AALIA | Your Host, Solo Episode

07/27/23 • 45 min

Hello! I'm dancing solo in this episode, where I to get into my dance background. During this one you"ll learn more about me, discovering contact improv at a fusion festival, the 4 dance styles I see at jams, and some Nancy Stark Smith wisdom. Follow along @facesofci on Instagram for more content. Find Nancy Stark Smith's "Mini Solo Underscore": https://bit.ly/3i0ftNk

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CHRISTINA DOHR & SANTIAGO ORTIZ HEREDIA | Germany & Spain

Our guests today are the dancing teaching duo, Christina Dohr (Germany) and Santiago Ortiz Heredia (Spain). This is another bi-lingual episode, available in Spanish with translation. In this episode, we cover Architecture and Aikido. Touching in both directions. Embodying being seen. Psychomagic storytelling. Cross cultural contact pollination. You can find more of them on IG @black_key and @embodiedchristina. This episode was recorded in Chiang Dao, Thailand for Towards CI51 Conference @towards.contact Faces of CI online // Instagram @facesofci https://linktree.com/facesofci

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LEILANI WEIS | (Chile) at Saltspring Contact Festival

Our guest today is the multi-directional being, Contact Improvisation teacher of 26 years, Leilani Weis. Originally from Chile, she helped develop the CI scenes abroad in Mexico & Italy and currently resides in Barcelona. We discuss her decades long mentorship with Martin Keough, dancing into impossible places, preparing the body-mind for Contact, "the dancer superpowers" and our mutual love of falling. This episode was recorded during Saltspring Contact Festival 2023, on Unceeded Coast Salish Territory in British Columbia, Canada. Faces of CI online // Instagram @facesofci https://linktree.com/facesofci