BIO
is a dancer, an osteopath, a dance teacher and a mother of two young children. Linda graduated as a dance artist from The Theatre Academy in Helsinki in 2008 and as an osteopath from The Metropolia Polytechnics in 2021. She has been dancing contact improvisation for plus 20 years.
Nowadays Linda is mostly working with touch and movement through her osteopathy, yet also again and again falling in love with dance improvisation and CI. Lately Linda has been intrigued by the very basics and the very origins of contact improvisation diving into re-researching some of its underlying principles.
Falling
Teacher: Linda
Pathway: Mechanics of Contact Improvisation
Falling down or falling up? Falling through the space? Falling as a letting go or falling as a direction? Enjoying the fall, the disorientation, the excitement, yet maybe also having some fear of falling completely..? Falling as a leap of trust or as a skill that takes years and years of practise..? Falling as one of the original fulcrums of exploration in CI and falling as the one guaranteed way of finding new pathways, of being surprised both on the dance floor and in life…
The creative flow in improvisation and CI
Teacher: Linda
Pathway:
How to enhance and appreciate the creative potential and the creative flow in contact improvisation and in the jam space? How to keep this co-created space alive and free to shift at all times? How to develop the skills of becoming more and more aware of the whole spacetime-universe that we are creating together – now and now and now?