From xs4jan at gmx.de Tue Nov 2 13:38:06 2010 From: xs4jan at gmx.de (J.B.) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 13:38:06 +0100 Subject: [CI-Announce] DANIEL LEPKOFF: Improvisation Workshop, November 22-26, 2010, Schwelle7, Berlin/Germany Message-ID: <474E87D3-DCCB-4FF8-88D2-53CF75B70A7C@gmx.de> PLEASE forward to friends, collegues and groups OR publish on your website, thanks Jan ***************** Foundations of Improvisation 5 day intensive Improvisation Workshop with Daniel Lepkoff WHEN: Monday ? Friday, November, 22-26, 2010, 12 am ? 6 pm WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany FOUNDATIONS OF IMPROVISATION Researching Movement, Mind & Flow of Information ?I view dancing as the imagination acting through the body. My work examines how the mind and body act together to compose our movement. Whatever is happening, at any moment, is appreciated as an intelligent response to one's present moment and as material that can be placed in a dance frame. The workshop provides tools and situations for researching your own movement choices and developing your powers of observation. I am an improvising performer and my own reference point in creating and practicing this work is to develop a performance practice. However these techniques can be easily applied by anyone interested in making dances or dancing, as well as people with a curiosity about the creative process and an appetite for being physical.? ?The material is drawn directly from my own movement research which has it's roots in seminal the work I began in the '70's with the early developments of both Anatomical Release Technique and Contact Improvisation, as well as the work of Steve Paxton, and the work of Lisa Nelson.? We will divide our 6 hours of studio time into two work sessions with a break in between: I. The Movement of our Attention - Ordinarily we are unconscious of the movement of our attention and so do not notice how we constantly scan our environment, with all of our senses, for information. This facility is often under utilized. Through practice we can cultivate and strengthen our innate ability to observation and access new perceptions and physical understanding of where we are and where we can go. For a dancer it is a key to movement invention and research. We work with an combination of stillness and movement to research and delve into the details of how the mind composes physical images, movement desires, and ultimately organizes our body to move. Aspects of stillness can be found within movement and inside of a stillness one finds a moving state. We work specifically with the constructive rest position in connection with deeply reflex ordinary movements such as: breathing, crawling, walking and running. Gradually we building a clear and visceral link between high energy action and deep seamless observation. II. Moving the Environment - The visible boundaries of our body are transparent to the force of gravity. The forces that we feel within our body, (compression or stretch) do not know the difference between what is us and what is our environment. We move ourselves by extending our energy into the environment. The environment answers. We move it and it moves us. This duality offers an extended dimension to our awareness and understanding of what is happening in our dancing as we navigate through time and space. We will work with objects (both large and small) and each other to explore extending our architecture and expressing force and intention into the environment. Our work forms a base for a shared physical language and and supports creating spontaneous compositions in solo, duet, or group. For more detailed information on Daniel's work go to: www.daniellepkoff.com Material developed in the workshop will be presented to the public in an Informal showing at the end of the week, Friday, 26 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: 150 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, Aufgang links, 1. OG 13357 Berlin ? Wedding (N?he Uferstudios) http://www.schwelle7.de http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=286059761953 Schwelle 7 ? Cie. Felix Ruckert Berlin e.V. Artistic & Managing Director: Felix Ruckert info at felixruckert.de Trafic Link: U8 Pankstra?e, U9 Osloer Stra?e, U9 Nauener Platz, SB Gesundbrunnen, SB Humboldthain, Bus M27 Brunnenplatz http://maps.google.de/maps?daddr=13357+Berlin,+Uferstr+6 ----------------------- 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: