From xs4jan at gmx.de Wed Sep 16 10:04:57 2009 From: xs4jan at gmx.de (J.B.) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:04:57 +0200 Subject: [CI-Announce] AMANDA MILLER: Choreographie Workshop, October 12-16, 2009, Schwelle7, Berlin/Germany Message-ID: <063D04FA-11B1-4577-9C34-CFF097479D2F@gmx.de> 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 aufzul?sen. Der so frei werdende Raum bietet die M?glichkeit, 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. ----------- 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 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-W?rttemberg) 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 Chor?graphiques 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 k?ln. - 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 T?nzerin, sp?ter auch als Hauschoreografin bei seinem Ballett Frankfurt. - 1992 gr?ndete 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 f?r namhafte Ensembles und gr?ndete die Company Yummi Dance in Japan. - Verst?rkt widmet sie sich auch der Vermittlung ihrer Arbeitsmethode und ist weltweit als Lehrerin t?tig. - 2004 engagierte sie sich im Rahmen verschiedener k?nstlerischer Projekte f?r Menschen im Tibet. - Amanda Miller erhielt f?r ihre choreografische Arbeit zahlreiche Auszeichnungen. 1994 wurde ihre Arbeit mit drei Preisen bei den ?Rencontres Chor?ographiques International de Bagnolet? ausgezeichnet. - Zuletzt erhielt sie 2004 den niederl?ndischen Choreografenpreis ?Der goldene Schwan? f?r ihre Choreografie ?Four for Nothing? - 2005 bis 2009 arbeitete Amanda Miller als k?nstlerische Direktorin mit ihrer Compagnie unter dem Namen pretty ugly tanz k?ln an den B?hnen K?ln. - Im Mai 2009 inszenierte sie ihre erste Oper ?Orfeo ed Euridice? am Theater Ulm. - Seit Juni 2009 ist Amanda Miller freischaffend t?tig. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From xs4jan at gmx.de Fri Sep 18 10:05:49 2009 From: xs4jan at gmx.de (J.B.) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:05:49 +0200 Subject: [CI-Announce] ANDREW HARWOOD: Contact Improvisation Workshop, October 19-22, 2009, Schwelle7, Berlin/Germany Message-ID: Known ? Unknown Contact Improvisation Intensive Workshop with Andrew de Lotbini?re 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. ----------- 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 CV ANDREW HARWOOD Andrew de Lotbini?re 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From xs4jan at gmx.de Mon Sep 21 14:47:08 2009 From: xs4jan at gmx.de (J.B.) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:47:08 +0200 Subject: [CI-Announce] SCOTT WELLS Contact Improvisation & Performance Workshop, November 2-6, 2009, Schwelle7, Berlin / Germany Message-ID: 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. ----------- 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From saliq at wiremonkeydance.com Sat Sep 26 21:00:26 2009 From: saliq at wiremonkeydance.com (Francis Savage) Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:00:26 -0400 Subject: [CI-Announce] Saliq and Lani offer a Body Lab course in Northampton Message-ID: Hi Folks, Saliq and Lani are teaching in Northampton this Fall. Please spread the word to likely individuals and come if you are called. Saliq -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: body-lab-flier.gif Type: image/gif Size: 130009 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- Body Lab: A Body-Mind Centering? approach to Movement/Research/ Improvisation with Lani Nahele and Saliq Francis Savage. 8 Fridays, Oct 2-Nov 20, 6:30-8:30, $95. Studio Helix, 100 Main St. in Thornes Market contact Lani, 413-212-0521, lanilisa at gmail.com or Saliq 413-330-1172, saliq at wiremonkeydance.com for registration Facilitation by Lani and Saliq offers a rare opportunity for embodied practice. What are the elements that comprise and enable embodiment? How do we find them in our tissues and make them accessible? Answering and moving these questions will be our research and our goal. Possible explorations include: Mouthing/Pulsation Bonding/Bridging/Joining and Separating Buoyancy/Glide Yield/Push/Reach/Pull Joint Homing/Reflexes Join us to explore deeply, embody at your own level and to follow your curiosity. From xs4jan at gmx.de Tue Sep 29 16:52:19 2009 From: xs4jan at gmx.de (J.B.) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:52:19 +0200 Subject: [CI-Announce] MARTHA MOORE: Performance Workshop, November 9-13, 2009, Schwelle7, Berlin/Germany Message-ID: <93E64B3C-2C9B-4B00-BB84-C023BC502717@gmx.de> 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. ----------- 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 ----------------------- 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 Cr?-Ange, and Jacques Patarozzi. In 1993 she created with Patricia Lopez the film "Killing was Easy" (R?alis. Sylvia Call?), selected for the "Festival des Assassins" at the Cin?math?que 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 F?lix 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 ?M?nagerie de Verre? in Paris. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: