From cathypaine at mindspring.com Wed Oct 1 14:32:33 2003 From: cathypaine at mindspring.com (Cathy Paine) Date: Wed Oct 1 14:33:48 2003 Subject: [CI-Announce] Contact Improvisation Workshop: Reminder! Message-ID: <000001c3884a$68bcd8b0$64e64a43@MAX> What: A CONTACT IMPROVISATION skills workshop taught by Cathy Paine. When: Sunday, October 5th from 3:00pm to 5:00pm Where: In Hampden, at the Experimental Movement Concepts Studio, 3618 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD 21211 Cost: $5 ABOUT THE WORKSHOP Contact Improvisation is primarily a duet form of movement improvisation, based on shared physical contact, and can be introspective, fluid, spectacular, awkward, personal, hilarious, and/or profoundly moving (in every way!) CI was first developed by American contemporary dancers Steve Paxton and Nancy Stark Smith, and is currently practiced, taught and performed throughout the world. In this workshop we will be learning and exploring some specific skills of weight sharing, skeletal support, balance and counter-balance, rolling, falling and flying. (Yes, flying!) A greater proficiency will open the door to physical safety and greater risk-taking. Come with your openness, sensitivity, love of moving and sense of humor - we will be moving into the unknown! ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR Cathy Paine is a dancer, teacher, choreographer and performance improviser, as well as a certified FeldenkraisR practitioner specializing in working with creative and performing artists. She is founder/director of Movement Incorporated, and has been featured in recent articles in Dance Magazine, Lifetimes, Feldenkrais Journal, and Contact Quarterly. Since 1974 Cathy has performed and taught throughout the United States and in Germany, England and Hong Kong, at venues including The Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater, The Hong Kong Arts Centre (HK) and Knighton Fields Centre (U.K.) She has been on the dance faculty at Kenyon College, University of Montana, The American University, U.C.L.A., Towson University and UMBC, and has received grants and awards from The National Society of Arts & Letters, The D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities, The Virginia Commission for the Arts, The Maryland State Arts Council, and The Yorkshire Arts Council of Great Britain. >From 1990-95 Cathy produced the New Dance Improvisation Festival in D.C., VA and MD, which has since been used as a model for dance improvisation festivals in Richmond, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and Carrboro, NC. She has taught and performed with internationally known contact improvisers including Nancy Stark Smith, Chris Aiken, K.J. Holmes, Andrew Harwood, Ray Chung and Kirstie Simson. For more information email cathypaine@mindspring.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/ci-announce/attachments/20031001/41fab4d9/attachment.html From MartinKeo at aol.com Thu Oct 2 10:47:40 2003 From: MartinKeo at aol.com (MartinKeo@aol.com) Date: Thu Oct 2 10:47:51 2003 Subject: [CI-Announce] Contact Improvisation and spirals... Message-ID: <20.19ba5221.2cad948c@aol.com> Hello to all, I've just finished the first draft of an essay about how we use spirals when we dance Contact Improvisation. If you are interested in reading it, please email me and I'll send it to you. I would be interested in your feedback about the ideas and the writing. I look forward to seeing you on the dance floor. Warmly,?? Martin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/ci-announce/attachments/20031002/b0d977cb/attachment.html From asuseno at wesleyan.edu Thu Oct 9 16:28:01 2003 From: asuseno at wesleyan.edu (Andrew Suseno) Date: Thu Oct 9 16:30:36 2003 Subject: [CI-Announce] World dance? In-Reply-To: <001a01c37675$9450f290$5be64a43@MAX> References: <001a01c37675$9450f290$5be64a43@MAX> Message-ID: <1065731281.3f85c4d1c05ab@student.wesleyan.edu> please pass this along to folks who you think might be able to help me with leads. Hello everyone. I'm trying to build a phone book of teachers and contacts for different kinds of dance and movement exploration around the area. I am looking for teachers and people who teach and want to teach: World dance: Capoeira, Salsa, Flamenco, West African, etc. as well as other alternative styles: Break Dancing, House, popping -Andrew Asuseno@wesleyan.edu Dancer, Choreographer, Contact Improvisation Teacher , K-12 Educator "There's a difference to knowing the path and walking the path." From cathypaine at mindspring.com Fri Oct 10 10:13:10 2003 From: cathypaine at mindspring.com (Cathy Paine) Date: Fri Oct 10 10:13:46 2003 Subject: [CI-Announce] Exploratorium this Sunday Message-ID: <000601c38f38$ac616370$74e64a43@MAX> REMINDER: For those of you who haven't heard yet, there is a new contact/movement improvisation facilitated jam in Baltimore! All are welcome; no previous dance training is required. This Sunday, October 12, we will be working with live music - bring yourself, bring your instrument! Hope to see you there. What: A facilitated contact/movement improvisation jam. When: 3-5pm, the SECOND and FOURTH Sundays of each month Where: Experimental Movement Concepts, 3618 Falls Road, Suite 200, Baltimore, MD 21211 Cost: $3 For further information please email cathypaine@mindspring.com or call 410/243-1891. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/ci-announce/attachments/20031010/1571801e/attachment.html From farrel_k at denison.edu Thu Oct 16 11:14:49 2003 From: farrel_k at denison.edu (Kerry Farrell) Date: Thu Oct 16 11:15:18 2003 Subject: [CI-Announce] Contact Improvisation Survey Message-ID: <020701c393f8$3dd13880$08178d8c@kingstone.denison.edu> Hi, my name is Kerry Farrell. I am student at Denison University, in Granville, OH, studying in the Dance Department. For a "Cultural Studies in Dance: Beyond Traditional Boundaries" class taught by Dr. Gill Wright Miller, I was asked to investigate some aspect of dance and sexuality. The department I am studying in is sympathetic to Contact Improvisation. We had hosted contactors Chris Aiken, Peter Bingham, Andrew Harwood, and K.J. Holmes recently, and had just completed a two-week residency with Karen Nelson, so I thought perhaps I would look more carefully at individuals' experiences within the genre of Contact Improvisation. Part of my interest was to see how the individuals practicing Contact Improvisation had dealt with the issue of touch as beginners in Contact Improv, and as people continuing with more experience in the form. When I started this research I learned that sexuality within Contact Improvisation seems to be a heavily discussed issue. Contactors had written and discussed issues regarding their own sexuality within CI extensively. For instance, Jeff McMahon wrote an article for the Winter/Spring issue of Contact Quarterly in 1996 in which he described his experience with homosexuality in CI. On the other hand, in the same issue of CQ, Lori B and Steve Paxton contributed an interview with each other that was centered around sexuality within CI, including whether or not issues of sex should be addressed by teachers of CI, how each had handled uncomfortable situations with CI partners, and other relevant topics. What occurred to me was that touch and sexuality can be related, and therefore beginner improvisers might often get them confused. The area that continues to hold my interest has more to do with the social understanding of touch and intimacy, often private in nature, compared to the understanding of touch and intimacy within the Contact Improvisation dance. I am writing to you to ask you to participate in my research, to help me better understand a variety of opinions and perspectives about this topic. These questions listed below are designed to stimulate conversation, so I am asking you to improvise around the topics. Please also feel comfortable sharing these questions with other members of your Contact community so that I can get as broad a response as possible. Should you choose to participate, your responses may be anonymous, or if you choose to identify yourself, your identity will be kept confidential. However, at the invitation of Nancy Stark Smith, some responses or parts of responses may be selected to be published in a future issue of Contact Quarterly. Consequently, I would appreciate your decision to attach your name so you may be contacted regarding consent for publication. 1. When did you first come across Contact Improvisation? How old were you? What other movement experiences had you had? In what context did you meet CI? When you were beginning your involvement with Contact Improvisation, what were your initial feelings (about the form? about the body? about what was being asked of you?) Etc. 2. How was touch discussed with you when you were beginning Contact Improvisation? Did you have whole classes on the sensation of touch? Did you engage in exercises that helped you somatized touch? Were ways and kinds of touch ever discussed? Were issues of intimacy ever addressed? . 3. What were your initial responses to dancing in close proximity with other people? Did you find it familiar? New? Relaxed? Comfortable? Disconcerting? Troubling? Were there other locations (sports, etc.) in which you were familiar with intimate, non-sexual touch or something similar to your CI experience? What was your initial comfort level with these touch experiences and situations? 4. What discoveries did Contact Improv lead you to make about your body and the bodies of others? What did you discover regarding your feelings about touch? What were your feelings about touch in relation to your body and the bodies of others? Please feel free to provide any other relevant information regarding your experiences with Contact Improvisation. Thank you for helping with this survey. Please submit any responses to me at farrel_k@denison.edu, or by mail at Slayter Box 819, Denison University, Granville, OH 43023. I really appreciate receiving responses by October 24th. Kerry Farrell, farrel_k@denison.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/ci-announce/attachments/20031016/857ebc8c/attachment.html From cathypaine at movementworks.net Mon Oct 20 21:10:39 2003 From: cathypaine at movementworks.net (Cathy Paine) Date: Mon Oct 20 21:11:47 2003 Subject: [CI-Announce] Exploratorium reminder! Message-ID: <000001c39770$2c996e90$d3733841@MAX> What: Exploratorium - a twice monthly facilitated Contact/Movement Improvisation jam When: Sunday, October 26, from 3pm-5pm Where: Experimental Movement Concepts, 3618 Falls Road, Baltimore MD 21211 Cost: $3 This week's facilitator is Ofer Donchin, who will share with us some aikido practices as we move into our dancing selves. Many thanks to John and Audrey for providing October 12's exciting music collaboration - everyone there seemed to feel that this is a session be revisited! There is much fertile ground to be explored. I will be out of town this Sunday, but look forward to dancing with you all again on November 9th. Please make a note of the Poe-inspired dance concert at 2pm Sunday, November 2 at the BMA - this free performance features Exploratorium regulars Stacie Lanier, Audrey Chen and me, among others! Would Gretchen or Ofer collect the money please? And pay the $30 space rental for October to Stacie? If there isn't enough cash from this session (Some people still owe $3 from last time) then I will pay Stacie after I get back on October 29th. Happy dancing, Cathy P.S. Please make a note of my new email address! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/ci-announce/attachments/20031020/a5e32ed6/attachment.html From cathypaine at movementworks.net Tue Oct 21 09:58:10 2003 From: cathypaine at movementworks.net (Cathy Paine) Date: Tue Oct 21 09:59:14 2003 Subject: [CI-Announce] Announcement - 6 week Feldenkrais series Message-ID: <000501c397db$67902dc0$38e54a43@MAX> Feldenkrais Awareness Through MovementR Taught by Cathy Paine, M.A., CFT Fall II Classes 2003 Mondays, November 3 - December 8 7:30pm - 8:30pm Tuesdays, November 4 - December 9 7:30pm - 8:30pm Wednesdays, November 5 - December 10 1:00pm - 2:00pm Cost is $90 per 6 week session, or pay $20 per class. Classes are limited to 6 students and lessons are tailored to the needs and interests of the participants. Ongoing classes - you may join any time! Located in Oakenshawe, near North Charles Village, Guilford and Waverly. Private lessons are available by appointment. To register, or for information, please call 410/340-6370, or email cathypaine@movementworks.net. Discover how these fun and intriguing movement puzzles can improve the way you move! Cathy Paine, M.A., CFT is an award winning dance artist and movement coach. She has taught in England, Germany, Japan and Hong Kong, and on faculty at UMBC, Towson University, American University, UCLA, and the University of Montana. She has helped people with multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and Lyme's disease learn to move more comfortably and easily, and she specializes in working with musicians and dancers on improving performance and reducing discomfort and chronic injury. Her practice includes performing artists, office workers, and people recovering from injury or surgery. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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