Embraced - Contact Improvisation

Embraced

Dance Video made in Ash, Arambol, Goa April 2016
Short footage of moments of practice of Contact and Improvisation
A simple video to share with many the beauty of this special place,
to honour the inspirations of nature and its elements in our moving bodies and spirits
In this nourishing field we stay year after year
being creating performing and exploring art
exploring ourselves and growing together as human beings and artists

Dancers : Irene Sposetti Serafima Darova
Video : Petro Honcharenko
Music : Estas Tonne
Idea and Production : Being Motion and Ash

[Nerwen]

Its so beautiful watching people come together like this. Its magnetising, so interesting, how body just knows what to do...

[BeautifulOnes]

It looks so peaceful and harmonious. ☺️

[michealodalaigh]

like two galaxies colliding to form one. Stunning!

[daphne-blue]

the motions at 1:20 were so fluid and flowed beautifully~

[sergest-amand]

After more than a year without CI, me watching this: "it's like paradise, but on Earth!"

[amosegel]

That plant with large leafs makes the dancers look like tiny people (fairys) dancing on a table :-)

[VoyagerLukas]

1:15 me when i can't fall asleep

[dianakrasnoperova]

Ааащщщ, это волшебно! Я вся в мурашках

[gabriciacci]

Wow. Very impressing. It was so amazing to watch. I fall in love... Thank you!

[IndraGrafica]

molto bello assai io ho bisogno di tormare a fare queste esercizi
Complimenti e grazie!

[Tibug]

Very nicely danced! But the rapid cuts are very disturbing to me. Cut cut cut, change of perspective, change of distance, change of perspective, it's really contrary to the slow moving bodies.

[MicrophoneOn]

Re: Sexual Arousal and Energy Discussion:
The following applies more in the context of singles rather than consenting partners:
Let's state the obvious up front. Both women and men get sexually aroused with contact improv dance. The main difference is that men have a much harder time to conceal it (no pun intended). And then women complain that men are aroused and it does not feel safe and so on. But is that fair to men who are just trying to dance and go with the flow? Imagine if women also had an appendage that became visibly erect. Should they remove themselves? Should they apologize? Are they necessarily being sexual/aggressive if they happen to brush against someone during dance? So I think that men have an unfair challenge, when it's already a challenge for many to be vulnerable and go with the flow in an environment like that. For sure, there are men using the context to be sexual and at times aggressive. There is zero place for that. But to be fair, I have also seen plenty of times where women either see/feel/sense that a man is aroused and intentionally brush up, become more overtly sexual, and so on to flirt, play with them, perhaps embarrass them, and so on. So I think there needs to be an honest and adult conversation about it.