From cpallant at vcu.edu Tue Sep 6 17:12:23 2011 From: cpallant at vcu.edu (Cheryl Pallant/FS/VCU) Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:12:23 -0400 Subject: [CI-Announce] East Coast Jam, Oct 12-16 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hey Jammers, There's still time to take advantage of the low registration rate. Reserve your spot by Sept 21 by sending a $50 deposit to ensure paying only $305 for the entire Fall East Coast Jam Oct 12-16. Go to the website for complete information and to register. We (nearly) guarantee a contactfabulous, foodilicous, and funderful time. Bring yourself and bring a friend. Oh, did I mention you'll have fun, enjoy great dances, and eat well? best, Cheryl . www.cherylpallant.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From xs4jan at gmx.de Mon Sep 12 13:46:36 2011 From: xs4jan at gmx.de (J.B.) Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:46:36 +0200 Subject: [CI-Announce] DANIEL LEPKOFF: MAKING AND SEEING DANCE - Improvisation Workshop, November 15-18, 2011, Schwelle7, Berlin/Germany Message-ID: MAKING AND SEEING DANCE 4 day intensive Improvisation Workshop with Daniel Lepkoff WHEN: Tuesday ? Friday, November, 15-18, 2011, 12 am ? 6 pm WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany LINK: http://www.schwelle7.de/Daniel%20Lepkoff.html SHARE: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=150725511684713 OVERVIEW OF THE WORK ?My work is strongly focused on the origins, form, and details of functional movement, movement from life . It is a practice of movement research. The work refines ones ability to use the physical senses and relate equally with inner space and outer space. It calls for and cultivates a questioning and reexamining of one's perceptions. I am an improvising performer and my reference point is to develop a technique (a way or method) to composing dances. The work offers one possible view point for making dance performance. The material is drawn directly from my own movement research, which has it's roots in seminal 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, plus many wonderful long term collaboration with artists whose work inspired and informed me..? Daniel Lepkoff MAKING AND SEEING DANCE: This workshop is open to all but is geared towards professional artists: choreographers, improvising performers, dancers, and actors. Led by: Daniel Lepkoff Nov. 15 ? 18, 2011 12 ? 6 pm We will divide our 6 hours of studio time into two work sessions with a break in between: 1. Technique - (Moving the Environment) ? We build a technical foundation through study and practice of functional movement. We look at movement as a two way exchange of force and information with our environment. 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 extend our energy into the environment; the environment answers. We move it and it moves us. This duality offers an extended dimension to our presence as a dancer and performer. Activating our physical senses we engage with: + gravity, force & our internal architecture + vision and space + time and thythm. 2. Composing (Stillness and Movement): Placing our own movement propositions into a shared space, we set up a kind of physical conversation on the subject of time, space, and imagination. The conversation is based inside of a simple structure that uses an alternation between stillness and movement. Through observation and action, beginnings and endings, answer and answer back, repetition and translation, we exchange our viewpoints on what we see when we watch movement and what we understand as dance. For more detailed information on Daniel's work go to: www.daniellepkoff.com BIOGRAPHY Starting in the early '70's DANIEL LEPKOFF was at the center of the development of Release Technique with Mary Fulkerson and Contact Improvisation with Steve Paxton. Throughout the '70's and '80's he traveled extensively; actively teaching, performing and exposing these new ideas worldwide. He is one of the founders of Movement Research in NYC. Daniel's work looks at all movement as a finely tuned physical dialogue with the environment and explores the form and composition of this interaction as a language for making dances. He has developed techniques based on this approach that form a dance practice and foundation for bringing this material onto the stage. Over the years he has had long term collaborations 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), experimental musician Dora Attila, and Japanese dancer, Sakura Shimada, among others. In 2002 he was the artistic director and co-producer (together with Mira Kovarova) of "Physical Dialogues" a seminal 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. This last year he toured to Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Brazil, and Argentina. His work was recently shown in Warsaw, Poland at the Dance Improvisation Festival Sic! 2010/ Festiwal Improwizacji Tanca Sic! 2010 combining improvising dance performers with experiemental musicians. UPDATES: http://www.schwelle7.de/Daniel%20Lepkoff.html SHARE: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=150725511684713 REGISTRATION: xs4jan (at) gmx.de PRICE: 200 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 (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 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From januaryworkshop at nancystarksmith.com Wed Sep 14 19:16:03 2011 From: januaryworkshop at nancystarksmith.com (NSS January Workshop) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:16:03 -0400 Subject: [CI-Announce] January Workshop 2012 with Nancy Stark Smith Message-ID: <836FA9F0-DFC1-4357-9A3D-A0AB8E37CEA5@nancystarksmith.com> Dear dancing friends, Now's the time to register for the January 2012 Workshop at Earthdance. We hope to see you, your students, and/or friends at the workshop this year. Please help us spread the word by forwarding this to others who might be interested. Thanks! Nancy (& Patrick, workshop coordinator) JANUARY WORKSHOP 2012 a 3-week OPEN training with NANCY STARK SMITH plus Mike Vargas and other guests January 2 (evening) - January 20 (midday), 2012 western Massachusetts, USA Contact Improvisation Solo Training ? Changing States Improvisation Scores ? The Underscore Composition ? Performance A 3-week residential workshop focused on contact improvisation and other related work: physical training, improvisation and composition scores, jamming, watching, discussion, feedback, labs, contemplation practice, and performance studies. In solo, duet, trio, and group work; in and out of contact; in silence and with live music, we'll move toward greater clarity and inspiration in our dancing and watching. Please come prepared for intensive practice (and a bit of fun!). Intermediate level in CI required. Fill out online application form-outlining your background and skill level in contact improvisation, dance, and improvisation, and your reasons for wanting to attend. All registrations must be approved by Nancy. The workshop will meet Monday-Friday, 10 am to 5:30/6 pm in studios at Earthdance, in Plainfield, MA, (a beautiful dance retreat center located 35 minutes west of Northampton, MA, in the Berkshire Mountains), and in town at an Aikido dojo. There will be some evening and weekend activities. For details & application form: www.nancystarksmith.com Early Registration Deadline: October 15, 2011 Contact: Patrick Crowley, workshop coordinator, januaryworkshop at nancystarksmith.com, (617) 320-9792 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From xs4jan at gmx.de Mon Sep 19 15:26:35 2011 From: xs4jan at gmx.de (J.B.) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:26:35 +0200 Subject: [CI-Announce] =?windows-1252?q?Workshop=3A_A_RE-EDUCATION_=96_Kle?= =?windows-1252?q?in_Technique_as_taught_by_BARBARA_MAHLER=2C_November_7-1?= =?windows-1252?q?1=2C2011=2C_Schwelle7=2C_Berlin/Germany?= Message-ID: <4B13ABF7-DA2F-4EDD-9C47-BE0D5ABAD5A5@gmx.de> A RE-EDUCATION ? Klein Technique as taught by BARBARA MAHLER Workshop by Barbara Mahler, Schwelle7, Berlin/Germany daily Monday, 7th - Friday, 11th, Novemer 2011 Schedule - morning class: 11:30am-2pm + afternoon class: 3:30-6 pm Showing: Friday, 11th, Novemer 2011, 8:30 pm Share: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=214456491947911 A RE-EDUCATION ? 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, November 11th, 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: 200 EUR 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 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 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From justinbb at gmail.com Tue Sep 20 00:30:02 2011 From: justinbb at gmail.com (Justin Bur) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:30:02 -0400 Subject: [CI-Announce] Reminder: Fall 2011 East Coast Jam, October 12-16 Message-ID: Last two days to register before the price goes up! Please register now for the Fall 2011 East Coast Jam, October 12-16 in the Shenandoah Valley, not far from Washington, DC The East Coast Jam is a glorious four-day contact improvisation jam, held each fall and spring at Claymont Court, Charles Town, West Virginia. We dance in an octagonal barn and live in a great white mansion, linked by a walk through gardens and fields and forests. All meals (succulently prepared by Mirabai) are included. From now until September 20 (tomorrow), register for the fall jam at the base price of $310. The price goes up on Wednesday, September 21, so don't delay! Visit eastcoastjam.com for details and online registration. Only a $50 deposit (not refundable after Sept. 20) is required at the time of registration, by PayPal or a cheque in the mail. ---- The East Coast Jam is a collaboration ? much like a dance. Warmups, workshops, performances, and other structures are initiated and led by us, the jammers. When we're not dancing, there's conversation, music, exploring field and forest, poetry, chocolate, theater, walks, games... As ever, spread the word by inviting the people you'd like to dance with, and forwarding this message to interested communities. We want to continue to grow and deepen this lovely gathering. In anticipation of dancing in the fall, we hope you'll be with us! Cheryl, Justin, Zan Fall 2011 organizers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From debora.sbaiz at teletu.it Thu Sep 22 22:28:51 2011 From: debora.sbaiz at teletu.it (Debora Sbaiz) Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:28:51 +0200 Subject: [CI-Announce] flying/ jumping workshop with Scott Wells Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: flyer Scott for mail.doc Type: application/msword Size: 29696 bytes Desc: not available URL: From xs4jan at gmx.de Wed Sep 28 09:53:46 2011 From: xs4jan at gmx.de (J.B.) Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:53:46 +0200 Subject: [CI-Announce] =?windows-1252?q?Workshop_ADRIAN_RUSSI=3A_Contact_I?= =?windows-1252?q?mprovisation_in_Performance=2C_Nov=2E28_=96_Dec=2E2=2C_2?= =?windows-1252?q?011=2C_Schwelle7=2C_Berlin/Germany?= Message-ID: <7E9008FD-7877-4106-AE50-561C38F42E3C@gmx.de> Contact Improvisation in Performance integrating movement technique, improvisation and skills for performance 5 day intensive workshop ? with ADRIAN RUSSI WHEN: November 28 ? December 2, 2011, 12am-6pm WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany SHARE: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=139374042827148 CONTACT IMPROVISATION IN PERFORMANCE integrating movement technique, improvisation and skills for performance In this workshop we will explore intensively how to transform our regular CI-practice towards a performative movement art - in order to create instant composition in all its diversity, complexity and freshness. The following questions will lead us through the week: What are the tools to stay connected with my own dance while being deeply involved in the physicality of a CI-duet? // How to achieve presence and authenticity to feed my dance and how do I keep this sense in front of an audience? // How can I connect the inner and outer space - what in fact does this mean? // What are the inherent compositional aspects of CI? // How to integrate compositional principles with the freedom of improvisation? The first class of the day will focus on movement skills in solo, duet and trio. We will look for ways how to deal with gravity in a clever way, how to move upside-down and to integrate flying and falling into our dance. The key ingredients will be a distinguished body awareness in order to move and to communicate with our partner precisely, the playful interaction of technique and improvisation and the conscious (and constant) use of timing and space - which in fact are also fundamentals for performing CI. In the second class we will go beyond CI-technique and improvisation skills to see what changes fundamentally when one is exposed to an audience. It?s a lot about staying honest with yourself, dealing with the energy of the public and handling surprising moments in a creative way. Trusting your instincts and your intuition will be just as important as learning about compositional aspects and using CI- technique to give a clear base for performance. For those who feel themselves ready, the workshop will end with a public studio performance to show our work to an audience and of course to bring our practice into reality. It's good to know: finally performance can be trained only while performing. Come prepared to both move a lot and dive deep down into a subtle work with your body and to get energized from being on stage! PERFORMANCES The workshop will therfore culminate in an evening of Performance/ showing on Friday, December 2nd, 2011, at 8:30 pm ADRIAN RUSSI: Adrian Russi is a one of the leading CI-teacher in Switzerland and travelling all over Europe to teach and perform Contact and Free Improvisation. He is deeply involved in CI since 1992 and in the meantime he is dedicating the biggest part of his life to this wonderful dance form. After his studies of New Dance at ?bewegungs-art? in Freiburg/Germany he continued his education with many different teachers, among them Steve Paxton and Nancy Stark Smith who have started to develop CI in the early seventies with a group of other movers. Besides this his teaching is also influenced by his studies of different kinds of martial arts and Craniosacral Bodywork. He offers his work as a free lancer to a wide range of people and also gets regularly invited to teach in schools. In his teaching he focuses on the technical aspects of CI (ease, precision and strength) as well as on matters of perception (body-sensation, connection of inner and outer space, of bottom and top, centre-periphery) and on a creativity coming from a distinct body-awareness. For him the pleasure to play, deep engagement in the dance, and respect for others are the basis for gaining the most possible in dancing CI. As a performer he works with many different international artists and his performances are primarily based on Free Improvisation incorporating Contact Improvisation, dance, dance-theatre, voice and live music. In 2007 he initiated ?Moving Men?, a men?s trio with Charlie Morrissey and Jacky Miredin touring with there performance- work all over Europe. As an organizer of CI-events he is involved in many festivals, jams and teachers-meetings, among them the ?Moscow Contact and Performance Festival? and the ?International Berner Jam?. For more information go to Adrian Russi is a one of the leading CI- teachers in Switzerland and travels all over Europe to teach and perform Contact and Free Improvisation. From 1992 he is deeply involved with CI and has dedicated the biggest part of his life to this wonderful dance form. After his studies of New Dance at ?bewegungs-art? in Freiburg/Germany he continued his education with many different teachers, among them Steve Paxton and Nancy Stark Smith who developed CI in the early seventies with a group of other movers. Besides this his teaching is also influenced by his studies of different kinds of martial arts and Craniosacral Bodywork. He offers his work as a freelancer to a wide range of people and is also regularly invited to teach in schools. In his teaching he focuses on the technical aspects of CI (ease, precision and strength), matters of perception (body-sensation, connection of inner and outer space, of bottom and top, centre-periphery) and on a creativity coming from a distinct body-awareness. For him the pleasure to play, deep engagement in the dance, and respect for others are the basis for gaining the most possible while dancing CI. As a performer he works with many different international artists and his performances are primarily based on Free Improvisation incorporating Contact Improvisation, dance, dance-theatre, voice and live music. In 2007 he initiated ?Moving Men?, a men?s trio with Charlie Morrissey and Jacky Miredin touring with their performance- work all over Europe. As an organizer of CI-events he is involved in many festivals, jams and teachers-meetings, among them the ?Moscow Contact and Performance Festival? and the ?International Berner Jam?. For more information go to www.adrianrussi.com FEE: 150 Euro REGISTER: per email to xs4jan (at) gmx.de UPDATES: http://www.schwelle7.de/Adrian%20Russi.html 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 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 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: