From admin at ashevillejam.com Fri Dec 1 11:47:09 2017 From: admin at ashevillejam.com (=?utf-8?Q?Asheville=20Jam?=) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 16:47:09 +0000 Subject: [CI-Announce] =?utf-8?q?Exciting_Development_for_Tonight=27s_Wor?= =?utf-8?q?kshop?= Message-ID: The Axis Syllabus is Movement Research. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to grow as a dancer. ** Although it was previously announced that Aaron Birk would be teaching "Pathways On The Road to Axis" tonight, we have a surprising new development: Nuria Bowart was able to change her flight and WILL BE TEACHING TONIGHT at the Center For Art And Spirit, 1 school road, from 6:30-9:30. See you there! ------------------------------------------------------------------ NURIA BOWART IS HERE! Dec 1st-3rd ------------------------------------------------------------ And she's brought The Axis Syllabus. FRIDAY Dec 1 6:30 - 9:30pm LOCATION: Center For Art and Spirit, 1 School Road SATURDAY Dec 2 10:00am - 6:00pm LOCATION: Warren Wilson College, Bryson Gym SUNDAY Dec 3 10:00am - 3:00pm LOCATION: Warren Wilson College, Bryson Gym If you are planning to attend one or both of the Axis Syllabus weekend workshops, and haven't yet registered (https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=bb8cdd2cd8&e=b3eb16b6a5) , please do so today. If you only plan to attend for a single day, you can pay a day-rate at the door. ** TICKETS: https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=4b67f69ea0&e=b3eb16b6a5 ------------------------------------------------------------ OUT OF TOWNER'S NEED HOUSING? email our housing coordinator: ashevillejam at gmail.com (mailto:ashevillejam at gmail.com?subject=Out%20of%20Towner%20Housing%20for%20Workshop) ** ------------------------------------------------------------ The Axis Syllabus is a body of research relevant to dynamic movement. It offers movement pathways for dancers, yogis, acrobats and martial artists that optimizes the body's natural fluency, using physics and anatomical realities to create beautiful, efficient, and safe movement patterns. We are bringing in two internationally acclaimed teachers to offer Asheville movers this rare and profound modality. ** What is The Axis Syllabus? ------------------------------------------------------------ ** https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=e072893fcc&e=b3eb16b6a5 ------------------------------------------------------------ https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=e34573b7e3&e=b3eb16b6a5 ** Watch to find out! (https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=b89e129aae&e=b3eb16b6a5) ------------------------------------------------------------ A RARE opportunity to expose yourself to this amazing modality that is usually available only in Europe and the West Coast! Two of the best teachers in the world, and we are offering The Axis Syllabus to you for a ridiculously affordable price. ** See more videos and instructor information on our website! (https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=cac3a2d520&e=b3eb16b6a5) ------------------------------------------------------------ Nuria Bowart: Nuria will be teaching around two main units: LOGICAL PROGRESSIONS: A FOCUS ON FUNDAMENTALS This class is designed to present the basic concepts of landing and launching pads as is defined within the Axis Syllabus. The Axis Syllabus is a body of research relevant to dynamic movement. This class will provide a clear mapping of soft tissue logic for entering and exiting a surface, wether it be a floor or another moving body. We will also practice some spiraling pathways useful for greater ease while changing levels. Tired of all those bruises from that hard floor when you land? Come and practice alternatives. THE C-STARS WILL BE FALLING: ACCELERATED PATHWAYS THROUGH THE FLOOR Falling off our center of gravity allows for us to harness our potential energy and to take a ride on the force of gravity. This class will elaborate on the concept of chronological architecture as it relates to moving in and out of the floor and one another in dynamic ways. The arms and the legs are useful to propel, absorb and pivot around. Acceleration happens, and can be ridden. In this class we will practice riding this bodyform safely and efficiently through the energy of a fall. Using some basic movement patterns, such as C-Star, offered through the Axis Syllabus, to help us to better understand useful mechanics for falling. While in this class, the main partner will be the floor, we will be practicing many of the patterns in partners and groups as well. Tickets and Registration: https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=416f534362&e=b3eb16b6a5 * * * And The Following Weekend... Dec 8th - 10th... DAN BEAR DAVIS teaches The Axis Syllabus and Contact Improv. Register (https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=18392def1a&e=b3eb16b6a5) for a Double Weekend Special. Interwoven: A Workshop in Axis Syllabus and Contact Improvisation with Daniel Bear Davis Friday December 8 6:30pm - 9:30pm Saturday December 9 10:00am - 5:30pm Sunday December 10:00am - 3:00pm (https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=c5cf30ce95&e=b3eb16b6a5) LOCATION: Dec 8 - Dec 9 Center For Art and Spirit 1 School Rd, Asheville, NC 28806 LOCATION: Dec 10 Veda Studios 853 Merrimon Ave, Asheville, NC 28805 Tickets and Registration: https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=794e3b0ca8&e=b3eb16b6a5 (https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=b6c83582df&e=b3eb16b6a5) Daniel Bear Davis: photo taken by Anna Maynard Interwoven: A Workshop in Axis Syllabus and Contact Improvisation by Daniel Bear Davis The Axis Syllabus offers a groundswell of relevant and specific information into healthy movement habits for moving humans living in a dynamic world. In this dance workshop, we will look at details of our own anatomy, refined over thousands of years of evolution, to gain clues about how to move in collaboration with our own fascinating design. As we grow in our kinetic potential, we can meet our dance partners with increased access to range and choice. This workshop will weave explorations of healthy and creative relationships between the many parts of our selves, with other humans in partner dancing, and within larger networks. We will identify boundaries and limitations as building blocks of resilience. We will explore ourselves and our shared dances as tensegrity structures, cultivating out integrity through tensile resistance. We will investigate the self within interconnected networks and interconnectivity within the self. And we?ll do a whole lot of dancing. Location: Center For Art and Spirit & Veda Studios! 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Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 17:25:53 +0100 Subject: [CI-Announce] =?utf-8?q?=F0=9F=94=B4_KATIE_DUCK_=3A_Improvisatio?= =?utf-8?q?n_-_Workshop_in_Berlin=2C_February_16-18=2C_2018?= Message-ID: <60BEB073-E3D3-4738-B7CD-E31C0566EA50@gmx.de> YOU are cordially invited to the workshop: KATIE DUCK : IMPROVISATION Workshop in Performance Research and improvisational Compositions DATE: February 16-18, 2018 NICE VENUE: Tanzfabrik Berlin (Kreuzberg) COST: Early bird 125? - 165? after January 19, 2018 BINDING REGISTRATION: For registration details contact xs4jan at gmx.de EVENT WEBSITE: http://contact-improvisation.net/2017/11/20/improvisation-ws-by-katie-duck-febr-16-18-2018/ LIKE THE EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/491273964591539/ SCHEDULE: Friday 16.2.: 18-21h Saturday 17.2.: 10-13h + 14-17h Sunday 18.2.: 10-13h + 15-17h + 18-19h Public Showing Total teaching time: 15h + Showing ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: 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. READ MORE IN THE WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION BELOW... SHOWING: For the participants is a voluntary opportunity to show the material developed in the workshop to the public in an informal showing at the end of the weekend, Sunday at 6:00 pm. VIDEOS: Funeral Orgelpark (This closing performance is the result of a week-long improvisation workshop. Direction Dance-Performance: Katie Duck) https://vimeo.com/141949678 Abandon Human (A correspondence that revolves around a discussion between Performance artists Sharon Smith and Katie Duck. http://abandonhuman.com ) https://vimeo.com/223942624 Traces of casualty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCAQp8MJ_aY 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 INTERVIEWS KATIE DUCK: Katie Duck & Alfredo Genovesi at SDSU - closing talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0zeo5s1BzA Katie Duck Interviewed by Marlon Barrios https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbrY0WQrGo Interview: Katie Duck & Alfredo Genovesi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDUaNO4VTVs Lecture of Katie Duck Workshop, San Francisco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVLYniyEWSo WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: 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.? 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 BIO KATIE DUCK: Katie Duck is a director/performer/teacher who has been working professionally since 1976. She has dedicated her life to her work as an on going process rather than settle into one specific methodology or frame. She is working in the context of the time she is living in day to day. Her work is the voice for how she feels about that. Katie Duck is a feminist with an edge to move things along rather than look behind. By the 1980's, Katie began to take a microscopic study for the role improvisation plays in her real time composition integrating music, movement, object and writing. Improvisation in a Katie Duck performance is not the antithesis of choreography or composition; it is how she makes her art work out of practice both in the studio setting and the newness of real time improvised performance. Her performances are about the experience of being there, you are participating in the event and thus, in a sense, the work?. Katie Duck?s practice is a reflection of what she believes art in the theatre can only be; live. She has developed a manifesto in how she conducts research, rehearsal processes, and workshops towards performances based on her background working with live musicians beginning in the mid 70's and her obsession to write and then voice text in a mix with her musical background. Over the past 15 years, she has integrated her curiosity for developmental brain studies as a part of how she teaches movement research and how she works with live public. Public, in her performances, are witnesses and the main provider for how the piece is perceived. Her performances are a practice of presence in a sound driven space with a flirtation to engage public so hopefully they remember what they have seen, heard and felt long after the live performance has died. More at Katies Website: http://katieduck.com/about-katie-duck/bio/ A WONDERFUL 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 admin at ashevillejam.com Tue Dec 5 11:52:37 2017 From: admin at ashevillejam.com (=?utf-8?Q?Asheville=20Jam?=) Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 16:52:37 +0000 Subject: [CI-Announce] =?utf-8?q?Axis_Syllabus_with_Dan_Bear_-_Final_Week?= =?utf-8?q?end!?= Message-ID: You can drop in for smaller sections of time! No need to commit to the entire workshop Dan Bear is here! The Axis Syllabus and Contact Improv workshop begins Friday night. You can drop in for different parts of the weekend or save by registering for the whole. (https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=e844d40071&e=b3eb16b6a5) The Axis Syllabus is a body of research relevant to dynamic movement. It offers movement pathways for dancers, yogis, acrobats and martial artists that optimizes the body's natural fluency, using physics and anatomical realities to create beautiful, efficient, and safe movement patterns. We are bringing in two internationally acclaimed teachers to offer Asheville movers this rare and profound modality. Out of towners: We can offer you housing. Email: ashevillejam at gmail.com (mailto:ashevillejam at gmail.com) DANIEL BEAR DAVIS * December 8th - 10th Interwoven: A Workshop in Axis Syllabus and Contact Improvisation FULL WEEKEND DISCOUNT: $90 - $120 sliding scale *BEST DEAL* Register Here: https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=b56a5ef41a&e=b3eb16b6a5 WALK-IN SCHEDULE: Friday December 8, 6:30pm - 9:30pm LOCATION: Center For Art and Spirit, 1 School Road Walk-In Price: $20 - $40 sliding scale * * * Saturday December 9, 10:00am - 1:00pm LOCATION: Center For Art and Spirit, 1 School Road Walk-In Price: $20 - $40 sliding scale * Lunch Break * Saturday December 9, 2:30 - 5:30pm LOCATION: Center For Art and Spirit, 1 School Road Walk-In Price: $20 - $40 sliding scale * * * Sunday December 10, 10:00am - 12:00pm LOCATION: VEDA Studios, 853 Merrimon Ave WALK IN : $20 - $40 sliding scale * Lunch Break * Sunday December 10, 1:00 - 3:00pm LOCATION: VEDA Studios, 853 Merrimon Ave WALK IN : $20 - $40 sliding scale * * * Daniel Bear Davis: photo taken by Anna Maynard Interwoven: A Workshop in Axis Syllabus and Contact Improvisation by Daniel Bear Davis (https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=27a771b407&e=b3eb16b6a5) The Axis Syllabus offers a groundswell of relevant and specific information into healthy movement habits for moving humans living in a dynamic world. In this dance workshop, we will look at details of our own anatomy, refined over thousands of years of evolution, to gain clues about how to move in collaboration with our own fascinating design. As we grow in our kinetic potential, we can meet our dance partners with increased access to range and choice. This workshop will weave explorations of healthy and creative relationships between the many parts of our selves, with other humans in partner dancing, and within larger networks. We will identify boundaries and limitations as building blocks of resilience. We will explore ourselves and our shared dances as tensegrity structures, cultivating out integrity through tensile resistance. We will investigate the self within interconnected networks and interconnectivity within the self. And we?ll do a whole lot of dancing. Tickets and Registration: https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=aa7c748c04&e=b3eb16b6a5 This Saturday Nov 18th... THE AXIS SYLLABUS 2:00-3:30 - Center For Art and Spirit The Axis Syllabus - taught by Aaron Birk Cost: $10-$15 sliding scale * 1 Hour Break -- Drive Across Town * THE UNDERSCORE 4:30-7:30 - Battery Park Rooftop Terrace The Underscore - lead by Idelle Packer Cost: FREE 4:30-5:00 Talk-Through (required for 1st timers) 5:00-7:30 Underscore (arrival period 4:00-4:15) FREE (Donations welcome) All levels welcome and invited to join! Scroll to bottom for a detailed description of The Underscore and its history Aaron's November series, "Pathways On The Road To Axis," is an extrememly rare opportunity to expose yourself to this amazing modality, which is usually available only in San Francisco or Berlin. We are bringing in two of the best teachers in the world, and we are offering The Axis Syllabus to you for a ridiculously affordable price. * * * THE AXIS SYLLABUS December Workshops - If you are planning to go, Please register now (https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=2c6b9a9717&e=b3eb16b6a5) to reserve your place. We need to know how many people to expect in order to rent our studios and pay our visiting teachers. We are hosting two December weekend workshops on a type of movement research known as The Axis Syllabus. The Axis Syllabus is a body of research relevant to dynamic movement. It offers movement pathways for dancers, yogis, acrobats and martial artists that optimizes the body's natural fluency, using physics and anatomical realities to create beautiful, efficient, and safe movement patterns. We are bringing in two internationally acclaimed teachers to offer Asheville movers this rare and profound modality. * * * Logical Progressions: A Focus On Fundamentals The C-Stars Will Be Falling: Accelerated Pathways Through The Floor with Nuria Bowart Friday December 1 6:30pm - 9:30pm (taught by Aaron Birk) (https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=5e89b65446&e=b3eb16b6a5) Saturday December 2 10:00am - 6:00pm Sunday December 3 10:00am - 3:00pm (https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=b19d79bb23&e=b3eb16b6a5) LOCATION: Dec 1 Center For Art and Spirit 1 School Rd, Asheville, NC 28806 LOCATION: Dec 2 - Dec 3 Warren Wilson College, Bryson Gym 701 Warren Wilson Rd, Swannanoa, NC 28778 Tickets and Registration: https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=f287993f6c&e=b3eb16b6a5 * * * Interwoven: A Workshop in Axis Syllabus and Contact Improvisation with Daniel Bear Davis Friday December 8 6:30pm - 9:30pm Saturday December 9 10:00am - 5:30pm Sunday December 10:00am - 3:00pm (https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=fd8e18646a&e=b3eb16b6a5) LOCATION: Dec 8 - Dec 9 Center For Art and Spirit 1 School Rd, Asheville, NC 28806 LOCATION: Dec 10 Veda Studios 853 Merrimon Ave, Asheville, NC 28805 Tickets and Registration: https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=cfe33b6028&e=b3eb16b6a5 * * * Here's a look at our guest teachers: Daniel Bear Davis: photo taken by Anna Maynard Interwoven: A Workshop in Axis Syllabus and Contact Improvisation by Daniel Bear Davis The Axis Syllabus offers a groundswell of relevant and specific information into healthy movement habits for moving humans living in a dynamic world. In this dance workshop, we will look at details of our own anatomy, refined over thousands of years of evolution, to gain clues about how to move in collaboration with our own fascinating design. As we grow in our kinetic potential, we can meet our dance partners with increased access to range and choice. This workshop will weave explorations of healthy and creative relationships between the many parts of our selves, with other humans in partner dancing, and within larger networks. We will identify boundaries and limitations as building blocks of resilience. We will explore ourselves and our shared dances as tensegrity structures, cultivating out integrity through tensile resistance. We will investigate the self within interconnected networks and interconnectivity within the self. And we?ll do a whole lot of dancing. Location: TBD -- Stay Tuned! Tickets and Registration: https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=4d54cc3874&e=b3eb16b6a5 Nuria Bowart: LOGICAL PROGRESSIONS: A FOCUS ON FUNDAMENTALS. by Nuria Bowart This class is designed to present the basic concepts of landing and launching pads as is defined within the Axis Syllabus. The Axis Syllabus is a body of research relevant to dynamic movement. This class will provide a clear mapping of soft tissue logic for entering and exiting a surface, wether it be a floor or another moving body. We will also practice some spiraling pathways useful for greater ease while changing levels. Tired of all those bruises from that hard floor when you land? Come and practice alternatives. THE C-STARS WILL BE FALLING: ACCELERATED PATHWAYS THROUGH THE FLOOR. by Nuria Bowart Falling off our center of gravity allows for us to harness our potential energy and to take a ride on the force of gravity. This class will elaborate on the concept of chronological architecture as it relates to moving in and out of the floor and one another in dynamic ways. The arms and the legs are useful to propel, absorb and pivot around. Acceleration happens, and can be ridden. In this class we will practice riding this bodyform safely and efficiently through the energy of a fall. Using some basic movement patterns, such as C-Star, offered through the Axis Syllabus, to help us to better understand useful mechanics for falling. While in this class, the main partner will be the floor, we will be practicing many of the patterns in partners and groups as well. Location: TBD -- Stay Tuned! Tickets and Registration: https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=504c6a9510&e=b3eb16b6a5 * * * Here's a look at The Axis Syllabus: https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=b75031af16&e=b3eb16b6a5 https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=59f557a982&e=b3eb16b6a5 https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=5071540c2e&e=b3eb16b6a5 https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=3f55f25d1f&e=b3eb16b6a5 * * * ABOUT THE UNDERSCORE The Underscore is an excellent way to experience contact improvisation within a structure that allows you to bring all your improvisation skills into the dance while staying true to the principles of Contact Improvisation that make jamming so enjoyable: ?Doing under others as you would have them do under you!? (Steve Paxton) Developed by Nancy Stark Smith, the Underscore is a monthly practice at Asheville Jam. What better way to practice ?arriving" in mind and body, listening, and being present to respond in the moment than by being part of an Underscore! What makes an Underscore different than an open jam? It is the ?container:" from the moment you enter the room until we circle and share, you are in the score? no matter what you do. Typically, the Underscore ensures the luxury of time to warm up into bodily presence before interacting with the other players and values time to ?harvest? the experience by taking time to be still as the dance resolves and to share verbally during closing circle. -------- According to Nancy Stark Smith, who developed the Underscore: "The Underscore is a vehicle for incorporating Contact Improvisation into a broader arena of improvisational dance practice; for developing greater ease dancing in spherical space?alone and with others; and for integrating kinesthetic and compositional concerns while improvising. It allows for a full spectrum of energetic and physical expressions, embodying a range of forms and changing states. Its practice is familiar yet unpredictable. The practice?usually 3 to 4 hours in length?progresses through a broad range of dynamic states, including long periods of very small, private, and quiet internal activity and other times of higher energy and interactive dancing." ** Did you know? ------------------------------------------------------------ There's a pretty sweet CI journal called Contact Quarterly (https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=830fb6a518&e=b3eb16b6a5) that has some really interesting online material as well as a long running print publication. Check it out! (https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=0d4615c538&e=b3eb16b6a5) ============================================================ Contact Improv T-Shirts Check out these beautiful, high quality T-Shirts which are available now! 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(Please park along road or at The Fireplace restaurant. Nathan's driveway is snowy) $5 donations welcome. See you tonight or tomorrow morning at 11am. Yours Truly, Asheville Jam Organizers HERE IS THE UPDATED SNOW SCHEDULE FOR THE AXIS SYLLABUS: * * * Friday * CLASS CANCELED * * * * Saturday December 9, 11:00am - 2:00pm TIME ADJUSTMENT: Start One Hour Late LOCATION: Center For Art and Spirit, 1 School Road Walk-In Price: $20 - $40 sliding scale * One Hour Lunch Break * Saturday December 9, 3:00 - 6:00pm LOCATION: Center For Art and Spirit, 1 School Road Walk-In Price: $20 - $40 sliding scale * * * Sunday December 10, 10:00am - 12:00pm REGULAR SCHEDULE LOCATION: VEDA Studios, 853 Merrimon Ave WALK IN : $20 - $40 sliding scale * One Hour Lunch Break * Sunday December 10, 1:00 - 3:00pm LOCATION: VEDA Studios, 853 Merrimon Ave WALK IN : $20 - $40 sliding scale FULL WEEKEND DISCOUNT: $90 - $120 sliding scale Register Here: https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=d8c3a7db52&e=b3eb16b6a5 * * * Daniel Bear Davis: photo taken by Anna Maynard The Axis Syllabus is a body of research relevant to dynamic movement. It offers movement pathways for dancers, yogis, acrobats and martial artists that optimizes the body's natural fluency, using physics and anatomical realities to create beautiful, efficient, and safe movement patterns. We are bringing in two internationally acclaimed teachers to offer Asheville movers this rare and profound modality. Interwoven: A Workshop in Axis Syllabus and Contact Improvisation by Daniel Bear Davis (https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=1a5dac166c&e=b3eb16b6a5) The Axis Syllabus offers a groundswell of relevant and specific information into healthy movement habits for moving humans living in a dynamic world. In this dance workshop, we will look at details of our own anatomy, refined over thousands of years of evolution, to gain clues about how to move in collaboration with our own fascinating design. As we grow in our kinetic potential, we can meet our dance partners with increased access to range and choice. 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We are bringing in two internationally acclaimed teachers to offer Asheville movers this rare and profound modality. Interwoven: A Workshop in Axis Syllabus and Contact Improvisation by Daniel Bear Davis (https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=5a93252c88&e=b3eb16b6a5) The Axis Syllabus offers a groundswell of relevant and specific information into healthy movement habits for moving humans living in a dynamic world. In this dance workshop, we will look at details of our own anatomy, refined over thousands of years of evolution, to gain clues about how to move in collaboration with our own fascinating design. As we grow in our kinetic potential, we can meet our dance partners with increased access to range and choice. This workshop will weave explorations of healthy and creative relationships between the many parts of our selves, with other humans in partner dancing, and within larger networks. 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