Description of the Guidance by Alessandro Rivellino

We will be seeking increasing the capacity of not knowing.

Is not that by increasing the capacity of not knowing, we are seeking any profit.

By not knowing we aim to step aside from the part of us that considers the words the only place of safety and that thinks things under control are more beneficial.

We wish to consider the whole embodiment and awareness as being the same, beyond words, until we can even be capable of stopping calling the body as something that we possess, and the "I" as something separate or special.

That is humble and points towards sensitivity, not to éxtasis, numbing, catharsis, or some sense of wilderness without listening.

Practically:

Heart is pumping.
Blood is flowing.
Hair is growing.
Billions of cells dying and getting born.
This is time

Breathing keeps the ongoing interchange until the end.
It comes fresh, it releases warm.
Senses are rotatory doors between inside and outside.
This is Space.

Where do we play?

The same we wish to do with ourselves, getting off the ideas and putting in what is life in its pure unintended intention of unfolding.

Oh, that is poetry.

How to bring the sensoriality to what it is and to open the gates for dancing Contact Improvisation?

The relationship with the space that surrounds and contains us and the inner perceptive complex, the improvisation:

Using and increasing all the tools for movement and stillness, to be able drop them off as well, and attend to the unknown, in the process of movement and inquiring: where is unfolding the direction of now, inside the clearest bases of a practice named Contact Improvisation?

This is a description, maybe it is a kind of storytelling, maybe it is a guidance, it depends on you, as well.

I would rather rely on pure trust, offering a totally blank page ...

Contact Improvisation meets inside and outside, revealing how is transitory this appearance: in the relationship with the body, the floor, the space around and the others.

We have a neocortex, and it has some important connection with the cognitive realm, which also relates to the meaning and the substance of wording.

We wish, not necessarily to drop it, but to, as well, inhabit the beyond, where the body in itself acts as a whole and we can, actually, improvise as individual and collective beings at the same time, without considering that we are separate.

The process is always collaborative, but in this case I have the role of teaching.

Or better to say: helping in holding space for learning and offering alternatives that people would not think by themselves in some specific way.

Or even help guide them to themselves.
Is that possible?
Is it possible not to be yourself?

I revere and honor Steve Paxton in his clarity and generosity, and I totally agree when he says: the dance is the teacher, the teacher points to that.

In the context of this meeting, we aim to contemplate what is temporary, (but not treating it as something frivolous or in a frivolous way), and create space and time, and the world we love within us.

It can sound big and distant, but it also can be connected with what is close by: your heart, your neighbour, the next dance that already started...

The bases of Contact Improvisation includes: listening to the points of contact; joining momentum; studying and yielding with the systems of a body; under'standing the relationship with gravity; dancing with the whole space; seeking for balance as an ongoing relationship with its own non-achievement; and so on.

Let's go for it, or stay with it, while we focus on meditative processes and somatic deepening, anchoring in silence as a container and stream for our beauty and creativity instead of control and manipulation.

Beginning, "middleing" and ending as waves, within the C.I. practice.

We will dive into meditative dynamics and somatic deepening, using silence as a container for beauty and creativity to emerge, rather than control or manipulation. The practice unfolds like waves—beginning, middle, and end—always rooted in the present moment.

Please note that by registering you take full accountability of your physical and emotional state. Some spaces for integration through words will be provided, although most of the meeting will happen in silence, or within a contemplative state.

Proposed Schedule