Classes

Hello Dancers,

I have just returned from a month of dancing, teaching and researching with other CI teachers in Europe. I am excited about sharing some of the gems of my European CI experience here in Boulder.

Below are the CI classes I will be offering this FALL.

For more information contact me or see www.tumblebones.com

Alicia

BEGINNER/INTERMEDIATE CLASSES:

CI Essentials and Principles

W/ ALICIA GRAYSON

Tuesdays 9:15 - 10:45 AM

Boulder Circus Center

13-week series: September 14 - December 14 (no class Nov 23)

Thursdays 6:00 - 7:30 PM

Boulder Circus Center

12-week series: September 16 - December 16 (no class Oct 14 & Nov 23)

For beginner and intermediate level dancers. Through solo, partner and group practices we will sensitize our bodies and minds to the dance while improving our perceptual and communication skills.

Specific skills include:

*Refining our sensitivity in listening and responding through touch

*Honing our ability to follow the point of contact

*Assessing and modulating tone from feather light to powerfully supportive

*Finding support through the structure of our own and partner's bodies

*Sharing a central axis with our partner and giving and receiving weight with ease

*Using momentum and moving effortlessly in spherical space

*Expanding options for entering and exiting dances

*Training the mind/body to be acutely aware and responsive without attachment to outcome

We practice these skills in an environment that honors our physical, emotional and mental boundaries...and invites their expansion. In contact improvisation we discover the magic that happens as we play with our creative minds and hearts and the physics of two (or more) bodies in motion.

INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED CLASSES:

Magic & Mechanics

W/ ALICIA GRAYSON

Tuesdays 5:45 - 7:15 PM

Boulder Circus Center

13-week series: September 14 - December 14 (no class Nov 23)

For those with significant CI experience and who have embodied the CI fundamentals. This class will work both technically and with states and scores that expand and vitalize our dancing. We will develop more ease, fluidity and range in our bodies and with each other while exploring a fuller palate of emotional and artistic expressions. This integration of human expression with a refinement of physical ease and virtuosity will create the soil for wonderful and magical dancing.

CI FOR YOUNG CONTACTORS:

Contact for 8 - 14 year olds

W/ ALICIA GRAYSON

Thursdays 4:30 - 5:30 PM

Boulder Circus Center

4-week series: October 28 - November 18

REGISTRATION:

ALICIA GRAYSON

303 653 3969 aliciaggrayson@gmail.com

$169 for Tues 13-week series Postmarked by 9/7/10

$182 for Tues 13-week series Postmarked after 9/7/10

$156 for Thurs 12-week series Postmarked by 9/7/10

$168 for Thurs 12-week series Postmarked after 9/7/10

$135 for partial series of 9 classes

$40 for 4 week Young Contactors

$17 drop-in fee all classes

Fall Special:

Sign up for a full 12 or 13-week series with a friend who is new to Alicia’s classes and

receive a 15% discount

Mail check to: Alicia Grayson 155 Cumberland Gap Rd Nederland, CO 80466

Make ups - if you miss a class you can make it up in the other classes offered during the current session.

Class & Refund Policies - If cost is an issue please contact me to discuss options.

Alicia Grayson has been passionately involved with dancing, teaching and performing CI for the past 22 years. Her long time practices of authentic movement, yoga and meditation are important influences on her dancing and teaching. She has taught contact improvisation as an adjunct faculty at George Washington University, University of Denver, Naropa University and Shenandoah University. She teaches CI., yoga and pilates classes in Boulder and regularly travels to Europe and around the US to teach at festivals and workshops. She continues to delight in exploring and discovering new depths to the form and is particularly interested in the intersection of physics and expression.