Contact Improvisation with Scott Wells
Saturdays | July 1 - August 26, 2017
12:15-2:00pm
Drop-ins welcome. ODC class passes accepted, or pay a $15 drop in fee per class.
From Zero to Flying
Beginning from curiosity and connection (ground, self-other), we’ll learn some techniques and traject towards a space that supports freedom of flight and expression. That is: we start at zero to redefine what is contact—to ourselves, others, reality, gravity. I will see what the group is up for. We’ll be doing my favorite contact exercises and current curiosities. Created or learned over the decades of investigation and indulgence.
Pleasure to Technique; Somatics to Acrobatics
Scott Wells has directed a dance company in San Francisco since 1992. Scott received two Izzies (San Francisco’s most prestigious dance award) for Outstanding Choreography and was selected by Dance Magazine as “one of the 25 To Watch”. Scott has toured to Europe for the last 20 years teaching and performing in festivals in Moscow, Barcelona, Budapest, Berlin, Vienna, Zagreb to name a few. Locally he has taught at A.C.T, the San Francisco Conservatory for Dance and UC Berkeley. Wells has been practicing Contact Improv for 36 years, Alexander Technique for 25 and BMC for 15.