From patrick at patrickcrowley.net Tue Oct 13 22:39:18 2009 From: patrick at patrickcrowley.net (Patrick Crowley) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:39:18 -0400 Subject: [CI-Announce] Contact Improvisation Essential: fundamentals weekend wksp w/ Patrick Crowley 11/19-22 Message-ID: <7E15D8A2-6F71-4F19-83FC-A67DBBFD4FC0@patrickcrowley.net> Dear friends, Please pass this along to those who might be interested, particularly those who want fundamentals or people new to the form. Thanks, Patrick CONTACT IMPROVISATION ESSENTIALS A Weekend Workshop in CI Fundamentals with Patrick Crowley November 19 - 22 (2 or 3 day option) @ Earthdance in Plainfield, MA Come for a weekend of embodiment, skill building, and play though the practice of this magical form. We begin with fundamental principles of movement including: alignment, release of the muscles, weight sharing, supporting, gravity/momentum exporations, and aerial work. These become the building blocks for experiencing states of physical and artistic freedom. Bodywork, improvisation scores, and individual attention will also be a part of the weekend. For beginners & those with experience. New Performance Series 12345+ Earthdance with Patrick Crowley & Kirstie Simson & others 6pm Dinner, Discourse, 8pm Performance Saturday, November 21 Register: www.earthdance.com or call (413) 634-5678 Patrick Crowley patrick at patrickcrowley.net 617.320.9792 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From xs4jan at gmx.de Tue Oct 13 15:39:01 2009 From: xs4jan at gmx.de (J.B.) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:39:01 +0200 Subject: [CI-Announce] DANIEL LEPKOFF: Improvisation Workshop, November 23-27, 2009, Schwelle7, Berlin/Germany Message-ID: <81B7B5FA-67F3-4757-A580-D7796EED3983@gmx.de> DANIEL LEPKOFF: Improvisation Workshop, November 23-27, 2009, Schwelle7, Berlin/Germany Foundations of Improvisation 5 day intensive Improvisation Workshop with Daniel Lepkoff WHEN: Monday ? Friday, November, 23-27, 2009, 12 am ? 6 pm WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany FOUNDATIONS OF IMPROVISATION Researching Movement, Mind & Flow of Information This work examines the basic functioning of the body and how the mind and body work together to compose our movement. Whatever is happening, at any moment, is appreciated as an intelligent response to our present moment and as material that can be placed in a dance frame. The workshop provides tools for researching your own movement choices, and developing ones powers of observation. Developmental movement patterns such as: walking, rolling, crawling, running, pushing, and pulling form a base vocabulary used to re- simulate and re-examine our body's deep understanding of how to move. ?The movement of our attention." is our primary tool for our research. Structured explorations offer ways to re-focus on particular details of our sensory experience, perceptions, and actions. We open to all aspects of our experience: gravity, touch, vision, sound, time, & the imagination. In these ways we re-form our images and understandings of what is going on when we move. Our physical research is a base for spontaneous composition. Material developed in the workshop will be presented to the public in an Informal showing at the end of the week, Friday, 27 at 8:30 pm, Our focus will be live performance as a venue and vehicle for sharing information We will use this opportunity to think about the nature of improvising in performance and to consider what is happening physically in the minds and bodies the performers and audience members in the theater. WORKSHOP: http://www.schwelle7.de/Daniel%20Lepkoff.html REGISTRATION: xs4jan (at) gmx.de PRICE: 200 EUR SLEEPING: We can host up workshop participants in our special sleeping cocoons. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person. ----------- LOCATION -------- Schwelle 7 Uferstra?e 6 HH 1. OG 13357 Berlin/Germany Phone: +49 (0) 173 - 6118404 http://www.schwelle7.de Email: info (at) felixruckert.de TRAFFIC LINK: UB Nauener Platz, Pankstr, Osloer Str, SB Gesundbrunnen ----------------------- THOUGHTS ABOUT THE WORK & PERFORMANCE by Daniel Lepkoff ?As a maker of dances, a designer of theater and an improvising performer, I am not specifically interested in presenting ?dance? movement on the stage. What is happening at any moment, I see as possible material that can be placed in a dance frame. Each of us exists in an on-going physical dialogue with our environment, tuning to the details and nuance of our own and each others? movement behavior and to the conditions of our present moment. We observe, we feel, and we act. We create our own images and construct our own understandings. Ordinarily this activity is unconscious. In the theater I want to stimulate audience and performer alike to consciously and actively create their own images, and so my work is designed not to tell the audience what it is they are looking at. Inside of a moment of disorientation, of not knowing, lies an opportunity for a person in the theater to create their own story. In these times, we are surrounded by media images designed by others to manipulate our attention and to control what we know and do not know. As an artist, the performance event offers me an opportunity to create, Empty Space.? ------------------------------ CV DANIEL LEPKOFF's work looks at "all" of our movement as a finely tuned physical dialogue with the environment and explores the form and composition of this interaction. He played a central role in the development of Release Technique with Mary Fulkerson and Contact Improvisation with Steve Paxton since the early 70?s. Throughout the 70?s and 80?s he traveled extensively; actively teaching, performing, and exposing this new work and new ideas to audiences worldwide. As a performer and teacher he is known for his commitment to a way of composing dances that arises from the process of living movement, a vision of living in the body in a physical dialogue with the environment He is one of the founders of Movement Research in NYC. In the 80's Daniel was a member of the New York based improvisational performance ensemble ?Channel Z? from 1982 to 1987. Channel-Z?s members included: Robin Feld, Paul Langland, Daniel Lepkoff, Diane Madden, Nina Martin, Stephen Petronio, & Randy Warshaw. Over the years he has collaborated with many other artists and performers including: Lisa Nelson, Steve Paxton; Paul Langland, Saira Blanche Theater in Moscow (Oleg Soulimenko and Andrej Andrianov), Lux Flux in Vienna (Inge Kandlsdorfer, Annette Pffeferkorn and Jack Hauser) and Japanese dancer, Sakura Shimada, among others. His own work has been seen in NY at PS122, The Kitchen, Movement Research, DTW & Danspace. He has received grants for The Robison Foundation & The Suitcase Fund. In 2002 he was the artistic director and co-produced (together with Mira Kovarova) of "Physical Dialogues" a dance festival in Bratislava focusing on alternative systems for researching movement. He has published numerous articles articulating concepts that are central to his own work, these writing appear in CQ, The MR Performance Journal and Contredanse Publications in Bruxelles. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: