From stevenmichaelharris at mac.com Mon Aug 6 04:55:38 2007 From: stevenmichaelharris at mac.com (Steven Michael Harris) Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 22:55:38 -0400 Subject: [CI-Announce] The Summer's Last Jam - Contact Improv in Lexington, VA this September Message-ID: The Summer's Last Jam Announcing a 3-Day Contact Improv Jam in Lexington, Virginia Friday, September 14 - Sunday, September 16, 2007 Sponsored by The Community Dance Connection Theatre (of Rockbridge) and The Lexington Contact Jam Dance with us in the beautiful and historic town of Lexington, Virginia. (No traffic jams - everything is close and within walking distance.) We will be offering several class options with master teachers Brad Stoller and Ken Manheimer and with access to three dance spaces. (Two spaces come to us thanks to the dance department of Washington and Lee University and the third is a couple of blocks away at Halestone Dance Studio.) Cost for the event: $60.00 (Friday - 6:00 pm until Sunday - 3:00 pm: Two Meals, Continental Breakfasts and Housing Provided.) The Summer?s Last Jam website with registration information is: http://thecdct.org/jam (please pass this information to all who might want to attend) Schedule: Friday, September 14 6:00 pm: Potluck and Registration 7:30 pm: Opening Games and Dance Led by Brad Stoller... Music, Fun, Laughs! 10:00 pm: Bonfire Saturday, September 15 9:30 am: Registration 10:00 am-12:30 pm: Morning Classes - Brad Stoller and Ken Manheimer (Two Teachers*, Two Spaces, Two Choices) 12:30-2:00 pm: Lunch (Great restaurant choices are within walking distance) 2:00-4:00 pm: Afternoon Classes - Ken Manheimer and Brad Stoller (Two Teachers*, Two Spaces, Two Choices) 4:00-6:00 pm: Siesta, Sightseeing, Open Dancing 6:00 pm: Vegetarian Feast Provided by Local Chef 8:00 pm: "Mind Games for Movement" - Warmup Class of Techniques to Inspire Expanded Improv Choices in Freestyle Dance taught by Steven Michael Harris 8:30 pm: Dance Until We Drop - Improv DanceFest with Live Music Sunday, September 16 10:00 am-12:30 pm: Yoga: Morning Practice into Contact (Nancy Saylor-Lane) 10:00 am-12:30 pm: Open Dance (in alternate space) 1:00 pm: Picnic Lunch Provided 2:00 - 3:30 pm: Closing Circles: Site Specific River Event led by The Summer's Last Jam Creative Team. We will merge the various lessons and experiences of the weekend into an improvised floating dance/play event in the Maury River. 3:30 pm: Go home * The teachers (Brad Stoller and Ken Manheimer) will build on the lessons taught during their Saturday morning classes with new material taught during the Saturday afternoon classes. (The classes will be progressive - so there will be four different classes to choose from on Saturday morning and afternoon.) All classes will provide generous time for contacters to jam. Our Teachers Brad Stoller has worked with youth and adults in theater, dance and contact improvisation for over 20 years. He is an award-winning playwright and teaches play writing in the Young Writers' Summer Program at UVA. Brad is a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique (a movement re-education work) and holds a black belt in Aikido and an MFA in play writing from UVA. He lives in Charlottesville with his family where he pursues the practice of dance and theater as part of playbackcharlottesville and The Improfessionals. Ken Manheimer practices contact improv as an antidote to the static of daily life. He has taught extended CI courses for local enthusiasts (in the Washington, DC area where he lives) and sporadically leads informal and formal workshops in various places on invitation. Always a participant and an earnest student of the form, Ken is particularly interested in the art of finding connected, vital dances. He has studied with Nancy Stark Smith, Andrew de Lotbini?re Harwood, Martin Keogh, Lisa Nelson, Karen Nelson, Kirstie Simpson, and others. Ken writes informally about contact improv on his website: http://myriadicity.net/Sundry/ContactImprovisation Our Organizers Nancy Saylor-Lane lives in Lexington, Virginia where she is the director of Halestone, a dance studio dedicated to moving arts exploration and education for children and adults. In 2002 she founded The Community Dance Connection Theatre (The CDCT), a performance company for dancers of all ages and experience levels as an incubator for original choreography and as an educational dance-link within Rockbridge County. Now in its fifth year and fully established, The CDCT has over 40 members of community women and men, boys and girls who, in conjunction with professional artists from Rockbridge and beyond, stage multi media concert events of their original work. Steven Michael Harris has been doing contact improv for 20 years. His ?lecture? on writing could also be called a show and has been seen by approximately one million students and teachers. It is an author's appearance regarding the children's book he authored - This Is My Trunk (Atheneum, 1985). He was the youngest singing ringmaster in the history of Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus as well as a clown there. As an original cast member of the hit Broadway musical Barnum, he wrote comedic material incorporated as a popular part of the show. He has appeared in comedy nightclubs and on TV in various ways: Late Night With David Letterman, The Tony Awards Presentations, and various daytime dramas and commercials. He has also toured as a musician (vocal and instrumental). His current avocation concerns the science and philosophy of the mind and nervous system as he writes numerous essays about those issues. Registration It is easier to provide the best event possible if you register early. Contact: Steven Michael Harris stevenmichaelharris at mac.com Please include the following information about each person attending the event: Name Address Phone Number Email address Website (if any) You can also mail registrations with the above information, and with a check to hold your place, to: The CDCT 10 S Randolph ST Lexington, VA 24450 (The fee is $60.00 Checks should be made payable to: "The CDCT") We will make efforts to provide housing for everyone. (At the very least there will always be floor space - so bring a sleeping bag and pillow and towels with you.) We will also provide space for tenting if that is your preference. And bring a swimsuit for the special closing event. If not paid in advance, the fee of $60 will be payable at the door. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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