every Saturday from 5pm to 6pm (before the jam)
(except: 18.10.08 / 27.12.08 / 03.01.09 / 10.04.09)

Also see: http://www.tuena.ch/contact_improvisation/contact_improvisation_en.htm

Weekend Contact Jam in Burlington Vermont

Friday: 7 – 11 pm
Saturday: 9:30 am – Midnight
Sunday: 9:30 am – 2:30 pm

Housing by local dancers.

Food and Snacks Included.

Free Ticket to Liz Lerman Dance Performance Saturday Night

Looking forward to seeing you there.

BOULDER, COLORADO
The Human Contact Project explores a reframing of the art of Contact Improvisation … a shared diving into subtle level awareness of the physics and neurology of two bodies in contact combined with an open sense of the poetics of human beings encountering each other. This workshop will incorporate Karl’s release technique/passive sequencing material and his physical poetics work (see website for full description: www.bodyresearch.org/humancontact.)
For those with prior CI experience.

Boulder Circus Center
Friday March 6 6:30pm-9:30pm
Saturday March 7 11am-2pm 5pm-8pm
Sunday March 8
11am-2pm 3:30pm-6:30pm

verwenweekend: "het voeden van je huidhonger"
met Voelend Dansen, Contactimprovisatie en Massage
Om je huidhonger te voeden

Door Annemieke van der Mooren, Sebas van Wetten en Cees Isselmann

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In onze maatschappij is het heel gewoon dat kinderen regelmatig geknuffeld en aangeraakt worden. Lekker bij elkaar zitten voor de tv of met voorlezen, even op schoot voor er weer verder gespeeld wordt, af en toe even een knuffel halen ter bevestiging.

Naar mate de kinderen ouder worden wordt dit minder.
Kinderen hebben minder behoefte aan fysieke bevestiging; ouders willen geen groot kind meer op schoot: "daar ben je nu te groot voor"…; of kinderen willen het zelf niet meer, omdat ze gepest worden als ze nog op schoot willen zitten/ aangeraakt willen worden.

Toch gaat de behoefte aan en/of het verlangen naar aanraking nooit helemaal over.
Inmiddels is ook wetenschappelijk bewezen dat het een noodzaak is.

Deze behoefte aan aanraken, dit verlangen, noemen wij "HUIDHONGER" .
Bij veel volwassenen wordt hun huidhonger alleen in seksualiteit gevoed. Maar het kan ook op een andere manier….
In dit weekend bieden wij je de mogelijkheid om in een veilige setting jezelf en anderen te voeden door aan te raken en aangeraakt te worden. Buiten de seksualiteit om.

• Natuurlijk op onze geheel eigen wijze vanuit "Voelend Dansen" met "leuke en spannende" bewegings- en dans oefeningen.

• Maar ook door middel van de meer fysiek georiënteerde dansvorm Contactimprovisatie.

• En door middel van elkaar masseren .
  Zowel het gemasseerd worden, als het zelf masseren kan je huidhonger stillen.

Eerdere ervaring is niet nodig :
noch in Voelend Dansen, noch in Contactimprovisatie of andere dans; en ook niet met masseren.

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email:     info at Dansavontuur dot nl

TANZIMPROVISATION

Frühlingsimpulse 09

Termine:
17.3., 31.3., 21.4., 19.5., 2.6.2009

TANZIMPULS ist ein Tanz-Labor für experimentierfreudige TänzerInnen, AnfängerInnen wie Fortgeschrittene.

Enspannendes Bodywork, sanfte Körpertechniken, Mobilitätstraining sowie Wahrnehmungsschulung sind die tragenden Elemente der erneuerten Bewegung, erweitern effektiv das tänzerische Spektrum und Optimieren die Ausdrucksfähigkeit.

Die Freude an Klarheit und Zentrierung in der Bewegung führt die TänzerInnen achtsam und vielfältig durch die Welt der Improvisation.

Der Moment der Transformation wird präzise erfahren und es eröffnen sich damit (un-)geahnte Möglichkeiten von Bewegung in Raum und Zeit.

Strukturierte Scores lehren sowohl den einzelnen Tänzer(in) wie auch die Gruppe im Gesamten die künstlerische Gestaltung von Raum, Zeit und Dynamik und geben dem Tanz starke Präsenz und hohe Performancequalität.

March in the Berkshire foothills, and celebrate the turning of the seasons by rolling, pouring, & sharing weight, and lifting off to spring! Find those delicious moments of stillness from which the movement comes. Our Spring Equinox Jam will offer plenty of opportunities for open Contact Improvisation, and will provide a special focus – composing. Come the first night and see the fruits of a two-day performance project, or two days earlier, and participate in it as a member of the corps. Get your dance on. Facilitated by Amii LeGendre.

For those interested in an expanded time at Earthdance, Amii will also be leading the Performance Project for the 2 days leading up to the jam. Check out the Performance Project page (http://www.earthdance.net/programs/performanceproject09.htm) where you can register for both the jam and the Performance Project.

Facilitated by Kathleen Rea:

Reference Kathleen's work http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=vvZKkNXkv3o

Music by Ariel Brink:
Ariel Brink is the lead singer of The Dull-Eyed Llamas and the author of 147 songs. He plays 13 musical instruments with varying degrees of ability, and has been improvising music for dancers for more than five years, most commonly at Kathleen Rea’s Wednesday Jam. He is an avid Contact dancer; he also attends and occasionally deejays ecstatic dances. Fascinated by the interplay between movement and music, Brink is also a dedicated improviser, in music, dance, and in his work as a substitute teacher and music therapist. www.myspace.com/thedulleyedllamas

Description:
Explore Contact Dance as a tool in the creative process. Focus will be on movement quality, skill building and the
playful act of creating dances.

Date:
Sundays March 22 to May 10

Time:
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

• please note due to scheduling conflict, the Sunday March 29th class will run from 3:30 to 5:30 pm

• please note there will be no class on Easter Sunday

Requirements:
Dancers must have intermediate or advanced level Contact Dance skills or be a graduate of a professional dance training program and willing to pick up Contact Dance skills prior to workshop

Registration:
dance@kathleenrea.com
416 545 1515

Produced by:
www.reasondetre.com

The Manchester Contact Improvisation network run by Katy Dymoke has organised a weekend Jam with Guests Adrian Russi and Gesine Daniels supporting the space with warm ups alongside Katy Dymoke and live music.

Please look at the web site for further information; www.manchester-contact-improvisation.org.uk
to register e mail your details or contact christian@manchester-contact-improvisation.org.uk

Friday 27, 6 – 9 p.m.
Saturday 28th; 11 to 8 p.m.
Sunday 29th a.m. dance in nature, 2.30 to 6 Jam.

Some couch surfing or private rooms are possible as well as the youth hostel and plenty of bed and breakfast/hotels.
Sunday morning, weather permitting we will go to the Pennine Hills to move and have lunch.

Please bring comfortable clothes and food and drink for the table.
There are lots of shops and some cafes near by including the Jamaican M and M's and the Jamaican Bakery. Old Trafford is a multi-cultural suburbian city area.
Address; Old Trafford Community Centre, Shrewsbury st, Old Trafford, M16 9LU

payments in sterling; Please post a cheque paid to C Dymoke to; Katy Dymoke
180 Stamford St
Old Trafford
M16 9LU

CONTACT IMPROVISATION

….in den Frühling tanzen!

…ist das Spiel von einer, zwei und mehreren Personen mit den dynamischen Kräften von Entspannung und Spannung, Schwerkraft und Fliegen, Zentrum und Peripherie, Drehmoment und Fliehkraft, Komposition und Moment.
Ein Wochenende voller Impulse zum Entdecken, Erproben, Erleben und mit viel Spaß am Tanz.

Am Samstag findet um 19.00 Uhr die OPEN SPACE JAM statt. Für WorkshopteilnehmerInnen kostenlos und eine tolle Mölichkeit, die Freude am Tanzen mit anderen zu teilen!

Each day of the Spring East Coast Jam offers several opportunities to do lots of contact improv, walk in the fields, eat yummy vegetarian food, partake in Poetry and Chocolate, make an offering of your own structure, stay in the historic mansion, snooze, sauna, and everything else. It begins with dinner on Wednesday and ends with lunch on Sunday.

Workshop: April 20 – 24, 2009, daily 11 – 16
Performance: Friday April 24, 2009, 19:00: Solo-Performance David Zambrano & performance of the workshops students

Learning to use one’s life experience, being able to consciously and
cLearning to use one’s life experience, being able to consciously and continuously shape one’s energy integrating the body and mind, time and space through the practice of dance improvisation, students learn to create instant pieces of dance onstage in front of an audience.

The workshop begins with students improvising solos, duets, and small groups utilizing the class as an audience. Zambrano pushes the students to realize that there is always something more inside and
that performing is spontaneous. The students are urged to break down old habits to search for new possibilities. Change is vital to this training as the student is asked to constantly change their vocabulary
into something new. How do you use your power? How do you redefine what you know, turn it on and off to explore something new? The student become more flexible as they learn to communicate within their
bodies, the bodies of fellow performers, and the environment in which they are working. Zambrano asks his students to accept everything one can imagine, especially the impossible, and to learn to call upon them when creating an improvisation.

„My workshops are very physical. Whoever wants to take it, she/he must know that we are moving our thoughts all day.“ D.Z.

More: http://www.schwelle7.de/DavidZambrano.html

David Zambrano’s Short Biography
For over 20 years, David Zambrano has been a monumental figure in the international dance community, and his passion for cultural exchange continues to influence his work. Living and making work in Amsterdam and teaching/performing internationally, Zambrano is an ambassador and liaison across many borders, bringing together artists from all over the planet for his projects. An inspiring teacher, thrilling performer, and innovative choreographer, Zambrano has contributed generously to the field of dance in ways that have influenced many and impacted the dance world from several angles. His development of the “Flying Low” and “Passing Through” techniques are among his recent innovations that have helped
to lead improvisational dance into an exciting future. Many of his projects have continuously influenced Zambrano’s pedagogic methods, keeping them fresh and interesting for the students from around the globe.

More: www.davidzambrano.org

Registrations: info (at) felixruckert.de
Place: Schwelle 7, Uferstraße 6, HH 1. OG, 13357 Berlin -Wedding
http://www.schwelle7.de

"Dancing CI – and in particular flying and moving on top of a partner – to me is primarily based on the ability to organize my body in a functional way in any moment of the dance, so that I can meet each situation, however disorienting, strange, scary, exiting, familiar or seemingly stuck it may be, with creative joy and the sense of being safe.

In this intensive, rather then by learning specific movement patterns that can only be mastered by a few of us, this ability is gained by understanding core principles and practising some basic skills, that you, as you continue to use and study them, can easily modify and adapt to any situation in your Contact-dance.

The focus on different body systems will offer you tools to increase your ability to sense what is going on in your body, in your kinesphere and the space beyond and to move precisely with a soft body and an open mind, when you are dancing solo and in Contact with others.

These body systems are:
different layers of the skin and the connective tissue,
the pelvis and the hip joints
and the eyes.

Specific exercises will guide you to exploring slow weight shift and momentum, growing out of the floor and melting into it and to play with balance and off-balance as you constantly listen to gravity.

In structured improvisations you can integrate the new knowledge into dancing and learn from each other on different levels.

You can enjoy the pleasure of experimenting and making mistakes in a safe and supportive environment as you experience flying and falling through levels and space as well as disorientation being part of your
dance, and dance beside, on top and underneath your partner, moving in and out of contact…

To be continued at the next jam…"

Gesine Daniels

I am a choreographer, dance teacher and performer living in Germany and in Wales (UK), dancing, creating and teaching internationally. I have been dancing since I was a child, studying and practicing many forms of dance and movement from Ballet and Gymnastics to New Dance and Contact improvisation, as well as Improvisation and theatrical approaches to performance.
Since 1985, CI together with improvisation is my passion, which has a great influence on my teaching and artistic work and does enrich my whole life.
My way of dancing and teaching Dance, Contact improvisation and Performance is energetic, playful and sensitive. Exploring the physics of the human body in movement fascinates me a lot and the question of “how do we communicate in and through dance?” is an ongoing exploration for me.
I have been dancing and creating in a wide range of events and places from opera to street performance, solo and group works. As a teacher I have been working in social ghettos and theatre schools, I taught children in primary schools as well as educated dancers.
In 2000, I founded the SomeBodyElse Dance Company, which works with Improvisation and Contact Improvisation in their site-specific dance pieces.

an intermediate-advanced workshop
with Ray Chung

Using Contact Improvisation as a foundation, we will create ways to improvise dancing in duo, trio, and ensemble.  We will survey CI essentials, with a focus on efficient use of technical skills, to develop a facility for, and availability to, changing physical states and levels of touch and weight.  We will work with strategies for moving "out of the box" of the duet form, expanding our range of choices of how to include more than one other dancer while moving seamlessly into and out of contact. Come prepared for focused playfulness within committed practice.
A working facility with Contact Improvisation is required.  For intermediate to advanced and experienced participants.

Ray Chung is a performer, teacher, engineer, and artist who has a passion for dancing which he likes to share with other people. His main focus is improvisation and he has worked with Contact Improvisation since 1979 as part of improvisational performance practice and integrates other movement forms into his work, including martial arts, bodywork and Authentic Movement. Ray has worked with the leading proponents of Contact Improvisation and regularly collaborates with dancers, musicians, and other artists. His work has been featured at numerous national and international festivals and venues.  Currently based in San Francisco, Ray regularly teaches abroad.

Can dancing failure, refusal, and non-cooperative play construct invention?

A weekend workshop of contact improvisation facilitated by Jane Hawley.

Local housing available for out of town guest at no additional cost.

Schedule:
Friday, 7:00 – 11:00pm:
Arrivals, Introductions, Opening Circle, and Jam.
Saturday, 1:00 – 9:00pm
Warm-Up, Workshop, Catered Dinner, Lots of Dancing-Jamming
Sunday, 8:00am – 12noon
Open Space, Workshop, Closing Jam-Circle, Departures

[Workshops]
1. Date: from 3rd May to 5th May, 2009　
2. Place: Bumb Tokyo Sports Bunkakan(Tokyo, Japan)　
3. Faculty: Andrew Wass (Cotact Improvisation, America) Ulla Riikka Makinen（Contact Improvisation, Finland） Akihiro Yoshida and Tomonori Takahashi (Aikido, Japan）
[Performance]
1.Date : 6th May, 2009
2.Place: Aspia Hall　2-14-3 Hatagaya, Shibuya, Tokyo, JAPAN

SPIRAL

A workshop designed to focus our study of Contact and Improvisation through the Underscore, a long score for jamming/composition/contact/improvisation. The Underscore guides us through a progression of "changing states" of body and mind—from solo sensitizing to gravity and support, into group circulation and Contact Improvisation engagements, opening out into whole room compositional awareness and interaction, and back to rest and reflection.

Combining our practice of Contact Improvisation and the Underscore with the pleasure and discipline of detailed listening to sound, we will move with many species of live and recorded music to develop conscious, varied relationships between what we hear and how we move. Through the phases of the Underscore—alone, in contact, in groups, in silence, and with live music—we'll study physical and energetic changes of state, natural composition, presence, and relationship, enhancing the pleasure and awareness in our dancing experience.

For movers with intermediate/advanced level experience with Contact Improvisation.

WEEKEND JAM
Two HUGE rooms with hardwood floors flooded with natural light…
Yummy vegetarian food all weekend long & Jamming Jamming Jamming!
Guided warm-ups by Karen Kaeja, Pam Johnson & Tanya Williams
Live Music, Special Jams & Performances, Healing arts & bodywork
and more…

6pm Friday to 5pm Sunday
All levels welcome
see website for daily rates
billeting available

Milan, Saturday MAY 16th – Sunday 17th

IMPROVISATION WORKSHOP with ROSSELLA FIUMI

Saturday May 16th : from 2 pm to 7 pm
Sunday May 17th : from 12 am to 5 pm

Where: MamiWata, Tradizioni in Movimento asd
Via Savona 134, Milan, ITALY – www.mamiwata.it

cost: 80 euro
in order to subscribe, please send a deposit of 30 euro within May 8th
for info: info@mamiwata.it

COMPOSITION AND IMAGINATION
Techniques of Improvisation.
In this workshop we will work on observation and the ability to make decisions, fundamental aspects of Improvisation. The aims are to help the participants develop their capacities for perception and awareness of movement, to make it easier for the group to get on the same wave length, to interact with the environment and integrate these qualities in Improvisation. Some of the exercises in the quest for this tuning supply the participants with instruments for communication that crosses the borders of the disciplines and throws light on the practice of the performance and on the processes of dancing. Elements of Contact Improvisation are present in the workshop. The seminary is addressed both to beginners and to those with past experience.

ROSSELLA FIUMI
Independent artist, Improvisation performer, choreographer, dancer, teacher, art director of the International Contact-ZIPfest. She has chosen Orvieto as her artistic residence, where she had had her workspace since 1984, a training center for dance, premises of the ALEFdanzaateatro Company and of intense international cultural projects. In 2003 she coined a new identity for the Company, now called Caraval15 residenza dinamica. As choreographer she has been active in the international scene of contemporary dance since 1987. Her creations have been presented in Italy and abroad (Germany, Spain, Poland, Portugal, Brazil, Mexico, Russia). She has participated as performer and teacher in European projects and festivals on Improvisation and Contact Improvisation, including: Tanzfabrik Berlin 1991 – 1993; Festival of Valencia 1994; ECITE Budapest 2000; International Contact Freiburg Festival 2004 and 2005; XII Quinzena de Almada in Lisbon 2004, Saint Petersburg festival 2006, and others. Since 2002 she has been collaborating with the D.A.M.S. of Roma – Università Roma Tre, with workshops on Contact Improvisation and Improvisation, in the Department of Letters and Philosophy. Recently she collaborates in the LC3 project (London Contemporary Dance School 3) of The Place-London, for residential projects in her residency of Orvieto with the third year graduate students.

for info & subscriptions:
MamiWata – Tradizioni in Movimento asd – Via Savona 134, Milan ITALY
+ 39.02.89694359 – +39.349.6935240
www.mamiwata.it – info@mamiwata.it
www.myspace.com/associazionemamiwata

WORKSHOP: May 17th to May 21st with NANCY STARK SMITH and MIKE VARGAS

JAM: May 21st to May 25th (Memorial Day) with NANCY STARK SMITH and MIKE VARGAS, plus other Jam Hosts to be announced.

Please visit the website http://www.MoabJam.com for all of the details including the full description, past pictures, daily schedules, etc.

===>>The workshop and jam are likely to fill very quickly. Visit the website and sign up to receive a reminder to register as soon as online registration opens.

THE WORKSHOP: This is an intermediate/advanced level workshop for dancers that are dedicated to practicing and learning Contact Improvisation (CI) who would like to deepen the foundation and open the range of their dancing. We'll work with essential principles and sensations to simplify and challenge our play with the physical forces, with each other, and to stimulate new clarity and depth in our dancing. Instructor: NANCY STARK SMITH with live music by MIKE VARGAS.

THE JAM: The Moab Jam is well known for rich dancing, warm friends, beautiful surroundings and bountiful opportunities to explore both on and off the dance floor. Our goal, as always, is to create a warm, safe and supportive environment where you are part of creating and then enjoying the Jam that you want. This year we are excited to be joined by NANCY STARK SMITH and MIKE VARGAS. We'll also have additional jam hosts who's names will be announced on the website: http://www.MoabJam.com

Join the California Contact Improvisation community, at Harbin Hot Springs, for four days of

- Warm, inclusive dancing
- Classes
- Creative play
- Fabulous catered food
- Natural hot springs and swimming pools
- Secluded conference center with private hot pools
- Group sleeping deck or camping
- Beautiful natural setting for outdoor play

We'll dance in a beautiful big space with a fabulous floor – The Railyard Performance Center.

Fri May 29 6 – 9 pm
Sat May 30 2 – 9 pm
Sun May 31 9 am – 2 pm

we'll have pot luck picnics on the porch. folks can stay at my house or with other dancers.

Hum Dance presents
Falling into Feeling

Contact improvisation Dance Workshops in Eugene, Oregon

Falling into Feeling 1 (May 31st, Sunday 1-3pm)
A Beginners Workshop in Contact Improvisation. Exploring ways into dancing through the embodiment of physics and interrelationship. Weight sharing, listening skills, authentic presence, momentum, and awareness to the dynamics of communication through touch.

Falling into Feeling 2 (June 6th, Sunday 1-3pm)
Open level workshop for beginners through to experienced dancers.
Through opening into sensitivity and receptivity we expand possibilities in our dances and develop more acute subtlety of feeling and perception. ‘Falling into Feeling’ is a Contact Improvisation class that follows a feeling of freefall with gravity guiding. The possibility of surrender into the intelligence of your body is there, allowing its dance to unfurl – a falling into focus, into presence, into an alert and relaxed physicality – inside a feeling body we experience a fuller awareness of what is.

Workshop times: Sunday May 31st, 1-3pm & Sunday June 6th, 1-3pm

@ WOW Hall: 291 W 8th Ave, Eugene
cost: $15/$10 sliding scale

more information:
Register on (541) 255 3660
or email: thiswillalsochange@gmail.com
also: http://humsomaticresearch.blogspot.com/

Workshops are facilitated by Val Smith
Val is a dance artist from New Zealand, working in the fields of dance education, research and performance. She has been teaching Contact Improvisation for 10 years in NZ, Australia and now in the US. Val also teaches and/or performs/practices Performance Improvisation, Choreography, variations on Contemporary Dance, and Yoga/Meditation.

La Alternativa – Kathleen Hermesdorf & Albert Mathias

La ALTERNATIVA (formerly MOTIONLAB), directed by dancer Kathleen Hermesdorf and musician Albert Mathias since 1998, is a vessel/vehicle for training, performance, creation and production. The mission to create and instigate work of deeply integrated sound and motion entwines with a commitment to collaborating among mediums and connecting with artists – locally, nationally and internationally – to bridge art forms and communities. The company has received substantial support in San Francisco and recently finished a 5-year Artist Residency at ODC Theater.

La ALTERNATIVA has toured the US, Europe and Mexico and is a co-founder of the Alternative Conservatory. Hermesdorf and Mathias both hail from Chicago, Illinois and have been making work in the West since 1991 – meeting in 1994 in the multi-disciplinary performance group, Contraband, led by Sara Shelton Mann. They have been on the faculty of ODC School since 1996. More at www.la-alternativa.us

Luscious and ballistic – KEY AND TRIGGER –
MONDAY, June, 1 TO FRIDAY, June, 5, 2009
daily FROM 12am – 5 pm

LUSCIOUS – a key to access the undulating systems, sinews, curiosity, intelligence and instincts of the body and mind, to activate the voluptuous diva/animal deep inside and to articulate the sticky relationship to gravity.

BALLISTIC – a trigger to break through and shake things up; a trigger to activate speed, energy, spectacle, big movement, bold ideas and loud voices.

Practice
A movement intensive, driven by perpetual, visveral live music, investigating technique and improvisation, solo and partner(s) & practice, process and performance. Training in breath and energy modalities, hands on instigation, somatic improvisation and motion techniques, including methods of falling, inversion and flight, contextualized in three-dimensional phrases.

Process & Performance
Solo, duet and group work incorporates the training and utilizes improvised scores and set and created materials in the process. Each day ends with performance and feedback to recognize and cultivate the dialogues of key (source) and trigger (target), luscious (internal experience) and ballistic (external expression).

Kathleen and Albert will perform DUET at schwelle7 on WED, June 3 at 8:30 pm

It's on again: The Australian Contact Improvisation Convergence, or ACIC, or just The Convergence – we're Australian, we don't mind what you call it, just as long as you come and dance!

acic09, the important details:

Queens Birthday Weekend 2009
Thursday Afternoon 4th – Monday after Lunch 8th June.
Lake Ainsworth, Lennox Head (NSW)

acic09 will once again be held in the idyllic location of Lake Ainsworth Sports and Recreation Centre, in Lennox Head, NSW. 5 days of residential Dancing, Labbing and Jamming right on the beach. Woo hoo!
Put the dates in your 2009 diary now!

More information coming soon, with dates for opening of registrations and cost details.
Keep a watch on the convergnce website.
For any urgent queries, don't hesitate to contact us.

Other news:
This year there will be a smaller hall booked in the Byron area for some of Tue & Wed immediately before acic09 – for anyone arriving early, this will be a very informal space to meet, relax & dance – accomodation, food,and transport will be your own responsibility.

And don't be afraid to get involved – share with us your ideas about acic09 and contact us about ways you can help out!

With excitement,
The acic09 team.

Contact improvisation workshop for all levels
June 4-7, 2009, Vilnius, Lithuania
With Julija Melnik (Lithuania) and Maria Grudskaya (Russia)
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In the workshop we will use the floor and its energy to move and support ourselves and each other. We will travel through levels, find easy and safe ways to fall down and to get up. Our hands can be strong as legs and our legs can be light and sensitive as hands, enriching the movement.
We will practice listening and following the partner, reading his or her movements with our hands and the whole body. We will dance in the dialogue, when both partners are mobile and ready to follow each other.
In the dance we share weight with the partner, offer support, and let spontaneous liftings to happen. We will search ways to support the partner with minimal effort. How to sense the moments to get support or a lift? And how to be light there?
This workshop is open for any experience level. You can be an intermediate dancer, or it can be your first meeting with contact, it doesn’t matter! All together we can get into an unexpected and inspiring exploration!
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Teachers:
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Julija Melnik
“I love to create a space for awareness, openness, spontaneity, love and joy to happen.
I am happy to share my curiosity and engagement with dance and life and I am glad to encourage people on their way to meet and discover themselves and people around them. When I teach I try to create a safe container for individual exploration of this dance form (CI) and allow the freedom of searching, questioning and enjoying.”
Julija is teaching regular CI classes, jams and workshops in Vilnius and other cities in Lithuania, and abroad. She is also organizing CI events in Lithuania: workshops, annual November minifestival, International CI and Performance festival in August 2009.
Julija has studied contact improvisation with CI pioneers – Steve Paxton and Nancy Stark Smith, and also with Nina Martin, Andrew Harwood, Angela Donii, Joerg Hassman, Charlie Morrissey, Adrian Russi, and many others.
Besides CI Julija is also dancing salsa, Argentinean tango and contemporary dance, she is teaching street dance and is exploring other improvisational forms and performance.
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Maria Grudskaya
Masha is a dancer, teacher and organizer from Moscow, Russia. She teaches CI in Moscow, in other cities of Russia and abroad.
Masha has studied contact improvisation with Steve Batts (Ireland), Joerg Hassman (Germany), Ezter Gal (Hungary), Angela Doni (Russia), Martin Keogh (USA), Karl Frost (USA), Peter Bingham (GB) and many others. She is a participant of ECITE (European CI teacher exchange 2006, 2007).
She performs regularly with a contemporary dance theatre and takes part in different projects as an independent artist. Since 2007 she has been experimenting with teaching CI to children.
“When I dance and teach, it feels like I am constantly opening new doors, finding new details and meanings. I love to see myself and other people enjoying the taste of movement. I am happy to have a group of friends with whom we dance, perform, teach and learn together and make the big contact festival every year!”

June 5th – 7th, 2009
One of the most beautiful summer resorts on the Adriatic Sea is waiting for you! Sea, sun, nature, poetry and a lot of dance are the ingredients that make up this fantastic Jam at its 5^ edition! Forget stress and traffic: here you will ride a bicycle or walk to get to the different sites!! Children are welcome!
Location: Lignano Sabbiadoro – www.lignano.it

Nearest areoport: Venezia Marco Polo or Treviso if you travel Ryanair. Nearest train station Latisana (on the Venice-Trieste line).

Orcas Island Jam
June 10-14th

Accommodations
Stunning Gorgerousness. Located in the San Juan Islands, just north of Seattle. We have 12 acres of meadow and forest, a huge dry sauna, hot and cold plunge pools, an outdoor shower, fire place and bbq fire pit, veggie-herb-flower gardens and orchard to play in. Please bring a tent, sleeping bag and sleeping pad to camp in. Camping is limited to 30 people, so register early!

Meals
Saturday night we will have a big healthy communal feast, followed by sauna, soaking & relaxing. All other meals you will be responsible for.

The space
Beautiful space with smooth maple floors, huge windows, a large deck with sunset views overlooking the water and little Islands. Surrounded by Madrona trees and old growth Douglas fir.

The Island
Lush green wonderfulness. Hiking to crystal clear blue lakes. Beaches. Yum.

Registration
Contact: Michal Lahav michalahav@gmail.com 206.818.7440

We invite you to investigate Jamming with us in Vilnius!
We will dedicate that weekend for the Underscore.
We will lab, warm up and Jam together!

Hello dear friends from everywhere,

We are happy that the 9th edition of the "Global Underscore Solstice" will happen the week-end of the 20th and 21th of June 2009!

The schedule should be:

Northampton time: saturday 20th june, from 10am to 2pm
Paris time: saturday 20th june, from 4 pm to 8 pm
Japan, Australia , New Zealand : sunday 21th june, at night.

We do hope that you are willing to join the adventure again, or for the first time!
If so, please contact us at: underscoresolstice@yahoo.fr .
We will need a first answer before June the 2nd ; and after we will ask you for an engagement-confirmation before June 7th.
As usual, we will need the name of the coordinator of each group: it'll be
easier to communicate.
And after June 14th, we will send all the final details.

Again we would like to remind you that we prefer to keep the Underscore
Solstice with people that know the Underscore (“Full Score Practice”). However, in an effort to include others who are not as familiar with the Underscore, or cannot organize people to join them, there are three possible levels of participation one can choose from in joining this practice.
To help, here is a description of the three forms of participation:

A. Full Score Practice:
You are a community of dancers in which every dancer present is a part of a
serious exploration of the ideas/perceptions/principles operating in Nancy ’s Underscore (and behind that, in her work (and your own work) with Contact Improvisation). This probably means that several of you have studied and/or practiced the Underscore with Nancy directly. Since the event, for you, is about practicing the Underscore, even 1 or 2 dancers who are not familiar with her work will change the quality of the practice. Please feel free to set limits based on experience (for example: someone experienced in the Underscore can go over the score with one or two people beforehand, and they can join depending on the size of the group), and to contact us with any questions…

B. Modified Score/Jam:
You are a community of dancers who have various levels of experience with
Contact Improvisation and with Nancy ’s work. You may have one person who has studied with Nancy , but in general your experience as a group is in “jamming” and exploring improvisation. You might feel more resonance with a more open participation. For example, you might open and close with the small dance, and in the dancing section, you warm-up individually, circulate a bit, find a first partner for a contact improvisation dance, and then move into an “Open Jam” format. You might even end together at the "Final Resolution" time, take some time for personal reflection, rest, or warm-down, and then have a circle of sharing at the end. The circle might not necessarily be a “Harvest” in terms of the perceptions of Nancy ’s score, but would be a rich way of sharing your experience.

C. Satellite:
You want to participate but are unable to for many reasons: you are alone, you have an obligation, etc. You might join us for the opening and/or closing Small Dance (both would be great!) to sort of “click-in” to sense the dancing, and to give your support. You know enough about the small dance to be able to explore it deeply for that brief shared time.

We are extremely happy to renovate our yearly meeting with all of you, such a special occasion to be connected and dance together all over our planet!!! Do not hesitate to write us and thanks in advance for the support and the cooperation each of you will certainly bring.

Looking forward to have news from you, lots of love from Claire & the Parisian Global Underscore Solstice team.

We have posted an information on may 14th to announce the 9th edition of the "Global Underscore Solstice" that will happen the week-end of the 20th and 21th of June 2009 (see below).
We want to remind you that to be able to organize the event, we need an answer before june 7th. If answers come to us too late, we won't have no time to integrate your city in the global circle of participating cities, and send you all informations.
Keep in touch and waiting to dance together next 20th june!
Claire and Olivier, for the Underscore Paris team 2009

Original post:

Hello dear friends from everywhere,

We are happy that the 9th edition of the "Global Underscore Solstice" will happen the week-end of the 20th and 21th of June 2009!

The schedule should be:

Northampton time: saturday 20th june, from 10am to 2pm
Paris time: saturday 20th june, from 4 pm to 8 pm
Japan, Australia , New Zealand : sunday 21th june, at night.

We do hope that you are willing to join the adventure again, or for the first time!
If so, please contact us at: underscoresolstice@yahoo.fr .
We will need a first answer before June the 2nd ; and after we will ask you for an engagement-confirmation before June 7th.
As usual, we will need the name of the coordinator of each group: it'll be
easier to communicate.
And after June 14th, we will send all the final details.

Again we would like to remind you that we prefer to keep the Underscore
Solstice with people that know the Underscore (“Full Score Practice”). However, in an effort to include others who are not as familiar with the Underscore, or cannot organize people to join them, there are three possible levels of participation one can choose from in joining this practice.
To help, here is a description of the three forms of participation:

A. Full Score Practice:
You are a community of dancers in which every dancer present is a part of a
serious exploration of the ideas/perceptions/principles operating in Nancy ’s Underscore (and behind that, in her work (and your own work) with Contact Improvisation). This probably means that several of you have studied and/or practiced the Underscore with Nancy directly. Since the event, for you, is about practicing the Underscore, even 1 or 2 dancers who are not familiar with her work will change the quality of the practice. Please feel free to set limits based on experience (for example: someone experienced in the Underscore can go over the score with one or two people beforehand, and they can join depending on the size of the group), and to contact us with any questions…

B. Modified Score/Jam:
You are a community of dancers who have various levels of experience with
Contact Improvisation and with Nancy ’s work. You may have one person who has studied with Nancy , but in general your experience as a group is in “jamming” and exploring improvisation. You might feel more resonance with a more open participation. For example, you might open and close with the small dance, and in the dancing section, you warm-up individually, circulate a bit, find a first partner for a contact improvisation dance, and then move into an “Open Jam” format. You might even end together at the "Final Resolution" time, take some time for personal reflection, rest, or warm-down, and then have a circle of sharing at the end. The circle might not necessarily be a “Harvest” in terms of the perceptions of Nancy ’s score, but would be a rich way of sharing your experience.

C. Satellite:
You want to participate but are unable to for many reasons: you are alone, you have an obligation, etc. You might join us for the opening and/or closing Small Dance (both would be great!) to sort of “click-in” to sense the dancing, and to give your support. You know enough about the small dance to be able to explore it deeply for that brief shared time.

We are extremely happy to renovate our yearly meeting with all of you, such a special occasion to be connected and dance together all over our planet!!! Do not hesitate to write us and thanks in advance for the support and the cooperation each of you will certainly bring.

Looking forward to have news from you, lots of love from Claire & the Parisian Global Underscore Solstice team.

CONTACT: underscoresolstice@yahoo.fr

A special time of year and a special jam when we welcome many of our longtime community members and their families to come and dance. The grass is high, bees are buzzing, the garden smells and tastes like heaven, and contact improvisation is our focus in the studios and in the woods. What better way to be patriotic than to dance with the land and make fireworks on the dance floor? The Earthdance Family Committee organizes a structured children's program for several hours/day.

All levels of experience welcome.

K.J. HOLMES
Workshop in (Contact) Improvisation, BMC & Performance
Schwelle 7, Berlin
Tuesday, June 30 – Saturday, July 4, 2009 – daily 11 am – 16 pm

Morning Class: The Athletics of Intimacy

The morning classes will combine skills and applications of Body-Mind Centering®, with skills and practices of Contact Improvisation to fine tune and engage the imagination of the dancer in solo, duet and ensemble play. The classes will explore musicality and phrasing, the learning of specific lifts and rolls as well as how we craft time and space becoming more tuned to center and subtleties of touch, direction and intention. Skills will include release techniques and experiential anatomy to better understand the mechanics of the body, and developmental patternings, body puzzles, and forms that shape the body and space with odd timings and unusual perspectives to create dances that are dynamic and alive in the moment. We will learn more about the interior of the body and and our ideas and find pathways to external space, time and place. discovering new challenges and risks in our movement vocabulary.

Body-Mind Centering (BMC tm) is an eclectic and dynamic approach to somatic training and re-education developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen.
Contact Improvisation is a duet dance form initiated by dancer Steve Paxton in 1972 that investigates balance, trust, momentum, gravity, stillness and perceptual play.

Afternoon Class: Improvisation: Performance as Exposure

The training of Contact Improvisation is a physical practice that includes increasing range of motion, awakening awareness and clarifying intention.
We learn through kinetic feedback with another as well as through exploring different patterns of movement and how all of our senses lead us into dancing. Touch is not enough.
Preparing to perform requires more than awareness, it asks us to be seen and to see. In this workshop, we will focus on meeting truthfully and directly the unexpected.
Contact Improvisation will be our entrance into the physicality of our images and applications of Body Mind Centering® will fine tune us to the mechanics of our instruments – our bodies.
Weight, mass and breath become movement, become landscape, become story, become question, become idea. We will play with heightening our senses and perceptions, amplifying our awareness to expose more of our interior, making the invisible visible to play with time and space.
Witnessing, reading, writing and the voice will be used to further engage and enliven our imaginations and for discovering new challenges and risks.
How do we ready ourselves for performing and who is the being in the body?

The workshop will culminate (if desired) in 2 evenings of performance.
Friday, July 3 and Saturday, July 4 at 19:00

About K.J. HOLMES
K.J. Holmes is an independent dance artist, singer and actor who has been exploring improvisation as process and performance since 1981.
She teaches, choreographs and performs at festivals, universities and venues throughout the world, as a soloist and in her collaborations with artists such as Simone Forti, Image Lab (Lisa Nelson, Karen Nelson and Scott Smith) and in the work of Steve Paxton. Her influences include Contact Improvisation, Body-Mind Centering®, Yoga (certified teacher 2007), Authentic movement, Ideokinesis, Alexander and Feldenkrais techniques, Martial Dance, world vocal studies and contemporary dance and theater. A 1999 graduate of the School for Body-Mind Centering, K.J. is adjunct faculty at New York University Experimental Theater Wing, is an ongoing teacher Movement Research NYC and has a private practice in Dynamic Alignment and Re-integration in Brooklyn, N.Y. where she lives. She just completed a two year acting training in the Sanford Meisner acting technique at the William Esper Studio in New York City and is developing an evening length piece entitled This is where we are (or take arms against a sea of troubles) which looks at where the body and language meet.

Participation: 5 days 200 Euro
Sleeping: We can host up workshop participants in our special sleeping cocoons. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person.

Registrations per email: info(at)felixruckert.de
Place: Schwelle 7, Uferstraße 6, HH 1. OG (near Uferstudios), 13357 Berlin, Germany
Website: http://www.schwelle7.de/KJHOLMES.html

Welcome to ecite09!

It will take place at Edge Hill University in Ormskirk, near Liverpool in the North-West of England, 2.-10.7.2009. There is place for +/- 80 participants.

Ecite09 will celebrate diversity. In experience, teaching-style, age, aesthetics, interest… We would like it to be an event where we can inspire each other and ourselves in our diversity through different forms of exchange.

Exchange has been a keyword in the ecites of the past 14 years, and it will be again this year, in the fields of teaching, current research and performing.

In putting together the programme we are looking at what forms will allow depth in our exchange and are appropriate for ecite now. CI is growing throughout Europe, and is taught and applied in a large variety of places, from academic settings to festivals to therapeutic situations. Festivals and international workgroups become more important as places to meet, practice, learn and exchange. The number of teachers grows, making for larger differences in age and experience. As organisers we take a close look at ecite's place within these developments. For the programme this will mean a larger variety of exchange-forms, ranging from pre-planned activities to 'open' time.

Forms of exchange we propose are:

classes on things we are passionately engaged with
study labs
one on ones
talks / discussions
lectures and lecture demonstrations
public interviews
videopresentations of work done
co-teaching

to attend ecite09 you must apply via the website! visit http://www.ecite.org/

WCCIF: West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival, a locus for ongoing worldwide exchange and development of CI, welcomes you to its 21st annual event. Five-Day Morning Intensives:
Fundamentals Authentic Contact: Guto Macedo & Soraya Jorge (Brazil)
Intermediate CI, Tango & Martial Arts: Javier Cura (Argentina/Germany),
Advanced Activating the Embodied Mind: Nita Little (USA).
The festival features Afternoon and Night Classes, Curated Performance, Facilitated Discussions, One-on-Ones, and two Jams each night: Silent Jam and Scores/Music Jam. Contribute to and participate in July 6 Deepening Investigation Day (DID), in which Peer-Facilitated Labs and Explorations will provide structures for all participants to push and invent the form. Contact

spazio NU Pontedera (PI)
Taught by: Jess Curtis, assisted by Maria Francesca Scaroni

Contact Improvisation: Compositional Tool / Performance Event?

6-10 July (h. 11-17)

A course and laboratory for people with intermediate to advanced skills in Contact Improvisation, exploring the use of those skills as both a compositional tool and a performance form. We will address issues of presence, connection with a partner, dynamics, virtuosity, utilizing scores and musical accompaniment. We will also explore staging, the integration of objects and the exploration of contact-based images. We will develop movement as both virtuosic, performative action and as meaningful theatrical image. We will examine the physical actualities of touch, manipulation, counterbalance, force, resistance, and surrender, both as physical states and as metaphors for interpersonal and intercultural relations. We will examine and practice the state and quality of improvising, looking at a variety of relationships between imagination, action and time.

Jess Curtis, Director/Choreographer
Living and working in San Francisco since 1984, Jess Curtis has created a body of work ranging from the underground extremes of Mission District Warehouses with Contraband (1985-1994) to the formal refinement of European State Theaters with Jess Curtis/Gravity (2000-present). Along the way Mr. Curtis has co-created ground breaking circus works with the Franco-American Circus project Cie Cahin Caha, Cirque Batard; collaborated with the renowned FabrikCompanie in Potsdam Germany to create the award winning fallen; and been commissioned to create works for companies such as Artblau in Germany, ContactArt in Milan, Italy and Blue Eyed Soul Dance Company in England.Mr. Curtis has twice been recognized by the Irvine Foundation/Dance USA California dance initiatives having been awarded a California Dancemakers Fellowship (2001) and a Dance: Creation to Performance Award (2005). In 2005 he was the recipient of San Francisco’s prestigious CHIME (Choreographers In Mentorship Exchange) Fellowship with and was one of twenty American choreographers nominated for the extremely competitive Alpert Awards in the Arts Fellowship. In August 2002 he received a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for “fallen”, which in 2003 was also awarded San Francisco’s Isadora Duncan Dance award for best company performance.After a youth filled with sports and musical training, Jess began making dances in the early 1980’s at California State University, Chico where he studied creative writing, theater and modern dance. Upon graduating he moved to San Francisco where he joined the Lucas Hoving Performance Group, and the San Francisco Moving Company and performed at Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival with experimental theater innovator Chris Hardman in Antenna Theater’s “Russia”.
In 1984 Jess met and began to work with choreographer Sara Shelton Mann and helped to form San Francisco’s internationally acclaimed CONTRABAND. Over the next nine years he was a primary collaborator in the creation of seven full evening dance theater works, specifically co-conceiving “The Invisible War” (1989) and “Mandala” (1990), and producing tours to the former Soviet Union, Italy and across the U.S.A. Together they received 3 Isadora Duncan Dance Awards.
In 1994, Jess co-founded the extreme performance group CORE, with Stephanie Maher, Keith Hennessy, Jules Beckman, and Stanya Kahn. CORE created two full-evening works, “Psychic Driveby”, (1994) and “entertainment for the apocalypse” (1996). In 1997/98 Curtis, Beckman, and Hennessy created the critically acclaimed “Ice/Car/Cage”, which received an SF Weekly Black Box Award for Choreography and two Isadora Duncan Dance Awards for Best Choreography and Best Visual Design.
From 1999 to 2002 he and longtime collaborators Keith Hennessy and Jules Beckman worked with with noted French circus director Gulko on a new dance-theater-circus called Cahin-Caha, Cirque Batard. The project toured extensively throughout Europe, including a two-month run at the prestigious Parc de La Villette in Paris, and in the fall of 2002 toured to the US for a sold-out four-week run at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
“enormous physical and metaphysical risk expressed through some of the simplest means with the lightest touch.” Sima Belmar, SF Bay Guardian

Maria Francesca Scaroni is a performer and teacher from Italy.
After dancing in Italian TV productions, she trained and worked with Manuela Bondavalli Danza (1998/2004), a collaboration that rooted her dance practice in release-based contemporary technique and Contact Improvisation. Joining Jess Curtis/Gravity (2004 to present), a San Francisco/Berlin based collaboration project, her perspective on dance and dance technique was challenged by an ongoing questioning process around improvisation as a performative practice, nurturing a more critical/informed attitude around the choices and modalities of performing movement. With Gravity she extended her teaching practice to Contact Improvisation, Composition and physically inclusive workshops.In 2006 she met the San Francisco choreographers/dancers Sara Shelton Mann and Kathleen Hermesdorf, who invited her into a creative process that will premiere in 2007.
She holds a Masters degree in Contemporary Literature, with a focus on Communication and Performance Theory. She enjoys cross-training with Tango, Yoga, Aikido and Gyrotonic.

Interested in deepening your contact skills and awarenesses? Looking for ways to bring new focus and engagement to your existing practice? Come to Earthdance this summer as we bring three seasoned teachers and active researchers of contact improvisation from the West Coast for a special six-day intensive. You will have the opportunity to engage in workshops, labs, and open jamming time with both the teachers and other experienced dancers. Bring the topics you've always wished you could explore more fully, your burning questions, and your own artistry. Dialogue and dance with your peers, as you evolve the form together.

Alicia Grayson has had a love affair with CI for the past 20 years and has taught for the past 16. Brenton Cheng is a teacher, director, and performer of improvised and choreographed work, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Nita Little has been developing, choreographing, performing and teaching improvisational dance for the past thirty-six years, notably Contact Improvisation , which she helped evolve from its inception with Steve Paxton , Nancy Stark Smith and others.

The workshop will focus on:
1) gravity/levity,
2) relaxation/activity,
3) center/periphery,
4) the spine and the senses.

We begin by arriving in the space physically, emotionally and mentally, alone, in pairs and collectively. To be ready for the present moment, we empty ouselves so that we can learn and receive, explore and experience, give and take. We build a connection with our body on a deeper level, we let go and relax fully into a spacious sense of time which allows for various activities to come into play, we explore gravity and the inner energy which comes from our center and moves through our whole body right to the periphery.

We will spend special attention to the relationship of the head/tail connection and strengthen the relationship of the center to the extremities of the body so that our take-offs and landings and our travelling through space are all brave, smooth and safe. Breath, relaxation and letting go is directly connected to being grounded and centered while moving dynamically.

Each day we will practice a specific Contact skill and work with enlivening the senses so that we can be really open to finding immediate creative solutions. Tuning, toning and enlivening our entire being, creates a state of readiness which leads us to fuller, vibrant, connected dancing. We can then enjoy the richness of our dancing alone, in pairs and as a group.

Join members of SPAN: Spontaneous Performing Artists Network, a national group of improvising artists, July 12-18, 2009 for an intensive exploration of improvisation through somatic modalities, Contact Improvisation, site-specific exploration and performance.

Located at Wild Meadows Farm in Schellsburg, PA, and surrounded by 200 acres of secluded mountain ranges and fertile valleys near the Allegheny Mountains, the intensive will provide ample opportunities to nurture, expand and challenge your improvisation practice.

Activities will include classes in: Contact Improvisation, improvisational performance, developing site specific approaches, the Bartenieff Fundamentals, Six Viewpoints and Authentic Movement.

FACILITATORS:
Nicole Bindler (Philadelphia)
Cyrus Khambatta (Seattle)
Sharon Mansur (Washington, DC)

GENERAL INFORMATION: Wild Meadows is surrounded by secluded mountains ranges and fertile valleys, an ideal location for reflective thought and investigation into the practice of improvisation. Some previous experience is requested. Break periods will be scheduled to enable participants to take in the glorious natural surrounding of the farm.

FOOD: is included and will be communally prepared. Each participant will be requested to assist in the preparation of 2-3 lunch/dinner meals (with work study assistance).

TRAVEL: The farm is 2.5 hours from Washington D.C., 5 hours from New York City, 3.5 hours from Philadelphia and 2 hours from Pittsburgh. There are also buses and trains to where pick ups can be made.

Dates: 18-26 July 2009.

Festival structure:
July 18 – Teachers performance in Theatre of THE MEYERHOLD CENTRE. Participants are invited free of charge!
July 19 – participants arrival and registration, festival opening. Jam
July 20-21-22 – first three days of intensives, classes and performance research labs.
July 23 – day off, discussions with teachers and evening OPEN JAM.
July 24-25 – intensives and classes resume, closing circle on 25th night.
July 26 – good-bye jam and departure of participants.

Intensive teachers:
Andrew Harwood (Canada);
Martin Keogh (USA);
Arye Bursztyn (Israel);
Gesine Daniels (Germany).

If you would like to get a discount for participation – you should register before 10th of June. We will find you where to stay on 18th night after teachers performance, please come on 18th!

In addition to the festival itself we organize TWO workshops in Moscow (in the city):
July 10-14 – workshop for all levels with Andrew Harwood.
July 28 – August 3 – workshop for advanced CI dancers with Martin Keogh.
Large discounts for the workshops are available for the festival participants.

About Lasqueti Island…

July 25-26 Workshop: CONTACT CONFIDENT (all levels of experience)

Everything you need to know for safe and satisfying dancing.
The principles are simple, the practice infinite.
Beginners welcome. Participation is divine.
Come as you are, begin from there. Bring your curiosity.

July 26 – August 1: CONTACT INQUIRY & JAM

State of Inquiry: How does inquiry inform our dancing?
What is? What are we doing? What else is possible?
What unfolds as we embody our curiosity, physically and verbally?
We gather to inquire, of ourselves and each other.

Camping, food and childcare provided.
Tasty vegetarian meals with wheat-free, vegan and non veg. options.

Non-refundable deposit of $100 is required, with the total due July 1.
Workshop is limited to 25, the Inquiry & Jam to 50.
Last year we filled fast, so send a deposit to save your space.

To register send cheques to-
Mark Young
123 Sesame Street
Lasqueti Island, BC V0R 2J0

or contact Mark at markyoung@lasqueti.ca

Carolyn Stuart-
Explorer of C.I. since 1984, calling her thread of inquiry the Touchmonkey path. She realized hundreds of performance projects with Patrick Gracewood in the 90's, spent years teaching and performing world-wide and is now based in Portland, OR. Her events emphasize inquiry and exploration as the origin and life blood of the form. All are invited to research and contribute to the paradigm of contact improvising, on and off the dance floor!

Event Information…

with Patrick Crowley

1 – 5 pm Sunday July 26, 2009

We will develop our skills in contact improvisation while finding the freedom in the form. Support, alignment, leading/following, upside down work, lightness, moving without manipulation, vision exploration, sound, solo, duet, trios, and different improvisational scores will be some of our investigations. We will span the subtle and the large. The objectives are learning through the movement, letting the body live in its natural state, and of course, fun!

Beginners Welcome. Please email or call with any questions.

Contact improvisation requires a courageous willingness — but never so much as when we dance in the absence of will – those moments when we drop the reigns and, nowhere bound, allow our animal to carry us.

Join good company for dancing and discovery. With games, some sweat, and the unique physicality of the contact body we will savor and rock the boundaries between states of allowing and mindful intention.

We will explore:
• Moving from a base of sensation
• Dancing with a shared central axis
• Seeking ease in going off balance
• Finding the spontaneous acrobatics of the form
• Spending more time in nuance, disorientation, and extended follow-through

This is an advanced level training for those with a grasp of Contact fundamentals.

9 special days in Vilnius, European Capital of Culture 2009!

One of the main ideas of the festival is having enough time. Enough time to dance and to reflect, to explore and to rest, to receive and to share, to laugh and to be silent, and simply to be.
See

Festival teachers:
Isabelle Üski (France),
Nina Martin (USA),
Mans Erlandson (Sweden),
Maria Grudskaya (Russia),
Vitali Kononov (USA/Russia),
Paolo Cingolani (Italy/Spain)
and others…

Open your mind-body-heart and find yourself dancing in Vilnius!
for registration

TRANS-CONTACT – 4th International Contact Improvisation Festival (Cluj-Napoca) brings together professional movers (dancers, actors, choreographers) as well as non-professional movers to explore Contact Improvisation in an intensive week of workshops, research, discussions and jams led by internationally acclaimed coaches. It is a unique form to continue exploring Contact Improvisation introduced at previous editions to the Romanian dance and theatre community. It aims to develop in the participants an awareness of the importance of this movement technique in the creative process of performing arts.

INTENSIVES with Katarina Eriksson (Sweden, Charlie Morrissey (UK), Eszter Gál (Hungary), Ulla Mäkinen (Finland)

CLASSES with Fernando Neder (Brazil), Katja Mustonen (Finland), Niclas Valenti (Sweden), Dorka Farkas (Hungary/Romania), Mirva Mäkinen (Finland), Enikő Szilágyi (Hungary), Asher Levin (UK/Germany)

First Contact Project – dedicated to CI teachers with little teaching experience. Special conditions apply. Deadline July 5, 2009.

Other events: warm ups, jams, Nature Day, Performance, discussion, One 2 One session

A small and intimate gathering in the Village Cardedeu, close to Barcelona.
3 days of long classes (5 hours), open classes with the village habitants, performances and jams in the tranquil and Mediterranean atmosphere of the village.

Der Sommer naht und mit ihm auch die 19. TANZWERKSTATT EUROPA, die in diesem Jahr vom 5.-15. August stattfindet. Wir freuen uns, Ihnen hiermit das Gesamtprogramm ankündigen zu können. Die Anmeldung ist ab sofort möglich, die Anmeldeformulare stehen auf www.jointadventures.net zum Download bereit.

NEU!!

Amanda Miller wird bei der diesjährigen TANZWERKSTATT EUROPA den Kurs Contemporary Dance – Composition unterrichten.

Erwachsenenkurse:
Iñaki Azpillaga (B/ES): Dynamic Changes in Contemporary Dance (Intermediate & Advanced)
Patricia Bardi (USA/B): Physical Voice in the Moving Body (Pedagogues & Dancers, 5.8.-9.8.)
Stefan Dreher (D): Yoga (all levels)
Jeremy Nelson (USA): Contemporary Dance Technique (Advanced & Professionals)
Amanda Miller (D/USA): Contemporary Dance (Beginners & Advanced / Professionals)
Dr. Liane Simmel (D): “Inside out” – The Body in Motion (Pedagogues & Dancers)
Katja Wachter (D): Contemporary Dance – Composition (Beginners & Advanced / Professionals)
Niako (F): Hip-Hop Freestyle (Beginners, Advanced & Professionals)
Goran Bogdanovski (SI): Fico Balet – Technique and Improvisation Tools (Intermediate & Professionals)
Kenneth Flak (S/N): Contemporary Dance Technique (Intermediate & Advanced)
Kenneth Flak (S/N): Moving in Character (Professionals)
Boris Charmatz (F): 50 years of dance (Professionals, 10.8.-14.8., Performance included)
u.a.

Kinderkurse (fünftägig):
Andrea Marton (D): Contemporary Dance for Kids (age 7 – 11; 5.8.-9.8.)
Annerose Schmidt (D): Contemporary Dance for Boys (age 8 – 11; 5.8.-9.8.)
Aiga Keller (D): Hip-Hop for Kids (age 8 – 12; 10.8.-14.8.)
Aiga Keller (D): Contemporary Dance for Young People (age 12 – 16; 10.8.-14.8.)

Weitere Infos zu den einzelnen Kursen finden Sie auf www.jointadventures.net
Natürlich geben wir unter 089/ 1 89 31 37-0 gerne auch telefonisch Auskunft!

Pie festival is for professional and non professional artists who wish to deepen their research and their personal practice in movement.

Classes in Contact Improvisation & Scores, Skinner Releasing & Alexander Techniques
Including a unique performance by PIE titled “Roots and Crown”, on Friday August 14th.

It will take place in Montreal the week of August 10 – 14, in the heart of Montreal’s Plateau.

With Catherine Lessard, Eryn Dace Trudell, David Flewelling, Robert H. Schweitzer, Stephanie Gaudreau

Sign up early as this year promises to be very rich and fun!

13 August – 16 August \ 2009

CATCHING MOMENTUM TOGETHER
a course in Contact Improvisation for all levels
with Marija Grudskaja (Russia)

WORKSHOP TIMETABLE:
• 13.08 (Thursday): 19:00 – 21:30
• 14.08 (Friday): 19:00 – 21:30
• 15.08 (Saturday): 12:00 – 18:00 (one hour break in between)
• 21:00-…: Closing Event in SPACE GARAGE (Audēju iela 12, 6th floor)
• 16.08 (Sunday) – JAM (13:00-18:00), premises in Latvian Academy of Culture or on the beach.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
Contact improvisation is a movement form, exploration of two (or more) bodies moving in contact. The dancers follow physical forces, such as gravity and momentum, as well as point of contact which can roll and slide across their bodies.
In the workshop we will use the floor and its energy to move and support ourselves and each other. We will travel through levels, find easy and safe ways fall down and to get up. Our hands can be strong as legs and our legs can be light and sensitive as hands.
We will dance in the dialogue, when both partners are mobile and ready to follow each other.
In the dance we share weight with the partner, offer support, and let spontaneous liftings to happen. We will search ways to support the partner with minimal effort, sensing moments to get support or a lift and being light there.
We will follow momentum and let it drive our dance, giving up control and at the same time being ready to redirect the momentum.
This workshop is open for participants with any level of experience. Together we can get into an unexpected and inspiring exploration.

MARIJA GRUDSKAYA
Masha is a dancer, teacher and organizer from Moscow, Russia. She teaches CI in Moscow, in other cities of Russia and abroad. She performs regularly with a contemporary dance theatre and with a group of improvisers. Since 2007 she has been experimenting with teaching CI to children.
“When I dance and teach, it feels like I am constantly opening new doors, finding new details and meanings. I love to see myself and other people enjoying the taste of movement. I am happy to have a group of friends with whom we dance, perform, teach and learn together and make the big contact festival every year!”

MORE INFO and REGISTRATION:
e-mail: auzina@gmail.com
tel +2 9262198, Inese Auziņa
kontaktpunkts.blogspot.com
www.dance.lv

We invite you to develop and nourish your dance in a week long Intensive Workshop of Contact + Improvisation in the wonderful location of ARLEQUI, SP. A large farmhouse built in the 17 century situated between fields and forest.

ENTRSPACIOS
INTENSIVE WORKSHOP
CONTACT + IMPROVISATION

Eckhard Mueller (G/F)+Daniela Schwartz (RA/F)

This workshop of CONTACT + IMPROVISATION proposes a time of investigation and dance in the intimacy of a studio to deepen our bases of CI, as well as the exploration of the environment, outdoors, to confront ourselves to the visual, sound, architectural and sensory impressions, as we observe our ability to remain opened for the richness of internal and external drives. We will integrate both experiences questioning the relationship to our own body and it's limits, our partner's bodies and the group.

All levels ws, address to: dancers, actors, teachers, artists, musicians, or any person with interest in the movement arts with some previous experience in dance, movement, martial arts, yoga, etc.

w/ Yvette van der Slik, Noam Carmeli, Miles Kessler and Rob Vincken

This will be a movement workshop of aikido and dance exploring the relationship between the two arts. This workshop will be taught by four gifted teachers from the U.S., Holland and Israel who will guide you through practices from both aikido and dance, and beyond.

Yvette van der Slik – Teacher of Contemporary Dance
Noam Carmeli – Teacher of Contact Improvisation
Miles Kessler – Teacher of Integral Aikido and Meditation
Rob Vincken – Teacher of Aikido and Mindfulness
The workshop is open to both aikidoists, dancers, movers and shakers of all levels. We hope that you'll join us for this inspirational weekend where aikido and dance come together.

Clase intensiva: desarrollando el lenguaje de acceso a la danza. Sabado 12/9 de 10.3 a 14.30 hs.

Weight and Weightlessness
Flight and Fall
A workshop for solo, duet and trio work in Contact Improvisation
with
Jacky Miredin (Rome)
Charlie Morrissey (UK)
Adrian Russi (Switzerland)
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This workshop explores Contact Improvisation in trio and duet work with three acclaimed and highly experienced male dancers and teachers.

Looking at upward motion and elevation, lifting and falling, elasticity and connection,
resistance and yielding – via the connection with two partners.

We will work with three-dimensional awareness, and explore the space behind, above, below
and in front of us – both external and internal experiences of it, as a way to facilitate
an agile and playful approach to the many choices we encounter in our dancing.

We will use momentum and weight as a catalyst for lifts,
and find ways in which we can ride the momentum created by setting our masses in motion.

We will capitalise on this opportunity to work in trios and use it to go
beyond our perception of what is possible in our dancing, by working with two partners
to help us find places and pathways we have not yet been able to explore with one.

Be ready to dance! This workshop will be physical, fun and exhilarating.
Participants should have a good base in Contact Improvisation.

In Brighton
14th -19th Sept
10am-5pm daily

Martin Keogh – "Soaring Off The Mountain"
Intensive five-day workshop in Contact Improvisation

WHEN: September, 15-19, 2009, 11:00-17:00 (tbd)
WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany

Contact improvisation requires a courageous willingness — but never so much as when we dance in the absence of will – those moments when we drop the reigns and, nowhere bound, allow our animal to carry us. Join good company for dancing and discovery. With games, some sweat, and the unique physicality of the contact body we will savor and rock the boundaries between states of allowing and mindful intention.

We will explore:
- Moving from a base of sensation
- Dancing with a shared central axis
- Seeking ease in going off balance
- Finding the spontaneous acrobatics of the form
- Spending more time in nuance, disorientation, and extended follow-through
- Movement that's both organized and released
- A visceral appreciation for the spiral
- An ability to see and venture into the backspace
- Performing contact improvisation as a tool to amplify our listening
- A greater capacity for sensation, risk, and pleasure

The workshop could culminate (if desired) in an evening of performance. So one focus and target of the workshop will be your solo – alone and while in duet. Voices of another workshop on www.martinkeogh.com/resources/Yoursolo.html

More at http://www.schwelle7.de/Martin%20Keogh.html
More at http://www.martinkeogh.com

Bio: Martin Keogh has taught and performed contact improvisation for thirty years. For his contribution to the development of the form he is a Fulbright Senior Specialist and listed in Who's Who in the World. Martin spent time traveling to monasteries in Japan and Korea and was the director of the Empty Gate Zen Center in Berkeley before discovering the world of dance. He co-facilitated CI36 and Teacher's Conferences on four continents. He is the author of The Art of Waiting and As Much Time as it Takes. More info at: www.martinkeogh.com.

REGISTRATION: info (at) felixruckert.de
PRICE: 200 EUR

SLEEPING:
We can host up workshop participants in our special sleeping cocoons. The cost is 10 € a night per person.

Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6 HH 1. OG
13357 Berlin/Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 30-4736 3500
http://www.schwelle7.de
Email: info (at) felixruckert.de

TRAFFIC LINK: UB Nauener Platz, Pankstr, Osloer Str, SB Gesundbrunnen

Contact Imrpovisación, Performances, Audiovisuales y Fotografías.

El cuerpo es la fuente de información donde podemos leer el acontecer del presente y el vehículo del que nos valemos para comunicarnos, construyendo sentido y movimiento.

Workshops: Cristina Turdo, Carolina Becker, Adrian Andrada, Ivan Baucia

Opening the body to spirals, the backspace, lucidity as immediate connection. For those with basic contact skills. Thursday night to Sunday afternoon both weekends Sept 24-27 and Nov 5-8.

Spirals: Physical movement is a constant dialogue with gravity. The use of spiral trajectories help to deal with it in a more efficient way. Coincidentally this form of movement can be observed in water dynamics and in living organisms. In this way, the practice and search for fluidity and spiral dynamics can be a path to arrive to our own organic movement.

The spiral structure will be translated practically and metaphorically into different levels, establishing cross-references and multiple associations.
In a physical level we will use common elements of Tango, Martial Arts, Contact Improvisation that relate to it. It will also be translated into other spheres: as a way of structuring an improvisation or a movement through repetition and transformation.
Through this focused creative work we hope to access a deeper insight into ourselves, our partners and our creative expressions.

Javier Cura is an argentine american multidisciplinary artist. He has dedicated himself to the Fine Arts creating several art exhibitions of objects, sculptures and installations. He has performed, directed and created drama shows in Argentina, Colombia, USA, Italy and Indonesia. He’s been teaching drama, physical theatre and Contact Impro in England, Italy, France, Germany and Argentina. He’s been invited to teach and perform in the International Contact Improvisation Festivals in Orvieto(It) and Freiburg (Ger) and at WCCIF. His last piece that merges tango and contact impro in a physical theatre context was presented in Prague’s Dance Theatre “Farma Festival”. It was also presented in Italy (Terni), at the “Travolgente Festival” (2007), and in Argentina(2008).

www.myspace.com/javiercuraworkshop
Videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM575qk7l2U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elW1hxzzZDc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lts3nIA0rmg
Info and booking: javiercura@yahoo.com.ar
Miguel Pinheiro mobile 07702889324 Javier mobile: 0049 1636383774

Venue: The Thanet at Herbert St, NW5 4HD London, phone 020 72674081‎
Tube: Chalk farm or Camden Town
Overground: Kentish Town West

Time schedule:
Saturday 3rd October from 7 to 9.30pm
Sunday 4th October from 3 to 9.30pm
Cost for Saturday £15, for Sunday 30£
Two days workshop £ 40, Concessions for student £10 and for advance booking of £8
There are few places left so please book in advance.
Account To: Javier Cura IBAN: DE70 1002 0890 0601 8494 61 SWIFT (BIC): HYVEDEMM488 BANK: HypoVereinsbank Berlin, Germany Ask a transferenza type EU-Standard-Transfer (without additional freight)

Workshop ADRIAN RUSSI: CI and instant composition, October, 5-9, Schwelle7, Berlin/Germany

Workshop ADRIAN RUSSI: CI and instant composition
Intensive five-day workshop: integrating movement technique, improvisation and skills for performance

WHEN: October, 5-9, 12:00-18:00
WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany

In this workshop we will explore intensively the relation between movement technique in CI and performance – how CI and skills for instant composition can support each other and which are the possible traps to be avoided while dancing for an audience.

The morning classes will be focused on movement skills in solo, duet and trio. We will look for ways how to deal with gravity in a clever way, how to move upside-down and to integrate flying and falling into our dance. The key ingredients will be a distinguished body awareness in order to move and to communicate with our partner precisely, the playful interaction of technique and improvisation and the conscious (and constant) use of timing and space – what in fact are also fundamentals for performing CI.

In the afternoon classes we will go beyond CI-technique and improvisational skills to see what is changing deeply when one is exposed to an audience. It’s a lot about getting more present, connecting the inner with the outer space and communicating with our partners also on distance. Having trust in your instincts and your intuition will be as much important as learning about compositional aspects and using CI-technique in order to give a clear base to the performance.

For those who will feel ready the workshop will end with a public studio performance to show our work to an audience and of course to bring our practice into reality. Good to know: finally performance can be trained only while performing.

Come prepared to both move a lot and dive deep down into a subtle work with your body and to get energized from being on stage!

PERFORMANCES

The workshop will therfore culminate in an evening of Performance/showing on Friday, October, 9 at 8:30 pm

Adrain Russi will also perform with Jörg Hassmann, Mirva Mäkinen and music by Marko Hefele, Violin + Barnaby O'Rorke Tree, Cello:
Trio Performance on Tuesday, October , 6 at 8:30 pm

Bio ADRIAN RUSSI:

Adrian Russi is a CI-teacher, performer and body therapist, who has been involved in Contact Improvisation since 1992.
After he studied New Dance at “bewegungs-art” in Freiburg/Germany he continued his education with many different teachers, among them Steve Paxton and Nancy Stark Smith who have started to develop CI in the early seventies with a group of other movers.

He is based in Switzerland where he offers his work as a free lancer to a wide range of people. He is regularly invited to international festivals and to teach workshops all over Europe. In his teaching he focuses on the technical aspects of CI (ease, precision and strength) as well as on matters of perception (sensation, connection of inner and outer space, of bottom and top) and a creativity coming from a distinct body-awareness. For him the pleasure to play, deep engagement in the dance, and respect for others are the basis for gaining the most possible in dancing CI.

As a performer he works with many different international artists and his performances are primarily based on free improvisation incorporating Contact Improvisation, dance, dance-theatre, voice and live music. In 2007 he initiated “Moving Men”, a men’s trio with Charlie Morrissey and Jacky Miredin touring with there performance-work all over Europe. For more information go to www.adrianrussi.com

WEBSITE: http://www.schwelle7.de/Adrian%20Russi.html
REGISTRATION: xs4jan (at) gmx.de
PRICE: 200 EUR

SLEEPING:
We can host up workshop participants in our special sleeping cocoons. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person.

Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6 HH 1. OG
13357 Berlin/Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 30-4736 3500
http://www.schwelle7.de
Email: info (at) felixruckert.de

TRAFFIC LINK: UB Nauener Platz, Pankstr, Osloer Str, SB Gesundbrunnen

Composition / Matrix
5 day intensive Choreographie Workshop with Amanada Miller:
WHEN: October, 12-16, 12:00-18:00
WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany

"Composition / Matrix"

Working to cut through ones own physical and mental matrix.

Breaking down mental hierarchies, dissolving expectations, so space is available for one to discover their own vocabulary and invent more.

Eventually being able to create a choreography and / or an improvisation.

We would be working with the tools of improvisation and techniques of articulation.

“Komposition / Matrix”

In dem Workshop wird mit Mitteln der Improvisation und Techniken der Artikulation gearbeitet werden.

Im Arbeitsprozess geht es darum eigene physische und mentale Muster aufzubrechen mit dem Ziel Hierarchien und Erwartungen aufzulösen.

Der so frei werdende Raum bietet die Möglichkeit, das eigene Ausdrucksvokabular zu entdecken und zu erweitern mit dem Ziel eine eigene Choreographie oder Improvisation zu kreieren.

PERFORMANCE
The workshop will culminate in an evening of performance/showing on Friday, October, 16 at 8:30 pm

AMANDA MILLER: http://www.prettyugly.de
WORKSHOP: http://www.schwelle7.de/Amanda%20Miller.html
REGISTRATION: xs4jan (at) gmx.de
PRICE: 200 EUR

SLEEPING:
We can host up workshop participants in our special sleeping cocoons. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person.

Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6 HH 1. OG
13357 Berlin/Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 30-4736 3500
http://www.schwelle7.de
Email: info (at) felixruckert.de

TRAFFIC LINK: UB Nauener Platz, Pankstr, Osloer Str, SB Gesundbrunnen

CV Amanda Miller

- Amanda Miller grew up in North Carolina and commenced her professional training at the North Carolina School of the Arts. She continued her studies in New York while she danced for the Chicago Lyrical Opera Ballet, the Deutschen Oper Berlin and other distinguished companies.
- In 1984 William Forsythe invited her to Frankfurt and appointed her not only as a dancer but also as permanent Choreographer at the civic ballet ensemble there.
- In 1992 Amanda Miller founded her own Company, the Pretty Ugly Dance Company.
- From 1997 until 2004 her Company was installed at the civic theatre in Freiburg (Baden-Württemberg) under the name Ballett Freiburg Pretty Ugly. Alongside her work with her own company, Amanda Miller created ballets for renowned ensembles and founded the company Yummidance in Japan.
- Increasingly she has addressed herself as well to training others in her work method, and is active worldwide as a teacher.
- In 2004 she supported people in Tibet through various art projects.
- Amanda Miller has won numerous awards. In 1994 her productions won three prizes at the 'Rencontres Chorégraphiques International de Bagnolet'. In 2004 for her work 'Four for Nothing' she received the leading Dutch accolade for choreography 'The Golden Swan'.
- From January 2005 until May 2009 Amanda Miller has been artistic director of pretty ugly tanz köln.
- In May 2009 she directed her first Opera “Orpheus und Euridike” at the civic theatre in Ulm.
- Since June 2009 Amanda Miller works free-lance.

CV Amanda Miller
- Geboren 1961 wuchs in North Carolina auf und begann ihre Ausbildung an der North Carolina School of the Arts.
- Sie setzte ihr Studium in New York fort und tanzte unter anderem beim Chicago Lyrical Opera Ballet und an der Deutschen Oper Berlin.
- 1984 lud William Forsythe sie nach Frankfurt ein und engagierte sie als Tänzerin, später auch als Hauschoreografin bei seinem Ballett Frankfurt.
- 1992 gründete Amanda Miller ihre eigene Compagnie, die Pretty Ugly Dance Company.
- Von 1997 bis 2004 war die Company unter dem Namen Ballett Freiburg Pretty Ugly am Freiburger Theater engagiert.
- Neben ihrer Arbeit mit der eigenen Compagnie kreierte Amanda Miller Ballette für namhafte Ensembles und gründete die Company Yummi Dance in Japan.
- Verstärkt widmet sie sich auch der Vermittlung ihrer Arbeitsmethode und ist weltweit als Lehrerin tätig.
- 2004 engagierte sie sich im Rahmen verschiedener künstlerischer Projekte für Menschen im Tibet.
- Amanda Miller erhielt für ihre choreografische Arbeit zahlreiche Auszeichnungen. 1994 wurde ihre Arbeit mit drei Preisen bei den „Rencontres Choréographiques International de Bagnolet“ ausgezeichnet.
- Zuletzt erhielt sie 2004 den niederländischen Choreografenpreis “Der goldene Schwan“ für ihre Choreografie „Four for Nothing“
- 2005 bis 2009 arbeitete Amanda Miller als künstlerische Direktorin mit ihrer Compagnie unter dem Namen pretty ugly tanz köln an den Bühnen Köln.
- Im Mai 2009 inszenierte sie ihre erste Oper “Orfeo ed Euridice” am Theater Ulm.
- Seit Juni 2009 ist Amanda Miller freischaffend tätig.

The Fall East Coast Contact Jam is 4 days dedicated to practice and play with contact improvisation. Walk the many paths on a 350 acre retreat center on your way to dance, perform, play, experiment, laugh, sauna, sleep, & eat yummy vegetarian meals. Participate in Poetry & Chocolate, jam, play music, or offer your own structure. All takes place at the historic Claymont Court in Charles Town WV. Skilled dancers and newcomers are Welcome.

Known – Unknown
Contact Improvisation Intensive Workshop with Andrew de Lotbinière Harwood
WHEN: October, 19-22, 2009, 12:00-18:30
WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany

KNOWN – UNKOWN

A movement laboratory – investigating improvisation, expression, composition and performance

Andrew Harwood: I view this workshop as an exhilarating and formidable adventure into the deeper layers of improvisational dance. Our goal is to find a sense of timelessness in our dancing – a state of consciousness that is aware but not self-conscious. Working with dancers in a collaborative fashion is exciting to me. My desire is to draw out the creativity, individuality and integrity of each dancer while cultivating a team-like atmosphere. I wish to encourage the dancers to let their own imagination, spirit and presence shine and allow various performance qualities to emerge.

The realms where the known and the unknown converge are two distinct and yet complementary worlds, where a rich array of ideas, movements and images are merged and juxtaposed. Through various forms of improvisation, Contact Improvisation, composition and chance procedures we will practise instant inventiveness, make personal choices, refine our sensing skills and build material. A series of schemes, games, images, states and structures will help dancers create a repertoire of personal gestures and phrases and develop various improvisational strategies which in turn will become the framework for composing solo, duet and group material be it set or improvised or a combination of both. This entire process relies on the dancers willingness to listen to themselves and each other, to take risks, to call upon their confidence and to allow their skills as interpreters to come into focus.

WORKSHOP: http://www.schwelle7.de/Andrew.html
REGISTRATION: xs4jan (at) gmx.de
PRICE: 200 EUR

SLEEPING:
We can host up workshop participants in our special sleeping cocoons. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person.

Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6, HH 1. OG
13357 Berlin/Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 30-4736 3500
http://www.schwelle7.de
Email: info (at) felixruckert.de
TRAFFIC LINK: UB Nauener Platz, Pankstr, Osloer Str, SB Gesundbrunnen

CV ANDREW HARWOOD

Andrew de Lotbinière Harwood is a leading international teacher, performer and creator in the field of instantaneous choreography, compositional improvisation and contact improvisation since 1975. He is the artistic director of AH HA Productions, a project oriented company dedicated to improvisation. Andrew studied, taught and performed with Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith and Nita Little, the founding members of Contact Improvisation. He also has a background in gymnastics, athletics, yoga, contemporary dance, somatic studies, release technique, compositional improvisation and Aikido. His work has been presented in numerous international festivals since 1980 (Impuls Tanz, La Biennale de Venise, Festival Montpellier, Festival International de Nouvelle Danse., Festival des Antipodes, Improvisation Festival New York, Bates Dance Festival, Kontact Budapest, Jose Limon Dance Festival, etc.). Andrew danced for the companies of Fulcrum, Jo Lechay, Marie Chouinard, Jean-Pierre Perreault, and the improvisational ensemble The Echo Case. He has also collaborated in performance with Chris Aiken, Peter Bingham, Kirstie Simson, Ray Chung, Lisa Nelson, Mark Tompkins, Benoit Lachambre, Lin Snelling and Ginette Laurin among many others. He is the recipient of the Canada Council’s Jacqueline-Lemieux award for the year 2000.

with Patrick Crowley

Thursdays 7-9 pm

We will develop our skills in contact improvisation while finding the freedom in the form. Support, alignment, leading/following, upside down work, lightness, moving without manipulation, vision exploration, sound, solo, duet, trios, and different improvisational scores will be some of our investigations. We will span the subtle and the large. The objectives are learning through the movement, letting the body live in its natural state, and of course, fun!
Please email or call with any questions.

Contact Improvisation instruction with a 'twist of consciousness'! Cultivate peace while learning the skills and techniques of Contact Improvisation. These techniques are taught using movement in the dance space as a metaphor for how we conduct ourselves and interact with others, out in the world. 'The way we do one thing is the way we do anything.' This three hour playshop will include instruction for the beginner to intermediate level contact dancer. Following the technique instruction we will enter into a brief meditation for peace: peace first within ourselves and ultimately, peace in the world. From this meditative space we will move organically into a solo dancing meditation and finally ease into a full on Contact Jam! Come dance with us and 'Be The Peace You Want To See'!

Who is this Playshop appropriate for?

Anyone who has a desire to move their body freely, contact in the dance space with other dancing bodies and who is willing to participate in some level of Self reflection will enjoy this playshop. Men and women alike are encouraged to participate. Depending upon maturity and desire, teens are also encouraged to participate. No previous experience is necessary!

What to wear? What to bring?
Wear comfortable clothing that will allow your body to move through its fullest ranges of motion. Expect to dance barefoot with no socks because they create slippage and do not make for safe dancing. Make sure to bring water. A pen & journal are very helpful as well to make note of any powerful insights and images that may occur to you during the process and that feel important to remember. It is also very important to bring an open mind and open heart.

WHEN & WHERE:
Saturday, October 24 @ 11:30am—2:30pm
Move Studio in DALLAS, TEXAS

TO REGISTER: http://movestudio.com/dance_nia_workshops.html#peacejam

MORE ABOUT Feels Like Peace: Authentic Movement For Evolving People, visit:
http://www.FeelsLikePeace.com

Orvieto Contemporanea
International Cultural Projects in Residency 2009

Palazzo Caravajal Simoncelli
Caravajal15 residenza dinamica
Orvieto \ Italy
www.contactfestival.it

26 October–2 November \ 2009
BEING READY
an intermediate course in Contact Improvisation
Project in residency Orvieto \ Italy

with
Andrew de Lotbinière Harwood

26/10/’09 – 1/11/’09
Intensive Residential WORKSHOP
BEING READY
an intermediate course in Contact Improvisation

2/11/’09
International JAM

BEING READY
an intermediate course in Contact Improvisation
Because of the challenging nature of this workshop, this intensive is for those with a solid grasp of Contact fundamentals. What does it mean to be ready to dance at any time, with anyone, anywhere? There are no set formulas, or specific manners to achieving this state of readiness. There is, however, an attitude and a state of body-mind that can be cultivated which can help bring us to that place of total alertness. Being completely attentive and always prepared on all levels, will enable us to go beyond thinking our way through the dance, and help us be attuned to what is actually taking place. This full presence also allows us to be freed of the mental chatter, planning ahead, and judgment, which so often override the body’s ability to make appropriate split-second choices. In this way the improvisations can be entirely physical, playful, heartfelt, surprising and enjoyable. Explored themes will include: tumbling, flying, use of variable speeds, use of direct action and initiation, resistance, disappearance, subtle and surprising ways of moving weight, flowing through unfamiliar circumstances, extending our personal range of movement, and integrating our imagination and our heart. Discussions about the work and various approaches to bodywork will complement each session.

Andrew de Lotbinière Harwood is the artistic director of AH HA Productions a project oriented company focusing on improvisation as a performing art.
Andrew is recognized as an exceptional international teacher, performer and creator in the field of instantaneous choreography and contact improvisation since 1975. His work has been presented in numerous international festivals since 1980 (Impuls Tanz, La Biennale, Festival Montpellier, F.I.N.D., Festival des Antipodes, IF/ New York, Bates Dance Festival, etc).
He has danced with the companies of Fulcrum, Jo Lechay, Marie Chouinard, and Jean-Pierre Perreault, and has collaborated with many renowned dance artists including Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith, Lisa Nelson, Kirstie Simson, Peter Bingham, Chris Aiken, Ray Chung and Benoit Lachambre among many others. His background includes athletics, gymnastics, yoga, modern dance, Release Technique, improvisation, alignment work and Aikido. He was awarded the Canada Council’s Jacqueline Lemieux dance award in 2000.

Intensive Workshop timetable
26 October – 1 November
A 7 days of intensive training
with Andrew de Lotbinière Harwood for 42 hours,
6 hours every day: from 10 to 13 and from 14 to 17

2 November Jam
beginning at 11 am ending at 7 pm
at Caravajal15 residenza dinamica

MORE INFO and REGISTRATION
www.contactfestival.it
tel +39 0763341479
info@contactfestival.it

Caravajal15 residenza dinamica
Palazzo Caravajal-Simoncelli
Via Malabranca 15
05018 Orvieto TR – Italy



The Performance Jam Contact Ensemble.
5 Day Intensive Workshop by Scott Wells from San Francisco

WHEN: November 2-6, 2009, 12:00-18:00
WHERE: Schwelle 7 Studio, Berlin / Germany
WEB: http://www.schwelle7.de/Scott%20Wells.html
REGISTRATION: xs4jan (at) gmx.de
PRICE: 200 EUR
SLEEPING: We can host up workshop participants in our special sleeping cocoons. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person.

The Performance Jam Contact Ensemble.

I'd like to create an atmosphere that has more intention and group focus than a jam, but less stringent than a formal performance. We'll develop our ensemble work and gain performance skills and resources. Contact Improvisation will be an element of our practice, an element to mix with soloing, ensemble and compositional work.

We will take single elements (e.g. a flying skill) into scores.
We will use this progression:

1) Connecting with yourself, using body sensations or images as they come up or the stories in your head. Noticing impulses to move—being able to feel your impulses, and pick which ones to follow.

2) Connecting with others (Ensemble), Awareness of others in the group. For example, f your working with levels, can you track the others’ levels as you move. Mirroring or copying others is one of our skills for this.

3) What is interesting to watch? Connecting with the watchers (audience). Do you sense what is interesting for them to see? Do you sense what place onstage will be psychologically dynamic OR make the picture of what is happening see-able. This is composition.

Scott Wells will support this score through teaching contemporary dance technique, improvisation, contact and partnering:

Contact Improvisation – Basic Skills and Thrills
With trust + skill, pleasure + technique we will venture into the realms of contact. We will go for the pure contact moment and there will be lots of practical work for jumping, catching, landing, a variety of handstands and acrobatics. This skills based class is meant as preparation for jamming, choreography and to give you the tools to have your dance.

Contact Improvisation – Flying ≠ Jumping
Lose your head to fly contact improvisation: Flight patterns, Fluid Acrobatics and Pure Contact
We will work for clear, satisfying contact improvisation in which pleasure is the first teacher. We will practice flying, catching, landing, fluid acrobatics, deft maneuvers. For the acrobatics in particular everyone will work at their own level and will learn best by building group safety and trust—I think everyone will do something they never expected. We will practice integrating the flying and acrobatics into the contact flow. That is: aerial interactions that increase the contact. Jumping ≠ Flying because jumping is is a muscular action, whereas flying is a joint nervous system based and is affected greatly by emotions and attitude.

Wrestling with Affection
We start with seeking the softest connective contact. Then we venture into wrestling accessing a wide range of feelings, play, and sensuality. Introduction to techniques for safe and aggressive contact including soft takedowns, resistance and collaboration. Safety, listening, ease and quick reflexes are emphasized for this style of contact improvisation.

Partnering – Physics of empathy
We will learn partnering from Scott Wells’ repertory. This will be contemporary partnering grounded in contact and air-born in dreams of flight. We will use improvisational tuning exercises to get in sync and learn set phrases that combine solo dancing, flying lifts, and fluid acrobatics. I will breakdown some ambitious lifts into workable steps. And approach flying and acrobatics as exercises in emotion and orientation and so give support to each as you expand your abilities. We go for honest moments of impact and desire; to articulate the delicious, perform the intimate, understand when to use force, where to soften, how to be empty and why we dance with each other.

Material developed in the workshop will be presented to the public in an informal showing at the end of the week, Friday, 6 at 8:30 pm

CV Scott Wells

In 1981 Scott he discovered the pleasure of contact improvisation shortly after becoming obsessed with the struggles of modern dance. He stuck with both and currently directs a company in San Francisco and tours annually to Europe. In 2005 Scott received the San Francisco Award for Outstanding Choreography. and was selected by Dance Magazine as “one of the 25 To Watch in 2005”. He is highly regarded contact improvisor. “an electrifying style of contact” SF WEEKLY. Scott has trained extensively in contemporary dance and the Alexander technique. and has an MFA in dance (the highest academic degree for dance). He has taught at festivals in Turkey, Canada, Seattle (SFADI), Vienna (Impustanz), Romania (Trans-Contact), and Germany (Freiburg Contact Festival as a main teacher) and will teach this year at the Budapest Kontact Festival and the Barcelona Contact Improvisation Festival.

Scott’s style of contact is athletic and emphasizes freedom of movement, flying, fluid acrobatics (easy to advanced), safety, precision, pleasure and technique. What students often like best in Scott's classes is the variance between the meditative, listening, slow and sensual dancing and the fun, playful, very physical dancing. And students appreciate how the scary or advanced moves are safe, relaxed and made possible.

Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6, HH 1. OG
13357 Berlin/Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 30-4736 3500
http://www.schwelle7.de
Email: info (at) felixruckert.de
TRAFFIC LINK: UB Nauener Platz, Pankstr, Osloer Str, SB Gesundbrunnen

Assembling Narratives
5 day intensive Performance Workshop with Martha Moore
WHEN: November, 9-13, 12:00-18:00
WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany

ASSEMBLING NARRATIVES
The Construction and Deconstruction of a Character

This workshop proposes to explore the notions of building a solo around a purely fictional auto-biography, where movement and text can co-exist in a non-linear fashion.
The idea is to create an open system of situations and fragments that will be built up, altered, and torn down daily.
Watching and commenting on each other’s work will be an integral part of the process.

We will begin each day with a warm-up intended to center the individual within the group, interlacing the vertical preparation of Ba Gua (style WU), the use of voice, and different somatic approaches.
This will be followed by a group improvisation, using simple (and sometimes not so simple) spatial constructs to develop listening skills before concentrating on individual work.
We will move back and forth constantly between improvising and composing, in and out of order.

The workshop will culminate in an evening of Performance/showing on Friday, November, 13 at 8:30 pm

WORKSHOP: http://www.schwelle7.de/Martha%20Moore.html
REGISTRATION: xs4jan (at) gmx.de
PRICE: 200 EUR

SLEEPING:
We can host up workshop participants in our special sleeping cocoons. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person.

Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6 HH 1. OG
13357 Berlin/Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 30-4736 3500
http://www.schwelle7.de
Email: info (at) felixruckert.de

TRAFFIC LINK: UB Nauener Platz, Pankstr, Osloer Str, SB Gesundbrunnen

CV MARTHA MOORE

Martha Moore belongs to a generation of dance artists with one foot in modern dance and the other firmly planted in the post modern. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Dance from the University of California-Santa Barbara (dir. Rona Sande), where she worked intensively with a former assistant to Mary Wigman and Kurt Jooss, Isa Partch-Bergsohn, as well as several members of the Graham, Limon and Cunningham compagnies. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree in dance under the direction of Martha Myers, exploring somatic methods, improvisation and choregraphy. During this time she received a scholarship to the American Dance Festival and presented her work , «A Question of Procedure» under the direction of Lucas Hoving. She then joined the dance staff at Connectcut College before moving to New York City in 1977.

From 1975 to 1983 , she danced and collaborated with several music and danse improvisational companies and worked on a film with the Entourage Music and Theatre Ensemble for the Nebraska Public Television. She was selected to present her works in such venues as the Dance Theatre Workshop, The Door, and the 92nd Street Y, and create work for The Yard in Martha’s Vineyard. During this time she also danced and collaborated with the artists Stuart Pimsler and Ara Fitzgerald.
In 1980 she presented her first evening length work in Paris and then moved there permanently in 1983.

She was artist in residency at Die Werkstatt in Dusseldorf in 1984 and formed her company Toss in 1985. She has performed for several artists on stage and in film, notably Mark Tompkins, Lila Greene, Stephanie Aubin, Charles Cré-Ange, and Jacques Patarozzi. In 1993 she created with Patricia Lopez the film "Killing was Easy" (Réalis. Sylvia Callé), selected for the "Festival des Assassins" at the Cinémathèque de Paris.

In 1995, she co-founded the collective company «Les Penelopes» and collaborated with the Quatuor Albrecht Knust for the re-creation of «Continuous Project Altered Daily» by Yvonne Rainer and Steve Paxton’s «Satisf’n Lover», and later with Dominique Brun, Valeska Gert’s «La Mort» and «La Sorciere» of Mary Wigman.
From 1992 to 2000, she was regularly invited for teaching residencies at the European Center for New Dance Development in Arnhem, as well as a commissioned work for the twin school in Dusseldorf. At the same time, she began creating a series of duets and performance installations in collaboration with various dance artists:Anne Koren, Sally Silvers , Isabelle Marteau, Christine Corday… and continues this process now with the New York choreographer Ara Fitzgerald.
She currently contributes work to the feminist performance collective, femmeuses (directed by Cecile Proust), and collaborates with the sculptor Félix Perrotin in the performance series, the john and jane installations, and for her latest work that was easy.
She performed in «Fuck Yeah !» for the Nature Theatre of Oklahoma in May 2009 during their residency at Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers.

She has taught professional classes and workshops for several national choreographic centers and companies in Europe, as well as for the «Centre National de la Danse», and the «Ménagerie de Verre» in Paris.

For intermediate-advanced level CI dancers, but beginners are also welcome!

Dynamic Trios

I am curious to find tools what helps to dance trio contact improvisation. How to create alive dancing dialogue by using touch, movement, weight and balance? What kind of details we can find from trio dance by listening to the live situation. What if I have every moment in trio many possibilities where I can guide or allow dance to go. How well we recognize when we are leading or following the dance or when being just passive? What are my habits in trio dance and what are the directions in movement where I never want to go? So this will be lot about what kind of choices we make in trio dance and technical tools for trios.

Mirva Mäkinen

I am a 35-year old dancer. I graduated (MA) from the Dance Department of the Theatre Academy of Finland in 2000. After that I have worked widely in Finland as a dancer, dance teacher and choreographer.

From 2000 onwards I have acted as dance teacher and lecturer for dance at the Kallio Upper Secondary School of Performing Arts. I have also taught at domestic and international dance and contact improvisation festivals.

In dance I am interested in the feeling of flow and soft movement. I love to investigate movement, its rhythm and different ways of inhabiting the body. A feeling of dancing is created by being able to switch the body from total relaxation to extreme intensity and ìtensionî. I call this the body’s ability to breathe and create movement. My ideal is total presence, which makes every moment true and meaningful.

It’s a great opportunity to meet, learn and dance with a wonderful CI dancer and teacher Mirva! As well as share the dances and explorations with international participants and visit a beautiful capital of Lithuanian! Come to enrich your CI dance with a trio experience and practise, get some inspiration for your dance and a lot of joy and pleasure of learning!

Nov 16 – 20, 2009 FIM-Festival of Multidisziplinary Improvisation
Bilbao, basque country, ("spain"),europe

the 4th year of this unique festival, where different disciplines meet, investigate and collaborate

the set-up: afternoons

16.00-20.00 4 different workshops :

dance – katie duck usa/nl http://magpiemusicdance.com/artists/duck/

accoustis music – alfredo genovesi uk/nl http://profile.myspace.com/alfredogenovesi1

electronic music – amir shoat israel/uk http://www.myspace.com/kavwomb
marc chia singapur/nl http://www.myspace.com/onemannation
johann merel peru/uk http://www.myspace.com/terocal
joe zeitlin uk http://www.myspace.com/joezeitlin (tbc)

video travis flint usa/bilbao

alfredo and his students were last year always from the beginning on playing with the dancers; the other 2 workshops usually came in at around 6.30, 7.. ; then a couple os sets with everybody working together

20.00 – 21.30 communal (vegan) dinner, share,chill and laughs

21.30 – 23.00 improv sets, with students and teachers participating

check out a video :
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=T6wVSNIBmbk

there might be laboratories in the mornings..

organised by l´mono ( http://l-mono.org ), an independent urban arts/culture center run by a small collective. We have a beautiful dance studio, a music and a couple more studios, a exibition/concert hall, kitchen… situated in a centrical old industrial building, which due to urban planning is destinated to disappear in the not too faraway future…(we´ll see..)..;
anyway, it´s a festival with a very special caracter and atmosphere, where the ´teachers´ are as keen on investigating and playing as the other paticipants …and often all just mingles and twingles…, and a unique opportunity to investigate the possibilities of dance, music and video working together in an improvisational set-up.
and bilbao and its surroundings are also sure worth a visit: friendly and very special people, it´s famous transformation from industrial to ´cultural´city("guggenheim-effect"),beautiful beaches with cool waves 25 min away, mountains all around…sounds like a tourist guide..haha..but it´s true..
so also if it´s not for the fim, we invite all travelling artists dancers performers to pass by, maybe share work, maybe play together..

CONTACT: olaf kehler PHONE: 0034 94 444 88 33; 0034 628 55 83 80
EMAIL: l.mono.bilbao@gmail.com WEBSITE: l-mono.org,
myspace.com/fimbilbao

with Patrick Crowley

Come join us for a weekend of embodiment, skill building, and play though the practice of this magical form. We begin with fundamental principles of movement including: release of the muscles, weight sharing, supporting, following momentum, and aerial work. These become the building blocks for experiencing states of physical and artistic freedom.

Arrival: Thursday, 11/19, after 5 p.m.
Last session ends Sunday afternoon 11/22

We are happy to invite you to the 3-rd Contact Improvisation and Performance Minifestival in Vilnius, Lithuania!
From the beginning this festival had an idea: to gather, make a connection and communicate with contact dancers and teachers from neighbour countries, especially the ones we've never met or heard about. Last year it worked out perfectly (60 people from 7 different countries and 12 cities) and we are looking for a new meeting again this year!
We invite contact teachers from region countries to meet and share their interests and experience in contact improvisation and performance with festival participants. We invite you to participate! Come to meet, share and support, inspire and enjoy (contact, improvisation, performance, neighbours, new people, unknown, ideas).
We will have a nice week-end full of improvisation, contact dance, performance, jams, spontaneity and happiness.
We want you to meet us and we want to meet you!

DANIEL LEPKOFF: Improvisation Workshop, November 23-27, 2009, Schwelle7, Berlin/Germany

Foundations of Improvisation
5 day intensive Improvisation Workshop with Daniel Lepkoff
WHEN: Monday – Friday, November, 23-27, 2009, 12 am – 6 pm
WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany

FOUNDATIONS OF IMPROVISATION
Researching Movement, Mind & Flow of Information

This work examines the basic functioning of the body and how the mind and body work together to compose our movement. Whatever is happening, at any moment, is appreciated as an intelligent response to our present moment and as material that can be placed in a dance frame. The workshop provides tools for researching your own movement choices, and developing ones powers of observation.

Developmental movement patterns such as: walking, rolling, crawling, running, pushing, and pulling form a base vocabulary used to re-simulate and re-examine our body's deep understanding of how to move.

“The movement of our attention." is our primary tool for our research. Structured explorations offer ways to re-focus on particular details of our sensory experience, perceptions, and actions. We open to all aspects of our experience: gravity, touch, vision, sound, time, & the imagination.
In these ways we re-form our images and understandings of what is going on when we move. Our physical research is a base for spontaneous composition.

Material developed in the workshop will be presented to the public in an Informal showing at the end of the week, Friday, 27 at 8:30 pm, Our focus will be live performance as a venue and vehicle for sharing information We will use this opportunity to think about the nature of improvising in performance and to consider what is happening physically in the minds and bodies the performers and audience members in the theater.

WORKSHOP: http://www.schwelle7.de/Daniel%20Lepkoff.html
REGISTRATION: xs4jan (at) gmx.de
PRICE: 200 EUR

SLEEPING:
We can host up workshop participants in our special sleeping cocoons. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person.

Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6 HH 1. OG
13357 Berlin/Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 173 – 6118404
http://www.schwelle7.de
Email: info (at) felixruckert.de

TRAFFIC LINK: UB Nauener Platz, Pankstr, Osloer Str, SB Gesundbrunnen

THOUGHTS ABOUT THE WORK & PERFORMANCE
by Daniel Lepkoff

„As a maker of dances, a designer of theater and an improvising performer,

I am not specifically interested in presenting “dance” movement on the stage.
What is happening
at any moment,
I see as possible material that can be placed in a dance frame.
Each of us exists in an on-going physical dialogue with our environment,
tuning to the details and nuance of our own and
each others’ movement behavior and to the conditions of our present moment.
We observe, we feel, and we act.
We create our own images and
construct our own understandings.
Ordinarily this activity is unconscious.
In the theater I want to stimulate audience and performer alike to consciously and actively create their own images,
and so my work is designed not to tell the audience what it is they are looking at.
Inside of a moment of disorientation, of not knowing, lies an opportunity for a person in the theater
to create their own story.
In these times, we are surrounded by media images designed by others
to manipulate our attention and to control what we know and do not know.
As an artist, the performance event offers me an opportunity to create,
Empty Space.“

CV

DANIEL LEPKOFF's work looks at "all" of our movement as a finely tuned physical dialogue with the environment and explores the form and composition of this interaction.

He played a central role in the development of Release Technique with Mary Fulkerson and Contact Improvisation with Steve Paxton since the early 70’s. Throughout the 70’s and 80’s he traveled extensively; actively teaching, performing, and exposing this new work and new ideas to audiences worldwide.

As a performer and teacher he is known for his commitment to a way of composing dances that arises from the process of living movement, a vision of living in the body in a physical dialogue with the environment

He is one of the founders of Movement Research in NYC.

In the 80's Daniel was a member of the New York based improvisational performance ensemble “Channel Z” from 1982 to 1987. Channel-Z’s members included: Robin Feld, Paul Langland, Daniel Lepkoff, Diane Madden, Nina Martin, Stephen Petronio, & Randy Warshaw.

Over the years he has collaborated with many other artists and performers including: Lisa Nelson, Steve Paxton; Paul Langland, Saira Blanche Theater in Moscow (Oleg Soulimenko and Andrej Andrianov), Lux Flux in Vienna (Inge Kandlsdorfer, Annette Pffeferkorn and Jack Hauser) and Japanese dancer, Sakura Shimada, among others.

His own work has been seen in NY at PS122, The Kitchen, Movement Research, DTW & Danspace. He has received grants for The Robison Foundation & The Suitcase Fund. In 2002 he was the artistic director and co-produced (together with Mira Kovarova) of "Physical Dialogues" a dance festival in Bratislava focusing on alternative systems for researching movement.

He has published numerous articles articulating concepts that are central to his own work, these writing appear in CQ, The MR Performance Journal and Contredanse Publications in Bruxelles.

PROJECT FIVE STAR WORKSHOP
Five skills vital to performing dance improvisation:
Awareness
Sensing
Presence
Choices
Technique

Workshop Description:
An all day DANCE IMPROVISATION intensive facilitated by Karen Kaeja, Suzanne Liska and Kathleen Rea. Each facilitator will teach a short workshop where they will pass on awareness, sensory, presence, choice and technique skills unique to them. The project will culminate in a performance by the participants that draws on the day’s investigations.

Featuring Facilitators:

KAREN KAEJA is Co-AD of Kaeja d’Dance with Allen Kaeja, performing, choreographing and teaching nationally and internationally. She has created over 50 works including improvised installations like BIRDS EYE VIEW and Stable Dances. “One of Toronto’s top Improvisers” Toronto Life and in NOW Magazine’s top ten dance artists as a “champion of contact dance”, she and Allen were the first Contact teachers at Canada’s National Ballet School and for 18 years she has been a guest at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre. Co-Founder/AD of the Festival of Interactive Physics (FIP), her continual quest for the delivery of an authentic performance, along with physical risk and playfulness, permeates her life and her teachings. Karen was recently nominated for a Dora Award for Outstanding Performance. www.kaeja.org

SUZANNE LISKA is a dance artist and educator originally from Alberta and now based in Toronto. She is Co-Artistic Director of Flight Works, a contemporary dance company specializing in theatrical Contact Dance partnering. She has danced for Choreographers Pam Johnson in Brother, can you spare a dime? 2009; Kathleen Rea in the Dora nominated Long Live 2008; and Kaeja d’Dance in the ALOFT Project, Stable Dances and Project Wildflock. Suzanne was first introduced to Contact Improv in 1998 in St.John’s, Newfoundland. She teaches Contact Improv dance in Toronto, and has also taught workshops for dance and theatre artists in Ottawa and Calgary. Pilates and Alexander Technique also inform her instructional style.

KATHLEEN REA danced with Ballet Jörgen Canada (BJC), National Ballet of Canada & Tiroler Landestheater (Austria). In 2000 she formed REAson d'etre productions to showcase her choreograpy. Kathleen has created over 30 original works for many organizations including Bravo Television, BJC, Ryerson University, Theatre Passe Muraille & Toronto Dance Theatre. Her ballet The Velveteen Rabbit was performed by BJC across North America & her award winning film Lapinthrope premiered at international festivals. Kathleen is part of the Contact community, founding the Wednesday Dance Jam. She is on faculty at George Brown College Dance (ten years) and has a Master's degree in Expressive Arts. Recently, her full length modern ballet Long Live was nominated for three DORA awards, including Outstanding New Choreography. www.reasondetre.com

Date and Time:
Sat Dec 12, 2009
10:00 am – 9:00 pm

Level:
Intermediate or advanced dance, improvisation and/or physical theatre skills.

Rate:
$80 early bird or $100 after Nov 25th
Limited number of scholarships available.

Location:
Dovercourt House Ballroom
2nd Floor, 805 Dovercourt Rd, Toronto (North of Bloor)

PROJECT FIVE STAR PERFORMANCE

Description:
An improvised dance performance by participants of Project 5 Star Workshop

Date and Time:
Dec 12th, 2009
8:00 pm

Location:
Dovercourt House Ballroom
2nd Floor, 805 Dovercourt Rd, Toronto (North of Bloor)

Tickets:
$10 at the door (or PWYC)

Information on Project Five Star Workshop and Performance
www.kaeja.org or www.reasondetre.com

Description:
An improvised dance performance by participants of Project Five skills vital to performing dance improvisation:
Awareness
Sensing
Presence
Choices
Technique

Date and Time:
Dec 12th, 2009
8:00 pm

Location:
Dovercourt House Ballroom
2nd Floor, 805 Dovercourt Rd, Toronto (North of Bloor)

Information on Project Five Star Workshop and Performance
www.kaeja.org www.reasondetre.com

Bring in the new decade dancing at Claymont! We'll gather from Wednesday, December 30th to Sunday, January 3rd with a special Ceremony New Years Eve!
Details & Registration at http://eastcoastjam.com
The ECJ is four juicy days of dancing among the fields and paths at Claymont Court Estates, West Virginia, around one hour's car ride from Washington, DC, USA.
Welcoming all experience levels, the New Years East Coast Jam includes facilitated warm-ups, open dancing, a New Years Ritual, one or more evenings of performance, two dance spaces, shared lodging, luscious vegetarian meals by Mirabi, sauna, wide vistas, lots of outside spaces to explore. And the people you love dancing with most!
A day at the east coast jam goes something like this: We wake from glorious sleep to eat lovingly prepared breakfast, stroll through the apple orchard to the huge octagonal dance barn. After a facilitated warm-up each morning, we dance, sweat, dance, sweat, dance, sweat, sauna, then stroll back to the magnificent mansion. After lunch we gather for a "town meeting," where we collaborate to create the jam, then we dance more, make music, nap, journal, give and get massages, tell stories, play games.
East coast jam attendees…
teach a class, take a class, practice, learn, walk, play, move, sing, roll, leap, stretch, wander, cavort, breathe. Offerings might include authentic movement Action Theater, a beginning contact improv class, a moving and drawing structure, a yoga class, poetry and chocolate, an outdoor improvisation score… which we do till we're hungry enough for one more delicious meal. Evenings we dance more, sauna more, sing more, move more, play more, schmooze more, laugh more, talk more, walk more, sleep more, and eat peanut butter and honey on rice cakes and drink tea into the wee hours contemplating the important (or not so important) questions of our lives.

When dancing and interacting with other dancers and an audience, there is a constant demand to be wide-awake and have your senses sharpened. Our memory of what just happened can guide us as to what direction to take in what is coming. We will be working at that intersection of conscious choice and the in the moment following of our instinct. In this workshop we will explore and examine our habits in perceiving and responding to acts of other people as well as having a look at the way we go from thinking to doing.
The workshop will be based on physical practice and skills in moving with ease and clarity. Getting to know the body’s possibilities through moving, and to navigate it through space and time. Four days of working in different constellations and moving in scores that sharpen our compositional wit and challenge our ability to act and (not)react.

3rd annual Contact Exchange at Breitenbush Hot Springs. This year we propose to research within the theme of performance and a specific daily structure-

9-11 authentic movement warm-up
11-1 inquiry and research
3-6 inquiry and research
8-9 presentation
9-10 debrief

We'll use the time to study the relationship of seeing and being seen. We welcome all levels of experience. This 5-day immersion is an opportunity for those with experience and beginners to explore their relationship to 'performance'. We begin from where we are and inquire- How do I/we explore and discover? How do I/we present our findings and witness each other?

This event is an ideal place to experiment, to develop and 'work' your dance. Bring your curiosity and join us to dance and dialog, to inquire and discover, to show and tell.

Cross-pollination is our evolution. By traveling to meet and dance we weave a web that wraps the world in contact improvising……… !
(Travel may require extra effort in January, but if you can get to Portland we'll help get you to Breitenbush. It is an amazing cocoon up there in the heart of winter!

We'll be 25 maximum, so registering early is a good idea. To do that you must telephone Breitenbush 503-854-3320 and make a deposit of the lodging fees- http://breitenbush.com/reservations/info.html#rates

http://breitenbush.com/events/jan10-15touch.html

January 10 – 15
Contact Improvisation Exchange with TouchMonkey (Carolyn Stuart and Patrick Gracewood)

Contact Improvisation invites us to explore movement while in physical contact. It is based in personal responsibility as a means to mutual well-being. Carolyn and Patrick have been researching Contact Improvisation for over 20 years, logging hundreds of projects along the way, calling their thread of inquiry the TouchMonkey perspective. The process of inquiry and discovery never ceases to inspire and delight them. They are excited to facilitate and participate in this laboratory. Currently they offer C.I. events at Gracewood Studio in Portland, OR and this deep wintertime event to share their process of investigation and support others in claiming theirs.

BEGINS: Sun dinner ENDS: Fri lunch

Sundays 12-1:30

The training develops your body intelligence in all senses:
+ Warm-ups for flexibility and longevity
+ Ways of entering, developing and exiting the dance
+ Lifting, leaping, landing safely and easily, using posture & momentum in balance with muscles & joints
+ Performance-style scores for 1, 2 or more dancers
+ Free play

The instructor, Billy Adam Gottlieb, has trained with contact masters Nancy Stark Smith, Andrew Harwood, Kirstie Simson, Chris Aiken, Lisa Nelson and Ray Chung, as in aikido, butoh, yoga, shiatsu massage therapy and environmental chemistry.

Spark, ignite dance improvisational movement. In this eight class series, we will learn the principle foundation of contact improvisation, which are: breath, center, point of contact, be comfortable, balance and physical touch. Focus and exploration will be on dancing on the floor, physical weight sharing, shifting and partnering with rolling.

International Contact Improvistation Festival of Rio de Janeiro 2010!
After the successfull first editons (2008 & 2009) we are improving the next festival with an open teachers meeting at January 16 and 17th.
Besides we will start in this festival with a South American CI Net (Red Sudamericana de Contacto Improvisacion).
You must not miss that!

How can we communicate non-verbally?
How can we listen with acuity?
This workshop will focus on clearly expressing ourselves through the language of Contact Improvisation.
Emotions and feelings are so much more than mere words can symbolize.

Taught by
David Brown
Kai Evans
Liz Weinstein

Sunday Jan 17
2:00-5:00pm

Circadia Arts Center
4705 NE Columbia Blvd
Portland, OR 97218
www.circadiaarts.com

Dancing The Endless Web
Fascia and Contact Improvisation

Intermediate/ Advanced Workshop
with Daniel Bear Davis

Saturday & Sunday
January 23 / 24 2010, 12 am – 6 pm

Fascia: the three dimensional web of connective tissue that runs continuously from a thick layer just under your skin into the mysterious depths of your body. Fascia weaves a network of interwoven membrane around every muscle, organ, bone and cell.

Accessing this incredibly intelligent system in our dance opens a world of specificity, subtlety, and increased kinetic potential. We will traverse the range, from witnessing and following the delicate unwinding of the tissues, to finding incredible support for dynamic flight, elastic buoyancy and the creation of countless hidden shelves. Join me in researching this endlessly fascinating realm.

Daniel Bear Davis is a recent transplant from the SF Bay Area. He has been teaching and dancing CI for 10 years. He utilizes the form in his dance theatre company, Shah and Blah Productions as well as in acrobatic stilt theatre work with The Carpetbag Brigade He has been influenced by his study of Axis Syllabus: Universal Motor Principles and by his massage practice. He has also been influenced by the countless bizarre apparatuses and architectures he has performed on including construction scaffolding, boulders in the desert, the walls of a boat, a submarine, a suspended welded sphere, and many more.

Participation: 2 days 80 Euro
Registrations per email: danbeardavis@hotmail.com
Daniel Bear Davis: +49-176 8755 8566

Place: Schwelle 7, Uferstraße 6, HH 1. OG (near Uferstudios), 13357 Berlin
Web: www.schwelle7.de/DanBearDavis.html
More: Myspace.com/shahandblahproductions

MALCOLM MANNING: 1. Awareness Perception Presence class & 2. Contact Improvisation workshop, January 25-29, 2010, Schwelle7, Berlin/Germany

5 day Intensive with Malcolm Manning
morning classes 11am – 1:30pm: Awareness Perception Presence class
afternoon workshop 3:00pm – 6:00pm: Contact Improvisation workshop
WHEN: Monday – Friday, January 25-29, 2010
WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany

(1)AWARENESS PERCEPTION PRESENCE:
MOVING FROM THE FISH BODY
Morning Class series – open for all levels – (11:00am – 1:30pm)
(You can attend only the morning classes, without the workshop!!!)

Malcolm has spent the last five-years developing a body of work called Awareness Perception Presence in which he combines the Feldenkrais Method, Experiential Anatomy and other specially-devised material to enter into a physical dialogue with ourselves and our environment. In this particular series, we'll explore the Fish Body (axial skeleton) taking some of Steve Paxton's Material For The Spine as our reference.

Each class begins with a guided exploration/lecture/dialogue in which the specific theme of the class is introduced through movement and associated anatomical details. Next a Feldenkrais (ATM) class which aims to clarify some aspects of the theme. The final part of the class is spent in self-directed exploration taking the references movements as a starting point.
SInce we work alone in these classes, it is possible to open these to anyone who wishes to attend. The set material is simply standing and walking so makes no special demands physically.

(2) Contact IMPROVISATIONAL MIND
Contact Improvisation Workshop – advanced only – (3:00pm – 6:00pm)
(Includes participation in the morning classes!!!)

When are we truly improvising CI and when are we just running through familiar patterns and pathways? As we become more experienced and skilled in the form, how can we keep our dancing fresh and improvisational?

One way is to study how to be present to ourselves and to extend our perception of ourselves. The Awareness Perception Presence morning class series aims to address to these issues. In the context of this workshop, you could think of them as an extended warm-up or preparation to dance CI.

In the afternoon sessions, we'll follow a process that unfolds by exploring a series of simple CI scores designed to interrupt the familiar. We'll also create our own scores, explore some less-common contact technique, watch each other dancing, and dialogue on the improvisational nature of CI.

During the workshop, the exploration of scores will be directed mainly toward the question of improvisation in CI. My experience is that they are interesting to watch and also open up strategies for performing CI. The workshop will therefore culminate in a showing where we will dance some of the scores that we have worked on for an audience.

Participation in the workshop showing is not absolutely necessary but strongly encouraged. It will take place on Friday, January 29, 2010 at 8:30 PM

For the afternoon workshop there is a limited number of places, available for participants with at least three years experience of dancing and studying contact improvisation. If you are interested then please write a brief outline of your experience and interest in attending (no more than one side A4).

MALCOLM MANNING: I am a somatic movement researcher, educator and performing artist. Movement is life and just about any situation can be analysed in terms of what moves, how, where, when and with what quality – I am fascinated by how people move and by how I move, both alone and in relation to others.

I have been based in Finland for the last eight years where I am currently a part-time senior lecturer in the dance department of the Theatre Academy of Finland (Finland's highest level dance education) and have helped to develop and teach around two months a year on the one-year Dance And Somatics education in Joensuu. I also tour Europe teaching, at various venues including TanzQuartier Wien and ImpulsTanz.

For more info visit http://www.movetolearn.com

WORKSHOP: http://www.schwelle7.de/Malcolm.html
REGISTRATION: xs4jan (at) gmx.de
FEES:
Workshop including morning classes: 5 days / 200 EUR
Morning classes only: 5 days / 120 EUR

SLEEPING:
We can host up workshop participants basic opportunities to stay overnight. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person.

Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6 HH 1. OG
13357 Berlin/Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 173 – 6118404
http://www.schwelle7.de
Email: info (at) felixruckert.de

TRAFFIC LINK: UB Nauener Platz, Pankstr, Osloer Str, SB Gesundbrunnen

A two day workshop with Moti Mark Zemelman
January 30-31 (Saturday, 10am-4pm & Sunday, 2-6pm)

Deep Listening: Intersections between Contact Improv, Compassionate Communication, and Tantra.

Contact Improv is an honoring of our own bodies and each body that we encounter. Even though CI is a dance form that offers more intimacy than any I know of, there are so many ways we can continue to deepen. Using communication tools from Marshall Rosenberg’s Non-violent Communication, Byron Katie’s “The Work”, and Tantra inspired exercises, we’ll explore our underlying judgments, observations, feelings, and needs, and practice asking for what we truly desire in the dance. In this safe and sacred container we’ll use stillness, breath, slow-motion, eye-contact, and energetic awareness to explore being more deeply present with our partners.
Live music by Moti will accompany this workshop.

Mark Moti Zemelman, MFA, began practicing Contact Improv 21 years ago. Over the past 14 years he has taught and performed across USA, Canada, Guatemala, Mexico, Europe and Israel. In 2008-09 he taught as Professor of Dance at the Instituto Naciónal de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Moti has been a regular teacher and a board member at Earthdance Retreat Center in Massachusetts, USA. Other recent teaching engagements include DanceBase (Edinburgh), Circuit-Est (Montreal), Z in Motion Festival (Helsinki), and Lila Lopez Contemporary Dance Festival (San Luis Potosi, Mexico) He was an original member of Wire Monkey Dance Co., (Holyoke, MA, USA). Other training includes yoga, Action Theater, modern dance, and clowning. He also designs and moderates the new international Contact Improv resource website www.contactimprov.com.

Teachers: Alexis Andrew & Elizabeth MacKinnon
This workshop will build beginner and intermediate contact improvisation
skills for stronger and more grounded dancing. The ability to support and
to find support through another is a core element of satisfying contact
improvisation (and other kinds of dancing). We will look at techniques
for getting grounded and for finding and using strength, while also
staying mobile and responsive. There will also be plenty of time for
integrating these skills through dancing.
1PM – 6 PM, .5 hour break (4.5 hours)

Open to all levels of experience.

AWARENESS PERCEPTION PRESENCE:
Moving from the Fish Body
February 5-7 2010, Vilnius, Lithuania

Malcolm has spent the last five-years developing a body of work called Awareness Perception Presence in which he combines the Feldenkrais Method, Experiential Anatomy and other specially-devised material to enter into a physical dialogue with ourselves and our environment. In this particular series, we'll explore the Fish Body (axial skeleton) taking some of Steve Paxton's Material for the Spine as our reference.

Each class begins with a guided exploration/ lecture/dialogue in which the specific theme of the class is introduced through movement and associated anatomical details. Then follows a Feldenkrais (ATM) class which aims to clarify some aspects of the theme and generates a more general state of self-awareness. The final part of the class is spent in self-directed exploration taking the references movements as a starting point. The set material is simply standing and walking so makes no special demands physically.

These workshops are a practical exploration of how somatic movement practices can be applied to the performing arts as a kind of “invisible technique”. While they do not necessarily teach any performable material, somatic practices can enhance how you perform, your ability to learn new skills and suggest new movement vocabulary. They also offer a way to deal with longstanding aches and pains, and your ability to recover from or, better still, avoid injuries.

Malcolm Manning
I am a somatic movement researcher, educator and performing artist – movement is life and just about any situation can be analysed in terms of what moves, how, where, when and with what quality – I am fascinated by how people move and by how I move, both alone and in relation to others .

I have been based in Finland for the last eight years where I am currently a part-time senior lecturer in the dance department of the Theatre Academy of Finland (Finland's highest level dance education) and have helped to develop and teach around two months a year on the one-year Dance And Somatics education in Joensuu. I also tour Europe teaching, at various venues including TanzQuartier Wien and ImpulsTanz. For more info visit www.movetolearn.com

SABINE SONNENSCHEIN: Contact Improvisation based on Tantra / CI als Tantrische Praxis, WORKSHOP February 15-19, 2010, Schwelle7, Berlin/Germany

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Sabine Sonnenschein
Contact Improvisation based on Tantra

Retreat / Monday to Friday, February, 15 to 19, 2010 / all day, 10am -10pm (10am to 1pm / 3pm – 6pm / 8Pm -10 pm)

Contact improvisation (ci), as a dance practice and social event has a deeply sensual aspect where bodies find each other and come together. In classical ci classes, this aspect is basically ignored. The idea of setting aside sensuality and with it the erotic element, created a space for ci to develop, which is important, but nevertheless based on fiction.

In this retreat, through tantric techniques, ci becomes a tantric practice and sensual dance experience in which space for sexual energy is provided within a defined form. That means: We’ll learn techniques that enable us to sense sexual energy in the body, to direct it consciously and to open an exchange with a partner in a subtle and delicate way. Dances find their form in that we allow ourselves to be moved by sexual energy. We’ll experience how these dances take shape among women, among men, and in a mixed group.

A deep tantric experience requires adequate time, space, and intensity, which is why the workshop will be held as a retreat.

Kashmir tantrism says that everything is vibration.This retreat allows dance to become a uniting with the world, a spiritual practice. Dance is an expansion into the space, tantra is expansion; and of course more than just etymologically: tan (Sanskrit) = to expand

Based on breathing and physical exercises as well as a ritual of touch we sense ourselves as well as each other and dance together. We fine-tune our perception; we refine all of our senses in order to enter into play with one another. Belly breathing and its observation will be the initial issue for all meditations, dances, and movements. I find a very deep connection to my dance partner by concentrating on his or her breathing, which leads us into a shared dance experience with and in one another. Is the impulse initiating a movement a common one? There are impulses that lead us deeper into each other and open spaces inwardly, and that that allow us to move outwardly, expanding into the space.

We use our sexual energy in a defined and guided way, and also classical CI techniques to arrive at a spiritual dance practice.The sensual fusion of bodies and sensual dances are sheltered and sustained by the group. What aesthetic dimensions open up to us when we see such dances?

Addendum:
This retreat provides a safe space for personal as well as group experiences. Most work will take place in mixed groups, but there will also be women-only and men-only times. Personal limits will be respected. All of the dances can be stopped at any time, if it does not feel right.
Nakedness in dancing may be explored, here, too, personal borders will be respected.

The workshop is oriented towards participants with and without experience in contact improvisation and tantra.

Open for everybody! That means: none of the heteronormativity of classical Tantra!

On Sat/Sun, February, 20 &21 Sabine will also show her Solo „MY DICK IS A COCK IS A DICK IS A COCK“ – Approach to the Genital or just an-other cum shot – at schwelle7, as well as her philosophiical – pornographic Video heteronom1.

Sabine Sonnenschein (1970, AT) studied theatre science, philosophy and history of art and has been a freelance choreographer and performer since 1992. Her work has been shown, among other places, in Vienna (Tanzquartier Wien, ImPuls Tanz, Tanzsprache, imagetanz,…), Munich, London, NYC, Stuttgart, Prague, Pula, Berlin, and St.Petersburg, www.wuk.at/sonnenschein
She has been involved with sensitizing the body since 1990, and Contact Improvisation since 1991.
She has training in tantric full body massage (AnandaWave/Cologne) and also lomi lomi nui.
She was introduced to yin yang massage by Andro, has studied pelvic massage by K. Ruby; intensified her tantric experience at AnandaWave and SkyDancing (Munich), and has been introduced to Kashmir tantrism and Kashmir yoga of touch by Daniel Odier.
In Vienna she has practiced tantric body work since 2006, primarily individual work, www.tantrischekoerperarbeit.at
She gives workshops focusing on the fusion of Tantra and Contact Improvisation. Teacher at ImpulsTanz in Vienna 2009. As initiator of the Lab for Performance and Post Dramatic Acting (2000-2003), she questioned conventions of reception and mechanisms of production. In 2005, as choreographer, she created the philosophical pornographic video heteronom 1. Since 2006 she has been involved with the reception of pornographic films (hardcore porn as well as art film). In this, she collaborates with the performer Brigitte Wilfing, film theorist Matthias Wittmann, theater and film maker Armin Anders, performance theorist Marty Huber, philosopher Stefan Nowotny, film theorist as well as author Tim Stüttgen, and performer Robert Steijn. As part of the project, three Open Labs took place at Tanzquartier Wien in 2007. The project finale was the symposion pornonom – a discourse on pornography at WUK (Vienna): Lectures [by Barbara Eder (media theorist, queer studies/ A), Laura Méritt (communications expert, manager of “Sexclusivitäten”/ D), Peter Rehberg (literary scholar, queer studies / D), and Sabine Sonnenschein], performances by Sabine Sonnenschein and Brigitte Wilfing, film screenings, party, lounge with Sexclusivitäten/Laura Méritt (sex toys, literature, films) and Boudoir/Renate Christian (lingerie couture, linens) and erotic cuisine.

FEES: 150 EURO
Registration: info@felixruckert.de
SLEEPING: We can host up workshop participants basic opportunities to stay overnight. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person. More… http://www.schwelle7.de/GAESTE.html

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Sabine Sonnenschein
Contact Improvisation als Tantrische Praxis

Intensiv Woche / Montag bis Freitag, 15. bis 19. Februar 2010 / ganztägig, 10 -22 Uhr (10-13 / 15-18 / 20-22 Uhr)

Contact Improvisation (CI) als Tanzform und soziales Event hat eine zutiefst sinnliche Seite, bei der tanzende Körper zu- und ineinander finden. Dieser Seite wird im klassischen CI-Unterricht im Grunde nie Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt. Die Idee, diese Dimension und mit ihr die Erotik aus dem Spiel zu lassen, hat der Contact Improvisation einen Entwicklungsfreiraum geschaffen, der wichtig ist, aber zugleich auf einer Fiktion basiert.

In diesem Retreat wird Contact Improvisation durch tantrische Techniken zur tantrischen Praxis und zum sinnlichen Tanzerlebnis, bei denen innerhalb einer festgesetzten Form Raum für sexuelle Energie gegeben ist. Das heißt konkret: Techniken werden erlernt, um sexuelle Energie im Körper wahrzunehmen, bewusst zu lenken sowie Austausch mit einem/r PartnerIn auf sehr subtiler Ebene stattfinden zu lassen. Tänze entstehen, indem wir uns von der sexuellen Energie bewegen lassen. Wir werden erfahren, wie sich diese Tänze von Frauen unter Frauen sowie Männern unter Männern gestalten und wie sie in der geschlechtlich gemischten Gruppe aussehen.

Ich lege den Workshop als Retreat an, weil eine tatsächliche Auseinandersetzung mit spirituellen Praxen des Tantra Zeit, Raum und Intensität benötigt.

Alles ist Vibration, heißt es im kaschmirischen Tantrismus. Dieser Retreat lässt Tanz zur Einswerdung mit der Welt, zur spirituellen Praxis werden. Tanz ist Ausdehnung in den Raum, Tantra ist Ausdehnung; und das freilich nicht nur etymologisch; tan (sanskrit) = ausdehnen.

Ausgehend von öffnenden, energetisierenden Atem-/Körperübungen sowie Berührungsritualen spüren wir uns selbst und einander, tanzen wir miteinander. Wir verfeinern unsere Wahrnehmung, wir sensibilisieren alle unsere Sinne für ein Spiel miteinander.
Die Bauchatmung und ihre Beobachtung werden zentral sein; Meditation, Tanz und Bewegung setzen bei ihr an. Zu meinem/r TanzpartnerIn entsteht eine tiefe Verbindung, wenn ich mich auf meinen sowie seinen/ihren Atem konzentriere und davon ausgehend ein Ineinander, ein gemeinsamer Tanz gefunden wird. Ist der Impuls, der dann eine Bewegung initiiert, ein gemeinsamer? Ist er deiner, meiner oder unserer? Es gibt Impulse, die uns tiefer ineinander führen und Räume nach innen eröffnen und solche, die uns raumgreifend nach außen gehen lassen.

Wir nutzen unsere sexuelle Energie in gelenkter Form und die klassische CI-Technik für eine spirituelle Tanzpraxis.
Das sinnliche Ineinander von Körpern, die sinnlichen Tänze werden von der Gruppe getragen und durch sie geschützt.
Was eröffnet sich uns ästhetisch, wenn wir diese Tänze sehen?

Nachsatz:
Der Retreat versteht sich als geschützter Raum für persönliche Erfahrung und Gruppenerlebnis. Es wird die meiste Zeit in der geschlechtlich gemischten Gruppe gearbeitet, wird aber auch Frauen- und Männerzeiten geben. Persönliche Grenzen werden gewahrt. Ein Tanz kann jederzeit beendet werden. Nacktheit kann ein Thema werden, auch für sie gelten persönliche Grenzen.

Der Workshop richtet sich an Contact Improvisation-Erfahrene und –Unerfahrene sowie Tantra-Erfahrene und –Unerfahrene. Für alle, d.h. frei von Heteronormativität des klassischen Tantra!

Sabine wird am Sa/So, 20. und 21. Februar auch ihr Solo „MY DICK IS A COCK IS A DICK IS A COCK“ – Annäherung an das Genitale or just an-other cum shot (Solo-Version) auf schwelle7 zeigen, sowie ihr Philosophisch pornographisches Video heteronom1.

Sabine Sonnenschein (1970, AT) hat Theaterwissenschaft, Philosophie und Kunstgeschichte studiert und ist seit 1992 freischaffende Choreografin und Performerin. Ihre Arbeiten wurden seither u.a. in Wien (Tanzquartier Wien, ImPuls Tanz, Tanzsprache, imagetanz,…), München, London, NYC, Stuttgart, Prag, Pula, Berlin und St.Petersburg gezeigt; www.wuk.at/sonnenschein
Sie beschäftigt sich seit 1990 mit körperlicher Sensibilisierung und seit 18 Jahren mit Contact Improvisation.

Sie ist in tantrischer Ganzkörpermassage (AnandaWave/Köln) sowie Lomi Lomi Nui ausgebildet. Auseinandersetzung mit der Yin Yang-Massage von Andro und mit der Beckenbodenmassage bei K.Ruby; Vertiefung tantrischer Erfahrung bei AnandaWave und SkyDancing (München), Einführung in kaschmirischen Tantrismus und kaschmirisches Yoga der Berührung bei Daniel Odier.
In Wien gibt seit 2006 tantrische Körperarbeit, vornehmlich Einzelarbeit; www.tantrischekoerperarbeit.at

Sie gibt Seminare, die sich mit der Verbindung von Tantra und Contact Improvisation beschäftigen und hat 2009 auch bei ImpulsTanz in Wien unterrichtet. Als Initiatorin des Labors für Performance und postdramatisches Agieren (2000-2003) hinterfragt sie Rezeptionskonventionen und Produktionsmechanismen. 2005 produzierte sie als Choreographin das philosophisch pornographische Video heteronom 1. Seit 2006 beschäftigt sie sich mit der Rezeption von pornografischen Filmen (Hardcore-Pornos sowie Kunstfilme), vor allem gemeinsam mit der Performerin Brigitte Wilfing, aber auch mit dem Filmwissenschaftler Matthias Wittmann, dem Theater- und Filmschaffenden Armin Anders, der Performancetheoretikerin Marty Huber, dem Philosophen Stefan Nowotny, dem Filmwissenschaftler sowie Autor Tim Stüttgen und dem Performer Robert Steijn. Im Tanzquartier Wien fanden 2007 drei Open Labs im Rahmen des Projektes statt. Abschluss dieses Projektes war symposion pornonom – ein Diskurs über Pornografie im Februar 2009 im WUK in Wien: Vorträge [von Barbara Eder (Medienwissenschaftlerin, Queer-Theoretikerin / A), Laura Méritt (Kommunikationswissenschaftlerin, Betreiberin von „Sexclusivitaeten“ / D), Peter Rehberg (Literaturwissenschaftler, Queer-Theoretiker / D) und Sabine Sonnenschein], Performances von Sabine Sonnenschein und Brigitte Wilfing, Filme, Party, Lounge mit Sexclusivitäten/Laura Méritt (Sextoys, Literatur, Filme) und Boudoir/Renate Christian (Dessous, Bettwäsche) und erotischer Cuisine.

WORKSHOP: http://www.schwelle7.de/SabineSonnenschein.html
FEES: 150 EURO
Registration: info@felixruckert.de
SLEEPING: We can host up workshop participants basic opportunities to stay overnight. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person.More… http://www.schwelle7.de/GAESTE.html

Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6 HH 1. OG
13357 Berlin/Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 173 – 6118404
http://www.schwelle7.de
Email: info (at) felixruckert.de

TRAFFIC LINK: U8 Pankstraße, U9 Osloer Straße, U9 Nauener Platz, SB Gesundbrunnen, SB Humboldthain, Bus M27 Brunnenplatz

http://maps.google.de/maps?daddr=13357+Berlin,+Uferstr+6
http://www.vbb-fahrinfo.de

NICOLE BINDLER /// CONTACT IMPROVISATION
4, 5, 6 Y 7 de Marzo de 2010 en BUENOS AIRES
Seminarios Principiantes y Avanzados + Performances

Nicole Bindler se define asi:

"Soy una artista de danza experimental inspirada en Danza Teatro, Contemporánea, CI, Butoh. También soy body worker y utilizo practicas de curación como BMC, Yoga y Feldenkrais como fuente de creatividad inspiración y entrenamiento físico. La danza es una forma de arte social y soy una colaboradora promiscua".
Nicole investiga técnicas avanzadas de danza para ella y para ayudar a otros bailarines. Colabora con músicos electroacústicos (particularmente con Andy Hyleck) artistas plásticos, bailarines y actores en performances en vivo. Ha coreografiado mas de 15 obras de danza en USA, Europa, Japón y también ha visitado Buenos Aires en el 2006, pero ella se define como una ávida improvisadora.
*para mayor info visita www.nicolebindler.com

Principiantes en Contacto Improvisaciòn:

Este taller es para aquellos que son nuevos en CI y para los profesionales con experiencia que quieran volver a examinar los fundamentos. Usaremos Anatomía Experiencial, yoga y nuevas técnicas de danza como el fundamento de nuestra investigación somática y exploraremos danzar desde solo a dúo. A través de ejercicios de movimiento guiado, el toque y la meditación, vamos a investigar las capas de nuestro cuerpo: piel, músculo, hueso, nervios, órganos y fluidos. Descubriremos y desplegaremos nuestras posturas habituales, movimiento y nuevas formas de habitar nuestros cuerpos, todos de un lugar de curiosidad y no juicio. Vamos a practicar los fundamentos de la distribución del peso y profundizar nuestra inteligencia kinestésica, usando el cuerpo del otro como retroalimentación. Usaremos CI como un espejo a través del cual somos testigos de nuestros patrones mentales y físicos, el mantenimiento de un sano sentido del humor y compasión dentro de esta profunda auto-investigación. Vamos a encontrar nuestro artista interior e integraremos CI como la investigación personal, una forma social, y un vehículo para la expresión creativa.
Beginner's Mind Contact Improvisation:

This workshop is for those who are new to Contact Improvisation and for practitioners with experience who want to revisit the fundamentals.We'll use Experiential Anatomy, Yoga and New Dance techniques as the foundation of our somatic research and we'll dance our way from solo body to duet. Through guided movement exercises, palpation and meditation, we'll investigate the layers of our bodies: skin, muscle,bone, nerves, organs and fluids. We'll discover and unfurl our habitual postures and movement, and uncover new ways of inhabiting our bodies;all from a place of curiosity and non-judgement. We'll practice the basics of weight sharing and deepen our kinesthetic intelligence using each other's bodies as feedback. We'll use CI as a mirror through which we witness our mental and physical patterns, maintaining a healthy sense of humor and compassion within this deep self-research. We will find our inner dance-artist and integrate CI as personal investigation, a social form, and a vehicle for creative expression.

Contacto Improvisación y Laboratorio de Performance:

Este taller es para bailarines intermedios y avanzados que están interesados en el rendimiento. Vamos a investigar todos los principios descriptos en el taller de principiantes: Nuestra práctica a dúo se abrirá en el trabajo conjunto. Ampliaremos nuestra conciencia a los otros bailarines, el espacio y a nuestros testigos. ¿Cómo podemos atender a nuestro paisaje interior de sensaciones, pensamientos y sentimientos, mientras estamos atentos al mundo exterior? ¿Cómo podemos desplegar nuestra creatividad, la mente coreográfica, mientras se mantiene en contacto con otra persona? ¿Cómo podemos presenciar uno al otro con todo nuestro ser, no sólo con nuestros ojos? El taller culminará con un "work in progress" abierto al público. Nos enfocaremos en la actuación no como un final, sino como una oportunidad para la comunidad a intervenir y llegar a la cima de nuestro proceso tal como se desarrolla.
Contact Improvisation and Performance Lab:
This workshop is for intermediate to advanced Contact Improvisation practitioners who are interested in CI in performance. We we will investigate all of the principles described above in the Beginner's Mind workshop PLUS: Our duet practice will open up into ensemble work. We'll expand our awareness out to the other dancers, the space and our witnesses. How can we attend to our inner landscape of sensations, thoughts and feelings, while simultaneously attending to the outer world? How can we untap our creative, choreographic mind, while maintaining contact with another person? How can we witness one another with our whole selves,not just our eyes? The workshop will culminate in a work-in-progress performance open to the public. We'll approach the performance not as a finale, but as an opportunity for the community to step in and take peek at our process as it unfolds.

Burlinton Vermont, located on beautiful Lake Champlain is 2 hours south of Montreal and about 4 hours from Boston and Western Mass. The Jam brings these contact communities and many others together for a weekend of rich dances, great food and special events.

Join Us — March 5th 6th and 7th… more details to follow…..

CONTACT IMPROVISATION
roberto lun
Il seminario è accessibile a tutti i livelli
Accessibile a tutti: esperti danzatori che volgiono allargare la propria conoscenza o semplici amatori con voglia di divertirsi e danzare.

La prima parte è un riscaldamento guidato per risvegliare e potenziare le funzioni motorie del corpo e attivare i sensi. Questo permette al partecipante una conoscenza più profonda del corpo e di accedere cosi alla propria memoria fisica, modificandola e arricchendola, scoprendo le grandi potenzialità che il nostro corpo ci mette a disposizione.
Nella seconda fase impariamo le diverse tecniche della C.I. Il contatto fisico, rotolare, cadere, seguire, sostenere, sollevare, le leve, le prese, il pavimento come sostegno. Esplorare le varie altezze alle quali ci si può muovere da soli, con uno o più partner. Usare il proprio peso e quello degli altri per una danza dove l’ascolto è fondamentale. Questo lavoro consente una conoscenza più profonda dell’imprinting genetico che guida i nostri gesti per poter poi modificare il nostro linguaggio corporeo. Verranno utilizzati PHYSIOBALL di varie grandezze se la preparazione tecnica del gruppo lo consente ci si avvicinerà alla tecnica dei salti e delle prese.
La terza fase sarà un lavoro minimale e specifico di ricerca del singolo, con un partner o in gruppo, alternando i modi abituali della percezione nella danza, si vuole esplorare come i sensi siano determinanti per il nostro movimento e per la nostra personale visione estetica. Focalizzando la ricerca visiva e tattile si riesce a sviluppare la capacità d’improvvisazione e coreografica passando attraverso il desiderio di comporre la propria esperienza. Ciascun incontro termina con una danza libera (round roboni) E un warmdown (rilassamento)

Opzione lavoro con i palloni
"Il seminario avrà come punto cruciale il lavoro con i palloni diametro cm 30, 65 e 95 su cui sperimenteremo la meccanica del movimento, l'equilibrio e il rilassamento da soli, in coppia e in piccoli gruppi. Sperimenteremo le tecniche acquisite sui i palloni con i nostri compagni.

Roberto Lun, Coreografo, regista, danzatore, performer, e videomaker.
Tiene corsi annuali e stages di Contact Improvisation e Danceability nelle più importanti accademie italiane ed estere: Civica Scuola D’arte Drammatica Di Milano sezione teatrodanza, MA&S, Accademia Danza di Susanna Beltrami , teatroprimostudio e emisferodestroteatro, CID Centro Internazionale della Danza di Rovereto, – Gumma University 1995/2000 high & dance school di Maebashi e Tokyo. teatrofisico
Coreografo, della Cerimonia di Apertura delle Paralimpiadi Invernali di Torino 2006, dello spettacolo Rakam, per la serata di gala del Premio Danza & Danza, dello
spettacolo I-Ching rappresentato in Marocco, Stati Uniti e a San Pietroburgo. Regista degli spettacoli Magister Ludi – Blind – Schneeberg Film e Performance – Medea Good Girl – Un’ora prima del consueto – Lettera d’amore.
Si è specializzato nella tecnica della Contact Improvisation, Real Time Composition e
Authentic Movement con Daniel Lepkoff, Lisa Nelson, Howard Sonenklar, Andrew de L.Harwood (USA), Dieter Heitkamp (Tanzfabrik Berlin), Michael Linehan (CAN), Monica Francia (I). Danceability con Alito Alessi
Crea video e coreografie multimediali.

Skinner Releasing Technique: BE: More flexible, more fluid, more free, more at ease, more energetic, more relaxed, more spacious, more in harmony with yourself.
Come and experience Skinner Releasing Technique. Workshops and classes will introduce you to this meditative movement practice, teaching us how to release old postural habits and experience new ways of moving with efficiency and ease.
Experience creative movement, deep mediation, partner work and body awareness, as part of a fluid day developing a more integrated sense of moving and being.
No dance experience necessary, just a willingness to experience your body in a new way. Introductory series beginning in 2010.

“Nothing I’ve tried has done so much to bring me into physical and spiritual harmony with myself and others.” Student

I felt as free and at ease as I ever have. As if that kind of soft but total awareness, without aggression or fear, is my natural state of being. I felt unabashedly present.” Student


2010 workshop dates:
Ongoing series: 13th-14th March, 17th-18th April, 8th- 9th May, 12th- 13th June, 21st-22nd Aug,18th- 19th Sept, 6th- 7th Nov

March 14 – 28
@ Tokyo (MORISHITA STUDIO); March 14 – 20 (& April 2 – 4)
@ Kobe (studio dB/ Guggenheim House); March 23-28

Teachers
Ray Chung / USA
Michael Schumacher / Holland
Natanja den Boeft / Holland
Yaniv Mintzer / Israel
Sadira Smith/ USA
Chico Katsube / Tokyo
Shoko Kashima / Tokyo

Program
Pre-Festival in Tokyo: March 14

Week 1 in Tokyo: March 15 – 20

Week 2 in Kobe: March 23-28

(Post-Festival in Tokyo: April 2 – 4)

For further information, please check the site below.
http://www.geocities.jp/sholoverfg/festival/cn3/index.html

Celebrate this year’s spring equinox at Earthdance.
Relax, renew, and re-balance by engaging in the play and flow of Contact Improvisation. Reconnect with Mother Nature as the spring growth stirs in the wooded hills of Western Massachusetts. Re-energize with good food, friends, and dancing.

Facilitators: Neige Christenson & Moti Mark Zemelman


Earthdance is an artist run workshop, residency, and retreat center located in the hills of Western Massachusetts. Our facilities include two large and sunny studios with maple floors, meeting space, mediation, and massage rooms, 100 acres of woods, streams, trails, and a wood-fired sauna.

Teachers: Alexis Andrew, Elizabeth MacKinnon and Naomi Sparrow

10:30AM – 5 PM, 1 hour break (5.5 hours).

This workshop will blend the somatic approach of Body-Mind Centering® with
improvised dancing. BMC® is a form of movement therapy that cultivates an
intrinsic knowing of your own body and movement sources. By developing an
anatomical and poetic understanding of our embodiment, we can learn to
move with more ease, awareness, depth and confidence. Moving from the
bones, muscles, organs and fluids as systems, we can work to our strengths
and learn how to give more support to areas that need it. Finding support
gives us the freedom to dance and express ourselves
physically.Participants will develop experience and awareness of their own
dancing as well as their capacity to meet other movers with attention and
aliveness.
Open to all levels of experience.

Am I falling up or down?
Am I standing still or flying?
How and when can I change the direction, shape, tone, duration and speed of a fall?
How can I fall with my partner and continue moving together into a fall and from it?
Can I let myself fall into unknown?

In this workshop we will come to complex things from the simple place. We will observe the complexity of simplicity and other way around. Starting with our own movement, connecting with the floor, we will move on meeting others in the dance. We will work with some tools, and the “invisible” technique, that will bring more precision, consciousness and presence in our movement and dance.

We will discover:
- different ways of safe, but exciting fall;
- moments, when body becomes light when giving weight;
- ongoing movement flow;
- ways to maintain continuous physical contact with partner;
- possibility to let ourselves into not knowing what is going to happen next;
- weird, unknown, unusual body positions;
- something, what is not mentioned in this description…

Our main keys will be: witnessing, listening and following. We will be finding and loosing the balance, leaning and falling into each other, following the gravity and momentum. There will be technical material, as well as space for our personal curiosity, exploration, watching, and pleasure of dance.

We will balance, roll, fall and fly, melt, listen, share and enjoy!

Material developed in the workshop will be presented to the public in an informal showing on the 30th of March.


Julija Melnik

“I love to create a space for awareness, openness, spontaneity, love and joy to happen.
I am happy to share my curiosity and engagement with dance and life and I am glad to encourage people on their way to meet and discover themselves and people around them. When I teach I try to create a safe container for individual exploration of this dance form (CI) and allow the freedom of searching, questioning and enjoying.”

Julija Melnik is leading regular contact improvisation classes, jams and workshops in Lithuania (Vilnius, Kaunas). She has also taught outside of Lithuania (Ukraine, Latvia, Russia, France and USA). Julija is actively participating in International CI festivals, teachers’ conferences and is also organizing CI events in Lithuania: annual CI and Performance Mini-festival since 2007, regional CI teachers’ conference in March ’08, Vilnius CI and Performance Festival ‘09. At the moment Julija is working together with Latvian CI community on the Baltic CI and Performance festival 2010.

Julija has studied contact improvisation with CI pioneers -Steve Paxton and Nancy Stark Smith, and also with Nina Martin, Andrew Harwood, Angela Donii, Joerg Hassman, Charlie Morrissey, Adrian Russi and many others. She is also exploring other improvisational forms and performance, and has studied with Julyen Hamilton, Daniel Lepkoff, Alexander Girshon, Keith Hennessy and others.
Julija often performs in improvisational dance structures or performances at international CI festivals and conferences. The recent dance projects she took part in: Bodies in Urban Spaces with W. Dorner, Stokholm ‘08, Barcelona International Dance Exchange ‘09.

Besides CI, Julija has been teaching street dance for five years. She is also practicing Argentinean tango, house dance, salsa, contemporary dance. At the moment Julija continues her studies in a master’s programme in Dance education at Vilnius pedagogical university.

La asociación Experiencia Danza Badajoz organiza el taller intensivo de Contact Improvisación con Carolina Becker (Argentina)el fin de Semana 27 y 28 de MARZO 2010.

April 1, 2, 3 and 4, 2010

Teachers: Joerg Hassman, Mirva Mäkinen, Thomas Kempe
workshops, jams, scores, labs, performances.
cello and piano music by Barnaby O’Rourke, musician.
Extra workshop with Thomas Kampe, qualified teacher of the Feldenkrais Method.

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ! Adrian Russi (Switzerland) ! :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
April 9-11th :: RIGA :: “Beyond Gravity”
April 16-18th :: VILNIUS :: “Flying&Falling”

BEYOND GRAVITY
Aware of your own centre and the inner axis, connected with the floor and the whole space: this is the very base to get deeply involved in a contact dance that will lead you beyond gravity and into an on-going falling in all directions and into new spheres. With ease and safety and without taking unpredictable risks! Communicating with your partners’ body is one of the key-ingredients, combined with precise movement technique and highly developed body awareness. In a state of alertness, curiosity and with an open intuition, dancers are able to handle surprising moments and make decisions in a split second in order to form the dance in collaboration with the partner and the third something called Contact Improvisation.
In this workshop we will experiment with different movement principles to challenge our body and our range of perception. We will move solo and with partners to meet gravity in a new and creative way. There will be space for free dancing, for verbal exchange and for silence to get a deeper understanding of this dance form and to integrate the new material in your own dancing
Come prepared to have fun, to meet other dancers in a new way and finally to find your own pathway through the dance.

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ADRIAN RUSSI
Adrian Russi is a one of the leading CI-teacher in Switzerland and travelling all over Europe to teach and perform Contact and Free Improvisation. He is deeply involved in CI since 1992 and in the meantime he is dedicating the biggest part of his life to this wonderful dance form.
After his studies of New Dance at “bewegungs-art” in Freiburg/Germany he continued his education with many different teachers, among them Steve Paxton and Nancy Stark Smith who have started to develop CI in the early seventies with a group of other movers.
In his teaching he focuses on the technical aspects of CI (ease, precision and strength) as well as on matters of perception (sensation, connection of inner and outer space, of bottom and top) and on a creativity coming from a distinct body-awareness. For him the pleasure to play, deep engagement in the dance, and respect for others are the basis for gaining the most possible in dancing CI.
As a performer he works with many different international artists and his performances are primarily based on Free Improvisation incorporating Contact Improvisation, dance, dance-theatre, voice and live music. In 2007 he initiated “Moving Men”, a men’s trio with Charlie Morrissey and Jacky Miredin touring with there performance-work all over Europe.
As an organizer of CI-events he is involved in many festivals, jams and teachers-meetings, among them the “Moscow Contact and Performance Festival”
For more information go to www.adrianrussi.com

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INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION:
Inese Auziņa, auzina@gmail.com, t. +371 2 9262198
Organisation: The Association of the Professional dance choreographers in Latvia
http://kontaktpunkts.blogspot.com , http://www.dance.lv


INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION ON A WORKSHOP IN VILNIUS:
Julija Melnik, +370 613 57997, improv_lt@yahoo.com
http://contactimprov.blogas.lt
More about WS in Vilnius: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=329453921786

Katie Duck: „IMPROVISATION“
5 day Intensive Workshop with Katie Duck

WHEN:
Workshop: Monday – Friday, April 12 – 16, 2010, 12 am – 6pm
Performance: Saturday, April 17, 8:30 pm
WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany

(this workshop announcement with links: http://www.schwelle7.de/Katie%20Duck.html
about Katie Duck: http://www.katieduck.com )


Katie Duck has been teaching workshops internationally since the mid 70’s alongside her professional career as a performer and choreographer. She integrates her current research making each workshop completely unique. She draws from her experiences in live performances, music collaborations, as a director and choreographer. She has lead two companies over the past 30 year; Groupo based in Italy – Magpie Music Dance Company based in the Netherlands.

Over the past 10 years her workshops have been titled “Improvisation” in order to emphasis her views on theater as a live art form reflective of how she executes her own professional performances. Her research is placed in practice with lectures containing her recent interest in brain studies and film. (see research materials below – see duck projects).

Katie’s workshops are aimed toward all dancers, performers and musicians. She does not aim to provide a technique or style for how one conducts them-self in a live performance. Her work is relevant for any performance situation without discrimination for levels or performance platforms. She does ask that anyone who chooses to study with her have an intense interest in the work and is willing to experiment and take risks with the material she offers.

Her warm-up and exercises emphasis how the eyes and the ears work in co ordination with movement, sound and exposure to gathered crowds altering our perception of time, space, feelings and emotions. Improvisation sessions revolve around the terms pause, flow, exit, choice and presence with discussions articulating play, memory and intuition.

Her aim is to provide a situation where artists can practice together and grow in confidence toward public performances with an objective to clarify that improvisation not the antitheses of choreography or composition but rather the way choreography and composition can be executed. She promotes to her students that the mental connection to the practice of improvisation can be accessed weather they are doing set or open framed performance pieces and that the definitions of what improvisation within art practices mean today need to be reflective to advances in brain-studies and technology.

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On Saturday, April17 at 8:30 pm, Katie Duck will show the solo performance
PORTRAITS alongside with a piece developed with the participants of the workshop during the week.
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Katie Duck
Born in Oxnard California (1951), Katie Duck is a dancer, choreographer and teacher. She began performing in plays and musicals as a teenager, attended the University of Utah as a modern dance major and then joined the Salt Lake City Mime Troupe touring in the United States and Europe. (1973-6).

She left the United States in 1976 to live in Amsterdam, Holland and toured throughout Europe as a performer in solo productions, in productions with Carlos Traffic, Jango Edwards (friends roadshow) and in improvisations with Amsterdam music artists Ernst Reijseger (cello), Tristan Honsinger (cello), Sean Bergen (sax) and Michael Moore (sax). She changed her name to Katie Duck while touring her first solo in Europe “duck play” in 1976.

In 1979, she moved to Italy where she formed the company GROUPO. She toured through out Europe with her one-hour productions Rutles, The Orange Man, Brown eye Green eye and Mind the gap and participated in free lance improvisation collaborations with Julyen Hamilton, Kristie Simpson and Steve Paxton among others. In 1986 she accepted a senior lecturer position at Dartington College of Arts teaching for the theater department as head of the choreography course. In 1991 she accepted a part time post at the AHK Hooge school voor de kunsten dance departments in Amsterdam teaching movement research, improvisation, composition and technique.

Throughout her career she has worked with music artists who share her passion for live time performance and the integration of music, text and dance within compositions for performance. She has performed in duet and in ensembles with music artists Han Bennik, Andy Moore (the EX) and many others. Katie created the Company Magpie Music Dance Company in 1995-2005 in Amsterdam to reflect her work with improvisations musicians. Magpie toured in Europe, the USA, Asia and Scandinavia and received national funding from 2002-2006 for tours within the Netherlands from the Nederland fonds voor the podimkunsten. In 2006 she evolved Magpie into an umbrella organization, Magpie Umbrella.

Katie has initiated numerous dance and music improvisation on-going events in her three bases Holland, Italy and England. In her current base Amsterdam. Her initiatives include a yearly Improvisation festival at the Frascati Theater (1994-9), a monthly improvisation series at the Fijnhout Theater (1992-3), the Muiderpoort Theater (1994-9), The Melkweg Theater (2000-2001) and OT301 Cultural center (2002-2006).

By 1988 she discovered the internet evolution and created an international focus group for email announcements, a youtube presence with her home videos and continues to encourage artists to build their internet presence as part of their creative work.

She has been organizing workshops in Amsterdam since 1995 at the studio seven in Amsterdam first under the title PIA and now under the title Magpie Umbrella. She presently runs an improvisation summer course and workshop series in Amsterdam and is the tutor and stage coordinator for the SNDO choreography department and improvisation teacher for the Modern Dance department at the AHK Hooge School voor de kunsten. She continues to direct, perform (Duck Projects) and conduct her workshops touring yearly in Asia, the USA, England, Scandinavia and Europe.

Katie Duck: For Reviews //// Writing ///// Archive 2008-9 //// Extended Biography, please go to http://www.schwelle7.de/Katie%20Duck.html

Fee: 200 EUR
registration: xs4jan [at] gmx [ dot] de

SLEEPING: We can host up workshop participants in our special sleeping cocoons in the studio. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person.
More… http://www.schwelle7.de/GAESTE.html



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Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6 HH 1. OG
13357 Berlin/Germany
Phone: 49 (0) 173 – 6118404
http://www.schwelle7.de
Email: info (at) felixruckert.de
TRAFFIC LINK: U8 Pankstraße, U9 Osloer Straße, U9 Nauener Platz, SB Gesundbrunnen, SB Humboldthain, Bus M27 Brunnenplatz
http://maps.google.de/maps?daddr=13357Berlin,+Uferstr+6

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ! Adrian Russi (Switzerland) ! :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
April 9-11th :: RIGA :: “Beyond Gravity”
April 16-18th :: VILNIUS :: “Flying&Falling”


FLYING & FALLING
- from basic skills to first shoulder lifts.
Techniques for flying and falling are often considered to be quite complex and for advanced dancers only. Nevertheless skills for landing softly on the floor and rising up with ease into the upper space can be a theme even in your first class. And as CI is a dance form where the body is constantly listening to gravity and playing with balance and off-balance, flying and falling through the levels and the space is part of your experience from the very first moment you start dancing contact.
That’s one reason why this workshop will start with basic skills and exercises to challenge your perception: to deeply understand that flying high is much more a question of solid basic skills, of sensation and the ability to cleverly organize your body than a complex or even unreachable technique (except for strong men or light women!). You will discover that the main principles are the same whether you are moving quite close to the floor or up on your partners shoulder, the biggest differences being more momentum, more thrill, and starting to flow through the levels as you gain more experience and get into the higher spheres.
My intention is to work with precise movement techniques (solo and with a partner), to offer exercises that will help to differentiate your perception and to open your awareness, to use bodywork for softening not only your body but also your mind, and finally to play with simple improvisation scores and free dancing to integrate the new movements. There will be space for verbal exchange to deepen the understanding of the material and to learn from each other on different levels.
You will probably sweat a lot and have lots of fun while flying and falling through your dances. And hopefully you’ll be looking forward to the next jam to experiment with the full range of flying and falling within its very subtle parts!

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ADRIAN RUSSI
Adrian Russi is a one of the leading CI-teacher in Switzerland and travelling all over Europe to teach and perform Contact and Free Improvisation. He is deeply involved in CI since 1992 and in the meantime he is dedicating the biggest part of his life to this wonderful dance form.
After his studies of New Dance at “bewegungs-art” in Freiburg/Germany he continued his education with many different teachers, among them Steve Paxton and Nancy Stark Smith who have started to develop CI in the early seventies with a group of other movers.
In his teaching he focuses on the technical aspects of CI (ease, precision and strength) as well as on matters of perception (sensation, connection of inner and outer space, of bottom and top) and on a creativity coming from a distinct body-awareness. For him the pleasure to play, deep engagement in the dance, and respect for others are the basis for gaining the most possible in dancing CI.
As a performer he works with many different international artists and his performances are primarily based on Free Improvisation incorporating Contact Improvisation, dance, dance-theatre, voice and live music. In 2007 he initiated “Moving Men”, a men’s trio with Charlie Morrissey and Jacky Miredin touring with there performance-work all over Europe.
As an organizer of CI-events he is involved in many festivals, jams and teachers-meetings, among them the “Moscow Contact and Performance Festival”
For more information go to www.adrianrussi.com

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INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION:
Julija Melnik, +370 613 57997, improv_lt@yahoo.com
http://contactimprov.blogas.lt


INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION ON A WORKSHOP IN RIGA:
Inese Auzina, auzina@gmail.com, +371 2 9262198
http://kontaktpunkts.blogspot.com
More about WS in Riga: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=349514137517

Techniques for flying and falling are often considered to be quite complex and for advanced dancers only. Nevertheless skills for landing softly on the floor and rising up with ease into the upper space can be a theme even in your first class. And as CI is a dance form where the body is constantly listening to gravity and playing with balance and off-balance, flying and falling through the levels and the space is part of your experience from the very first moment you start dancing contact.

That’s one reason why this workshop will start with basic skills and exercises to challenge your perception: to deeply understand that flying high is much more a question of solid basic skills, of sensation and the ability to cleverly organize your body than a complex or even unreachable technique (except for strong men or light women!). You will discover that the main principles are the same whether you are moving quite close to the floor or up on your partners shoulder, the biggest differences being more momentum, more thrill, and starting to flow through the levels as you gain more experience and get into the higher spheres.

My intention is to work with precise movement techniques (solo and with a partner), to offer exercises that will help to differentiate your perception and to open your awareness, to use bodywork for softening not only your body but also your mind, and finally to play with simple improvisation scores and free dancing to integrate the new movements. There will be space for verbal exchange to deepen the understanding of the material and to learn from each other on different levels.

You will probably sweat a lot and have lots of fun while flying and falling through your dances. And hopefully you’ll be looking forward to the next jam to experiment with the full range of flying and falling within its very subtle parts!

ADRIAN RUSSI
Adrian Russi is a one of the leading CI-teacher in Switzerland and travelling all over Europe to teach and perform Contact and Free Improvisation. He is deeply involved in CI since 1992 and in the meantime he is dedicating the biggest part of his life to this wonderful dance form.

After his studies of New Dance at “bewegungs-art” in Freiburg/Germany he continued his education with many different teachers, among them Steve Paxton and Nancy Stark Smith who have started to develop CI in the early seventies with a group of other movers.

In his teaching he focuses on the technical aspects of CI (ease, precision and strength) as well as on matters of perception (sensation, connection of inner and outer space, of bottom and top) and on a creativity coming from a distinct body-awareness. For him the pleasure to play, deep engagement in the dance, and respect for others are the basis for gaining the most possible in dancing CI.
As a performer he works with many different international artists and his performances are primarily based on Free Improvisation incorporating Contact Improvisation, dance, dance-theatre, voice and live music. In 2007 he initiated “Moving Men”, a men’s trio with Charlie Morrissey and Jacky Miredin touring with there performance-work all over Europe.

As an organizer of CI-events he is involved in many festivals, jams and teachers-meetings, among them the “Moscow Contact and Performance Festival”.

CONTACT IMPROVISATION LAB AND JAM!

This coming Saturday from 4-6 (Lab) and 6-8 (Jam)

This weekend will particularly focus on:

A more gentle-contemplative approach to Contact Improv. Starting with a warmup designed to create a safe place in which people feel present in their bodies and tuned into the shared space.
Moving on from this to developing different states in the body. Being bouyant and light, soft and spongey, heavy and weighted.
Working individually on exploring these different states-feeling any nuances and sensations these states create within the body.
This will then lead into finding ways of being in these states while in contact with another person.
Which will act as starting points for new dialogues, ideas, shared between to people.

Come and enjoy the fun!
At Soul – 18 Huia Rd, Titirangi, Auckland.

We are very grateful to those who will be able to spread information about the event in a wide CI-community!

This meeting is the first attempt to create a grand CI-event in Belarus!

“The main idea of the event” – to have enough time and give youreself to the flow of stream. We’ll try provide the most comfortable space, that this flow could test themselves in their various forms pending all the time that we will be together.


We invite you to participate!

Teachers;
Maria Grudskaya – Simple sentences
Julia Melnik – “Invisible” movement technique: presence in body, dance, performance
Michail Kaminskiy – Harmony Contact

Time;
April 23, 24, 25, 2010

Place;
Belarus, Minsk, Bogdanovicha str, 153 b. “Empire of Health" (“Imperia Zdorovia”)

Places are limited!

For all questions and additional information call or write here:
Alex Naporko: luteo4@gmail. com, +375297500495 (мтс)
Vika Ignatenko: reggyv@gmail.com, +375293368950 (velcom)

To register and receive further updates:
Vika Ignatenko: reggyv@gmail.com,

We are waiting for with impatience! Wishing you warm and bright spring!

Teachers: Alexis Andrew & Elizabeth MacKinnon

1PM – 6 PM, .5 hour break (4.5 hours)

This workshop will build beginner and intermediate contact improvisation
skills for more fluid and exciting dancing. We will examine the
underpinnings and safety skills for using momentum and gravity in contact.
We will also leave lots of time for integration through open dancing.
Open to all levels of experience.

A 3-day exploration of the human chemistry in Contact Improvisation

If you're dancing physics, you're dancing contact. If you're dancing chemistry, you're doing something else.
Steve Paxton (1987)

To move within physics is to realize your body. To dance with chemistry is to accept your soul. Combining both could be the most exhilarating thing you have ever done
Touch & Play (2010)

Our web will be up next week with all the details and background information.

Touch & Play Festival
Exploring the human chemistry in Contact Improvisation

Donnerstag, 29. April bis 3. Mai 2010
Ort: Schwelle 7 und Uferstudios
Veranstaltungslink: http://wwwtouchandplay.eu

Touch & Play Festival
5 Tage – 20 Lehrer – 40 Workshops
Das fünftägige Workshop-Festival in Berlin untersucht die „zwischenmenschliche Chemie“ der zeitgenössischen Tanzform „Contact Improvisation“. Mehr als 20 internationale Experten bieten vom 29.4-3.5.2010 in der Schwelle 7 über 40 Workshops an. Anhand verschiedener Körpertechniken und -praktiken können die Teilnehmer erforschen, dass Gefühle und Emotionen Teil des Tanzes sind. Anmeldung unter http://wwwtouchandplay.eu

Contact Improvisation ist ein zeitgenössischer Tanzstil, der sowohl von Amateuren (in Berlin wöchentlich 4 Jams) getanzt wird als auch zur Grundausbildung von Profis zählt. Dabei geht es um die aktive Entdeckung aller Bewegungsmöglichkeiten, die zwei oder mehr menschliche Körper ausführen können (siehe http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_Improvisation ).

Das Festival bietet den Teilnehmern eine große Auswahl von 40 verschiedenen Workshops an, darunter zu den Themen Yoga, Tantra, Massagetechniken und natürlich Contact Improvisation aus diversen Perspektiven. Dafür sind 20 internationale CI-Lehrer und andere Experten eingeladen, darunter Alice Godfroy, Angela Doniy, Anikó Zsófia Überhardt, Daniel Hayes, Daniel Mang, Dieter Heitkamp, Federico Finamore, Felix Ruckert, Irmela Kästner, Jorgos Fokianos, Julie Mona Hunger, Keith Hennessy, Michael Hartenfels, Maren Emde, Mo Herzinger, Norbert Pape, Reka Balogh, Sabine Sonnenschein uvm. Während des Festivals stehen den Teilnehmern zwei kleinere Räume als Open Space für Tanz-Labor-Forschung zur Verfügung.

Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6 HH 1. OG (Nähe Uferstudios)
13357 Berlin – Wedding
http://www.schwelle7.de
Email: info@felixruckert.de
Verkehrsverbindung: U8 Pankstraße, U9 Osloer Straße, U9 Nauener Platz, SB Gesundbrunnen, SB Humboldthain, Bus M27 Brunnenplatz

TOUCH & PLAY FESTIVAL
A 5-day exploration of the human chemistry in contact improvisation

April 29th – May 3rd 2010
Schwelle 7, Berlin / Germany
Further information: http://www.touchandplay.eu


Welcome to the first edition of the Touch&Play Festival. This five-day event will break open Contact’s physicality to touch and play with the human chemistry that lies beneath. Together with 16 different teachers and artists we will be investigating those aspects of CI that are so often taken for granted or shied away from in our jams, classes and communities. We will be looking at the intimacy involved in creating close and improvised physical contact with another person. We will research the impact of emotions on our dances, engage with our hormones and fears, explore our sensuality by bringing our senses into the game, and create a safe and consensual space for people to investigate the place of sexuality in their dance and play.

Festival teachers:
Dieter Heitkamp, Keith Hennessy, Angela Donnie, Felix Ruckert, Daniel Hayes, Mamen Agüera Perez, Julie Mona Hunger, Ali & Krisana, Mo Herzinger, Jorgos Fokianos, Sabine Sonnenschein, Daniel Mang, Federico Finamore, Michael Hartenfels, Philipp Wittulsky, Alice Godfroy, Irmela Kastner, Andrea Keiz, And more…

Dates:
Thursday, April 29th, 6pm: opening circle
Friday – Sunday, May 1-3, 9 – night: workshops, jams, labs, party …

Fee:
Normal registration (until March 31st): 150,-
Late registration (until April 26th): 170,-

Registration starting now: http://www.touchandplay.eu/how/registration/

P.S.: For informal updates and networking visit our new Facebook network website:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=info&ref=ts&gid=251629184517

Location: Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6 HH 1. OG
13357 Berlin/Germany
http://www.schwelle7.de
TRAFFIC LINK: U8 Pankstraße, U9 Osloer Straße, U9 Nauener Platz, SB Gesundbrunnen, SB Humboldthain, Bus M27 Brunnenplatz
http://maps.google.de/maps?daddr=13357+Berlin,+Uferstr+6

Saturday May 1st
1 – 3pm

Saturdays May 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th
2 – 3pm

These jams take place following class at 1pm.

One of the most beautiful summer resorts on the Adriatic Sea is waiting for you!

Sea, sun, nature, poetry and a lot of dance are the ingredients that make up this fantastic Jam at its 6^ edition!

Forget stress and traffic: here you will ride a bicycle or walk to get to the different sites!!

Children are welcome!

Traditionally on Saturday evening we dance poetry!
We will invite local poets to share their work, but please bring your own texts in your language for us to improvise upon if you’d like!
Accommodation in apartments near the park with swimming pool.

Please bring a sleeping bag and a towel.

Schedule: please be there Friday at 6.00pm, the jam will end around 5.30pm on Sunday

More info on the website.

P.O.R.C.H.
Ponderosa.ongoing.research.collaborative.happenings.
P.O.R.C.H.is committed to a mutual exchange between creative professionals and an ongoing dialogue in the field of dance and related forms. We aim to facilitate an artistic international exchange by creating an ongoing network that creates a bridge for our future projects. Check out our main partner in crime, the Alternative Conservatory: (www.la-alternativa.us)
P.O.R.C.H. is guided by a professional team of curators and faculty active in the creative and performance fields from various countries. In 3 one month long modules it presents a diverse training ground for a new or continuing perspective in performance and improvisational life practice.

Training Module May 24-June 20, 2010
Performance Module July 5-25, 2010
Choreographic Module 3 Aug.15-Sept 12, 2010

In collaboration with Kathleen Hermesdorf of The Alternative Conservatory with weekly Guest Teachers: Albert Matthias, Nancy Stark Smith & Mike Bates, Peter Pleyer, Stephanie Maher, Maria Franscesca Scaroni, Dag Andresson, Tove Sahlin, Frank Willins, Keith Hennessy,Pipaluk Supernova, Jen Polins, Saliq Savage.

The program is limited to 20 people. please send a letter of interest and cv.

deutsche Version siehe unten—-


FIND YOUR INNER ROCKSTAR
6 day intensive workshop with PIPALUK SUPERNOVA

WHEN:
Monday, May, 24 to Saturday, May, 29, 2010
Workshop daily from12 am – 6 pm

Saturday, May, 29, 12 am to Sunday, May, 30, 3 am:
15 HOURS PERFORMANCE- CONCERT- EXHIBITION

WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany


FIND YOUR INNER ROCKSTAR
„…do you have conscious or perhaps unconscious fantasies of playing mad electric guitar and screaming “fuck” into a microphone?… an intensive dance, improvisation and music laboratory + performance experiment people : professional artists in the fields of dance, music, theater, performance art, installations time.

For rockstar week Pipaluk is teaching improvisation tools and techniques including vocal training and hands on electric instruments and microphones. Dance work and choreographic tools based on release, contact and improvisation techniques are equally integrated. Pipaluk is exploring an open yet highly intense framework for creating multidimensional performance spaces where both audience and performers are constantly challenged to move into unknown territory. Android Bennet, double bass & electronics the most amazing improviser around, an accomplished classical soloist who is fearless in his approach to developing and sustaining musical improvisation and role play. read more about our work at http://halfmachine.org The specific situaltion at schwelle7 allows to transform / install the whole space during the week.

Pictures of INNER ROCKSTAR workshop November 2007 here:
http://schwelle7.free.fr/rockstar/


PIPALUK SUPERNOVA
Pipaluk (Copenhagen) is choreographer and the artistic guide for the Copenhagen based artist collective HALF MACHINE, creating huge events and multilevel installation pieces in the crossfire between installation artists, dancers, musicians, inventors, programmers, architects and more…She experiments in large scale dynamic installations and group improvisations, where each artist creates freely based on his or her specific interest, yet take part in a defined development or interactive grid. She studied dance, mime, theater and music with many great (and famous) teachers, and toured the world with her own productions in dance, performance and music.
Read more at http://www.pipaluk.net and http://www.halfmachine.org


FEE: 100 Euros

REGISTER
If you wish to participate in this workshop, please write a mail briefly stating your motivation and artistic interest to xs4jan@gmx.de

WEB: http://www.schwelle7.de/Pipaluk%20ENGL.html

SLEEPING:
We can host up workshop participants basic opportunities to stay overnight. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person. More: http://www.schwelle7.de/GAESTE.html

VENUE:
Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6, HH, 1. OG
13357 Berlin – Wedding / Germany
Phone: 49 (0) 173 – 6118404
http://www.schwelle7.de
Email: info@felixruckert.de

Traffic link: U8 Pankstraße, U9 Osloer Straße, U9 Nauener Platz, SB Gesundbrunnen, SB Humboldthain, Bus M27 Brunnenplatz
http://maps.google.de/maps?daddr=13357Berlin,+Uferstr+6



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FIND YOUR INNER ROCKSTAR,
6 Tage Intensiv-Workshop mit PIPALUK SUPERNOVA

WANN:
Montag, 24.Mai bis Samstag, 29. Mai 2010, täglich von 12:00 – 18:00 UHR

Samstag, 29. Mai 12 Uhr, bis Sonntag, 30. Mai, 3 Uhr
15 STUNDEN PERFORMANCE- KONZERT- AUSSTELLUNG – durchgehend geöffnet

WO: Schwelle 7, Berlin

FIND YOUR INNER ROCKSTAR
„…would you like to scream into a microphone and play mad electric guitar while dancing your heart out, do insane theatrical improvisations and writing popsongs…???“

Ein Laboratorium für erfahrene Tänzer, Musiker und Installations-Künstler. Wir konzentrieren uns auf den Prozess von improvisierter Begegnung hin zum Performance Material. Für die beteiligten Künstler wird es darum gehen individuell und kollektiv definierte Experimente zu generieren. In der Zusammenarbeit möchten wir Einblicke erhalten in verschiedene Möglichkeiten von künstlerischer Erfahrung und Kommunikation auf mehreren Ebenen. Wir möchten Fähigkeiten neu definieren und Autorität hinterfragen, in dem wir uns gegenseitig auf kreativen Schlachtfeldern herausfordern, Leer-Räume besetzen und Ideen ans Licht bringen. Der Prozess umfasst tanztechnisches Arbeiten, Musik, elektronische Komposition und Stimmarbeit, aber auch das praktische Gestalten von interaktiven Schaltkreisen und Auslösern wobei Medien und Installationskonzepte zum Einsatz kommen. Die Gruppenarbeiten basieren auf Interesse und professionellen Fähigkeiten.
Die speziellen Gegebenheiten der schwelle7 erlauben es den Raum innerhalb der Woche komplett zu verändern und zu gestalten. Am Samstag /Sonntag wird der Raum dann in einer 15 h Performance bespielt und ausgestellt.

Bilder vom Rockstar-Workshop November 2007 hier: http://schwelle7.free.fr/rockstar/


PIPALUK SUPERNOVA
Pipaluk (Kopenhagen) ist die künstlerische Leiterin des Kopenhagener Kollektivs HALF MACHINE, das große Events und Genre übergreifende Performance-Installationen realisiert, die im Kreuzfeuer zwischen Installations-Künstlern, Tänzern, Musikern, Erfindern, Programmierern, Architekten und anderen entstehen. Pipaluk experimentiert mit dynamischen Großinstallationen und Gruppen-Improvisationen, bei denen jeder Künstler persönlichem Interesse folgend frei arbeiten kann, zugleich aber an einer definierten Entwicklung oder einer interaktiven Partitur beteiligt ist. Sie studierte Tanz, Mime, Schauspiel und Musik mit vielen großen (und berühmten) Lehrern und tourt weltweit mit ihren eigenen Tanz-, Theater- und Musik-Produktionen.
Mehr unter: http://www.pipaluk.net and http://www.halfmachine.org


KOSTEN: 100 EUROS

ANMELDUNG
Bei Interesse am Workshop bitte ein kurzes Schreiben zu Motivation und künstlerischem Interesse an xs4jan@gmx.de

WEB: http://www.schwelle7.de/Pipaluk.html

ÜBERNACHTUNG: siehe http://www.schwelle7.de/GAESTE.html

STUDIO:
Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6, HH, 1. OG
13357 Berlin – Wedding
Phone: 49 (0) 173 – 6118404
http://www.schwelle7.de
Email: info@felixruckert.de

Verkehrsverbindung: U8 Pankstraße, U9 Osloer Straße, U9 Nauener Platz, SB Gesundbrunnen, SB Humboldthain, Bus M27 Brunnenplatz
http://maps.google.de/maps?daddr=13357Berlin,+Uferstr+6

Playa Del Fuego (PDF) (http://www.playadelfuego.org) is a Burning Man Regional Event that happens twice a year with around 1000 attendees. Camp Contact is a regular camp at PDF dedicated to Contact Improv Dance and other movement and dance forms. We have a 30′ in diameter covered dome that we set up and use as our dance space. The space is available for classes and jams. In addition to Contact Improv classes, we’ve hosted Yoga, Modern Dance, Butoh, Ballet, Martial Arts and many others.

Camp Contact is devoted to providing a space for Contact Improvisation and other somatic arts to happen at various festivals and events, specifically Burning Man and related regional events. This consists of providing the organization for participating as a part of a theme camp, to include food and camping areas, kitchen, and other amenities. Classes and workshops for Contact Improvisation are provided during the festival by the camp members and friends, and the remaining time the space is available for open jams and other somatic practices such as Thai massage, acro-yoga, various dance forms and other related activities.

Toronto hosts the annual Ontario Regional Contact Jam:
May 28, 29, 30

Advance registration deadline is this Monday (May 24)
– Last chance to get the whole weekend for $75
– Good time to ask for a Toronto billet host

What, Who, When, Where:
– Contact Improvisation dance jam!
– Beginners and all levels of dance experience welcome
– Introductory workshops and all-levels mentoring
– Starts Friday May 28 at 6:00 pm
– Ends Sunday May 30 at 4:30 pm
– Dovercourt House, 805 Dovercourt Rd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
– Full weekend schedule: http://groups.google.com/group/ontario-region-contact-jam/web/weekend-schedule

All included:
– Shared performances and talent show (see below!)
– Guided warm-ups and workshops
– One-on-one mentoring
– Bodywork and healing arts
– Deejayed dance
– Two floors of contact improv
– Sumptuous food provided throughout the weekend

Cost (all-inclusive):
– $75 (just $3 per hour!) if paid by Monday May 24
– $85 payable on opening day May 28
– Create your own custom package at the door for $5 per hour
– Cheques payable to “Ontario Regional Contact Jam” may be mailed to: 18 Victor Ave, Toronto ON M4K 1A8.
– PayPal: http://tinyurl.com/OntJam65

Billeting:
– Crash in someone’s spare bedroom.
– Contact OntJam2010@contactimprov.ca ASAP

Talent Show:
– We’re having a talent show and other performances.
– Most of the performances slots are available for short (5 minute) spur-of-the-moment ideas right at the jam itself.

Call for Volunteers
– We are looking for people to help out with food prep, etc.
– Please use the contacts below

Contact:
– Inquiries: OntJam2010@contactimprov.ca
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– Web page: http://contactimprov.ca/on/ontario/2010/
– RSVP on Facebook: http://facebook.com/event.php?eid=372045709502

Special guest teacher and DJ: Aaron Brandes (Brando)

Brando has been researching and teaching movement practices for over 10 years. He has taught and performed CI throughout the United States, Europe, Israel, and Guatemala. Brando has been published in the international dance journal Contact Quarterly and was a curator for CI’s 36th anniversary event. Four the past 3 years Brando has been actively engaged in the programming at Earthdance. He was one of the main organizers for the Intercontinental Contact Festival, post CI36, and has facilitated several other major festivals, jams, symposiums, and events at Earthdance. Brando received his Masters Degree in Education from Smith College and is a teaching artist at Enchanted Circle Theater.
He was a resident at the Kripalu Center for Yoga for two years and is a nationally certified Yoga instructor. Currently Brando teaches regularly in Western Massachusetts and holds space for numerous jams. Brando also is a member of the Zany Angels dance/theater company based in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Workshop: Visiting the Fundamentals of Contact Improvisation

We never get BEYOND the fundamentals. We can only aspire to master them.
– Mark Koenig

There are many concepts that are important to learn in this dance technique. Classes are crucial in that they give us all the space to take another drink from the Spring of kinesthetic intelligence and structured exploration. This then supports us to go back to our jams and open structures with new inspiration and perspective on this wonderfully expansive form. In this class we will explore some of the core physical principals of CI such as: our relationship to the floor, gradations of tone, use of gravity, feeling our partner’s structure, and safe falling.

I am also interested in seeing what questions arise through the class.

Some of the key concepts I think are essential in starting a nourishing journey into Contact Improvisation are:
Letting go of holding yourself through tightened muscles and learning the movement principles that lead to fluid and effortless dancing. Exploring how to move through space in several different varieties and gradations of Tone and Weight. Learning to soften your body so that you feel soft and light on another body. Maintaining the integrity of your structure while giving support. Feeling and understanding how your structure can receive support from the floor and from another body, so the dance becomes effortless and nourishing. Rather than getting caught in the ideas of what is supposed to happen, you can learn to pause, listen and open your dance to the endless possibilities in each moment. Learning how going up, falling back, or folding down, can all be easy and connected. Learning to luxuriate in every part of the dance.

(This workshop is open for everybody. The material will be prepared in a way that as well beginners as experienced dancers can profit fully.)

In the five years of their collaboration, co-teaching CI to beginners as well as to professional dancers all over Europe and America, Daniela and Eckhard have been developing a system of basic tools to access and deepen into Contact Improvisation.

In this workshop we will explore the center-periphery connection as a key principle to separate and reconnect the limbs to the center in different ways. Through the action of releasing and activating, reaching and folding, spiraling, etc, we will develop different movement patterns, that will help us to let go from old and inefficient ones to find ease and flow in our own pathways along the floor and through the different levels listening to gravity and momentum.

With more awareness for our own body in motion, we will be ready to connect to our partner’s body and fully commit to the dance, while we stay centered and grounded, as we enter our spherical space.
We will explore the full range of giving and receiving, from light touch (you are responsible for your own weight) to full weight sharing. Through respectful listening and body actions like scanning, sensing, reading, leaning, proposing, following, accepting, resisting, balancing, counter-balancing, etc, we will engage ourselves in an open physical dialog.
Understanding and integrating some of the principles, we will find more trust and freedom in our own body, own movements and in the communication with our partner.

Eckhard Mueller (Germany/France)
co-founder of the Contact Festival Freiburg, is enthusiastically dancing and performing CI since 1988. In his teaching he is playfully searching for depth in the understanding of the form. As a member of Cie dégadezo, he has participated in diverse choreographique dance-theater pieces since 2002.

Daniela Schwartz (Argentina/France)
is involved in the practice, preformance and teaching of CI since 1998. Memeber of Cie dégadezo. As a visual artist, she is interested in the body, space and movement in the present moment as Materia for research, expression and création. Her multiple medias : video, objects, installation are present in her practices.

More info: www.blogas.lt/contactimprov

ARTiculating Presence: The Geometry of Attention
5 day intensive workshop with NITA LITTLE

WHEN:
Monday, May 31th to Friday, June 4th, 2010
Workshop daily from12 am – 6 pm
Improvisational Performance: Friday, June 4th, 8:30 pm

WEB: http://www.schwelle7.de/Nita%20Little.html

WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany


ARTiculating Presence: THE GEOMETRY OF ATTENTION

Creative acts of the embodied mind are the means by which dancers non-verbally interrogate borders, enter other bodies, and define the dimensions of internal and external space. Working with the mind of the dance and the dance of the mind, this highly physical workshop will take us to the edge of our boundary definitions as it engages and trains attentional skills, informs creative knowing and encourages bold acts of physical and mental extension. Building movement vocabularies that encompass the physicality of mind, this workshop trains creative action in ensemble dance improvisation and Contact Improvisation. Strongly geared toward interpersonal interactions within an ecological understanding of space, it will ask that dancers identify imagination within their physical awareness. Here, we will learn to act with the kind of creative support that clarifies our purpose and our presence, bringing the world and the dance to life. We will reach to find the materials of interpersonal non-verbal communication as we explore the agency of presence, the speed of awareness, unconscious cognition, and the conditions of environmental imagination. This workshop bridges full physicality with changing states of awareness. We will move within a spectral array of movement possibilities as we balance the softening of physical release with the clarity of directed action. The purpose of this workshop is to inform your dance research by challenging binary ideologies as we expose the mindbody to new potentialities.

Structured to train technical as well as creative skills, this workshop will build toward an improvisational performance. Each day will be spent in theoretical discussion and physical/mental training as well as composition and practice. In this work we will investigate the resonant webs of awareness derived from movement scores that direct and modulate attention as the bases for compositional structures.


NITA LITTLE
Nita Little choreographs, performs, teaches and writes about improvisational dance and theories of embodiment in action. She participated with Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith and others, in the explorations that became Contact Improvisation in 1972 and has been significant in its emergence. Her work on the embodied mind and the “meaning” of attention dates back to the early 80s when she initiated a curriculum, The Mind in Motion. This work explores the range of experiential states of the embodied mind and reveals principles that define Contact Improvisation as well as ensemble dancing. She collaborated in numerous performing companies introducing Contact Improvisation throughout the United States and then initiated a number of performance groups. Her performance practice is a mix of both formal and improvisational choreography that utilizes scores.

Nita has received funding and support through the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, and the NEA/Dance USA National College Choreography Initiative. Her San Francisco based ensemble company, Divisadero Dance Research investigates the resonant webs of awareness derived from movement scores that direct and modulate attention as the bases for compositional structures.

Over the years Nita has been both faculty and guest artist at numerous colleges and universities including New York University, California Institute for the Arts, Texas Christian University, Temple University, Tufts University, Scripps College and UC Santa Barbara.

Nita teaches and performs regularly at national and international dance festivals including ImPulsTanz, Vienna, The Side Step Festival, Helsinki, Kontakt Budapest International Improvisation Festival, ContactFestival Freiburg, Germany, the Zip Festival, Italy, the Seattle Festival of Alternative Dance and Improvisation and the West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival, Berkeley California. Nita has recently become a PhD candidate as she is completing her doctorate in Performance Studies at The University of California, Davis.

MORE: http://www.nitalittle.com/

FEE: 150 Euro
REGISTER: per email to xs4jan@gmx.de

SLEEPING:
We can host up workshop participants basic opportunities to stay overnight. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person. More options: http://www.schwelle7.de/GAESTE.html

VENUE:
Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6, backyard, 2. floor
13357 Berlin – Wedding / Germany
Phone: 49 (0) 173 – 6118404
http://www.schwelle7.de
Email: info@felixruckert.de

Traffic link: U8 Pankstraße, U9 Osloer Straße, U9 Nauener Platz, SB Gesundbrunnen, SB Humboldthain, Bus M27 Brunnenplatz
http://maps.google.de/maps?daddr=13357Berlin,+Uferstr+6

5 day intensive workshop with João Fiadeiro

WHEN:
Monday-Friday, June 7-11th, 2010
Workshop daily from12 am – 6 pm
Participants Performance: Saturday, June 12th, 8:30 pm

UPDATES: http://www.schwelle7.de/Joao%20Fideiro.html
FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=116287441743897
WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany


[k]NOB O D Y / A workshop on creativity, improvisation and composition in processes of choice, decision and collaboration

According to Giorgio Agamben the “I would prefer not to…” from Bartleby keeps “possibility suspended between occurrence and non-occurrence, between the capacity to be and the capacity not to be.”[« Bartleby, or On Contingency » in Potentialities: collected essays in philosophy, by Giorgio Agamben, Daniel Heller-Roazen] This in-betweenness is the “play-ground” of the Real Time Composition method. Only from “here” I can recognize and “capture” that little fragment of reality which will unfold, simultaneously, into the future and into the past. And in it I can find the “remains” of something that was left behind, that which was forgotten (for there is no perfect crime). This “fragment” is what lies between the body and “the presence of the other in the body”, a permanent escape towards things that are not yet, towards things that might be(come). The main goal of the “Real Time Composition” method is to put the practician in the position of “mediator” and “facilitator” of the events, blocking his temptation to impose himself by means of the will or the ability to manipulate them. His only “creative act”, should there be any, amounts to the mastery with which he handles the tension, the balance and potential of the material he is dealing with and letting things happen “by themselves” (…they always do).

Workshop frame and participants
The field and context in which this method was design is art and contemporary dance. But this work is extremely influenced by areas of research like the cognitive sciences, neurosciences, complex systems sciences, design thinking, diverge thinking and so on… Also, this work makes no distinction between practice and theory, acting and observing, thinking and saying… every action is “doing” (even when one decides not to). Anyone interested in this cross-boundary approach and is working within areas of research dealing with tags like “decision-making”, “self-organization”, “creativity”, “embodiment”, “community”, “composition”, “improvisation” or “representation” is welcome to participate in this introduction to the Real Time Composition method.


JOÃO FIADEIRO
João Fiadeiro (1965) belongs to the generation of choreographers that emerged towards the end of the 1980s and who gave rise, in the sequence of the American post-modern movement as well as the movements of the French and Belgian Nouvelle Danse, to the Nova Dança Portuguesa [New Portuguese Dance]. A large part of his formation was carried out between Lisbon, New York and Berlin, after which he joined the Dance Company of Lisbon (86-88) and the Gulbenkian Ballet (89-90). In 1990 he founded RE.AL, a centre for research and artistic residencies, which not only constitutes the basis for the creation and diffusion of his work but also hosts transdisciplinary events and supports emergent artists by organizing laboratories and artistic residencies. He regularly teaches and present is works across Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia and South America. In his research he argues for a practice of awareness in an extremely reflexive manner, focusing on decision making in performance. He is also interested to contaminate other areas of research with his thoughts and know-how in order to contribute to a broaden discussion between art, science and society.

MORE: http://www.re-al.org/

FEE: 150 Euro
REGISTER: per email to xs4jan@gmx.de

SLEEPING:
We can host up workshop participants basic opportunities to stay overnight. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person. More options: http://www.schwelle7.de/GAESTE.html

VENUE:
Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6, backyard, 2. floor
13357 Berlin – Wedding / Germany
http://www.schwelle7.de
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=286059761953

Traffic link: U8 Pankstraße, U9 Osloer Straße, U9 Nauener Platz, SB Gesundbrunnen, SB Humboldthain, Bus M27 Brunnenplatz
http://maps.google.de/maps?daddr=13357+Berlin,+Uferstr+6

It’s on again: The Australian Contact Improvisation Convergence, or ACIC, or just The Convergence – we’re Australian, we don’t mind what you call it, just as long as you come and dance!

Registrations now open
acic10, the important details:

Queens Birthday Weekend 2010
Thursday Afternoon 10th – Monday after Lunch 14th June.
Lake Ainsworth, Lennox Head (NSW)

acic10 will once again be held in the idyllic location of Lake Ainsworth Sports and Recreation Centre, in Lennox Head, NSW. 5 days of residential Dancing, Labbing and Jamming right on the beach. Woo hoo!
Put the dates in your 2010 diary now!

For any urgent queries, don’t hesitate to contact us.

Other news:
This year there will again be a smaller hall booked in the Byron area for some of Tue & Wed immediately before acic10 – for anyone arriving early, this will be a very informal space to meet, relax & dance – accommodation, food,and transport will be your own responsibility.

And don’t be afraid to get involved – share with us your ideas about acic10 and contact us about ways you can help out!

With excitement,
The acic10 team.

Class and Jam
4 Week Series introducing the fundamentals of Contact Improvisation Dance. Come learn a new way to move with another, then practice your skills in the jam.

The classes will focus on the way to use the body in contact for movement efficiency improvement and embodiment.

No partner or previous dance experience required! Just come with an open mind and a willingness to move your body. Wear loose, comfortable clothing.

Sundays 5pm-7pm
class followed by practice jam at 7pm

June 13th
June 20th
July 4th
July 11th

(NO CLASS June 27th)

The Singing Soul: Improvisational A Cappella
5 day intensive workshop with David Hatfield

WHEN:
Monday, June 14th to Friday, 18th, 2010
Workshop daily from12 am – 6 pm
Participants Performance „The Singing Soul“: June 18th, 8:30 pm

UPDATES: http://www.schwelle7.de/David%20Hatfield.html
FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126038497408455
WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany


WORKSHOP: The Singing Soul: Improvisational A Cappella

A Swingin’ Swayin’ Funk Bump Afro Gospel Sacred Soulful Blues Chant Jam Feelin’ Hi Mash-up

“Goes to unforeseen destinations of hilarity, weirdness, extraordinary harmony, & transcendence.”

The Singing Soul is spontaneous, in-the-moment singing, the unveiling of our very uniqueness in melody, harmony and rhythm…our stories, in words, and beyond them. It’s for those who are ready to let go of “getting it right” and to embrace letting it just happen. Unrehearsed singing evokes the genuine and soulful voice. By turns edgy, hilarious, challenging, and deeply moving, each moment is an original composition that is unrehearsed, precious and irreplaceable. And as fate would have it, it’s also profoundly fun! There’s no wrong notes and nothing to memorize, just breathe and sing…ahh. This utterly experiential course is a powerful experience of improvised music making and of being alive and present. A wide variety of clearly outlined structures are offered, for the full group, small groups, duets and soloing; each of which generates different experiences and outcomes. Sessions are punctuated with pauses to process our learnings together. Participants will hone the arts of the improviser: deep listening, spontaneous expression, fluid awareness of self and others, working with change, and trusting intuition. You’ll strengthen your abilities as a vocal musician in creating melodies and harmonies, laying down vocal percussion grooves and bass lines, and gelling with others in creating freewheeling counterpoint that just begs a soloist – then becoming that too! Experience new roles and genres in your music-making. The synergy of improvisation inspires and empowers as singers discover utterly new terrain vocally, musically, and expressively.

Statement on „The Singing Soul“ – Performance
The Singing Soul: Improvisational A Cappella is a vehicle for authentic expression, creative collaboration, and empowerment. Improvisation is an expression, a necessity, a liberation, and a homecoming, reminding us that each moment holds a hundred possibilities. Participants in The Singing Soul workshop share their process and sounds and in doing so, evoke our shared sense of humanity, adventure and connectedness. The line between audience and performer disappears repeatedly as roles switch and music comes alive in everyone present.


DAVID HATFIELD
David Hatfield is a singer, leadership consultant and facilitator specializing in creativity, communication and masculinity. He has taught The Singing Soul internationally since 1997. http://www.davidhatfield.ca/bio.php


FEE: 150 Euro
REGISTER: per email to xs4jan@gmx.de

SLEEPING:
We can host up workshop participants basic opportunities to stay overnight. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person. More options: http://www.schwelle7.de/GAESTE.html

VENUE:
Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6, backyard, 2. floor
13357 Berlin – Wedding / Germany
http://www.schwelle7.de
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=286059761953

Traffic link: U8 Pankstraße, U9 Osloer Straße, U9 Nauener Platz, SB Gesundbrunnen, SB Humboldthain, Bus M27 Brunnenplatz
http://maps.google.de/maps?daddr=13357+Berlin,+Uferstr+6

Please come to our Ponderosa Annual Contact Jam and the official beginning of the TanzLand festival! We are celebrating 10 years of wild and beautiful dancing in a wild and beautiful landscape. Guided warm ups, lots of open dancing with and without music, fabulous food and birthday cakes, and a workshop for those new to the form of contact improvisation. We hope to see you there. With special guest Nancy Stark Smith leading the Global underscore.
Stolzenhagen (north of Berlin), Germany
June 18-20, 2010.

We will begin this years festival with the annual Ponderosa Contact Jam with special guest Nancy Stark Smith leading the global underscore, followed by 3 different blocks of intensive workshop weeks of various guest teachers such as Keith Hennessy, Jonathon Burrows, K.j. Holmes, Bruno Caverna, Offering the art of improvisation, performance making and embodied multi-media techniques. Our Retreat & Training week is open to all levels and we have another year to research and celebrate the form of contact improvisation with ci38.

THE MOVING PERFORMER
Performing Arts Summer Intensive 21- 25 June 2010
London metropolitan university

This week long course offers an exciting opportunity to study cutting edge movement approaches towards performance training with leading international practitioners. All three classes offered are suitable for professionals and students with an interest in movement and performance. The course can be taken in full or separately as per below.

10-12am Thomas Kampe: Feldenkrais Method and the Expressive Body

13.30- 15.30pm Kathy Crick: Contact Improvisation and Partnering Skills

16.00-18.00pm Rahel Vonmoos: Body-Mind-Centering and Performance Composition

18.00-20.00 Opportunities to use studio spaces for individual research and rehearsals

DANCING SCREENS
5 day intensive workshop with Tomi Paasonen

WHEN:
Monday-Friday, June 21-25th, 2010
Workshop daily from11 am – 6 pm
Participants Performance: Friday, June 25th, 8:30 pm

UPDATES: http://www.schwelle7.de/Tomi%20Paasonen.html
FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=117078918328650
WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany

Morning class 11am – 2pm: Improvisation

Mr Paasonen’s improvisational techniques are based on studying laws of physics and neurology, using gravity, momentum, energy effi ciency, residual vs essential, peripheral vs central movement concepts and other coordinational rules to regulate where impulses of movement are derived from and where they can lead. Incorporating imagination, memory and cognitive tools his techniques are used as means to expand the possibility of any preconceived technique. In this intensive, students will experiment with Mr. Paasonen’s task-based improvisation and his approach to cultivating original material.


Afternoon class 3-6 pm: Amplify

Explore various possibilities within the concepts, techniques and ways live video,choreography and dance can be seamlessly integrated into one another and feed each other creatively. Learn how to shape “the now” by composing the analogue and digital eye, layering information using one camera and one projector as choreographic objects to instigate new movement approaches.

Tomi Paasonen has created numerous productions and concepts involving the relationship between dance and live video installations. Related videos:
http://www.paasonen.com/static/video/PRESENTATION.mov
http://www.paasonen.com/static/video/DIDREEL.mov
http://www.paasonen.com/static/video/ETC…mov
http://www.paasonen.com/static/video/waisen.mov


TOMI PAASONEN:
Tomi Paasonen is a Berlin-based director, choreographer, video artist and photographer, born in Helsinki, Finland. He founded KUNST-STOFF, an inter-disciplinary physical theatre and arts-event production company in San Francisco, before moving to Berlin launching PAA (Public Artistic Affairs) expanding his dance-, opera-, film and photo works to involve documentary layers. Numerous Berlin-based productions stage productions have concentrated on theme-specific improvisation methods and the relationship of live video installations and the performer. His theatrical installations often break the spacial separation of audience and stage and currently his work is increasingly dealing with interactive structures, giving the spectator more power to intervene and shape the event.

MORE: http://www.paasonen.com

FEE: 150 Euro
REGISTER: per email to xs4jan@gmx.de

SLEEPING:
We can host up workshop participants basic opportunities to stay overnight. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person. More options: http://www.schwelle7.de/GAESTE.html

VENUE:
Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6, backyard, 2. floor
13357 Berlin – Wedding / Germany
http://www.schwelle7.de
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=286059761953

Traffic link: U8 Pankstraße, U9 Osloer Straße, U9 Nauener Platz, SB Gesundbrunnen, SB Humboldthain, Bus M27 Brunnenplatz
http://maps.google.de/maps?daddr=13357+Berlin,+Uferstr+6

quattro giorni di piacevole immersione nella creatività con contact improvisation, improvvisazione, performance, jam con musica dal vivo
four days of pleasant immersion in the creative world of contact improvisation, improvisation, music, performance, jam with live music

presso/at TEATRO DELLA LIMONAIA via Gramsci, 426 – Sesto Fiorentino (FI)

I workshop
:: 22 – 25 giugno/june – h. 16.30 – 20.00
lab. intensive / intensive workshop CONTACT IMPROVISATION
Scott Smith (USA):
materiale per l’esplorazione fisica e percettiva del movimento verso il contatto
material for movement – cultivating physical and perceptual embodiment towards contact

:: 22 – 23 giugno/june – h. 10.00 – 12.30
lab. IMPROV. DANZA/MUSICA
Alessandro Certini + Steve Noble (UK batteria/drums):

:: 24 – 25 giugno/june – h. 10.00 -12.30
lab. CONTACT IMPROVISATION
Charlotte Zerbey:

:: 24 giugno/june – h. 15.30 -16.30
classe/class DISEGNO ACUSTICO / ACOUSTIC DESIGN
Francesco Michi, Mechi Cena:

:: 25 giugno/june – h. 15.30 -16.30
classe/class PAESAGGIO SONORO / SOUND LANDSCAPE
Massimo Liverani:

:: 25 giugno/june – h. 13.30 -15.00
RIEMPIRE E SVUOTARE / FULL AND EMPTY
Daniela Gallo: classe/class

ogni sera / evenings :
h. 20.00 Cena, bibite / dinner, drinks a pagamento/for a fee

h. 21.00 – 21.30 spettacoli / performances con/with:
danza/dance: Cristina Rizzo, Claudia Catarzi, Paola Lattanzi, Mario Ghezzi, Alessandro Certini, Margherita Landi, Carolina Amoretti, Cristina Negro
musica/music: Steve Noble (batteria/drums), Filippo Monico (batteria / drums), Massimo Liverani (i phone), Charlotte Zerbey (danza e voce/dance and voice), Scott Smith (danza e banjo / dance and banjo)

h. 21.30 – 23.30 Open Jam Contact Improvisation

quattro giorni di piacevole immersione nella creatività con contact improvisation, improvvisazione, performance, jam con musica dal vivo
four days of pleasant immersion in the creative world of contact improvisation, improvisation, music, performance, jam with live music

presso/at TEATRO DELLA LIMONAIA via Gramsci, 426 – Sesto Fiorentino (FI)

I workshop
:: 22 – 25 giugno/june – h. 16.30 – 20.00
lab. intensive / intensive workshop CONTACT IMPROVISATION
Scott Smith (USA):
materiale per l’esplorazione fisica e percettiva del movimento verso il contatto
material for movement – cultivating physical and perceptual embodiment towards contact

:: 22 – 23 giugno/june – h. 10.00 – 12.30
lab. IMPROV. DANZA/MUSICA
Alessandro Certini + Steve Noble (UK batteria/drums):

:: 24 – 25 giugno/june – h. 10.00 -12.30
lab. L’ARTE DI CADERE/ THE ART OF FALLING, CONTACT IMPROV.
Charlotte Zerbey:

:: 24 giugno/june – h. 15.30 -16.30
classe/class DISEGNO ACUSTICO / ACOUSTIC DESIGN
Francesco Michi, Mechi Cena:

:: 25 giugno/june – h. 15.30 -16.30
classe/class PAESAGGIO SONORO / SOUND LANDSCAPE
Massimo Liverani:

:: 25 giugno/june – h. 13.30 -15.00
RIEMPIRE E SVUOTARE / FULL AND EMPTY
Daniela Gallo: classe/class

ogni sera / evenings :
h. 20.00 Cena, bibite / dinner, drinks a pagamento/for a fee

h. 21.00 – 21.30 spettacoli / performances con/with:
danza/dance: Cristina Rizzo, Claudia Catarzi, Paola Lattanzi, Mario Ghezzi, Alessandro Certini, Margherita Landi, Carolina Amoretti, Cristina Negro
musica/music: Steve Noble (batteria/drums), Filippo Monico (batteria / drums), Massimo Liverani (i phone), Charlotte Zerbey (danza e voce/dance and voice), Scott Smith (danza e banjo / dance and banjo)

h. 21.30 – 23.30 Open Jam Contact Improvisation

A weekend of CI workshops (Thursday evening through Sunday morning) including CI Essentials as well as deeper investigations into the form. Consider this festival a great preparation for the July 4th Jam! Classes with different teachers from around the country, many of whom attended the CITE conferenc (CI in the Academy held at Connecticut College (June 17 – 20, New London, CT)).

Serving as a bridge between the focus of CI in the Academy discussed at CITE and the upcoming July 4th Jam, which holds a focus upon the community practice of CI, Ground Research offers a rich opportunity to explore the intersections of how Contact Improvisation is taught, practiced, and experienced.

June 24 (Thu. evening) – June 27 (Sun. afternoon)

Weekend Only or Single Day Attendance Options also

Falling Into the Festival
A workshop in Contact Improvisation

Every day we are falling. When we stand, when we walk, when we lie-down, when we fall asleep… Still, and especially in contact improvisation, falling is a big mystery. Only rarely we can really let go and fall – in the space, to the floor, to our partner – effortless and free, but awake.

In this workshop we will experience and play with the physical forces that act upon us – alone and together – and especially gravity which leads to falling and the momentum that is created.

We will explore the emotional and physical states and possibilities that these forces open for us, we will look for relaxation and awakeness when we dance – with space in our joints to ride the opportunities as they appear, and space in our minds to recognize and enjoy these moments – we will look for appreciation for the dance that arises.

Each day will start with soft close-to-the-floor fine-tuning of the body/mind. We will then take the quality we create as well as using some detailed exercises, into contact improvisation – dancing and jamming.

Lior Ophir (Israel) is a Dancer, Improviser, Shiatsu therapist, Engineer, Teacher, Student.

Lior practices and explores various forms of movement, dance, body/mind and awareness, including: Improvisation, Contact Improvisation, Butoh, Shiatsu Therapy, Yoga, Vipassana Meditation, Tai-Qi, Qi-Kong. Some influential teachers include Arye Burstein, Nancy Starks-Smith, Yoshito Ohno, Frey Faust, Juan Cruz Diaz, Julian Hamilton, and many others, and especially everyone I have a chance to share a dance with.
Lior has been performing in solo works as well as in collaborations with various artists, in theaters, galleries and in the public space, in Israel and abroad.

Lior Has been invited to teach and perform in numerous festivals and projects in Israel, Japan, throughout Europe, and America, and has been extensively teaching workshops and classes worldwide. Lior has co-founded and is a member of several ensembles and dance collectives including “present moment dance” and “Impulse” (Israel) and co-organized the 7th ICF (Israeli CI festival) and the 1st Impulse festival (for Improvisation in word, movement, music) in Israel. Lior is currently a traveling artist, teaching and performing throughout Europe, Japan, America.

My current interests are:
- Improvisation as performance art – how can I fill an empty space? How can I fine-tune myself as performer to get closer to the “human-string” that vibrates in all of us?
- Contact improvisation as performance art and exploring the physical aspects of CI
- Answering the question: “What do I teach when I teach CI?” or just asking the question…
- Finding a home inside me while being a nomad
- Performance in public spaces / site-specific work
- In the last year and a half, I have been exploring “falling” – as a dancer, as a teacher, as a human being. Giving numerous workshops on this subject, and always learning how little I know, and how vast and deep this subject is, how much there is still to discover.

DAILY SCHEDULE:
25 June / friday 17:00-21:00;
26 and 27 June/ sat, sun 10:00 – 16:00

Details TBA

X-Event Creation
5 day intensive workshop with Annie Vigier and Franck Apertet (les gens d’Uterpan)


WHEN:
Monday-Friday, June 28 – July 2, 2010
Workshop daily from12 am – 6 pm
Participants Performance: Saturday, July 3th, 8:30 pm

UPDATES: http://www.schwelle7.de/LesGensdUterpan.html
FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=117341598304961
WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany


X-EVENT CREATION

The work Annie Vigier and Franck Apertet (les gens d’Uterpan) develop uses performance as a reference. They use the dancer as a medium to bring he or she towards a broader definition of the performer. Their productions enact excess and provide a critique of scenic and theatrical conventions. Their work is produced and presented in both the fine arts and dance networks. http://www.lesgensduterpan.com

The educational work that the choreographers propose has a direct connection to their X-Event creations but is also open to other experimentation. On this level the work radicalises the person in terms of their presence, their prospective aptitudes as well as their capacity to confront different forms of exhibition. It is approached in the form of successive workshops. The sessions are designed according to the group involved and the physical and contextual levels of experimentation it can attain. The work pays particular attention to the group and to the transgression of space as a vector of innovative confrontation.
Each session plays upon an accepted consciousness of the choreographer. This realisation makes the dancer accept to act according to the orders her or she has been given, which shifts the framework and functioning of his or her responsibility as a performer.

Participation in the workshops requires a great deal of dedication, audacity and capitulation. It relies on the sensitive and concrete experience of one’s body as a physical and social tool. A tool for exploration as well as confrontation. An individual testing of one’s limits.

A session lasts a minimum of three hours
Ideal number of participants : 15


BIOGRAPHIES :
Annie Vigier is born in 1965 and Franck Apertet in 1966. They live and work in
Paris. Under the generic title Les gens d’Uterpan, they have developed creations
focusing on experimentation. The body and the relations between interprets and
public are thought through the exhibition frameworks, the context and the
architectural space. Annie Vigier and Franck Apertet collaborate regularly to
projects which put in situation the image of the body and its physicality (theatre,
cinema, advertising, fashion).
Since September 2008, Annie Vigier and Franck Apertet (les gens d’Uterpan) are in
residency at the Centre d’Art Contemporain of Brétigny. www.cacbretigny.com


FEE: 150 Euro
REGISTER: per email to xs4jan@gmx.de

SLEEPING:
We can host up workshop participants basic opportunities to stay overnight. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person. More options: http://www.schwelle7.de/GAESTE.html

VENUE:
Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6, backyard, 2. floor
13357 Berlin – Wedding / Germany
http://www.schwelle7.de
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=286059761953

Traffic link: U8 Pankstraße, U9 Osloer Straße, U9 Nauener Platz, SB Gesundbrunnen, SB Humboldthain, Bus M27 Brunnenplatz
http://maps.google.de/maps?daddr=13357+Berlin,+Uferstr+6

Kontakt Budapest is an annual International Improvisation Festival that has been organized since 2002 and it is open for people with all abilities. This year we have a special addition of our festival where we invite Hungarian artists, teachers from all over the world and of course those who live and work in Hungary. The teacher staff includes Vicky Shick from New York, Tal Avni from Israel, Szilágyi Ilka from San Francisco, Farkas Dorka from Romania, Kéri Judit from Vienna, amongst many others. Our special guest is Peter Pleyer. Although Peter has no Hungarian roots, he has been involved in the festivals from its begings and has been a great support for the over all directions of the festival. The festival, similar to last years, organizes classes and workshops, it offers space to research and explore movements, to work deeply with different aspects of improvisation and it gives possibility to perform.

The festival welcomes beginners and professional dancers, performers, actors, musicians, composers, and those working with improvisation for long.

2nd > 17th of July 2010 in Cappadocia, Turkey

WORKSHOPS

Contact-Improvisation and Improvised Music & Dance
in the beautiful Cappadocia region, twice listed as world heritage by UNESCO.

‘States of Grace’
Nancy Stark Smith & Mike Vargas
2 > 9 July 2010 in Cappadocia
Fee 450 €
includes: full board and 1 way bus ride Istanbul – Cappadoccia on the 30/07.


‘Active Listening’ – Improvised Music & Dance
Kirstie Simson & Lê Quan Ninh
12th > 17th of July 2010 in Cappadocia
Fee 350 €
includes:full board and 1 way bus ride Cappadocia – Istanbul on the 18/08


Fee for both workshops 750€
includes:full board, full access to all performances and jams from 1/08 to 17/08 and 2 ways bus ride Istanbul – Cappadocia


ALSO PERFORMANCES, JAMS, SCREENINGS, PANELS


Deadline for registration 30th May 2010

Held by Anthony Trahair This intensivo seminar starts the day working with the body and the breath through Yoga exercises moving towards meditation.
The part dedicated to Physical Theatre will be focusing on the comic and playful aspects taking us to dance in the joy of discovery just like children.

Anthony was born in the UK and currently lives in Rome. He practices and studies a Classical Yoga constantly and with passion for the last 12 years, dance Contact Improvisation for 10 years, and between 2003-2006 studied intensely and full time at the Dimtri Theatre School http://www.teatrodimitri.ch/scuola/?lang=en – Academy of Physical Theatre.

Maximum number of participants 14.

Lodgings in a common sleeping space or bring your own tent!The beautiful work room,a refurbished old barn is surrounded by splendid woods in the Toscan Apennines and offers spectacular and uncontaminated views.

Facilitated by Edie Weinstein, Certified Cuddle Party Facilitator

Immerse yourself in a heart opening, fun frolicking, relationship enhancing, friendship creating, community building, soul satisfying, skin hunger feeding workshop that will have a positive impact on your life. Cuddle Party is a 3 1/2 experience that has (no pun intended:) touched many thousands of people worldwide. Be one of ’em To register, go to www.cuddleparty.com

RE-EDUCATION OF THE BODY – Klein Technique as taught by Barbara Mahler
5 day intensive workshop with Barbara Mahler

WHEN:
Monday-Friday, July 12-16, 2010
Workshop daily from 11:30 am – 6 pm
morning class 11:30am-2:00pm (break 2:00-3:30pm) afternoon class 3:30-6:00pm
Participants Performance: Friday, July 16th, 8:30 pm

UPDATES: http://www.schwelle7.de/Barbara%20Mahler.html
FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118023768236744
WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany

RE-EDUCATION OF THE BODY – Klein Technique as taught by Barbara Mahler

In the morning portion of this workshop we will focus on a movement technique that works with the premise that the requirements of movement in daily life and dance are essentially the same, and will provide the underpinnings to support all styles of movement/technique and improvisation. The purpose of the “stretch and placement” class is to re-educate one’s body with an interweaving of theory and practice on a physical, intellectual, and organic level. The result is a clarity and sureness of movement, and a new level of understanding the innate intelligence of the body. It has its roots in 30 plus years of investigating and teaching the essentials for efficient body use. We work at the level of the bone, not the traditional level of the muscles. In order to move most efficiently it is necessary to let go of the muscles that hold us back from moving and fix the body into a set and locked configuration. When the bones are aligned we become connected, powerful and strong. The body becomes efficient and alive.

In the afternoon class we will focus on the practice of the principles explored in the morning, working with improvisation and movement exploration, leading us towards the formulation of an informal performance/showing. The movement will be created by the participants of the workshop. One of the ideas we will work with are various initiations in the body to better facilitate movement sequencing, becoming both grounded and free. As the work also focuses on helping each individual student work with their own body structure we will enjoy both a consistency and surprise in the our movement.

The workshop will culminate in a showing/performance on Friday, July 16th at 8:30 pm with a solo dance „Dance on scatterings“ – performed by Barbara Mahler and a group piece with the students.


BARBARA MAHLER

Barbara Mahler has taught daily classes for 27 years plus, educating and teaching (with, and inspired by, Susan Klein) a generation of dancers. She has traveled extensively around the globe, teaching/performing/choreographing, widely respected and. active in the development contemporary dance technique. Essentially self-taught, she brings to her classes the perspective, understanding and experience of working on her own movement re-education. Barbara was a Movement Research artist in residence for the 2000-01 and 2006-08 season, is a movement consultant at Hunter College, NYC, and is on the artist advisory board of BAX. She is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the University Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She also maintains a private practice in Zero Balancing and other healing modalities.

“Mahler, a noted teacher, views dance training as a voyage of self-discovery. Barbara Mahler roots her choreography in distillation, as if she aims to extract the essence of her ideas, making them calmer and purer. The image is that of a seesaw in perfect, unwavering equilibrium, a woman at ease in control.”(Village Voice 2007)

MORE: http://www.barbaramahler.net


FEE: 150 Euro
REGISTER: per email to xs4jan@gmx.de

SLEEPING:
We can host up workshop participants basic opportunities to stay overnight. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person. More options: http://www.schwelle7.de/GAESTE.html

VENUE:
Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6, backyard, 2. floor
13357 Berlin – Wedding / Germany
http://www.schwelle7.de
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=286059761953

Traffic link: U8 Pankstraße, U9 Osloer Straße, U9 Nauener Platz, SB Gesundbrunnen, SB Humboldthain, Bus M27 Brunnenplatz
http://maps.google.de/maps?daddr=13357+Berlin,+Uferstr+6

An intermediate level workshop
in Compositional and Contact Improvisation
with ANDREW de Lotbinière HARWOOD and PAULA ZACHARIAS

This workshop is intended to immerse participants in the practice of dance improvisation in a stimulating and supportive environment. Two complementary approaches to improvisation and composition will be explored in this workshop with Paula Zacharias and Andrew Harwood. The sensorial field of perception, which awakens and “tunes” the imagination while improvising will be combined with the physically interactive and spontaneous duet form “contact”, based on instinct and touch. Bodywork will complement the proceedings. Paula and Andrew have been touring internationally teaching and performing together over the past 18 months in Canada, the U.S.A., Australia, South America, Mexico and six countries in Europe.

Please join the face book Facebook group;
TUNING INTO CONTACT London Workshop. July 12th-16th

Festival structure:
July 17 – Teachers performance in Theatre of THE MEYERHOLD CENTRE. Participants are invited free of charge!
July 18 – participants arrival and registration, festival opening. Jam
July 20-21-22 – first three days of intensives, classes and performance research labs.
July 23 – day off, discussions with teachers and evening OPEN JAM.
July 24-25 – intensives and classes resume, closing circle on 25th night.
July 26 – good-bye jam and departure of participants.

Special guest and Intensive teacher – Nancy Stark Smith (USA)!!!;

If you would like to get a discount for participation – you should register before 10th of June 2010. We will find you where to stay on 17th night after teachers performance, please come on 17th!

Intensive Workshops with RAY CHANG and MARTIN KEOGH

17 to 30 July 2010

With 30 years experience in teaching Contact Improvisation, this is a exciting opputuntity to learn from some the best teachers of CI in the world.

Martin Keogh and Ray Chung bring distinct and complementary approaches to the Contact form.
Working 6 hours a day in three 4-day subject-specific sets. This three week training allows the group to establish working relationships, and provides the opportunity for everyone to create significant changes in their dancing.

370 EUR- includes the Intensive Workshops + accommodation

BOOK NOW for intensive workshops

For more information please vist:
www.polandcontactfestival.com

With love,

The Poland Contact Impro Team.

A week-long workshop of movement meditation and contact improvisation, including daily optional sessions of laughter yoga, meditation, morning pages and relaxed evening entertainment. Heated outdoor pool, art studio with paper and paints provided, in a beautiful natural forest. Walk down to the village, swim in the lake, look out for wild deer, explore, experiment and drink in exactly what you need.

“You will find a shared centre, giving and receiving weight, support and trust. You will dance in and out of contact freely, moving curiously through moments between the known and the unknown. We will work indoors and outside, on land and in water, in the Scandinavian summer sunlight.”

TRANS-CONTACT – 5th International Contact Improvisation Festival (Cluj-Napoca) brings together professional movers (dancers, actors, choreographers) as well as non-professional movers to explore Contact Improvisation in an intensive week of workshops, research, discussions and jams led by internationally acclaimed coaches. It is a unique form to continue exploring Contact Improvisation introduced at previous editions to the Romanian dance and theatre community. It aims to develop in the participants an awareness of the importance of this movement technique in the creative process of performing arts.

More about the festival, intensives, classes soon on our website.

In 2010 we continue our First Contact Project – dedicated to CI teachers with little teaching experience. Special conditions apply. Deadline for application April 15, 2010.

Other events of the festival: warm ups, jams, Nature Day, Performance, discussion, One 2 One session

Full fee includes an intensive workshop at choice, afternoon workshops during the week, jams, warm ups, nature day (with transport, accommodation and dinner) and performance participation. If paid in advance, it also includes accommodation in hostel type shared rooms. The fee should be paid by bank transfer before July 01, 2009.

Contents
• Talk and projection of “Common Ground” DVD (1988): the origin of the inclusive dance technique “Danceability” and its relationship with Contact Improvisation.

• Contact Improvisation Workshop “Raiz y Vuelo” taught by Andrea Fernández. For people interested in movement, experimentation and communication through physical contact.

• Danceability workshop taught by Andrea Fernández. Improvisation workshop for people with and without physical disabilities interested in movement, experimentation and communication. No previous experience is required. For all people.

• JAM

Classes will be taught in Spanish.

TANZWERKSTATT EUROPA 2010: Workshops

For the 20th time, dance and theatre enthusiasts from all over the world meet in Munich from August 4 – 14, 2010 to share and enrich their knowledge in movement, dance and performance.

You can choose from a wide range of styles and techniques. Apart from Hip Hop and Contemporary Dance, exercises for the enhancement of body awareness and sensory perception by the use of voice are equally offered. In addition to that, we are very
proud that we can again offer a 5-day program especially for children and young people!

Courses for adults

Henry Montes (GB): Release-based Contemporary Dance (Professionals)

Janez Janša (SI): Interdisciplinary Performance Workshop – “What am I not allowed to do” (Advanced & Professionals)

Chiang-Mei Wang (TW/DE): Floating Body – Modern Dance / Tai Chi Dao Yin (Advanced & Professionals)

Amanda Miller (USA): Composition / Matrix (Advanced & Professionals)

Patricia Bardi (USA/NL): Embodied Voice in the Moving Body (Pedagogues & Dancers)

Richard Siegal (USA/DE): Creation -©oPirates” (Advanced & Professionals)

Ivana Müller (HR/NL): Physical Theatre – “The 17 of us looking at each other and guessing what is this dance all about” (Advanced & Professionals)

Stefan Dreher (DE): Yoga for Dancers (all levels)

Dr. Liane Simmel (DE): Dance Medicine “Not just any body” (Pedagogues & Dancers)

Katja Wachter (DE): Contemporary Dance (Beginners & Advanced)

Niako (F): Hip Hop Freestyle (Beginners, Advanced & Professionals)

Goran Bogdanovski (SI): Fico Training and Improvisation Tools (Advanced & Professionals)

Courses for children (classes of 5 days)

Andrea Marton (DE): Contemporary Dance for Children (age 6-10)

Annerose Schmidt (DE): Contemporary Dance for Girls and Boys (age 11-15)

Aloun Phetnoi (LAO/DE): Breakdance for Kids (age 8-11)

Aloun Phetnoi (LAO/DE): Breakdance for Young People (age 12-16)

For further information (concerning the courses and the application form) please visit:
http://www.tanzwerkstatt-europa.net
www.jointadventures.net

6:00pm- 8:30pm
Green Space usually hosts this multi-disciplinary art jam but this month we are handing that duty over to
Socrates Sculpture Park !


Here’s the run down:
A monthly event for sketch artists to draw dancers as models-in-motion and for dancers to improvise with one another, while being inspired to move by the art in the making! This is a unique opportunity to explore the combination of visual, motion-based and audio arts. As host, Green Space hopes to provide a relaxed environment for spontaneous, free expression and improvisation between the different forms while encouraging synergy amongst artists. These sessions are open to artists, dancers, musicians and viewers alike.

This work is a bridge that links Organic Music to Contact Improvisation.
That bridge is explicit from the fundamentals of both systems, expressed by the search of the fluidity, the democratization of artistic creation, the refinement of the perceptions, the fully improvisation integrating touch, voice and movement, the discovery of a more authentic and deep communication.

5 day workshop with Anne Cooper and John Faichney with jams every evening.

There will be two classes per day of two hours each.

For more information and to register email markyoung@lasqueti.ca

We invite you to develop and nourish your dance in a week long Intensive Workshop of Contact + Improvisation in the wonderful location of ARLEQUI, SP. A large farmhouse built in the 17 century situated between fields and forest.

ENTRSPACIOS
INTENSIVE WORKSHOP
CONTACT + IMPROVISATION

Eckhard Mueller ( Germany/France) + Daniela Schwartz (Argentina/France)

This workshop of CONTACT + IMPROVISATION proposes a time of investigation and dance in the intimacy of a studio to deepen our bases of CI, as well as the exploration of the environment, outdoors, to confront ourselves to the visual, sound, architectural and sensory impressions, as we observe our ability to remain opened for the richness of internal and external drives. We will integrate both experiences questioning the relationship to our own body and it’s limits, our partner’s bodies, the group and the space.

a nexus for the exploration and sharing of the art of Contact Improvisation in the social experiment of radical participation and permission that is Black Rock City.

-Daily Contact Jams and Classes
-a home base for people in the dance community to camp at Burning Man
-Food and Meals provided as well as significant infrastructure to survive the desert extremes

More details and registration are available at http://campcontact.org. Registration will open in late May.

STEVE CLORFEINE: Workshop „Meditation, Movement and Space: Improvising from the Inside Out“, September 6-10th, 2010, Schwelle 7, Berlin/Germany



Meditation, Movement and Space: Improvising from the Inside Out.
5 day intensive workshop with Steve Clorfeine


WHEN:
Monday-Friday, September 6-10th, 2010
Workshop daily from12 am – 6 pm
Participants Performance: Friday, September 10th, 8:30 pm

UPDATES: http://www.schwelle7.de/Steve%20Clorfeine.html
WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany


Meditation, Movement and Space: Improvising from the Inside Out.

We begin with the powerful tools of expressive movement: stillness, silence and space. From that foundation, we investigate the contrast between the empty space and the qualities that our activities project onto it as we dance, act, and tell stories. Our improvisation practice works with six energies: space, time, kinesthetic, relationship, image, and story. These energies and the dynamics that arise from their interplay inform the choices we make as improvisers – our entrances, exits; beginning, middle, and end. How can we be ourselves in the moment and embody what we want to communicate? How does composition interact with our awareness of the shifting ground of improvisation? We will practice with forms which define and sharpen our relationship to space and to each other: solos, duets, trios, and group work in sound, movement, and text. Our work focuses on being and doing, exploring our natural strengths, doubts, attractions, and inhibitions. I think of improvisation as fieldwork, an open laboratory for expressive communication; a heightened awareness that develops and shifts with natural grace.


STEVE CLORFEINE

Steve has been writing, performing and directing theater pieces since 1975. For many years he performed in the companies of Barbara Dilley, Meredith Monk, Ping Chong and at Naropa University where he has been on the adjunct faculty since its inception. His own performances and workshops have toured the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Steve has long standing collaborations with Lanny Harrison, with jazz singer Jay Clayton, tap diva Brenda Bufalino, musician/composer Steve Gorn, and with the arts team at the ALIA Institute. He leads theater, poetry and storytelling residencies in public schools in Europe and the U.S. as well as workshops for theater teachers in Germany, computer engineers in Zurich, and actors, teachers, and business leaders in India and Nepal. Steve is guest faculty at Akademie Remshied in Germany. He is the author of In the Valley of the Gods – Journals of an American Buddhist in Nepal, several poetry collections, most recently, Field Road Sky, and a sourcebook on creative process.


FEE: 150 Euro
REGISTER: per email to xs4jan@gmx.de

SLEEPING:
We can host up workshop participants basic opportunities to stay overnight. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person. More options: http://www.schwelle7.de/GAESTE.html

VENUE:
Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6, backyard, 2. floor
13357 Berlin – Wedding / Germany
http://www.schwelle7.de
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=286059761953

Traffic link: U8 Pankstraße, U9 Osloer Straße, U9 Nauener Platz, SB Gesundbrunnen, SB Humboldthain, Bus M27 Brunnenplatz
http://maps.google.de/maps?daddr=13357+Berlin,+Uferstr+6

International Mimecare Contact I. Workshop

Mimecare is a language with no bounderies

The workshop will be in a special point of Italy, where two sea are meeting and under a lighthouse, this is the Italian ancient greece.

It will happen from the friday 10 to sunday 12 september 2010

Is a trip from tribal dance, mime and contact with aborigen sound, (Didjeridoo) Indian atmosphere, brasilian mood and a special activities with “pizzica” style
Is a tradition of a women that was bitten from a spider that will make her dance and go in trance.

The workshop will be leaded by a singer and musician of salento “Angelo Litti”
André Presa a musician that mix music from India and taranta sounds ".
Francis Calsolaro a expert in mime and contact improvisation
Bel Mattos a Brasilian tribal dancer and Mandala master.

The web site is www.mimoterapia.org
To join the workshop please fill www.mimoterapia.org/form
Info at smartin@email.it

Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company, based in Derry city County Londonderry in Northern Ireland will host Russian dancer and improvisor Angela Doni in September 2010.

There will be an open weekend workshop on 18th and 19th September in the Echo Echo Dance Studio.

Artistic Director of Echo Echo, Steve Batts said: “Echo Echo is very lucky to have Angela spend time with the company, guiding and teaching us. She is a long standing colleague and someone whose work as teacher, organiser and performer has been an inspiration to me since we first met 8 years ago.”

For more information, visit www.echoechodance.com or email info@echoechodance.com

Intensive workshop
18-19th of September 2010
with ANTON REZA

SATURDAY 18th 1-5pm
SUNDAY 19th 1-5pm

One’s own energy
5 day intensive workshop with Yumi Fujitani

WHEN:
Monday-Friday, Monday – Friday, Sptember, 27 – October, 1, 2010
Workshop daily from12 am – 6 pm
Participants Performance (maybe): Friday, October, 1st, 8:30 pm

UPDATES: http://www.schwelle7.de/Yumi%20Fujitani.html
WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany


One‘s Own Energy

The work will concentrate on walking, the spine, the pelvis, the sole of the foot, the axis. The body suspended, balance and imbalance,
to be charged, contorted, to let go.
Working in-depth on breathing, muscle control and tactile perception.
Working on the state of “trance”,
on being believed
Trying to find “one’s own energy”, what it is “to feel”.
Becoming aware of the atmosphere, to become space and matter through improvisation.
In a spirit of listening (to oneself and others).
The mind begins to listen, the spirit then begins to dance.

To embrace is to be embraced
Open the door the way the body can open
When you look at the flower, the flower looks at you, you have already become a flower
The inside of the body is the outside of the body, the outside of the body is the inside
The body’s outline disappears, the body melts into space
The line between fantasy and reality is as fine as piece of paper

YUMI FUJITANI
Yumi Fujitani is performer and choreographer. She was born in Japan in 1962. She first learned classical dance and theatre in Kobe. She then received training in jazz, contemporary and butô dance. In Tokyo she met Kô Murobushi and Carlotta Ikeda, co-founders of the ARIADONE company. She joined the company as a leading dancer. From 1985 to 1995, she performed in the company’s various productions, such as “Himé”, “Black Grey White”, “Le Langage du Sphinx”, “En Chasse”…Besides touring worldwide, she taught butô in Tokyo, and continued her training in New York and Paris, where she experimented with new forms of corporal expression, through the use of masks and the art of the clown.

www.yumifujitani.info/

FEE: 150 Euro
REGISTER: per email to xs4jan@gmx.de

SLEEPING:
We can host up workshop participants basic opportunities to stay overnight. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person. More options: http://www.schwelle7.de/GAESTE.html

VENUE:
Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6, backyard, 2. floor
13357 Berlin – Wedding / Germany
http://www.schwelle7.de
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=286059761953

Traffic link: U8 Pankstraße, U9 Osloer Straße, U9 Nauener Platz, SB Gesundbrunnen, SB Humboldthain, Bus M27 Brunnenplatz
http://maps.google.de/maps?daddr=13357+Berlin,+Uferstr+6