[CI-Announce] A Contact Improvisation workshop!

[Cathy Paine]

!ANNOUNCEMENT!

 

 

What:   A Contact Improvisation skills workshop, taught by experienced
dance/contact improviser 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

 

This workshop is open to everyone (no previous dance training required) and
is offered in response to the overwhelming interest generated by the first
meeting of the Exploratorium on Sunday, 9/14. Thanks to all of you who
attended, as well as to the many who emailed their intention of attending
the next exploratorium on 9/28!

 

 

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

 

Contact Improvisation is a 30 year old form of movement improvisation first
developed by American contemporary dancers Steve Paxton and Nancy Stark
Smith, and is currently practiced, taught and performed throughout the
world.

 

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!)

 

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 professional dancer, teacher, choreographer and performance
improviser, and a certified FeldenkraisR practitioner specializing in
working with creative and performing artists. Cathy first performed in
Baltimore in 1978, at Theatre Project, under the auspices of Philip Arnoult,
with her D.C. based dance company Cathy Paine & Friends. Twenty years later,
a resident of Baltimore, she received Theatre Project's 1998 "Outstanding
Choreography" Award. She is the founder and director of Movement
Incorporated, a non-profit arts organization in Baltimore supporting
experimental and improvisational dance, movement and performance, and she
has recently been featured 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, used as a model for dance improvisation festivals in Richmond,
Philadelphia and Carrboro, NC. Her most recent performance, with musician
John Berndt, took place in the ATM lobby of a Bank of America; upcoming
performances are scheduled at Dance Place and the Baltimore Museum of Art.
For information about performances, workshops, classes, Feldenkrais, or the
Exploratorium, please email cathypaine at mindspring.com.    

 

 

 

 

 

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