From saliq at wiremonkeydance.com Wed Oct 6 19:10:00 2010 From: saliq at wiremonkeydance.com (Francis Savage) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 13:10:00 -0400 Subject: [CI-Announce] 4 Dance companies perform at ARTS NIGHT OUT in NORTHAMPTON FRI OCT 8, 5-8 PM References: Message-ID: What? FREE SITE SPECIFIC DANCE EVENTS! When? FRIDAY OCT 8, 5-7:30 PM Where? THE STREETS OF NORTHAMPTON During Second Fridays this week, four dance companies will be performing outside in downtown Northampton at 5, 5:45, and 6:30. Companies are: Wire Monkey, Catalyst Dancers, Lisa Leizman Dance Company, and the Dance Generators with guests Christina Gabriel and Caddy Carlisle (SC 11). Sites: First Churches steps, Unitarian Society lawn, and the plaza between Thorne's and the Parking Garage. The Lisa Leizman Dance Company is the resident dance company of the Northampton Center for the Arts. The company of 16 dancers includes musical director Elizabeth Haymaker and composer-in-residence Andrea Kwapien The Catalyst Dancers is the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter High School?s pre professional Dance Company. For the past 12 years, Catalyst has performed yearly at their resident Theater and PVPA and toured the US - from NY, to California, and Miami. Catalyst has also contributed greatly to public education by performing in schools with their Viewing and Doing program that teaches history, music and literature through dance. The company has trained dancers that have gone on to dance with professional companies and productions such as CATS in New York, The Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane Dance Company and Wally Cardona, as well as dance conservatories such as SUNY Purchase, Connecticut College, Ohio State, and University of the Arts. This year?s company members have received full scholarships to world-renowned dance programs throughout the country. Under the direction of Jodi Falk from its beginning, and for the past 10 years with Jennifer Polins of Northampton, the Catalyst Dance Company has grown from a fledgling modern dance company into a pre-professional national touring group that performs works of all genres from nationally-acclaimed artists. Catalyst has been a catalyst for young dancers to create the future of their dreams in dance. Wire Monkey Dance creates highly physical dance installations utilizing steel scaffolding and other industrial materials. Their gravity defying, multimedia dance events feature bold, animalistic choreography, live music and video projections, and address timeless human themes. Under the artistic direction of Saliq Francis Savage and Jennifer Polins, Wire Monkey Dance has a twelve-year roster of performances. Tours have included Pulaski Park, Northampton MA, Lincoln Center Out Of Doors, New York City's Dance Theater Workshop, Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts, the Ponderosa Dance Land Festival in Germany and the Macau Fringe Festival and WACFEST in Macau, China. From their headquarters at Tree Studio in Holyoke MA, they create new work and performances for the local community. http://www.wiremonkeydance.com To be presented is a work in progress for an installation performance scheduled to premiere in Northampton in April 2011. Video machines created by Yoann Trellu (http://www.keyframed.org ) and Wire Monkey Dance. Dancers are from the new KICK ASS DANCE COMPANY OF NORTHAMPTON: Lani Nahele, Cynthia McLaughlin, Krista Denio, Saliq Francis Savage and Jennifer Polins -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From xs4jan at gmx.de Wed Oct 13 11:09:37 2010 From: xs4jan at gmx.de (J.B.) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:09:37 +0200 Subject: [CI-Announce] Workshop DANIEL LEPKOFF: Foundations of Improvisation, November 22-26, 2010, Schwelle7, Berlin/Germany Message-ID: Foundations of Improvisation 5 day intensive Improvisation Workshop with Daniel Lepkoff WHEN: Monday ? Friday, November, 22-26, 2010, 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. Material developed in this workshop will be presented to the public in an informal showing at the end of the week: Friday, Nov. 26 at 8:30 pm WORKSHOP: http://www.schwelle7.de/Daniel%20Lepkoff.html REGISTRATION: xs4jan (at) gmx.de PRICE: 150 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, Aufgang links, 1. OG 13357 Berlin ? Wedding (N?he Uferstudios) http://www.schwelle7.de http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=286059761953 Schwelle 7 ? Cie. Felix Ruckert Berlin e.V. Artistic & Managing Director: Felix Ruckert info at felixruckert.de +49 (0) 173 611 84 04 TRAFFIC LINK: U8 Pankstra?e, U9 Osloer Stra?e, U9 Nauener Platz, SB Gesundbrunnen, SB Humboldthain, Bus M27 Brunnenplatz http://maps.google.de/maps?daddr=13357+Berlin,+Uferstr+6 ----------------------- 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.? ------------------------------ Bio 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From xs4jan at gmx.de Wed Oct 13 11:11:30 2010 From: xs4jan at gmx.de (J.B.) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:11:30 +0200 Subject: [CI-Announce] =?windows-1252?q?MARTHA_MOORE=3A_Workshop_=84Making?= =?windows-1252?q?_Movies_-_Sweded_Samourai_Reloaded=93=2C_November_15-20?= =?windows-1252?q?=2C_2010=2C_Schwelle_7=2C_Berlin?= Message-ID: <3E925CAB-36D3-4961-9BFB-53E71432FE02@gmx.de> Sweded Samourai Reloaded 5 day intensive workshop with Martha Moore WHEN: Monday-Friday, November 15-19th, 2010 Workshop daily from12 am - 6 pm Participants Performance: Friday, November 19th, 8:30 pm Martha?s Performance: Saturday, November 20th, 8:30 pm UPDATES: http://www.schwelle7.de/Martha%20Moore.html SOCIAL: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111404012253009 WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany Making Movies - Sweded Samourai Reloaded This workshop proposes to expand the process used in the making of SWEDED SAMOURAI - the western, presented at Schwelle 7 in october 2009. It is not a question of filming, but rather of becoming a film, transforming the virtual into the physical. Each day will begin with a short warm-up interlacing the vertical preparation of Ba Gua Zhang, the use of voice and somatic approaches to movement, and group improvisations. Then, taking inspiration from classic movie scenes by the directors Takeshi Kitano, Patrice Leconte, Kenji Misumi, et Sam Peckinpah, we will transform the film elements into movement resources, constructing and deconstructing the scenes and characters daily, re-inventing a non verbal and definitely non-linear plot. A showing of SWEDED SAMOURAI RELOADED is planned on Friday, November 19th, 8:30 pm. Martha Moore and Felix Perrotin will also perform ?John&Jane Installations? on Saturday, November, 20 at 8:30 pm John & Jane Installations - une s?rie de performances sauvages con?ues par la chor?graphe Martha Moore et le plasticien F?lix Perrotin s?rie 1 ? 4: cette hache n?est pas une hache?this ax is not an ax? s?rie 5 ? 8: ce lit n?est pas un lit?this bed is not a bed? MARTHA MOORE Formed in California and New England, Martha Moore danced and created work in New York from 1976 to 1982, before moving permanently to Paris 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 and the Paris based Sophie Lessard, with whom she created ? Updated Country ?, a series of improvised films and performances on country music . She has contributed work to the feminist performance collective, femmeuses (directed by Cecile Proust), performed in ? Fuck Yeah ! ? for the Nature Theater of Oklahoma in May 2009, and currently collaborates with the sculptor F?lix Perrotin in the ongoing performance series, ? john & jane installations ?, and for her latest work ? that was easy ?. 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. FEE: 150 Euro REGISTER: per email to xs4jan at 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 Uferstra?e 6, backyard, 2. floor 13357 Berlin - Wedding / Germany http://www.schwelle7.de http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=286059761953 Traffic link: U8 Pankstra?e, U9 Osloer Stra?e, U9 Nauener Platz, SB Gesundbrunnen, SB Humboldthain, Bus M27 Brunnenplatz http://maps.google.de/maps?daddr=13357+Berlin,+Uferstr+6 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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