[CI-Announce] Workshop: BONE SEX, by Jess Curtis, November 21-25, 2011, Schwelle7, Berlin/Germany

[J.B.]

Bone Sex: The Erotic Body, Deep Touch, Weight and Motion
5 day intensive workshop by Jess Curtis

WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin/Germany
WHEN: Monday 21st - Friday 25th November 2011, daily 1-6 pm

UPDATES: http://www.schwelle7.de/JessCurtis.html
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REGISTRATION: xs4jan (at) gmx.de
FEE: 150 EUR


BONE SEX:
THE EROTIC BODY, DEEP TOUCH, WEIGHT AND MOTION

A workshop in the physics of sensual pleasure in Contact  
Improvisation. Deepen your sexual dance and it’s connection to your  
partners’. Develop tools to allow your sexual body to safely inform  
all of your dancing. Find the pathways that lead to freer motion. Get  
out of your head, beyond your genitals, come to your senses.

This class is for men and women. All participants must be equally  
willing to work with men and women, within the context of negotiated  
consensual boundaries. Wear comfortable, loose fitting clothing  
(i.e.sweats). Some exercises may be clothing optional. Some movement  
experience is helpful. This workshop is accessible to people with  
mobility impairments. Please contact us if you have accessibility  
concerns.


JESS CURTIS

Director/Choreographer (San Francisco/Berlin). Living and working in  
both San Francisco and Berlin, Jess Curtis has created a body of work  
ranging from the underground extremes of Mission District warehouses  
with Contraband and CORE (1985-1998) to the formal refinement and  
exuberance of European State Theatres and Circus Tents with Compagnie  
Cahin-Caha and Jess Curtis/Gravity (1998-present). Since founding  
Gravity in 2000, Curtis has created an extensive body of performance  
works, collaborating with numerous renowned international artists and  
companies, receiving critical praise and a variety of awards and  
honors. Throughout his career his research and practice have included  
work and play within the Queer, Sex-Positive communities of San  
Francisco where he has studied, practiced and played with such  
pioneers as Annie Sprinkle, Fakir Musafar, Madame Cleo Dubois, Joseph  
Kramer, Keith Hennessy and Chester Mainard.

 From 1991 to 1998 he was co-director of the legendary 848 Community  
Space in San Francisco, site of many intercommunity experiments in   
Art, Politics, Sexuality, Community and Culture. He also teaches   
Dance, Contact Improv and Interdisciplinary Performance throughout the  
US and Europe and has been a visiting professor at UC Berkeley, and   
the University of the Arts in Berlin. He is currently pursuing an PhD   
in Performance Studies with a focus on choreographic practice at the  
University of California at Davis. Contact Improvisation and   
Spontaneous Composition are central tools in his performing practice,  
which he uses as training/tuning techniques for himself and the  
performers he works with, and in making performances that embrace the  
risk of making choices in real time.
Further information: http://www.jesscurtisgravity.org


SLEEPING:
We can host up workshop participants in our special sleeping cocoons.  
The cost is 10 EUR a night per person, 7.- if you bring your own sheets.

More: http://www.schwelle7.de/GAESTE.html



----------- LOCATION --------

Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6, backyard, left site, 2. floor
13357 Berlin – Wedding (Nähe 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

TRAFIC LINK:
U8 Pankstraße, U9 Osloer Straße, U9 Nauener Platz, SB Gesundbrunnen,  
SB Humboldthain, Bus M27 Brunnenplatz
http://maps.google.de/maps?daddr=13357+Berlin,+Uferstr+6