Charlie Morrissey

Working with partnering and contact improvisation as a site of research, we’ll explore how engaging, listening, and negotiating in action with other bodies develops practical tools that feed solo, duet, and ensemble movement practices. Touch, weight, proximity, time, and attention become ways of tuning and training alertness, reflexes, and readiness in action.
The work is grounded in physical experience. We’ll use clear structures, scores, and physical propositions to test how movement emerges through contact and relationship, and how information gathered with others becomes integral to dancing alone, together, and with space and environment.

We’ll move between layers, honing the ability to shift states while staying present and responsive. The practice is shaped by my own long-term work as a performer, teacher and performance maker, and by influences from long term working relationships with artists including Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson and many others.

This research comes from and lives in the doing and in navigating physical exchange with curiosity, enthusiasm, and a willingness to stay alert to the experience of what’s happening.
This is a hands-on, exploratory space for movers interested in sharpening perception, expanding skills for dealing with other moving bodies in action, and feeding movement practice through direct physical enquiry.

Photos : Arnaud Beelen