From xs4jan at gmx.de Wed Mar 6 05:19:00 2019 From: xs4jan at gmx.de (Jan Boeschoten) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 11:19:00 +0100 Subject: [CI-Announce] Scott Wells: The Flying Score - Workshop, Berlin 24-26.5.19 Message-ID: <35ECFCD9-EBBA-43A4-B7E3-241007FC41B3@gmx.de> The Flying Score ? Workshop by Scott Wells Workshop in Contact Improvisation, flight patterns and fluid acrobatics May 24-26, 2019 ? Tanzfabrik Berlin (Kreuzberg) Scott Wells, San Francisco Artistic Director of Scott Wells & Dancers ? contemporary dance ensemble ?renown for their high-flying, gravity-defying dance? SCHEDULE: ? Friday 24.5.: 16-20:00 ? Saturday 25.5.: 10-18:00 (break 13-14:00) (19-22:00 public Contact Jam) ? Sunday 26.5.: 11-18:00 (break 14-15:00) (=total teaching time: 17h) TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/109335346 COST: Early bird: 145? (money transfer until April 24, 2019), thereafter: 185? YOUR REGISTRATION: For registration details and workshop questions please contact me by e-mail at xs4jan at gmx.de EVENT WEBSITE: http://contact-improvisation.net/2019/01/06/the-flying-score-ws-by-scott-wells-may-24-26-2019/ SHARE YOUR INTEREST: https://www.facebook.com/events/2029150373840935/ WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION ? The Flying Score: Starting with contact as our foundation, we?ll traject towards a space that supports freedom of flight and expression: expression that takes us into interaction and ensemble improvisation. That is: we start at zero to redefine what is contact?to ourselves, others, reality, gravity. We start at zero to connect with our bodies, our interest and spontaneity. Some notions: We will decode momentum to ride moving support ? riding momentum is about letting go without being out-of?control. We?ll track flying centers of gravity to find aerial interactions that increase the contact. I like to inject some body systems material (BMC, Alexander Technique and bodywork). For example: Jumping ? Flying because jumping is a muscular action, whereas flying is in the bones and is affected greatly by emotions and attitude. Some of the techniques that will be tought are: ?flying patterns? (lifts, how to spring, how to jump, how to fly), ?fluid acrobatics? (actobatics in movement), ?pure contact?(contact improvisation basics). For the acrobatic and advanced patterns everyone will work at their own level and will learn best by building group safety and trust ? everyone will do something new. We will learn some repertory and practice taking the aerial work into improv. I like feedback and will see what the group is up for. We will practice flying, catching, landing, fluid acrobatics and deft maneuvers. We?ll be doing my favorite contact exercises and current curiosities--created or learned over the decades of investigation and indulgence. We use these to warm up, center and to re-enter the ?beginner?s mind? of contact improvisation. We will practice integrating the flying and acrobatics into the contact flow. That is: aerial interactions that increase the contact. We will take the aerial work into improvisation FLYING SCORES. VIDEOS: https://vimeo.com/115280415 https://vimeo.com/71350780 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAxE41NM5Pg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBnus7agXHk https://vimeo.com/132053009 https://vimeo.com/69625456 BIO Scott Wells: In 1981 Scott Wells discovered the pleasure of contact improvisation shortly after becoming obsessed with the struggles of modern dance. He stuck with both, received an MFA in dance from the University of Illinois (1991) and currently directs a company in San Francisco. Scott Wells & Dancers is celebrating 25 years of making dances in San Francisco. Wells has created works for skateboarders, for boxers and choreographed West Side Story for Sonoma State University. In 2010 and 2005 Scott received the Izzie (San Francisco?s most prestigious dance award) for Outstanding Choreography and was selected by Dance Magazine as ?one of the 25 To Watch?. In 2016 Wells choreographed Touchy Subjects with Keith Hennessy and in 2017 choreographed On the Occasion of our 25th Anniversary (and eviction) we ask, ?Was that good for you?? with Kathleen Hermesdorf. Wells has been practicing Alexander Technique for twenty five years and BMC for fifteen. 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 meditative, playful, and very physical dancing. And students appreciate how the scary or advanced moves are safe, relaxed and made possible. PRESS: ?Scott Wells...has a dizzying abundance of pure dance-making talent? Rachel Howard, SF Examiner "Wells has become over the last fifteen years the Paul Taylor of Contact Improv ? that is, the first to make dances in this idiom that are deeply musical, somehow "normal," imaginative, witty, often hilarious, sometimes fierce.? Paul Parrish, Danceviewtimes "Come for the Thrills, Stay for the Artistry." Allan Ulrich, Voice of Dance "Sproing! Once you adjust to the notion that very fit people are supposed to be bouncing off walls and flying in your face, you can relax and let them (Wells and dancers) do their thing, which is an electrifying style of contact improvisation" SF Weekly LOCATION: Tanzfabrik Berlin M?ckernstr.68, 10965 Berlin (Kreuzberg) Studio No.4 http://www.tanzfabrik-berlin.de/en/studios TRAFFIC LINKS: U6 & 7 Yorckstrasse / Mehringdamm S1 & 2 Yorckstrasse Bus M19 Katzbachstrasse https://www.google.de/maps?daddr=10965+Berlin,+M%C3%B6ckernstr.+68 PHOTO CREDIT: David Papas From ontjam at contactimprov.ca Sat Mar 16 16:23:47 2019 From: ontjam at contactimprov.ca (Ontario Regional Contact Jam) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 16:23:47 -0400 Subject: [CI-Announce] Online registration closes March 31 for ORCJ Message-ID: Online registration closes at the end of this month (Sunday, March 31 at midnight) for the Ontario Regional Contact Jam 2019. After that, we share our numbers with the caterers. If you register at the door, lunches and snacks will not be included. Register at https://orcj.yapsody.com. You can use the PayPal option for credit cards and the Pay Later option for Interac. Please reply with any questions, requests and volunteer offers. We?re especially seeking hosts for out-of-town guests, people who can help with ASL translation, and welcome-desk volunteers. Here?s a quick list of everything that?s on the draft schedule. You can find the full schedule grid at https://tinyurl.com/orcj2019schedule Friday morning 1. All ages open play 2. Intro to contact improv FUNdamentals 3. Warm-up 4. Open jam 5. Sharing circle 6. Yes, and... improv skills for contact dancing 7. Safety + lifting + flying 8. Catered lunch Friday afternoon 1. Piano 2. Opening circle + warm-up 3. Open jam with live music 4. Inclusive workshop & jam 5. Safe risks 6. Rest 7. Braid 8. Dinner dates with Davis 9. Dinner on the town Friday evening 1. Sharing circle 2. Blindfold jam 3. The throwdown 4. Open jam with live music 5. Open jam with DJ Saturday morning 1. Warm-up 2. Open jam 3. 1:1 peer coaching 4. Embracing 3-D space 5. Boundaries bootcamp 6. All ages open play 7. Rest 8. Catered lunch Saturday afternoon 1. Warm-up 2. Open jam 3. Finding the sweet spot: navigating desires and boundaries for greater connection 4. Silly dance 5. Talk time 6. Rest 7. Parcon 8. Spiritual bypassing talk and discussion 9. Mirroring and play 10. Big people 11. Open jam with live music 12. Braid 13. Dinner dates with Davis 14. Dinner on the town Saturday evening 1. Rest 2. Tango + CI 3. Vulnerability lab 4. Open jam with live music 5. Open jam with DJ Sunday morning 1. Warm-up 2. Open jam 3. 1:1 peer coaching 4. Gender schmender 5. Embracing 3-D space 6. Sharing circle 7. Catered lunch Sunday afternoon 1. PoC jam 2. Playing with matches 3. Safety + lifting + flying 4. Open jam 5. Closing circle -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From elskeseidel at hotmail.com Wed Mar 20 11:14:58 2019 From: elskeseidel at hotmail.com (Elske Seidel) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:14:58 +0000 Subject: [CI-Announce] Low and High Flying - Contact Improvisation with Elske Seidel | 18-19 May 2019 | Mime Center Berlin In-Reply-To: References: , , Message-ID: [cid:30c32915-4f5b-44aa-bf74-da38bd94dbbe] Low and High Flying Contact Improvisation with Elske Seidel Mime Centrum Berlin |18.-19. Mai 2019 This workshop gives insight into useful technical aspects of Contact Improvisation. It is meant for people who have a solid base in CI already and wish to deepen the joy of their experience as well as expanding their possibilities. Specifically, we want to look at what is needed in order to follow through into both, low and high flying with a relaxed and responsive body. How do we adapt our body tone as the dance changes from moment to moment? How to organize our body in the air with fluidity and ease while dancing with the constant possibility of disorientation? How do we actually land and allow the falling weight to continue into our improvisation? In the workshop, I would like to offer inspiration as well as tools in order to stimulate and support the individual growth and development in each of us as we dance together. Time: 18.-19. Mai 2019 Saturday 10:30am - 1pm + 2:30pm ? 5pm | Sunday 11am - 2pm Price: 100? | 75? (with bank transfer until April 24) Taught in: German / English Registration & Info: http://elskedance.de/en/events/5bf5a61d4e9d667933acccd4/view Place: Mime Centrum Berlin ? Studio 2 Kunstquartier Bethanien Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin ? Kreuzberg Elske Seidel based in Berlin, is a passionate CI dancer & teacher, deeply committed to CI and its community internationally. She has been teaching dance full time and wholeheartedly for over two decades, CI since 2004. Her boundless fascination and joy exploring and researching Contact Improvisation in all its depth and subtleties, inspires her workshops, privates, ongoing classes, and each of the projects she creates. Her work recognizes nature, improvisation and teaching itself as core sources for knowledge and understanding. Meeting the moment, she offers organic support for the individual and the instant community as it emerges, allowing each to feel, find and follow what they need to learn and dance. She is the artistic director of the Annual Contact Festival Fuerteventura/ Spain and co-creates Dance Your Question: CI Research Week for Experienced Contact Dancers, CI Training Program Hamburg/ Germany, CI Workshop Series BASICS in Hamburg/ Germany and Nature as Teacher Workshops. www.elskedance.de www.canarian.contactfestival.info photo@ Patrick Beelaert flyer design@ mapp.graphics www.elskedance.de Elske Seidel Liberdastr. 14 12047 Berlin mobil: 0176-245 11 506 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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