Rosalind Holgate Smith is a Dance Artist, Choreographer and Somatic Educator with a BA(hons) in Fine Art and Choreography, an MA in Dance and a PhD about touch in Contact Improvisation.
Rosalind has over 15 years’ experience teaching Contact Improvisation and takes inspiration from her studies in Body Mind CenteringR, Authentic Movement, Skinner Release Technique, Martial Arts and her love for dancing outdoors.
She specializes in creating performances and installations that explore intimate connections between people, place and the environment. Rosalind is also an experienced Yoga Instructor and following her passion for water, she teaches swimming with the Shaw Method, which integrates the Alexander technique.
https://rosalindholgate-smith.com
Contact Improvisation Festival - Classes
DISSOLVING
This class will begin with a somatic deep dive meditation to dissolve into our tissues, into the soil and with extra-terrestrial space. Dispersing and spreading we will explore our bodies as collections of force, coalescing, disassembling and assimilating. We will apply dissolving in how we touch and make contact with other surfaces and people and also explore dissolving in practices of giving and receiving weight, whereby attending to the spaces that precipitate between us, we will work on extending and sustaining the connection with our partners. By travelling through time, and coming and going between partners we will develop this work with weight, exploring aspects of falling, speed and momentum and making way for light buoyant dancing and floating forms of flight.