Elastic attention & Elastic body – Contact Improv. Lab

with Angelika Doniy & Leonardo Lambruschini

25 – 26 January 2025 @ Spazio Seme (Tuscany, Arezzo)

angelika - leo foto

For teachers, for those already dancing, and for beginning participants.

Attention is what drives us when we are small, and it is what we create our reality with when we are big.

What is the ecological transition from one role to another and back again? It’s the student/teacher relationship within ourselves.

In this intensive we will explore ourselves as a process of multi-faceted learning:

– discipleship and transfer of knowledge,

– leading and following,

– letting go of roles, “grazing”, “fluttering”, experiencing ourselves as elastic, shifting attention,

– telescopic awareness,

– attention to big and small details.

And there is another truth in our continued growth of community – we cannot be without each other. Beginners without experienced dancers, teachers without beginners. We need each other to grow, to sniff the paths of dance, to give each other vectors for development. Listening to each other from different corners of the development of dance, intelligence and soulfulness, we can begin to understand our potential, the call to development and catch the path that we want to take in to further in life.

We are inspired to run a CI workshop-lab, and will create the conditions:

– Material that grows from the basics and moves participants to jam safely, with a reliance on technique.

– Te body secrets that will blossom like seeds and support your jam experience in the evenings.

– CI labs. We will create structures and let in the lab spirit that will allow not only my experience as a facilitators to manifest but allow teachers and advanced participants to unfold the beauty of their dance path.

– A variety of transitions from beginning level to advanced and back again, so that we forget how small or big we are while remaining innocent, light and friendly in the dance.

When participants come to the workshop with no experience or expectations — it helps them to face the new unawares, to surrender to the flow of information and movement. Their dance happens on its own, frantically, without the involvement of the mind.

When the experience is vast and juicy — one just wants to dance, to exchange tastes and things, to reach out to those who are already comfortable and familiar.

Our wish is that everyone meets the dance, touches the miracle of this freedom and puts it in the heart. And the heart knows where to go.

The workshop takes place at Spazio Seme ( Via del Pantano, 36) in Arezzo – Tuscany (IT)
You can stay in Spazio Seme even for the night, with the sleeping bags. If there are some special needs (especially about food), let us know and we’ll try to manage at best!

Anjelika Doniy

Anjelika Doniy is a dance improviser, choreographer and teacher focused on contact.

After 5 years of formal studies of choreography, ballet dance and other stage disciplines at the Higher School of Culture (St-Petersburg), she worked for 10 Years as a theater choreographer. Until…

From 2002 she started facilitating first jams and CI workshops in Russia and initiated International Contact Improvisation and Performance Festival in Moscow in 2006–2010.

Anjelika is grateful to have met and studied with such teachers as Regine Chopinot, Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith, Danny Lepkoff, Benno Voorham, Lisa Nelson, Esther Gal, Yaniv Mintzer, Martin Keo and many others.

Leonardo Lambruschini
Performance artist and CI and teacher. Artistic Director of Spazio Seme International Artistic Center
www.spazioseme.com a place where we create opportunities to research, design, teach and manage
festivals, intensive workshops, shows, artistic productions and international residencies. Contact, trust,
movement are the central fulcrum around which I develop didactic and research, both for adults and
children. Above all trust in the present moment as a source of inspiration and meaning. I am attracted to
places and contexts where various art forms meet, communicate and create something new, which
transcends languages and differences. I teach CI for adults and university students, in Italy and abroad. I
feel a lot attracted by nature and the expansive dimension of travel. I taught at festivals and carried out
intensive workshops in India, France, Portugal, Greece, Israel, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Russia,
Moldova, Georgia, Northern Ireland, Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Brazil. I am one of the organizers of
ItalyContactFest since 12 years – www.italycontactfest.com . Artistic Director of the International Dance
and Music “Moving Environment” in collaboration with Southern Utah University (USA). Over the past 15
years I've participated in numerous performances with other artists, continuing my research on
improvisation and instant composition, and produced theater/dance shows/performances.

SCHEDULE (January 2025)
Friday – 24
arriving and rest

Saturday 25
– from 10.00am to 1.00pm class
– from 15.00 pm to 18.30pm class

– 19:30 dinner
– after dinner Jam

Sunday 26
from 10.00am to 1.00pm class
from 15.00pm to 17.30pm class and Jam

Cost:

– 130 € (Accomodetion, vegetarian food and a lot of dance… included!)

for info and subscriptions:
info@spazioseme.com – leonardo.lambruschini@gmail.com – +393383366049