From saliq at wiremonkeydance.com Fri Aug 14 05:18:07 2009 From: saliq at wiremonkeydance.com (saliq at wiremonkeydance.com) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:18:07 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [CI-Announce] Wire Monkey Dance in Holyoke and at Jacob's Pillow! Message-ID: <58514.24.128.104.77.1250219887.squirrel@webmail.salinger.jf-olm.com> Please forward! -- Hello All, We wanted to let you know that Wire Monkey Dance will perform at Jacob?s Pillow in the Berkshires as part of the Inside Out Series. As well, we will do a studio showing at our headquarters in Holyoke in preparation for the big event. Studio Showing Wire Monkey Dance Wednesday August 26, 7pm Tree Studio, 108 Cabot Street, Holyoke By donation Info 413 695 1799 Wire Monkey Dance at the Pillow Thursday August 27 at 6:30pm 358 George Carter Road, Becket MA, 01223 Free! http://www.jacobspillow.org Kids love the work! In preparation for Wire Monkey Dance to perform at Jacob?s Pillow, Inside Out Series, on Thursday August 27, the company will present a studio showing at their home, Tree Studio, in Holyoke, MA. Wire Monkey Dance will present 3 works, including a world premiere collaboration with Brooklyn based Hip-Hop company Decadancetheatre. All three works utilize Wire Monkey?s signature, sets of transforming, steel scaffolding. http://wiremonkeydance.com/ http://decadancetheatre.wordpress.com/ Hope you have a great end of summer, Jen Polins Artistic Director, Wire Monkey Dance 413 695 1799 for more info From xs4jan at gmx.de Thu Aug 20 14:37:20 2009 From: xs4jan at gmx.de (J.B.) Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:37:20 +0200 Subject: [CI-Announce] Workshop MARTIN KEOGH: Soaring off the mountain, 15.-19.9.09, Schwelle 7, Berlin/Germany Message-ID: <5B1434C6-081C-4333-AF6F-14272C5FD61B@gmx.de> 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: xs4jan at gmx.de PRICE: 200 EUR SLEEPING: We can host up workshop participants in our special sleeping cocoons. The cost is 10 ? a night per person. ----------- LOCATION -------- Schwelle 7 Uferstra?e 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 From xs4jan at gmx.de Tue Aug 25 18:18:00 2009 From: xs4jan at gmx.de (J.B.) Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:18:00 +0200 Subject: [CI-Announce] Workshop ADRIAN RUSSI: CI and instant composition, October, 5-9, Schwelle7, Berlin/Germany Message-ID: <14972D40-B89D-4929-99EF-664DE865692C@gmx.de> 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 J?rg Hassmann, Mirva M?kinen 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. ----------- LOCATION -------- Schwelle 7 Uferstra?e 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