26th - 30th January · 2027
Root & Wind
5-day Intensive Bari Kim
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Root & Wind explores the relationship between rooting and flying, stability and freedom, presence and movement.
Like birds, we will learn not simply to fly, but to listen to the wind.
Through Contact Improvisation, solo practice, partnering, and group exploration, we will work with weight, gravity, breath, touch, falling, suspension, and collective improvisation, cultivating listening, sensitivity, and responsiveness while investigating how the body can remain grounded and open to change.
We will approach movement as something that emerges through relationship. Wind reveals itself through breath, touch, attention, shared weight, and presence.
Inspired by the Buddhist contemplation of the four elements—earth, water, fire, and wind—we will explore the body not as a fixed identity, but as a living process of continuous transformation.
Together, we will explore questions such as:
How do we root?
How do we listen?
How does movement emerge?
How does the wind move through us?
Over five days, we will experience dance as a transformative state. Dance is about discovering how roots become wind, how wind becomes roots, and how both continuously transform one another.
This workshop welcomes dancers of all backgrounds who are interested in Contact Improvisation, embodied awareness, and the living dialogue between rootedness and openness.
About the teacher
Bari Kim is a dance artist, improviser, choreographer based in Jeju, Seoul in Korea and travels various places. She is performing/creating in a state of improvisation, dance of presence, exploring the vitality of time and space, the relationship between dance and music, the transparent body, modernity based on traditionality, movement as embodied nature. Her focus of dance is listening.
She believes that through listening, dance becomes dance itself, music becomes music itself which allows all the possibilities for the very moments arises, resonates and expresses. And poems in the space started to be written and read.
Her artistic theme/root is Poong-gyung and GAMU which is Every being dances and sings by itself. She keeps learning dance and music from the nature, East Asian philosphy, Buddhism philosophy and Korean traditional medical research.
She has been actively sharing her dance in various ways and performing solo, as well as collaborating with various dancers and musicians across different spaces in Korea, Europe and Asia such as Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Portugal, Czech Republic, Spain, Norway, Hungary, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, India, China, Japan, Ireland, Poland and Canada, etc. She had founded the improvisational performance group in 2008, experimenting with genre fusion and improvisation. also she has been working as a member of the groups- interdisciplinary duo, experimental music duo, and improvisation music/dance band.
She is also performing as a musician, a.k.a.CrystalEar, especially with her voice. She has participated in various international residencies, including Research into the Unknown, and has toured with various projects. She received Best Dance award 2020 from Korean dance critics association.
For 26 years, She has been experimenting, enjoying, learning from, growing with/by, living and performing improvisation dance. Contact improvisation is one of her passion and love. She teaches Contact improvisation in various places/intensive workshops and festivals-Seoul international improvisation dance festival, AIAE(Asia improvisation art exchange), Towards (Thailand contact improvisation conference), Samdal contact festival, Seoul Contact festival, AOI(Goa, India), Portugal New year festival, Italy contact festival, Water&Land festival, Ladoga festival, etc She studied French literature(B.A.) in Konkuk Univ. and choreography(M.F.A.) in Korean National University of Arts. She is also certified somatic movement educator(SME) of Body-Mind Centering®️(BMC) and completed Practitioner courses of BMC being in the process of graduation.
She studied with beautiful dance-movement artist/teachers, Nancy Stark Smith, Mike Vargas, Kurt Koegel, Katie Duck, Thomas Kampe, Ted stoffer, Gizegorz ziolkowisky, Sinja Hong, Jeongho Nam, Heekyung Blanz Kim, Eunsuk Jo, Joerg Hassmann, Stephanie Maher, Peter Pleyer, Eszter Gal, Jess Curtis, Keith Hennesy, Andrew Morrish, Rosalind Crisp, Daniel lepkoff, Julyen Hamilton, Lisa Nelson, Nina Martin, Walburga Glatz, Maryska Bigos, Bob Lehnberg, Jens Johannsen, Friederike Troscher, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen.
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