From cyrus2 at phffft.org Mon Jun 13 17:46:39 2005 From: cyrus2 at phffft.org (Cyrus Khambatta) Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 08:46:39 -0700 Subject: [CI-Announce] FW: Message-ID: A few places are still left for those interested ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- July 30-August 6 Wild Meadows Improvisation Lab Retreat Schellsburg, PA VISIT THE WEBSITE: http://www.phffft.org/WMeadows.htm This lab retreat will bring together those interested in the practice of Contact Improvisation and related improvisation forms to focus for one week on areas of interest chosen by the participants. The content of the lab will be agreed upon by the participants before arriving at Wild Meadows. Participants will propose by email focus areas for work they would like to address or share during the retreat and a schedule will be set based on the interest within the group of participants to the various subjects proposed. This will give participants the opportunity to receive a plurality of positions and subject material using a group investigative approach. Wild Meadows, surrounded by 200 acres of secluded mountains ranges, and fertile valleys near the Allegheny mountains, is the ideal location for reflective thought and investigation into the Contact Improvisation practice and art form. Some previous experience is requested as this will result in the greatest exploration potential as an ensemble. Break periods will be scheduled to enable participants to take in the glorious natural surrounding of the farm and its cultural heritage. The area is home to Amish, Mennonites and Quakers. Also nearby are Architect, Frank Lloyd Wright?s Falling Waters built with a creek running under it. Food is included in the cost and will be communally prepared. Each participant will be requested to assist in the preparation of 2-3 lunch/dinner meals (with workstudy assistance) during the week-long retreat. The retreat will be facilitated by Cyrus Khambatta and other improvisers who will attend the retreat. Cyrus will provide one of the break-out sessions scheduled during the week along with the other participants. Possible subject areas to address include: * Relationship of a fluid physical practice to mental flexibility and creativity * The Dive-in vs. the slow-go models/ways of learning and confronting fear. * Activating spatial energy/relationship while remaining connected to a partner * Trio Partnering * Group partnering (seamlessly integrating more than three partners) * What elements are necessary to find enjoyment in every dance (despite level/compatibility of partner) * What role do archetypes play into the contact relationship. * Enjoying/engaging the backspace * Site specific dancing * Contact as a contemplative practice COST: $225 includes everything except travel (NEW! Pay online ) DEPOSIT: ($75 deposit due by July 1st) DISCOUNT: $200 if full amount paid before July 1. WORKSTUDY: Two positions available on first-come first serve TRAVEL: Participants can arrange with others coming from the nearby cities of Washington D.C. New York City, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The farm is 2.5 hours from Washington D.C., 5 hours from New York City, 3.5 hours from Philadelphia and 2 hours from Pittsburgh. There are also buses and trains to Altoona or Breezewood near the farm where pick ups can be made. CONTACT: for more information, email Cyrus at info at phffft.org or by phone at the numbers below: NEW YORK CITY: (212) 404-7808 SEATTLE: (206) 935-0459 Cyrus is a co-curator of The D.C. Improvisation festival and has performed at improvisation festivals internationally. His six-member dance company, which just returned from Europe, presents contact-based choreography and improvisation as an art form unto itself. For more information, please visit the company?s website at www.phffft.org Cyrus Khambatta Artistic Director The Phffft! Dance Theatre Company www.PHFFFT.org 212.404.7808 (NYC) 206.935.0459 (Seattle) 5609 34th Ave SW Seattle, WA 98126 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/ci-announce/attachments/20050613/4df625e2/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 530 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.python.org/pipermail/ci-announce/attachments/20050613/4df625e2/attachment-0001.gif -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 12146 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.python.org/pipermail/ci-announce/attachments/20050613/4df625e2/attachment-0001.jpe From ken.manheimer at gmail.com Wed Jun 29 01:00:59 2005 From: ken.manheimer at gmail.com (Ken Manheimer) Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 19:00:59 -0400 Subject: [CI-Announce] Fwd: [ci-catchall] West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival starts this week! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2cd46e7f05062816001db53124@mail.gmail.com> (ci-announce redistributes to several lists, including ci-catchall and also the dc, philadelphia, new york, and maybe other lists, i don't remember at the moment. ken manheimer ken.manheimer at gmail.com) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Vitali Kononov Date: Jun 28, 2005 6:18 PM Subject: [ci-catchall] West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival starts this week! To: contact-improv-catchall at yahoogroups.com Hello everyone, I am forwarding to you this reminder by the request of the WCCIF 2005 organisers. Vitali ========================================================= Please forward this to any of your friends or lists that might be interested in participating. =========================================================== Attention For Immediate Release Contact: Phillip T. Nails 415-518-6099 email: thomasnails at yahoo.com The 17th Annual West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival In Berkeley's 8th Street Studios June 30th through July 5th, 2005. (Berkeley, CA) From June 30th through July 5th, 2005, over thirty of the West Coast's finest Contact Improvisation teachers offer five days of superb Contact Improvisation classes, performances, discussions, and teaching labs at 8th Street Studios in Berkeley. Contact Improvisation is a unique dance form in which practitioners spontaneously create movement material with one or more partners coming into and out of physical contact. It began in 1972 as a performed motion experiment called Magnesium. The West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival (WCCIF) is an annual highlight of the Bay Area alternative dance scene. Contact Improvisation is grass roots, community-based art form that sprang out of New York City's revolutionary New Dance scene in the early 1970s. Since that time, Contact Improvisation, "a worldwide movement of its own*" has rooted itself in hundreds of communities across the globe; it is a popular movement form throughout Western and Eastern Europe, South America, Australia, and New Zealand, and is making strong inroads into the dance scenes of Japan, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The influence of Contact Improvisation's fluid, weight-sharing, and aerial partnering style is unmistakable in contemporary choreography. For over a decade, the WCCIF has been a vital forum in the United States for fostering and disseminating this art form. This year's festival is no exception. The most experienced and well known Contact Improvisation teachers and dancers in the Western United States will teach and perform for a growing number of Bay Area Dance connoisseurs. And this year, the Festival also features four separate multiple-day intensives for every level dancer. Please see our website at www.wccif.com for course descriptions, full schedule of events, and further registration information. Public contact: 415-789-7677 or email: info at wccif.com *Stefanie Kalem From "How Touching" East Bay Express. June 30th, 2004 Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/contact-improv-catchall/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: contact-improv-catchall-unsubscribe at yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! 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