From nicolebindler at gmail.com Tue Apr 5 04:56:14 2011 From: nicolebindler at gmail.com (nicole bindler) Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 22:56:14 -0400 Subject: [CI-Announce] Save the date - Wild Meadows Improvisation Intensive 2011 Message-ID: Wild Meadows Improvisation Intensive 2011 Schellsburg, PA, June 25 - July 3 Join members of SPAN: Spontaneous Performing Artists Network, a national group of improvising artists, June 25-July 3rd, 2011 for an intensive exploration of improvisation through somatic modalities, Contact Improvisation, site-specific exploration and performance. Located at Wild Meadows Farm in Schellsburg, PA, and surrounded by 200 acres of secluded mountain ranges and fertile valleys near the Allegheny Mountains, the intensive will provide ample opportunities to nurture, expand and challenge your improvisation practice. Activities will include classes in: Contact Improvisation, improvisational performance, developing site specific approaches, the Bartenieff Fundamentals, Six Viewpoints and Authentic Movement. FACILITATORS: Nicole Bindler (Philadelphia) Cyrus Khambatta (Seattle) Sharon Mansur (Washington, DC) GENERAL INFORMATION: Wild Meadows is surrounded by secluded mountains ranges and fertile valleys, an ideal location for reflective thought and investigation into the practice of improvisation. Some previous experience is requested. Break periods will be scheduled to enable participants to take in the glorious natural surrounding of the farm. FOOD: is included and will be communally prepared. Each participant will be requested to assist in the preparation of 2-3 lunch/dinner meals (with work study assistance). TRAVEL: 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 where pick ups can be made. COST: Early registration sliding scale: $250 - $400 (full payment due by May 1st) Regular registration sliding scale: $275 - $425 ($75 deposit due by May 1st) DEPOSIT: $75 deposit due by May 1st, remaining amount due by June 15th You're welcome to pay whatever you can afford within the sliding scale. Please keep in mind when choosing your fee that the market rate for a retreat of this scope is $400 or higher. We're offering a sliding scale rate to include folks with varying incomes. *Cost includes all..... food, lodging, and workshop......except travel To pay online: www.phffft.org/wmeadows.htm (website to be updated soon) Checks should be made payable to: The Phffft! Dance Theatre Company and sent to: Cyrus Khambatta, 5609 34th Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98126 WORKSTUDY: Two positions available, first-come first serve for a discounted rate of $200. Note: Full payment needed to secure w/s spot. Please email Wildmeadows at PHFFFT.org a few sentences about your interest in the retreat and financial need. CONTACT: Questions? Please contact us: register at PHFFFT.org To learn more about the facilitators, see the Wild Meadows website and their individual websit es: Nicole Bindler www.nicolebindler.com Cyrus Khambatta www.phffft.org Sharon Mansur www.mansurdance.com Wild Meadows Farm 456 Smith Road Schellsburg, PA 15559 E-mail: Wildmeadows at PHFFFT.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From xs4jan at gmx.de Wed Apr 6 12:10:49 2011 From: xs4jan at gmx.de (J.B.) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 12:10:49 +0200 Subject: [CI-Announce] =?windows-1252?q?Workshop_RE-EDUCATION_OF_THE_BODY_?= =?windows-1252?q?=96_Klein_Technique_as_taught_by_BARBARA_MAHLER=2C_June_?= =?windows-1252?q?13-17=2C2011=2C_Schwelle7=2C_Berlin/Germany?= Message-ID: RE-EDUCATION OF THE BODY ? Klein Technique as taught by BARBARA MAHLER Workshop by Barbara Mahler, Schwelle7, Berlin/Germany daily Monday, June 13th - Friday, June 17th, 2011 Schedule - morning class: 11:30am-2pm + afternoon class: 3:30-6 RE-EDUCATION OF THE BODY ? Klein Technique as taught by Barbara Mahler In the morning portion of this workshop we will focus on a movement technique that works with the premise that the requirements of movement in daily life and dance are essentially the same, and will provide the underpinnings to support all styles of movement/technique and improvisation. The purpose of the ?stretch and placement? class is to re-educate one's body with an interweaving of theory and practice on a physical, intellectual, and organic level. The result is a clarity and sureness of movement, and a new level of understanding the innate intelligence of the body. It has its roots in 30 plus years of investigating and teaching the essentials for efficient body use. We work at the level of the bone, not the traditional level of the muscles. In order to move most efficiently it is necessary to let go of the muscles that hold us back from moving and fix the body into a set and locked configuration. When the bones are aligned we become connected, powerful and strong. The body becomes efficient and alive. In the afternoon class we will focus on the practice of the principles explored in the morning, working with improvisation and movement exploration, leading us towards the formulation of an informal performance/showing. The movement will be created by the participants of the workshop. One of the ideas we will work with are various initiations in the body to better facilitate movement sequencing, becoming both grounded and free. As the work also focuses on helping each individual student work with their own body structure we will enjoy both a consistency and surprise in the our movement. PERFORMANCE: The workshop will culminate in a performance/showing of the explored material, Friday, June 17, at 8:30 pm with a group piece of the students. BARBARA MAHLER Barbara Mahler has taught daily classes for 27 years plus, educating and teaching (with, and inspired by, Susan Klein) a generation of dancers. She has traveled extensively around the globe, teaching/ performing/choreographing, widely respected and. active in the development contemporary dance technique. Essentially self-taught, she brings to her classes the perspective, understanding and experience of working on her own movement re-education. Barbara was a Movement Research artist in residence for the 2000-01 and 2006-08 season, is a movement consultant at Hunter College, NYC, and is on the artist advisory board of BAX. She is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the University Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She also maintains a private practice in Zero Balancing and other healing modalities. ?Mahler, a noted teacher, views dance training as a voyage of self- discovery. Barbara Mahler roots her choreography in distillation, as if she aims to extract the essence of her ideas, making them calmer and purer. The image is that of a seesaw in perfect, unwavering equilibrium, a woman at ease in control.?(Village Voice 2007) http://www.barbaramahler.net UDDATES: http://www.schwelle7.de/Barbara%20Mahler.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, backyard, left site, 2. floor 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 From saliq at wiremonkeydance.com Thu Apr 14 22:19:49 2011 From: saliq at wiremonkeydance.com (Francis Savage) Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:19:49 -0400 Subject: [CI-Announce] Wire Monkey Dance in RE- at A.P.E. April 28, 29, 30 References: <27E9C31B-E10B-4C44-8F72-239F91928F46@wiremonkeydance.com> Message-ID: <8BC61340-A13A-4FA3-8953-49C6BF9F6BA4@wiremonkeydance.com> Wire Monkey Dance will premiere RE- Thursday-Saturday April 28-30, 8 PM Gallery hours Tuesday-Friday, April 26-29, 12-4 PM A.P.E. at Window, 126 Main Street, Northampton, MA $15/ $7 performance, gallery hours free Reservations: 413-586-5553 for more information follow this link www.wiremonkeydance.com > Wire Monkey Dance presents RE: a dance/video installation at A.P.E. at Window, 126 Main St, Northampton, on Thursday April 28, Friday April 29 and Saturday April 30 at 8pm. Tickets are $15/$7 students/seniors. Space is limited; call the A.P.E. box office at 413-586- 5553 for reservations. This intimate and epic work features dancing by long time collaborative directors Jennifer Polins and Saliq Francis Savage, joined by Cynthia Mclaughlin and Justin Norris. Berlin based videographer Yoann Trellu replaces the company?s signature metallic scaffolding landscape with a vast and layered interactive video and audio environment that the dancers navigate through. A.P.E.?s long white walls are transformed into video montages amplifying and altering events to re-cord, re-peat and re-imagine the moment. Open gallery hours tue-fri 12-4, allow the public to experience the interactive computer machines that play with time lapse technologies, duplicating images of self, and bending sound. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 6x9 Re card V6.jpeg Type: image/jpg Size: 83406 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 6x9 card back V4.jpeg Type: image/jpg Size: 85855 bytes Desc: not available URL: From xs4jan at gmx.de Wed Apr 20 12:03:36 2011 From: xs4jan at gmx.de (J.B.) Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:03:36 +0200 Subject: [CI-Announce] Workshop by NITA LITTLE: ARTiculating Presence: The Tactile Mind(Body), June 20-24, 2011, Schwelle 7, Berlin/Germany Message-ID: ARTiculating Presence: The Tactile Mind(Body) 5 day intensive workshop with NITA LITTLE WHEN: Monday, June 20th to Friday 24th, 2011 Workshop daily from12 am - 6 pm Improvisational Performance: June 24th, 8:30 pm UPDATES: http://www.schwelle7.de/Nita%20Little.html WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany (adress below) ARTiculating Presence: The Tactile Mind(Body) Creative acts of the embodied mind are the means by which dancers non- verbally interrogate borders, enter other bodies, and define the dimensions of internal and external space. Through mindful acts, identities appear then vanish, self-knowing becomes a playground and environments merge with inner space. Working with the mind of the dance and the dance of the mind, this highly physical workshop will take us to the edge of our boundary definitions as it encourages bold acts of physical and mental extension. Building movement potentialities that encompass the tactile physicality of mind, this workshop trains creative action in ensemble dance improvisation and Contact Improvisation. Geared toward interpersonal actions within an ecological and enactive understanding of selfhood, it will ask that dancers become highly tuned to re-cognizing context and its making. Here, we will learn to act with the kind of creative support that clarifies our purpose and our presence, bringing the world and the dance to life. We will reach to find the materials of non-verbal communication as we explore the agency of presence, the speed of awareness, unconscious cognition, and the conditions of environmental imagination. This workshop bridges full physicality and enhanced technical skill building with changing states of awareness. We will move within a spectral array of movement possibilities as we balance the softening of physical release with the clarity of directed action. The purpose of this workshop is to inform your dance research by challenging binary ideologies as we expose the mindbody to new potentialities. Structured to train technical as well as creative skills, this workshop will build toward an improvisational performance. Each day will be spent in theoretical discussion and physical/mental training as well as composition and practice. In this work we will investigate the resonant webs of awareness derived from movement scores that direct and modulate attention as the bases for compositional structures. PERFORMANCE This workshop will culminate in a performance. We will be developing works constructed by students, duets based on the Geometry of Attention, and a score for the ensemble, Restless Peace. NITA LITTLE Nita Little engages in an investigation of the dynamic aspects of embodied states through the performance, pedagogy, and creative research of dance improvisaton. She participated with Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith and others, in the explorations that became Contact Improvisation in 1972 and has been significant in its emergence and development. Her work on the embodied mind and the ?meaning? of attention dates back to the early 80s when she initiated a curriculum, The Mind in Motion. This work explores the range of experiential states of the embodied mind and reveals principles that define Contact Improvisation as well as ensemble dancing. She collaborated in numerous performing companies introducing Contact Improvisation throughout the United States and then initiated a number of performance groups. Her performance practice is a mix of both formal and improvisational choreography that utilizes scores. Nita has received funding and support through the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, and the NEA/Dance USA National College Choreography Initiative. Over the years Nita has been both faculty and guest artist at numerous colleges and universities including New York University, California Institute for the Arts, Texas Christian University, Temple University, Tufts University, Scripps College and UC Santa Barbara. Nita teaches and performs regularly at national and international dance festivals, previously: S?o Paulo Meeting, The Rio Festival, Rio de Janeiro, ImPulsTanz, Vienna, The Side Step Festival, Helsinki, Kontakt Budapest International Improvisation Festival, ContactFestival Freiburg, Germany, the Zip Festival, Italy, the Seattle Festival of Alternative Dance and Improvisation and the West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival, Berkeley California. Nita is a PhD candidate and is writing her dissertation toward her doctorate in Performance Studies at The University of California, Davis. MORE: http://www.nitalittle.com/ FEE: 150 Euro REGISTER: per email to xs4jan at gmx.de SLEEPING: We can host up workshop participants basic opportunities to stay overnight. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person. More options: http://www.schwelle7.de/GAESTE.html LOCATION Schwelle 7 Uferstra?e 6, backyard, left site, 2. floor 13357 Berlin ? 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