourself

About this event

This workshop explores the delicate dynamic between relational connection and personal agency. Together, we will practice finding ground through our own bodies and in partnership, building trust before taking flight and maintaining connection as we land.

- Grounding & Embodiment: Locating the ground through your own body and your partner’s. - Sustaining Connection: Staying attuned and connected before, during, and after moments of flight. - Expressive Freedom: Keeping the energetic thread alive with your partners while freely exploring diverse movement qualities. - Spatial & Dynamic Availability: Finding freedom both at the physical point of contact and in the availability of surrounding space

Whether you are looking to refine your contact improvisation skills or deepen your awareness in the jam, come explore how to stay fully present with yourself while fully present with another!

DETAILS: WHEN: Saturday Oct. 17th 1-3:30pm WHERE: Wiggelrhum- 125 S. Sherman St, Denver PRICING- $35 and Free to Wiggelrhum members! REGSITARTION: Venmo- @Gwen-Ritchie to reserve your spot!

Gwen Ritchie is a dance artist specializing in contact improvisation, ensemble improvisation, and interdisciplinary collaboration based out of Boulder, Colorado. She has danced and toured internationally in several contemporary dance companies including: Lower Left Dance, Malashock Dance, Liz Lerman and the Dance Exchange, Kevin Wynn & Dancers, Dance Alloy and her own company LABCO dance. She has had the privilege of teaching at Slippery Rock University, Chatham University, CU Boulder, and Naropa University. Movement studies over the last thirty years have spanned contact improvisation, contemporary dance, ballet, jazz, hip-hop, yoga, alexander technique, body mind centering, pilates, and recently movement studies at ApeCo (formerly boulder movement collective). Gwen directs an improvisational performance ensemble, Lost and Found Dance and also teaches in a variety of settings both in and outside of her community. The cultivation of awareness, presence, and finding freedom in the unknown while co-creating keeps her fascinated and passionate about her research in contact improvisation. Gwen looks forward to continuing to find ways to share that inquiry with others.