From xs4jan at gmx.de Fri Mar 4 14:35:33 2011 From: xs4jan at gmx.de (J.B.) Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 14:35:33 +0100 Subject: [CI-Announce] Call for applications: Touch&Play Experiment 2011, Spain Message-ID: <9EE34248-95B7-4534-837D-309A305C0F24@gmx.de> To all you Contacters, Touchers and Players out there, The following is an open invitation to apply to become a researcher at this years? Touch&Play event ? to be held in Cardona, near Barcelona, from 18-27 June 2011. Continued by a Post Festival Intensive Workshop by Karl Frost 29th june - 2nd July. The Touch&Play Project breaks open Contact?s physicality to touch and play with the human chemistry that lies beneath. Together we will be investigating those aspects of CI that are so often taken for granted or shied away from in our jams, classes and communities. We will be looking at the intimacy involved in creating close and improvised physical contact with another person. We will research the impact of emotions on our dances, engage with our hormones and fears, explore our sensuality by bringing our senses into the game, and create a safe and consensual space for people to investigate the place of sexuality in their dance and play. The format for this event differs from last year?s festival and is divided into two parts, with the main festival (23-27 June) preceded by a research experiment (18-23 June) for a select group (+/- 35 people) of CI and other related teachers and dedicated practitioners. To achieve a stimulating balance of interests and expertise experimenters will be selected by application. Together, through a series of labs, talks, focus jams and other activities, we will spend four full days researching the (al)chemical body and how it relates to Contact. To those that are selected the Touch&Play Experiment is offered free of charge. Researchers are however expected to stay on for the festival (normal price ?250,-). The most interesting and popular experiments will have the chance to present at the festival. All experimenters will be able to contribute something e.g. by facilitating a themed jam, playing music, documenting, leading a discussion, etc. A number of work exchange places are available for people who would otherwise be prevented from coming for financial reasons. We also have substantial funds to help pay for some of your travel expenses. To apply, send us an email with details of your relevant experience and interests, a photo, a short bio (150 words) and a proposal of what you?d like to contribute during the Experiment/Festival. Applications are now open and can be sent to research at touchandplay.org . We need to receive your proposal by the 7th for you to quality for our first round of positions. General registration opens on March 15th and anyone interested will be able to apply for the remaining research positions. Considering last year?s success these might go very quickly. Fuller information about the application process is available on our website: http://www.2011.touchandplay.org/what/experiment/ Touching & Playfully yours, Daniel Hayes and Jenny Moy research at touchandplay.org http://www.touchandplay.org From ken.manheimer at gmail.com Wed Mar 16 23:43:07 2011 From: ken.manheimer at gmail.com (ken manheimer) Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:43:07 -0400 Subject: [CI-Announce] Earthdance Spring & Summer 2011 programs Message-ID: earthdance is a unique, dance-focused workshop and retreat center in western massachusetts that has contact improv at its core. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Earthdance Date: Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:31 PM Subject: EGISTER NOW! Spring & Summer 2011 @ EARTHDANCE To: ken.manheimer at gmail.com *EARTHDANCE* *SPRING/SUMMER PROGRAMS 2011 www.earthdance.net * *April 8 - 10 Nanm Dance and Rhythm Workshop, an Afro-Haitian Journey with Julio Jean and Johnny Scovel * * * "Nanm" is the word for *soul *in Haitian Kreyol. This weekend workshop invites participants on a soulful journey to explore the dances, songs, and rhythms that are associated particular Haitian deities and traditional rituals. Separate dance - always with live drumming - and drum classes will provide the opportunity to delve intensively into both aspects of the form. For beginners to the world of the African Diaspora dances or for experienced students, this workshop is a unique opportunity to immerse yourself and deepen your understanding of this most mystic of art forms. *May 6 - 8 Earthdance Community Meeting & Work Weekend * This is a time when we gather at Earthdance in order to: - Work on the land, clean up the grounds, work in the garden, continue renovations, and prepare for Summer! - Talk about Earthdance , plan for the organization's future, discuss who we are and where we are going. - Dance, of course, and play music, and improvise. - Tell stories, share amongst the generations that have cherished this special place. - Celebrate the amazing journey of this organization and community!! If you are a part of Earthdance or want to be, then please consider joining us for this important discussion. photo: Michael Weintrob *May18 - 22 Community Building and Dance Making with Onye Ozuzu (assisted by Gabriel Todd). * This workshop will explore the circle as a structure for performed improvisation. The circle as it functions in human, social engagements will emerge as a foundational and fluid tool for the crafting of layered, powerful individual and communal performance. We will work with contemporary dance movement, singing, writing, story-telling and drawing in an integrated process toward a group performance of improvised sophistication. *Onye Ozuzu* is a performing artist, choreographer, educator and researcher. Her body of work fuses modern dance, West African dance, Japanese and Chinese martial arts, yoga, improvisational performance, literature and cultural studies. Gabriel Todd will be joining the Technology of the Circle Workshop as a collaborator bringing expertise in ensemble and community building through voice, body percussion, and polyrhythmic music making. *May 19 - 22 Contact Improvisation: The Fundamentals with Moti Zemelman, Lani Nahele, Dey Summer, & Neige Christenson * * * Join four long-term CI enthusiasts offering a variety of perspectives on the fundamental elements of contact improvisation. Open to beginners and those who wish to support their ongoing dance-practice, it will be a rich tactile and interpersonal experience: three full days to awaken instincts, open the improvisational mind, and explore the physical/cultural/political/ & relational elements of the form. We will guide you through a variety of doorways into this rich territory, with time for discussions, body-work, group scores, and plenty of play. *Changing the way we interact with each other and the earth... two bodies at a time!* *June 5 - 10 Uniquely Oblique with Kelly Keenan & Kira Kirsch * The Axis Syllabus is training method that aims to intensify proprioceptive feedback (awareness) for detailed somatic sensation in movement. We suggest that the individual, intelligent structures that make up the body can be considered a community and that to work with our body is not by commanding it to move but to constantly negotiate and navigate it's individuality, constraints and complexity. *June 24 - 27 C.I. Ground Research * Join: Gretchen Spiro, Steve Homsher, Miva Makinen, Blake Nellis, Dustin Haug, Tamin Tozke, Aaron "Brando" Brandes , and several others for a very special weekend of Contact Improvisation.. CI Ground Research is the next evolution of an exciting research project in Contact Improvisation at Earthdance. Come join in this wonderful opportunity to delve deeply into the practice of Contact Improvisation. CI Ground Research promises to include a wonderful collection of classes, labs, structures, and lectures that have been born from the collaborative efforts of the participating teachers. *June 28 - July 4 July 4th Jam | COMMUNITY * A special 5-day Contact Improvisation gathering when we welcome many of our longtime community members and their families to come and dance, as well as welcoming those new to our community. Enjoy Earthdance at its fullest: plenty of jamming, classes, camping, fresh foods from our garden, walks in the woods, rejuvenating swims, and clean Berkshire mountain air. A structured children's program is provided! *Facilitators: Gretchen Spiro & Steve Homsher. * *August 4 - 7 Western Massachusetts Moving Arts Festival * This festival has something to offer everyone: the chance to study a variety of improvisational dance and theater forms intensively, with local and national teachers. If you've never been to Earthdance before, WMMAF is a great introduction. Morning intensives are an opportunity for deep study, while the afternoon schedule offers a multiplicity of classes to explore, or time to take hikes, saunas or enjoy the Earthdance grounds. Evening events include a performance by festival faculty and a jam with live music. * * *August 19 - 26 Opening to the Unknown with Andrew de L. Harwood and Chris Aiken * In this workshop students will have the opportunity to immerse in the practice of dance improvisation. Our approach is to create an environment for students to look at the relationship between perception, the poetic imagination, dance and performance. Our belief is that perceptual learning is key and that Earthdance provides an ideal environment for this type of practice. Each day we will seek to invigorate ourselves with movement and sensory practices that attune and expand our bodies and minds, composing gesture, image, pathways, fields, frames, musicality and meaning. Our work is interdisciplinary at its core, drawing upon philosophy, architecture, design, somatics, aesthetics, ecology and a wide variety of dance techniques. *September 8 - 11 WEAVE * *WEAVE *will be a unique 3-day experience, an exploration through various practices and perspectives, with content ranging from the inner landscape to the outer landscape, and all places in between. The intention is to bridge the worlds of somatic awareness and exploration, bodywork & holistic wellness, and permaculture & wilderness skill-in both dialogue & practice. In diverse morning and afternoon sessions, participants will be encouraged to explore the overlapping fundamental principles of various emergent disciplines and simultaneously have an inspiring, skill-building, life-enhancing weekend! photo: Liz Malby *September 15 - 18 Moving Memory with Paloma McGregor * Moving Memory investigates the crossroads of movement and text. Participants will learn tools for creating and developing a personal movement vocabulary along with exercises for crafting evocative writing. Techniques include Bartenieff Fundamentals, Liz Lerman's Toolbox and Paloma's Rooted/Reaching movement approach and more. This workshop is designed for performers, directors, writers, multi-disciplinary and self-generating artists. No formal dance/writing training is necessary, just a willingness to explore, create and have fun. *Paloma McGregor *teaches around the country, specializing in workshops that explore and deepen the connections between writing and dance. A journalist-turned-choreographer, she uses the intersection of text and movement to unearth personal voice, build community and animate vision. * * *EARTHDANCE *is an artist-run workshop, residency, and retreat center located in the Berkshire hills of Western Massachusetts. We provide a dynamic mix of dance, somatic, and interdisciplinary arts training, with a focus on sustainable living, social justice, and community. Earthdance has been spearheading innovative arts programming, and maintaining a beautiful facility for rental groups in the Pioneer Valley for over two decades. Our diverse, year-round programs include: dance workshops; yoga retreats; interdisciplinary, ecological and somatic art festivals & residencies; Contact Improvisation jams; local class series; a year-round Artist Residency program; and our New Performance Series. Our facilities include two large and sunny studios with maple floors, meeting space, meditation and massage rooms, 100 acres of woods, streams, trails and a wood-fired sauna. Earthdance | 252 Prospect Street | Plainfield | MA | 01070 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From xs4jan at gmx.de Fri Mar 18 10:50:15 2011 From: xs4jan at gmx.de (J.B.) Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:50:15 +0100 Subject: [CI-Announce] MALCOLM MANNING: 1. Awareness Perception Presence class & 2. Contact Improvisation workshop, May 16-20, 2011, Schwelle7, Berlin/Germany Message-ID: <72B4C7A1-8242-46B3-96DA-8B18C6CBE834@gmx.de> 5 day Intensive with Malcolm Manning morning classes 11am ? 1:30pm: Awareness Perception Presence class afternoon workshop 3 ? 6 pm: Contact Improvisation workshop WHEN: Monday ? Friday, May 16-20, 2011 WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany (1) AWARENESS PERCEPTION PRESENCE: MOVING FROM THE FISH BODY Morning Class series - open for all levels - (11:00am - 1:30pm) (You can attend only the morning classes, without the workshop!!!) Malcolm has spent the last five-years developing a body of work called Awareness Perception Presence in which he combines the Feldenkrais Method, Experiential Anatomy and other specially-devised material to enter into a physical dialogue with ourselves and our environment. In this particular series, we'll explore the Fish Body (axial skeleton) taking some of Steve Paxton's Material For The Spine as our reference. Each class begins with a guided exploration/lecture/dialogue in which the specific theme of the class is introduced through movement and associated anatomical details. Next a Feldenkrais (ATM) class which aims to clarify some aspects of the theme. The final part of the class is spent in self-directed exploration taking the references movements as a starting point. SInce we work alone in these classes, it is possible to open these to anyone who wishes to attend. The set material is simply standing and walking so makes no special demands physically. (2) Contact IMPROVISATIONAL MIND Contact Improvisation Workshop - advanced only - (3:00pm - 6:00pm) (Includes participation in the morning classes!!!) When are we truly improvising CI and when are we just running through familiar patterns and pathways? As we become more experienced and skilled in the form, how can we keep our dancing fresh and improvisational? One way is to study how to be present to ourselves and to extend our perception of ourselves. The Awareness Perception Presence morning class series aims to address to these issues. In the context of this workshop, you could think of them as an extended warm-up or preparation to dance CI. In the afternoon sessions, we'll follow a process that unfolds by exploring a series of simple CI scores designed to interrupt the familiar. We'll also create our own scores, explore some less-common contact technique, watch each other dancing, and dialogue on the improvisational nature of CI. During the workshop, the exploration of scores will be directed mainly toward the question of improvisation in CI. My experience is that they are interesting to watch and also open up strategies for performing CI. The workshop will therefore culminate in a showing where we will dance some of the scores that we have worked on for an audience. Participation in the workshop showing is not absolutely necessary but strongly encouraged. It will take place on Friday, January 29, 2010 at 8:30 PM For the afternoon workshop there is a limited number of places, available for participants with at least three years experience of dancing and studying contact improvisation. If you are interested then please write a brief outline of your experience and interest in attending (no more than one side A4). -------------------------------------- MALCOLM MANNING: I am a somatic movement researcher, educator and performing artist. Movement is life and just about any situation can be analysed in terms of what moves, how, where, when and with what quality - I am fascinated by how people move and by how I move, both alone and in relation to others. I have been based in Finland for the last eight years where I am currently a part-time senior lecturer in the dance department of the Theatre Academy of Finland (Finland's highest level dance education) and have helped to develop and teach around two months a year on the one-year Dance And Somatics education in Joensuu. I also tour Europe teaching, at various venues including TanzQuartier Wien and ImpulsTanz. For more info visit about Malcolm Manning: http://www.movetolearn.com UPDATES: http://www.schwelle7.de/Malcolm.html REGISTRATION: xs4jan (at) gmx.de FEES: Workshop including morning classes: 5 days / 200 EUR Morning classes only: 5 days / 120 EUR SLEEPING: We can host up workshop participants basic opportunities to stay overnight. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person, 7 EUR if you bring your own sheets. More: http://www.schwelle7.de/GAESTE.html ----------- LOCATION -------- Schwelle 7 Uferstra?e 6, backyard, left site, 2. floor 13357 Berlin ? Wedding (near 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 Traffic 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 jb at Boeschoten.de Sat Mar 19 17:48:42 2011 From: jb at Boeschoten.de (Jan Boeschoten) Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:48:42 +0100 Subject: [CI-Announce] =?windows-1252?q?Touch=26Play_2011_=96_Exploring_th?= =?windows-1252?q?e_Human_Chemistry_in_Contact=2C_June_2011=2C_Cardona/Bar?= =?windows-1252?q?celona=2C_Spain?= Message-ID: <6C606161-EC7C-4867-952B-536DA9F6813D@Boeschoten.de> PLEASE forward this invitation to friends, collegues and groups who might have an interest. Thanks Jan +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ To move within physics is to realize your body. To dance with chemistry is to accept your soul. Combining both could be the most exhilarating thing you have ever done. Touch&Play (2010) To all you Contacters, Touchers and Players out there, In this second edition of the T&P Festival and first edition of the T&P experiment we hope to take you on a journey exploring the (al)chemical edges of Contact Improvisation. We ask ourselves what happens when we stop ?dancing? contact and just start doing it. Can we look beyond the weight sharing, lifts and spirals and find the essence of what it means to be in Contact with someone? The Touch&Play Festival takes place from 23-27 June in Cardona, a picturesque little village an hour from Barcelona, in a large 14th century aristocratic home converted into an arts centre. Intensive teachers include Felix Ruckert (Germany), Jess Curtis (USA), Karl Frost (USA), Astiko (Germany/Spain), Jessica Walker (Chile/Spain) & Benno Voorham (Netherlands/Sweden). Workshops, labs and more will also be provided by the T&P researchers from the Touch&Play Experiment (18-22 June) This is the current research line-up: Robert Anderson (Playful Physics) Koen van Bisbrouck (Pyschology) Jocasta Crofts (CI & Tantra) Rachel Dean (consensus / Safer Spaces) Xavier Ferreres (Movements of the Soul) Daniel Hayes (Seduction) Ralf Jaroshinski (The Soft Man) Marina Kronkvist (Appetite) Guto Macedo (Authentic Contact) Daniel Mang (Post-romantic Dance) Saskia Mieszkalski (The Bonobo Garden) Adriana Pegorer (Contango) Linda Priha (Surrender) Dieter Rehberg (Idiolect) Dana Salisbury (Dark Dining) Sabine Sonnenschein (Tantra & CI) Joe Stoller (Mutual Bodywork) Paulina Swiecanska (Jealousy) Marina Tsartsara (Framing the Senses) Ulli Witteman (Strong/Bad Contact) Jamus Wood & Lee Bolton (Undercurrents) More researchers will be chosen in April. To apply www.2011.touchandplay.org/what/experiment/ After the Festival, Karl Frost will be running a 4-day Intensive called ?The Poetics of Touch? from 29th June to 2nd July (www.2011.touchandplay.org/post-festival-intensive-by-karl-frost) Festival registration opens 12 midnight GMT on Sunday 20 March Due to the size of the venue there are fewer places available than last year, so we expect them to sell out quickly! Check out our new website www.2011.touchandplay.org Sign up to our FB group for updates: www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=251629184517 Touching & Playfully yours, Daniel Hayes and Jenny Moy info at touchandplay.org www.touchandplay.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: