[CI-Announce] ANDREW HARWOOD: Contact Improvisation Workshop, October 19-22, 2009, Schwelle7, Berlin/Germany

[J.B.]

Known – Unknown
Contact Improvisation Intensive Workshop with Andrew de Lotbinière  
Harwood
WHEN: October, 19-22, 2009, 12:00-18:30
WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany


KNOWN – UNKOWN

A movement laboratory – investigating improvisation, expression,  
composition and performance

Andrew Harwood: I view this workshop as an exhilarating and formidable  
adventure into the deeper layers of improvisational dance. Our goal is  
to find a sense of timelessness in our dancing - a state of  
consciousness that is aware but not self-conscious. Working with  
dancers in a collaborative fashion is exciting to me.  My desire is to  
draw out the creativity, individuality and integrity of each dancer  
while cultivating a team-like atmosphere. I wish to encourage the  
dancers to let their own imagination, spirit and presence shine and  
allow various performance qualities to emerge.

The realms where the known  and the unknown  converge are two distinct  
and yet complementary worlds, where a rich array of ideas, movements  
and images are merged and juxtaposed. Through various forms of  
improvisation, Contact Improvisation, composition and chance  
procedures we will practise instant inventiveness, make personal  
choices, refine our sensing skills and build material.  A series of  
schemes, games, images, states and structures will help dancers create  
a repertoire of  personal gestures and phrases and develop various  
improvisational strategies which in turn will become the framework for  
composing solo, duet and group material be it set or improvised or a  
combination of both. This entire process relies on the dancers  
willingness to listen to themselves and each other, to take risks, to  
call upon their confidence and to allow their skills as interpreters  
to come into focus.

WORKSHOP: http://www.schwelle7.de/Andrew.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.

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Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6, HH 1. OG
13357 Berlin/Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 30-4736 3500
http://www.schwelle7.de
Email: info (at) felixruckert.de
TRAFFIC LINK: UB Nauener Platz, Pankstr, Osloer Str, SB Gesundbrunnen


CV ANDREW HARWOOD

Andrew de Lotbinière Harwood is a leading international teacher,  
performer and creator in the field of instantaneous choreography,  
compositional improvisation and contact improvisation since 1975. He  
is the artistic director of AH HA Productions, a project oriented  
company dedicated to improvisation. Andrew studied, taught and  
performed with Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith and Nita Little, the  
founding members of Contact Improvisation. He also has a background in  
gymnastics, athletics, yoga, contemporary dance, somatic studies,  
release technique, compositional improvisation and Aikido. His work  
has been presented in numerous international festivals since 1980  
(Impuls Tanz, La Biennale de Venise, Festival Montpellier, Festival  
International de Nouvelle Danse., Festival des Antipodes,  
Improvisation Festival New York, Bates Dance Festival, Kontact  
Budapest, Jose Limon Dance Festival, etc.). Andrew danced for the  
companies of Fulcrum, Jo Lechay, Marie Chouinard, Jean-Pierre  
Perreault, and the improvisational ensemble The Echo Case. He has also  
collaborated in performance with Chris Aiken, Peter Bingham, Kirstie  
Simson, Ray Chung, Lisa Nelson, Mark Tompkins, Benoit Lachambre, Lin  
Snelling and Ginette Laurin among many others. He is the recipient of  
the Canada Council’s Jacqueline-Lemieux award for the year 2000.


  
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