Beginner-friendly Contact Improvisation with artist Noelle Lee. Explore movement, touch, and connection. No experience needed. Adults only.
This workshop is an introduction to contact improvisation through the lens of spirals.
Contact improvisation is a movement practice that explores listening through the body, using touch, weight-sharing, momentum, and attention to ourselves, our partners, and the space around us. It is less about learning choreography and more about developing awareness, curiosity, and responsiveness.
Together we will explore spiral pathways that already exist within the body through guided movement exercises, partner work, and moments of rest. We will begin with individual explorations before gradually moving into simple partnered activities, including exercises that investigate spiraling through the arms, spine, and whole body, followed by gentle craniosacral-inspired touch practices that encourage participants to slow down, sense, and support one another.
No previous dance or contact improvisation experience is needed. The emphasis is on exploration rather than performance, and participants are always welcome to work within their own comfort level.
Participants can expect to leave with a greater awareness of how spirals support efficient movement, a deeper connection to their own bodies, and new ways of relating through movement, touch, and rest.
Participants need to be 18 years of age or older.
If you have any questions, please email fortgalleryarc@gmail.com
Photo credit: Kyra Fay
About the artist:
Noelle Lee 李茵諾 (lei yan lok) is an interdisciplinary, process-based artist, working predominantly with dance, performance, and visual arts. Her work is rooted in an exploration of the intersections between artistic practice, therapeutic modalities, human psyche, and relational & intergenerational threads. She was born and raised in Hong Kong, and has ancestral lineages in China (Guangdong, Fujian), Hong Kong, and Indonesia (Makassar), currently residing in Vancouver, on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
In the last few years she has worked with Primary Colours/Couleurs Primaire, Full Circle: First Nations Performance, 221A, Arrivals Legacy Project, and Rungh Cultural Society, performing and exhibiting at What Lab Studios, The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Lobe Studio, and the Vancouver Mountainview Cemetery. She has collaborated with Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre, The Only Animal Theatre, Blue Cabin Artist Residency, and Deer Lake Artist Residency.
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