Ray Chung has a passion for dancing which he likes to share with other people. His main focus is improvisation and he has worked with Contact Improvisation since 1979 as part of improvisational performance practice. He integrates other movement forms into his work, including martial arts, bodywork and Authentic Movement. Ray has worked with the leading proponents of Contact Improvisation and has also been influenced by collaborations with others such as Chris Aiken, Martin Keogh, Lisa Nelson, Nancy Stark Smith, Karen Nelson, and Katarina Eriksson. He has also trained as a shiatsu therapist and instructor with Ryuho Yamada, Wataru Ohashi, and the Shiatsu Education Center of America. His work has been featured at numerous national and international festivals and venues.
Classes in Spiral & Root together with Chris Aiken / 5 days – third week.
GET TO THE POINT
What processes occur in our body and mind when we integrate the movements of our bodies
with other bodies, with the intention of creating, collaborating, and performing? What do we think about when we no longer need to focus on surviving and moving safely? What strategies
do we incorporate to frame our intention of embodying the various aspects of intention, awareness and imagination. Can we develop a transparency of technique, to move with less effort, more clarity of intention, wider awareness, and greater presence? Dance is a physicalization of ideas, images, emotions, and spirit. Although our work is physical, our processes grow out of a need for integration. Performance has been a way of expressing ideas, values, emotions and unnamable things in a more complete way than is acceptable in everyday life. We work with physical elements, but we devise physical elements which closely correspond to states-of-being and imagining. This workshop will give an overview of some of the processes involved in the body/mind during the practice and performing of Contact Improvisation (CI).
