New Episode ~ Faces of CI: Conversations on Contact Improvisation
I’m delighted to be joined by my first Contact teacher, Olivia Shaffer — dancer and Assistant Director at EDAM Dance Company.
In this episode, we chat about:
✨ Her journey from ballet to Europe to Contact Improvisation
✨ Correcting “doing” in Contact
✨ Staying curious when injured with scores of limitation
✨ Pilates and Feldenkrais in her practice
✨ Dancing as a Contact company performance artist
✨ Moving grief into art through her choreography
✨ Wrestling and flying in childhood as precursors to Contact
🌐 Learn more about Olivia’s classes and work: www.oliviashaffer.ca | edamdance.org
🎧 Follow Faces of CI online: @momentumcontact
📸 Photo by Hilary Maxwell
📍 Recorded at EDAM Dance in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada — on the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.
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