Emerging Hearts Contact Improvisation Dance Camp 2021

Tickets:

Full 5 Day Camp Ticket: £175

(Includes camping, workshops, facilities, and evening meals)

Reduced Kitchen Volunteer Tickets available (£150/£125/£100)

Children & Teens (aged 5+): £30 / Under 5's: FOC

Log Cabin:

(one available) is furnished with a double futon bed for a single person or couple, lighting, heating & power sockets. Bring all your own bedding and camping equipment as for camping but without the tent.

Cabin Cost for 5 Nights: £200 + Camp Tickets

Please contact Richard Parker on richardparker27@gmail.com for further info.

Studio: (only one available) Large heated studio room with double bed for a single person or couple, shower, hand basin, toilet and a small kitchen with kettle, microwave, sink, hot plate and toaster.

Studio Cost for 5 Nights: £275 + Camp Tickets

Please contact Richard Parker on richardparker27@gmail.com for further info.

Tickets sales are limited to keep the camp small and intimate (100 people).

We wish for this event to be 100% inclusive and wouldn’t want anyone to miss it for money reasons. Although there is a set price, we also offer the option of paying less if the price is truly out of your range. Please drop us an email brief explaining your circumstances and we will see what we can work out. We offer this in trust, that folks will honour the spirit in which it is offered.

Refund available:

• If you are unable to attend due to infectious symptoms.
• If the campsite has to close or the event is cancelled.

www.contactimprovcamp.co.uk

Emerging Hearts Contact Improvisation Dance Camp 2021

Embodiment | Creativity | Community

...dancing to live...dancing to love...

There is a surging, vibrant and creative world living inside of us that just loves to be expressed.

Dance is a means by which we can explore, share and communicate that expression. Where we can co-create an embodied experience that brings closeness and connection on a deep human level. That offers us a creative medium for learning about the relationships we have in life. Awakening our hearts and bringing us to a place of natural rest.

Many of us have this innate desire to dance and be together, especially at this time where we may have missed or longed for these connections. To sit around warm fires under starry skies. To be curious about life that can be explored through our bodies, and to appreciate the simple pleasures of eating, laughing, and playing together as friends.

Emerging Hearts Dance Camp is a space to come together for this experience. A small and intimate gathering that can enable us to gently come forth through our dance, especially in light of the year we have had. It is a Contact Improvisation inspired gathering, to explore this amazing embodied practice along with a variety of creative, somatic and sound-based workshops all within a safe and held environment. (full list below)

We will eat together, gather around the fire together, look after the camp together, and of course dance together - living in community, with space, with holding, and supporting us to honour and work with our boundaries. Being a place where we can soften, expand and re-define ourselves, to emerge within this ever-evolving space.

Whether you’re curious and new to Contact Improvisation or a seasoned dancer, the structure of the workshops and programme will give you every opportunity to engage in the somatic wonders of these practices.

Everything will be in full support of your boundaries towards physical space, whether you want to dance with a specific partner or friend, within a chosen bubble or simply with yourself and the richness of being in this environment. This camp offers you both intimate connections and spacious wanderings, where you can dance inside marquees, amongst the trees or perhaps even around the fire.

All this nestled within some beautiful and stunning surrounding​s​​, with green fields, wild meadows, natural woodlands​, lakes, amazing skylines and the rolling hills ​​of the Wiltshire countryside.

A flavour of what is going to be on offer:

• The Elements of Contact Improvisation (Earth, Water, Fire & Air)
• Live Music Contact Jams
• Contact Improvisation Technique Labs
• The Somatics of Sound-Making and Sound-Listening
• Voice as Resonating Body
• An Ecological Approach to Improvising with Sound
• Underscore & Music-Based Underscore
• Contemplative Dance Practice
• Authentic Movement
• Embodying Your Dance
• Sensory Night Walk
• l i f e s e n s i n g
• Ecstatic Dance
• African Dance
• Lindy Hop
• Body Work
• Performance & Film Evenings
• Drawing & Mark Making Space
• Loving Kindness Sound Bath Meditation
• Drum Circle
• Yoga, Chi Gung & Meditations
• ContaKids - Family Dance Space
• Storytelling & Fireside Music Jams

Dance Tent, Geodome Chill Out Lounge, Workshop Spaces, Tipi, Woodlands, Kitchen, Central Fire, Lots of Camping/Campervan options, Evening Communal Meals, Flushing Loos, Hot showers.

Facilitators, Musicians & Storytellers: Richard Parker, Asher Levin, Jamus Wood, Lee Bolton, David Leahy, Jan Lee, Morag Donnelly, Leigh Tolson, Alice Cox, Denise Rowe, Tallulah Rendall, Jocasta Crofts, Jarl Bennet, Patrick Morrow, Andy Tellham & Claudia Rigby.