From xs4jan at gmx.de Tue May 3 04:26:58 2016 From: xs4jan at gmx.de (J.B.) Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 10:26:58 +0200 Subject: [CI-Announce] KATIE DUCK: IMPROVISATION - Workshop in Berlin. June 3-5, 2016 Message-ID: <363B537A-C6AC-43D4-A0ED-4D861FB8E81B@gmx.de> KATIE DUCK: IMPROVISATION Workshop in Performance Research and improvisational compositions DATE: June 3-5, 2016 VENUE: Tanzfabrik Kreuzberg, Berlin COST: Earlybird 100?, thereafter 120? REGISTRATION: For registration details and workshop questions please contact me by e-mail at xs4jan at gmx.de EVENT WEBSITE: http://contact-improvisation.net/2015/10/02/improvisation-workshop-by-katie-duck-june-3-5-2016/ SOCIAL: https://www.facebook.com/events/663553780414838/ WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: Katie Duck has been investigating theater, dance and music with live performance for over 30 years. In her workshop, she takes a microscopic view on the role improvisation plays in a live performance combining her background in the performing arts with her curiosity for advances in brain studies, music and movement research. WHO COULD ATTEND? Katie can accept students from all performance art backgrounds and professional levels. Her only concern is that anyone who studies in her workshop have a deep interest in the work and is willing to experiment and take risks with the material she offers. WHAT YOU LEARN? Improvisational performance breaks the framework of preset choreography and challenges the artist to be the creator/composer/choreographer and the performer at the same time; to be the doer and the observer simultaneously. It is about learning ?The Eye': of the space, of the watcher and essentially the eye of work being created. The workshop is oriented towards building skills of performance presence, timing, tracking and conviction of choice/action. It focuses on developing skills to interpret dynamic space and creating one?s own performance frame. While Katie aims to explore novel and rigorous approaches to body work. The main focus lies in reaching a state of surprising oneself. The workshop will be structured into body work, activity-based sessions, performances and a jam. Her warm-up and exercises emphasis how the eyes and the ears work in coordination with movement, sound and exposure to gathered crowds altering our perception of time, space, feelings and emotions. Improvisation sessions revolve around the terms pause, flow, exit, choice and presence with discussions articulating play, memory and intuition. Katie guides the dancers and performers through physical exercises that highlight how the eyes and ears affect movement choices and developmental brain studies about ?how we learned to walk?. She extends the workshop toward improvisation sessions by setting a fictional front in the studio space and then declaring this as a platform to choose pause, flow or exit. This platform highlights how the limit of these three choices can already provide the frame for a composition to take place, and that misunderstanding, coincidence, live time, interactivity, messiness, emotions, intuition and inspiration are basic materials in a creative process. These raw materials are integrated with the combined fact that everyone in the workshop group can make a choice. WORKSHOP SETTING: Choice is introduced to the workshop group as a compositional reality but also as a means for individuals to elect to participate in the performative or as a viewer and yet remain involved in the process. The aim is to gather the workshop group to recognize that in a creative composition process, time is passing at different perceived speeds and that space is shifting in several dimensions at once. This awareness creates a presence in the space and a compositional alertness. Her aim is to provide a situation where artists can practice together and grow in confidence toward public performances with an objective to clarify that improvisation not the antitheses of choreography or composition but rather the way choreography and composition can be executed. The improvisation sessions are given a delegated time frame with an option for the workshop group to shift, drop or lift the space at will. This shifting, dropping and lifting of the performance space places each individual in a position where they need to be to be fully awake or they will recognisably loose the thread of the creative compositional activity in play. HOW KATIE TEACHS? Katie has been teaching since she began to perform professionally in the mid 70?s. She is dedicated to how process and research play a major role in how one can continue to be artistic in how they approach their life and their work. Over the past 10 years her workshops have been titled ?Improvisation? in order to emphasis her views on theater as a live art form reflective of how she executes her own professional performances. Her research is placed in practice with lectures containing her recent interest in brain studies and film. She integrates her current research making each workshop completely unique. She draws from her experiences in live performances, music collaborations, as a director and choreographer. Her enthusiasm for a young artists to be able to continue their practice, in a very different atmosphere than when she began her work, is evident in how she has continued to up grade her life style with new technologies, continued to do research in the sciences, the performance arts and music. She has created several projects with an aim to support a young artists rather than her own career. She continues to take risks with her own career in the support of young artists giving them the possibility to experiment within their own practice. She promotes to her students that the mental connection to the practice of improvisation can be accessed weather they are doing set or open framed performance pieces and that the definitions of what improvisation within art practices mean today need to be reflective to advances in brain-studies and technology. In the way she communicates with students, one is aware of how she understands that the professional field of the arts has altered drastically in comparison to when she began her practice in the mid 70?s. As part of her teaching, she encourages young artists to devise strategies that allow for them to sustain the production of their work with creativity and research involved and yet survive. RESEARCH MATERIAL: Katie has had the possibility to create material for her workshops out of a wide range of practice in the performance arts. She has never formulated her teaching material into a frozen body of knowledge. She does not believe that the accumulation of knowledge is how one becomes a teacher. She believes that It is out of her practice and the practice she witnesses with a student that all knowledge becomes clarified in the lessons she leading. http://katieduck.com/about-katie-duck/text/research-material/ QUOTES KATIE DUCK: ?The combination of moving, seeing, hearing, feeling and deliberately volunteering to expose myself in front of an audience alters my perception of time, space and emotions. What I do for a living is an induced neuron madness? ?I am not interested in the moment even though it does feel good. I am interested in movement and the fact that time is passing. It is a kind of hippie hype to encourage someone to be in the moment.? ?A fully awake body is rarely pedestrian. The body awake needs to be discovered and demands a discipline beyond everyday tasks. And yet when I see movement that does not respect the beauty of the body as pedestrian I become uncomfortable. How the body works and how I see a body is not so different an activity in how I feel. To not respect the body as an already perfect place of motion is like watching a dog trying to learn ballet.? VIDEOS: Cage make a movie (Solo Katie / Music Mix Katie Duck) https://vimeo.com/140120365 Duck and Snaith (girls at work) (Yolanda Snaith and Katie Duck / music mix Katie Duck) https://vimeo.com/140186320 Recent improvisation (OT301 Amsterdam / live musicians) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqgPUVvf-S8 Katie Duck & Alfredo Genovesi at SDSU - closing talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0zeo5s1BzA OTHER LINKS: DR Sharon Smith essay about working with Katie Duck http://www.sharonsmith.org/5-its-not-what-you-do-its-the-way-that-you-do-it.php Home from Home by the Blue Stocking Social Club, by Vincent Cacalano http://www.contactquarterly.com/cq/unbound/view/home-from-home-by-the-blue-stocking-social-club#$ BIO KATIE DUCK: Katie Duck has been a professional performer and maker since the early 1970?s. She has been a influential figure in the improvisational performance scene internationally, inspiring generations of performers, musicians and performance makers. She set up the acclaimed Gruppo in Italy in 1979 and toured Europe with a host of productions. She was head of choreography at Dartington College of arts (senior lecturer) in the late 1980?s. She joined the staff at Amsterdam Hogeschool voor de kunsten in 1991 teaching movement research, improvisation, composition and technique and founded the improvisational dance and music company Magpie in the 1990?s with whom she toured internationally. She has collaborated with renowned dance and improvisation music artists form all over the world. Katie?s career has included independent teaching, university teaching, set choreography?s, structured improvisations, music and dance real time performances and live streaming international performances. Her collaborations have been with musicians, visual artists, lighting designers, dancers, actors and comedians. She has initiated education courses and workshops, festivals and monthly performance series in her three bases Italy, England and Holland. She has led dance companies, dance/music companies, advises young artists and has written text for her performances as well as critical articles. Katie has a determination to continue her research in theatre, music, dance, text and performance. Alongside her vocational studies, her research has led her toward social studies, cultural studies and brain studies. She believes that her research must not be validated by way of academic speak alone but rather on her insistence to hear, see and take part in the practice. More at Katies Website: http://katieduck.com/about-katie-duck/bio/ SCHEDULE: June 3-5, 2016 Friday: 4-8 pm Saturday: 11am-3pm Sunday: 11-3pm LOCATION: Tanzfabrik Berlin M?ckernstr.68, 10965 Berlin (Kreuzberg) Studio No.4 http://www.tanzfabrik-berlin.de/en/studios TRAFFIC LINKS: U6 & 7 Yorckstrasse / Mehringdamm S1 & 2 Yorckstrasse Bus M19 Katzbachstrasse https://www.google.de/maps?daddr=10965+Berlin,+M%C3%B6ckernstr.+68 From elskeseidel at hotmail.com Wed May 4 12:24:31 2016 From: elskeseidel at hotmail.com (Elske Seidel) Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 18:24:31 +0200 Subject: [CI-Announce] CI Training Program in Hamburg/Germany Sept/Nov 16- March 17 with Elske Seidel and Daniel Werner In-Reply-To: References: , <5712A50E.1020609@dancecontact.de>, Message-ID: CI Training Program 2016/17 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 30-October 2, 2016/ Elske & Daniel (single booking possible) WE 2: November 11-13, 2016/ Elske (still possible to join) WE 3: December 16-18, 2016/ Daniel WE 4: January 27-29, 2017 (Laboratory: Participants will research on their own. Bringing their personally relevant topics and questions to the dance.) WE 5: Intensive: March 24-26, 2017/ Elske & Daniel (incl Aquatic Contact) >>In special cases it is possible to miss one module. >>This year we will have an additional Aquatic Contact session (Nov or Dec weekend), on Saturday afternoon with the option to stay longer to enjoy the thermal bath and sauna! 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: ? 660-560 (till Aug 1, 2016), later ? 710-610 Introduction weekend only ? 140-110 (till Aug 1, 2016), later ? 160-130 Sleeping in the studio for ? 7/night possible! Place: TRIADE ? Zentrum f?r Tanz und Performance Bernstorffstrasse 117 (1st story), Hamburg St Pauli Info & Registration: Daniel Werner daniel.werner at dancecontact.de www.dancecontact.de www.elskedance.de (in Arbeit) 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 over 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), Contact in Nature/ La Palma (Spain). www.elskedance.de (in process) www.improtanz.de www.canarian.contactfestival.info -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ATT00002 Type: image/jpeg Size: 24825 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ATT00004 Type: image/jpeg Size: 30084 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ATT00006 Type: image/jpeg Size: 11638 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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