[CI-Announce] August 9 -15, Dancing Wilderness Project w/Karl Frost

[Karl Frost]

The Dancing Wilderness Project
 August 9-15
 N Cascade Mountains, Washington
    with Karl Frost

'since 1997, an ongoing investigation into the interrelationships amongst
wilderness experience, body-based creative process, and how we choose to
live our lives.

The Dancing Wilderness Labs are organized as a mixture of wilderness
backpacking trip and dance workshop/laboratory exploring:

    * Nature as source of metaphor and inspiration for movement and image
    * Quiet experience of nature as food for the soul
    * Finding a different sense of space, time, and relationship away from
civilization
    * Dance not simply about the environment, but with it
    * Extrapolating our knowledge and practice of dance and creative
process in the studio to new environments: forest and mountain top as the
stage and earth, pine needles, and rock as the floor.


The trips are experiential explorations meant to feed our ongoing creative
process and to expand appreciation of our place in the larger natural world
-- an organic flow of structured and open time, hiking and dancing, group
time and space for quietly receptive experience. In the calm opening of the
senses that prolonged time in the wilderness brings, we find a more direct
connection with our body and surroundings. Principles and structures from
Contact Improvisation, Authentic Movement, and other interdisciplinary
awareness and creative practices serve to give us a base from which we
explore in the spirit of open laboratory, both as a group and as
individuals.

While all are assumed to have some previous exposure to both body-based
creative explorations and wilderness time, there are usually a variety of
levels of experience with people bringing with them different strengths,
some more experienced movers, some with more wilderness experience.

The trip fees are $395 -$500 sliding scale, $295 for early enrollment. 
Carpooling to the trailhead from Seattle.  Fees include breakfasts and
dinners, though we all share in the work of meal prep and clean and hiking
in food. everyone is expected to have their own gear and to take care of
their own snacks and lunch.

Trip finishes at Goldmyer Hot Springs

For more information, go to www.bodyresearch.org/dancingwilderness or
write to info at bodyresearch.org

Karl Frost is the artistic director of Body research and Founded the
Dancing Wilderness Project in 1997 as a venue for performance and
experiential movement laboratory in nature.  He has been teaching Contact
Improvisation  and directing experimental theater since the late 80s and
regularly tours internationally.  he is currently pursuing seperate
graduate degrees in both Choreography and Ecology and UC Davis.

Please forward on to any who might have interest.

PS. For those interesting in Contact Improvisation, check out the 3rd
Sierra Contact Festival, August 20-25 at Sierra Hot Springs in Tahoe
National Forest, California.

www.bodyresearch.org for info