Dynamic Flight

February 7, 2025 at 11:30 am to February 7, 2026 at 2:30 pm
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An Intermediate Contact Improvisation Workshop with Brianna Grant

Join us for Dynamic Flight, a three-hour intermediate Contact Improvisation workshop with movement teacher and acupuncturist Brianna Grant. Designed for dancers who have completed a fundamentals or beginner CI workshop, this offering invites you to deepen your practice through expanded vocabulary, fluid partnering, and embodied risk-taking.

Building on the foundations of weight sharing, spirals, gravity, proprioception, and somatic awareness, we’ll explore how lifts emerge organically through movement—experienced not as static endpoints, but as living, evolving processes within a continuous dance.

This workshop is an invitation to trust momentum, open into your backspace, and move with greater responsiveness, curiosity, and freedom.

✨ What We’ll Explore:

  • A repertoire of lifts and how to move in and out of them with continuity

  • Entering and exiting dances through improvisational pathways

  • Dancing in trios and navigating shared momentum

  • Jam skills and relational awareness

  • The principle of Tensegrity

  • Opening into backspace and multidirectional movement

“We practice static lifts and then see how we arrive at lifts through weight exchange, and how they are not ends, but actually processes… feeling the movement out of, as much as into the lifts, and experiencing them as connected parts of a flow.”
— Karl Frost

This practice supports not only physical skill and confidence, but also how we listen, adapt, and collaborate—on and off the dance floor.

About Your Facilitator

Brianna Grant is a Registered Acupuncturist and Movement Teacher who has been studying the body through movement and bodywork for over a decade. Her background includes training in Embodied Relational Gestalt Therapy, Feldenkrais, Somatic Movement, Acupressure, Thai Massage, and Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Brianna began practicing Contact Improvisation in 2011 and has been dedicated to the form ever since, teaching and facilitating across Victoria, Duncan, Cumberland, Salt Spring Island, and Nicaragua. She brings a deep passion for somatic awareness, agency, play, and authentic expression.

Her workshops are dynamic, inclusive, and rooted in the understanding that every body has a unique story to tell.

Follow Brianna: @briannagranthealth

Reserve Your Spot

  • Date: Saturday, February 7

  • Time: 11:30am–2:30pm

  • Drop-In: $65

  • Capacity: Limited to 18 participants

This is an intimate, exploratory workshop with limited space.

👉 Register Now!