[CI-Announce] Workshop by NITA LITTLE: ARTiculating Presence: The Tactile Mind(Body), June 20-24, 2011, Schwelle 7, Berlin/Germany

[J.B.]

ARTiculating Presence: The Tactile Mind(Body)
5 day intensive workshop with NITA LITTLE

WHEN:
Monday, June 20th to Friday 24th, 2011
Workshop daily from12 am - 6 pm
Improvisational Performance: June 24th, 8:30 pm

UPDATES: http://www.schwelle7.de/Nita%20Little.html
WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany (adress below)


ARTiculating Presence: The Tactile Mind(Body)

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. Through mindful acts,  
identities appear then vanish, self-knowing becomes a playground and  
environments merge with inner 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 encourages bold  
acts of physical and mental extension. Building movement  
potentialities that encompass the tactile physicality of mind, this  
workshop trains creative action in ensemble dance improvisation and  
Contact Improvisation. Geared toward interpersonal actions within an  
ecological and enactive understanding of selfhood, it will ask that  
dancers become highly tuned to re-cognizing context and its making.  
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 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 and enhanced  
technical skill building 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.

PERFORMANCE
This workshop will culminate in a performance. We will be developing  
works constructed by students, duets based on the Geometry of  
Attention, and a score for the ensemble, Restless Peace.


NITA LITTLE
Nita Little engages in an investigation of the dynamic aspects of  
embodied states through the performance, pedagogy, and creative  
research of dance improvisaton. 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 and  
development. 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.

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, previously: São Paulo Meeting, The Rio Festival, Rio  
de Janeiro, 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 is a PhD candidate  
and is writing her dissertation toward her doctorate in Performance  
Studies at The University of California, Davis.

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

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

LOCATION

Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6, backyard, left site, 2. floor
13357 Berlin – Wedding (Nähe 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

Trafic 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
  
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