Our guest today is the multi-directional being Leilani Weis — Contact Improvisation teacher of 26 years. Originally from Chile, she helped develop CI scenes in Mexico and Italy, and now resides in Barcelona.
In this episode, we discuss:
✨ Her decades-long mentorship with Martin Keough
✨ Dancing into impossible places
✨ Preparing the body-mind for Contact
✨ The dancer superpowers
✨ Our mutual love of falling
📍 Recorded during Saltspring Contact Festival 2023, on the unceeded Coast Salish Territory in British Columbia, Canada.
🎧 Our IG@momentumcontact
📅 Upcoming events: msha.ke/momentumworkshop
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