Consent and Liquid Bodies
— a CI Workshop for response-able dancing
In this workshop we will play with the images of a cat, fascia, honey, and softness, liquidity, responsiveness and resting.
The idea of the cat is an inspiration for the liquidity, responsiveness, curiosity and as an example of knowing one's boundaries through going deeply into how it feels in the bodymind. It also helps to find tenacity and tone for dancing, to push back, to nudge, and to find friction.
We will work with consent and boundaries in dances through the concept of a cat and a dance being a house where we discover new rooms together with the dance partner. Consent is also implemented in all the exercises and in the way I facilitate the space. The importance is in checking-in with yourself and your partner and keeping the dance and contact open for changes.
For me it’s important that the participants find ways to know what works best for them, with joy and pleasure, and they can stay response-able.
Kaisa Kukkonen (1986)
is an interdisciplinary artist-researcher based in Finland. She works with the poetry of movement, politics of touch, and somatic practices. Her background is in dance, words, and performance. Her interests are movement and voice improvisation, Contact Improvisation, work around consent, pleasure activism, boundaries and touch as well as work with words in the form of poetry or academic writing.
Kaisa has been dancing CI since 2005, and teaching since 2010 in Finland, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Iceland and Netherlands. Her CI home is Berlin, where she learned from Joerg Hassmann, Daniel Werner, Christine Mauch, and Gesine Daniels among others. Later her teachers and/or co-dancers have been for example Katja Mustonen, Anya Cloud, Iiris Raipala, Terhi Rasilo, and Nita Little.
Kaisa finished her studies at Iceland University of Arts in the MFA of Performing Arts programme (2021-2022) in September 2022 with a performance project “Take This Touch Inside Your Body”. She graduated from the MACoDE program at HfMDK in Frankfurt with a master thesis “Noticing Power Relations in Teaching Touch in Contact Improvisation” (2021). For the thesis she interviewed fourteen Contact Improvisation teachers, collected their strategies and thoughts on how to teach touch. Currently she is studying to become an Intimacy Choreographer.
Website: https://kaisakukkonen.wordpress.com
Zeiten Samstag 10.00 - 13.00 + 15.00 - 17.30 Sonntag 10.00 - 13.00 + 14.30 - 16.30
Kosten 120€ - 180€
Ort
Physiotherapie 101
Großenhainerstr 101
01129 Dresden