From ken.manheimer at gmail.com Thu Mar 2 19:33:13 2017 From: ken.manheimer at gmail.com (Ken Manheimer) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 19:33:13 -0500 Subject: [CI-Announce] Register for the Spring 2017 East Coast Jam, April 5-9 Message-ID: The East Coast Jam is a twice-annual four-day retreat to play with Contact Improvisation with others who love the practice. Join us for this years Spring jam from April 5 to April 9 at a beautiful country estate (*Claymont Court* , West Virginia) for $380 for all four days, full shared rooming and delicious vegetarian meals included. Discounts are available for camping (on the 350 acre, wooded estate grounds) and attendance for less than four days. We're there for opportunities to dance, play, and explore contact improv together in a lovely and spacious place and time. - See *the Spring 2017 event page* on our website for the details - Visit our *Registration page* to register online. - We use PayPal to take credit card and PayPal payment online. - See our general ECJ info collection for more background. - If you're new to extended jams/retreats, see *our basics page .* Don't delay - the last day for early bird registration is March 18. The prices increase on March 19 by $50, across the board. As ever, help to make this a great jam by spreading the word, inviting people that love to dance, and forwarding this message to interested communities. With love, your Spring Jam organizers, Idelle, Kathleen, and Ken [image: Inline image 4] [image: Inline image 5] [image: Inline image 6] We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. -- T. S. 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May 2017 with Elske Seidel | Berlin In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [cid:136522b9-371f-417d-ab33-1e1a355b73b3] Nature as Teacher: Contact Improvisation in Water, Nature and the Studio 19.-21. May 2017 | Berlin A residential weekend workshop dancing in water, nature and the studio. All in one place including Saturday night water jam and sauna !! This weekend focuses on the profound movement qualities in Contact Improvisation which are inherent and we can feel as we move in warm water and nature. We will invite nature as our teacher and allow ourselves to learn about gravity and movement through experience. When dancing in the studio we can transfer essential principles from the water and our experience in nature into our movement on land. Our movement qualities and techniques can develop organically from within, guiding us through deeper knowledge and understanding into blissful dancing! We will enjoy, laugh, research, learn and DANCE a lot! This weekend is an invitation for people to share a deeper experience as a group. We have a big garden, a patio and nature close by to relax in and play. We can use the kitchen to cook meals. At the house you can sleep in the studio or bring your own tent and it is close enough to go home if you prefer. ***A Video of Elske's work*** Nature as Teacher http://elskedance.de/en/videos Hot Pool (34?C), Nature, Studio and Sauna are all in one place. at F?hlbar Frohnau - Center for Waterwork in Berlin (20 Min. by subway! S-Bahn from Gesundbrunnen) Times: 19.-21. May 2017 Friday 7-9:30 pm: Water Saturday 10:30-6 pm: Nature + Studio Saturday Night: Water-Jam + Sauna Sunday 10:30-5 pm: Water + Studio Price: 150 ? / 130 ? (until 19.4.) + 60 ? for Pool/ Sauna and Sleeping *Number of participants is limited to 12* Place: F?hlbar Frohnau - Center for Waterwork in Berlin-Frohnau 20 Min. by subway/ S-Bahn from Gesundbrunnen Im Amseltal 57, 13465 Berlin Taught in: German / English Registration: http://elskedance.de/en/events/5848690303d051c628e281b1/view [cid:6367d748-50c5-4c1d-bb66-1972f1ac049f]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, CI since 2004. In her teaching she believes in opening spaces where dance in all its vital magic and play can emerge and simply happen. Her work draws from nature as a teacher and values doing little - slowly - so the experience of the participants can expand into the space she holds. She has taught CI in Europe, Canada, the U.S., Argentina, Israel, Russia and Japan. She is the artistic director of the Annual Contact Festival Fuerteventura/ E, Contact Saturday Berlin, as well as co-creating the Berlin Weekend Jam, 23h Jam Berlin, North Sea CI Camp/ GER, Dance Your Questions: CI Research Week for Experienced Contact Dancers, ECITE - European Contact Improvisation Teachers Exchange (Ponderosa/ GER), CI Training Program and CI Workshop Series BASICS in Berlin & Hamburg/ GER. www.elskedance.de www.canarian.contactfestival.info www.dyq.somebodyelse.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Nature as Teacher Lang VS WEB1.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 155739 bytes Desc: Nature as Teacher Lang VS WEB1.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: small1.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 682183 bytes Desc: small1.jpg URL: From xs4jan at gmx.de Mon Mar 20 14:13:52 2017 From: xs4jan at gmx.de (J.B.) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 19:13:52 +0100 Subject: [CI-Announce] KATIE DUCK: IMPROVISATION-Workshop - June 10+11, 2017 in Berlin Message-ID: <60246683-9176-4AA4-A3AE-A94C7B16C898@gmx.de> KATIE DUCK : IMPROVISATION Workshop in Performance Research and improvisational Compositions DATE: June 10+11, 2017 VENUE: EDEN Studios - part of Dock11 Berlin - COST: Earlybird 110? (money transfer until April 30, 2017), thereafter 135? REGISTRATION: For registration details and workshop questions please contact me by e-mail at xs4jan at gmx.de EVENT WEBSITE: http://contact-improvisation.net/2017/02/22/improvisation-ws-by-katie-duck-june-10-11-2017/ SOCIAL: https://www.facebook.com/events/1297089163710712/ SCHEDULE: June 10+11, 2017 Saturday: 10-13h + 15-18h Sunday: 10-13h + 15-18h 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 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/ LOCATION: EDEN***** STUDIOS Breite Strasse 43 13187 Berlin (Pankow) http://www.dock11-berlin.de/index.php/cat/c4_Service.html ?scroll down to "STUDIO 190.EG,? in Haus 2 TRAFFIC LINKS: Tram-Station ?Pankow-Kirche?: M1, M50 U & S-Bahn Pankow: U2, M27, S2, S8, RE3, RE5 Bus: 107, 155, 250, 255, X54, N50, N2 https://www.google.de/maps?daddr=13187+Berlin,+Breite+Strasse+43 PHOTO CREDIT: Irene Fabri