From januaryworkshop at nancystarksmith.com Wed Mar 4 13:38:57 2015 From: januaryworkshop at nancystarksmith.com (NSS January Workshop) Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 07:38:57 -0500 Subject: [CI-Announce] Nancy Stark Smith Workshops & Events 2015 Message-ID: <6ECC31F5-B8E1-43BC-A505-DBF3DF423E36@nancystarksmith.com> Nancy Stark Smith / Mike Vargas Spring-Summer 2015 Dear Friends, Please join us at a workshop or event this spring and summer 2015. (Also see January Workshop 2016 preview.) Please pass the word to anyone you think might be interested. Thanks! Hope to see you somewhere along the way. Best wishes, Nancy and Mike www.nancystarksmith.com www.mikevargas.net drawing by Susan Schell CQ 40th Anniversary Talk, Open Studio & Reception, and Jam Friday, March 6, 2015 Arts and Industry Building, 221 Pine Street, Florence, MA 01062 4:30 pm Salon Conversation, Studio rEvolution #422 6:00 pm Open Studio & Reception, Contact Quarterly #112 7:00 pm Jam, Wild Life Sanctuary #349 (413) 586-1181, cqads at contactquarterly.com More Info NORTHAMPTON WINTER/SPRING UNDERSCORE Seasonal Underscore practice facilitated by Nancy, live music by Mike Sunday, March 15, 1:30?5 pm NEA Dance Studio Northampton, MA nssunderscore at gmail.com CONTACT IMPROVISATION: Deepening the Form 5 day workshop with with Nancy and Mike Vargas June 1?5, 2015 Centre choregraphique national de Rennes et de Bretagne Rennes, France Marie Quiblier, mariequiblier at museedeladanse.org STATES OF GRACE: CI, Contemplation, and Composition 8 day workshop with Nancy and Mike Vargas June 10?17, 2015 Arlequi retreat center Banyoles, Spain Anna Borreda, anna at arlequi.de www.arlequi.de GLOBAL UNDERSCORE 2015 Sunday, June 21, 2015: 4?8 pm UTC+1, 10 am?2 pm EST NSS & MV will be in Geneva, Switzerland Geneva info: Paola Gianoli, paola.gianoli at tuena.ch Global Underscore info: Brandin Steffensen, underscorenyc at gmail.com GUS website: www.globalunderscore.blogspot.com ?Like? the Global Underscore Facebook page ZOOM: Contact and Improvisation in Detail and Perspective 6 day workshop with Nancy and Mike June 25?30, 2015 Geneva, Switzerland Paola Gianoli, paola.gianoli at tuena.ch BATES DANCE FESTIVAL 3 weeks of classes & performances with Nancy, Mike, and many others July 18?August 9, 2015 Bates College Lewiston, Maine www.batesdancefestival.org Preview: JANUARY WORKSHOP 2016 a 3-week OPEN training with Nancy, plus Mike and guests January 3?22, 2016 Earthdance, Plainfield, Massachusetts USA januaryworkshop at nancystarksmith.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From elskeseidel at hotmail.com Tue Mar 17 13:45:03 2015 From: elskeseidel at hotmail.com (Elske Seidel) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 13:45:03 +0100 Subject: [CI-Announce] CI Training Program in Hamburg/Germany 2015/16 with Elske Seidel and Daniel Werner In-Reply-To: References: , <55074375.9070702@dancecontact.de>, , , , , Message-ID: CI Training Program 2015/16 Hamburg (Germany) Elske Seidel and Daniel Werner In our CI Training Program we wish to take the intensive experience of a workshop into a longer process, opening a field of continuous learning, relating and dancing with each other in an on-going group. We want to offer a space to develop our moving body, deepen our understanding and personal journey into this dance through a longer period of time. This CI Training Program creates the opportunity to study Contact Improvisation systematically and continuously with a group of people we come to trust. It offers precise technique, somatic movement research (learning from within) and support for the individual learning process. In the technical part of our investigation, we will work in smaller groups in order to offer ?tools? and material for people with different levels of experience. We seek to create space for individual interests and needs. In our work it is important to us to maintain the balance between a technical exploration as a development of a mutual language and the freedom of speaking this language ? dancing ? communicating, improvising, playing freely in dance. We are interested in how awareness, trust and feeling within the group will change, develop and grow ? how is our communication, our interaction and our actual way of being together influenced by our dance practice and our time together? This year we are excited to offer an ?open continuation? which will build on the experience and material of the previous CI Training Program in Hamburg. We want to create the opportunity to learn and play with a group of people sharing a common knowledge of CI. At the same time we would like to invite people who are interested in this kind of learning environment. We would like to offer inspiration and new material for dancers with more experience as well as opening an easy and welcoming entry for those who come in freshly. All participants will receive a certificate including the content of the training program. WE 1: (Introduction Weekend): September 25-27, 2015/ Elske & Daniel (single booking possible) WE 2: December 4-6, 2015/ Daniel (still possible to join) WE 3: January 15-17, 2016 (Laboratory: Participants will research on their own. Bringing their personally relevant topics and questions to the dance.) WE 4: February 5-7, 2016/ Elske WE 5: Intensive: March 11-13, 2016/ Elske & Daniel (incl Aquatic Contact) >>In special cases it is possible to miss one module Times: Fri 7-9:30 pm, Sat 11-6 pm, Sun 11-5 pm (Sat+Sun incl. 1.5 h lunch break) March Intensive: Fr 11-5 pm possibly longer Aquatic Contact (in hot pool/ approx. ? 12-14 for entry), Sat 11-6 pm, Sun 11-5 pm (incl. 1.5 h lunch break) Price: ? 630-540 (till July 30, 2015), later ? 680-590 Introduction weekend only ? 140-110 (till July 30, 2015) later ? 160-130 Sleeping in the studio for ? 9/night possible! Place: TRIADE ? Zentrum f?r Tanz und Performance Bernstorffstrasse 117 (1st story), Hamburg St Pauli Info & Registration: Elske Seidel elskeseidel at hotmail.com For more Info check also: www.dancecontact.de www.improtanz.de Daniel and Elske share many years of friendship, uncountable jams and dances. Their mutual fascination for Contact Improvisation provides the center in both their lives. In 2003 they co-founded the ContAct Dance Company, investigating CI as a source for performance work, with a special interest in site-specific art. Both work as independent artists, somatic movement researchers and dancers; both have extensive experience in teaching CI internationally, as well as organizing and facilitating large CI events. They are co-organizers of both the Contact Festival Fuerteventura, since 2009, and the North Sea CI Camp. www.canarian.contactfestival.info In cooperating for the Training Program in Hamburg they wish to combine their creative energy and interests, support and inspire each other and every single one coming. Daniel Werner studied Dance, Contact Improvisation, Body-Mind Centering and other Somatic Methods and Practises with various teachers, and works internationally in this field since ?97 as a dancer, teacher and director. He graduated in contemporary dance at the North Karelia College in Finland. Furthermore he is a teacher for Qigong and Tai Chi in the line of Master Mantak Chia. Also he is involved in the following projects: www.dancecontact.de, www.contact-meets-contemporary.de, www.bodymindpresence.de, www.in-touch.es,www.easterimprofestival.info, www.canarian.contactfestival.info Elske Seidel, based in Berlin, is a passionate CI dancer & teacher, deeply committed to CI and its community internationally. She has been teaching dance full time and wholeheartedly for two decades, contact since 2004. In her teaching she is interested in ?opening spaces where dance in all its magic and play can happen?. She likes to create CI events which bring the studio focus outside into nature and into the experience. She enjoys gathering community merging life and dance together. She has taught CI in Europe, Canada, the U.S., Argentina, Israel, Russia and Japan. Some of her projects are: Dance Your Question: CI Research Week / Arlequi (Spain), Contact Saturdays Berlin/ Tanzfabrik Berlin, 23h Jam Berlin, Berlin Weekend Jam, Contact Festival Fuerteventura (Spain) and North Sea CI Camp (Ger). www.elskedance.de (In Arbeit) www.improtanz.de www.canarian.contactfestival.info -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ATT00001 Type: image/jpeg Size: 24825 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ATT00002 Type: image/jpeg Size: 30084 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ATT00003 Type: image/jpeg Size: 11638 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Together we will create an environment for conscious dances and embodied discussions, where each can bring and process their questions with the support and the explorative and curious mind of the whole group.We welcome people who dance, teach, perform CI, who bring it into other artistic and social contexts, and thus develop CI further and keep it alive.If you care about the physicality, the history and the philosophy of CI, and hours of dancing, if sharing time and experience, questions, visions and wishes with your peers sounds like heaven to you, we would be honored and happy if you want to come and join us for this week.This week is a chance to create a place where our creativity, diversity and the art of dancing CI teach us how life can be an always changing, challenging and playful exchange.A place where life is art.Elske, Heike and Gesine will facilitate this week. With our structure/ schedule we will provide the skeleton for the week, with our questions and visions we already give it some core muscles and we will need you to bring flesh and nerves, organs and juice to it so it can be alive and moving. Bring your questions, scores, experiments and curiosities to share. Writing them down and sending them to us with your application, will be your contribution to prepare for the week. We will collect them, get a first idea of our collective mind and find a way to present them to the whole group when we will meet.From there we will move through the week together. Application Process:Send us an email where you explain how and since when CI is part of your life; and also write down your curiosities, questions, ideas around CI and what else you would like to offer and share with us during the week. The address is danceyourquestions at somebodyelse.de Price:Organisation, studio rent, kitchen use, dormitory etc:- if you apply and pay until 15.8.2015: 270 - 310 EUR (pay as you can)- if you apply and pay after 15.8.2015: 310 - 350 EUR (pay as you can)Your contribution to the food-shopping (incl. gas for the car): 15 EUR per dayIf you prefer to sleep in a private room, please contact us. See also for more information: http://www.dyq.somebodyelse.de To find out more about our beautiful location visit: www.arlequi.com Facilitated and curated by: Gesine Daniels, Elske Seidel & Heike Kuhlmann -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: DYQ2015_front_800x570.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 459895 bytes Desc: not available URL: