From admin at ashevillejam.com Mon Apr 9 14:50:34 2018 From: admin at ashevillejam.com (=?utf-8?Q?Asheville=20Jam?=) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 18:50:34 +0000 Subject: [CI-Announce] =?utf-8?q?Special_Announcement=3A_Axis_Syllabus_Vi?= =?utf-8?q?deos?= Message-ID: Workshop attendees can master the pathways Axis Syllabus Workshop Footage Available For Download SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Dear Dancers, We are delighted to offer you... Video footage from the December 2017 Axis Syllabus workshops is now available. Over 30 hours of footage has been edited down to less than 2 hours of pure, instructional Axis Syllabus pathways from our two instructors, Daniel Bear and Nuria Bowart. These videos are for workshop attendees only. To download the footage, please write an email to brinewater at gmail.com (mailto:brinewater at gmail.com) stating which workshops you attended. In your email, state truthfully that you attended all or part of the workshops. Please state in your own words a commitment to use the material for personal, educational purposes only. Give your word that you will not share this footage with anyone. Maintaining privacy of students and teachers in the films is very important. The cost is a sliding scale: $10-$30 for for one and $20-$60 for the pair. Please send payment via PayPal to brinewater at gmail.com (mailto:brinewater at gmail.com) along with a note specifying which workshop footage you would like to download, and the best email address to reach you. All funds will go to AVL Jam and to the video producer. Thank you so much for your presence last December and we encourage you to continue your study of movement, dance and biodynamics. Sincerely, The Asheville Jam Organizers * * * Asheville Jam core organizers have been engaged in challenging discussions about boundaries and how to create a safer environment on the dance floor, especially for women and newcomers to the form. Please read this article by Kathleen Rea (https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=1319c03560&e=b3eb16b6a5) . We encourage your engagement as we continue to articulate these issues into our own finalized AVL JAM guideline statement (https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=a5273afc7c&e=b3eb16b6a5) and feel free to email us at admin at ashevillejam.com (mailto:admin at ashevillejam.com) ** ------------------------------------------------------------ * * * ** COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------------------------------------------------------ Below are regional, national and sometimes international events from the greater dance community. The following event (Touch&Play Fertile Ground, and the Touch&Play Project) is not produced by Asheville Jam. It is a mixed modality event and includes a wide range of activities that extend beyond the bounds of the Contact Improvisation form, including containers to explore sexuality and other mature content. ** Touch&Play: Fertile Ground (Earthaven/Asheville) ------------------------------------------------------------ When: April 12th - 16th Where: Earth Haven Ecovillage, Dancing Shiva Retreat Center 5 Consensus Circle, Black Mountain, NC 28711 Facebook Event (https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=0a1154d934&e=b3eb16b6a5) Registration: Register Here (https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=5cecd146af&e=b3eb16b6a5) Cost: Sliding Scale pricing includes meals and lodging This is a closed container event, there is no drop-in attendance allowed. What: Explore the Fertile Ground cultivated in our lives and community when we embrace our primal nature ? what it really means to be alive, free and connected. We build tools for conscious consent, courageous exploration and sensual, ecstatic play ? with the idea that our participation in and contribution to this exploration is a profound act of social change. 3 Intensive Tracks: Zahava Griss - Exploring Power Play & Genger Other Classes and Events from Julia Taylor, Josh Fox, Kaitlin June, Neal Wecker, Michael Hurd, CJ O'Reilly, Chaya Leia Aronson, Swami Ravi Rudra Bharati * * * ** ------------------------------------------------------------ ** 2018 SPRING EAST COAST JAM ------------------------------------------------------------ A 4-Day Contact Improv Retreat https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=0ae5bc2af0&e=b3eb16b6a5 When: April 11-15 Where: Claymont Court Estate, Charles Town, WV 25414 Registration: https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=98ffec5d24&e=b3eb16b6a5 (https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=2b3fcf783f&e=b3eb16b6a5) Early Bird Price Deadline: March 25th The East Coast Jam is a multi-day Contact Improvisation gathering in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains outside of Charles Town, West Virginia. This jam has become a historic tradition, happening twice yearly since 1987. Come initiate our beautiful new octagonal dance floor in the barn. We worked hard for it. It is built and being finished now! * * * ** ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Nomadic College at Earth Dance ------------------------------------------------------------ a three week Axis Syllabus Intensive https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=be4a346342&e=b3eb16b6a5 When: June 8-29 Where: EarthDance, North Hampton, MA What: 19 days of intensive study of the Axis Syllabus The Nomadic College (NC) offers a methodically designed curriculum and focused environment for the study of of the Axis Syllabus, a trans-disciplinary research and training platform. The AS is born of an emergent, educational initiative to provide an accessible reference system for practical human anatomy and physics as they apply to training, rehabilitation and the art of dancing. The NC offers an intensive context for embodied practice, physical training as well as theoretical discussion, inquiry and creative expressions. More info: www.nomadiccollege.org (https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=3d2f8b730c&e=b3eb16b6a5) * * * ** Did you know? ------------------------------------------------------------ There's a pretty sweet CI journal called Contact Quarterly (https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=c2717d1f8e&e=b3eb16b6a5) that has some really interesting online material as well as a long running print publication. Check it out! 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URL: From xs4jan at gmx.de Mon Apr 16 05:19:17 2018 From: xs4jan at gmx.de (Jan Boeschoten) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 11:19:17 +0200 Subject: [CI-Announce] =?utf-8?b?4o+wIEVBUkxZQklSRCBlbmRzIDI1LjQuOiBTY290?= =?utf-8?q?t_Wells=3A_The_Flying_Score_-_Workshop=2C_Berlin_25-27=2E5=2E18?= Message-ID: YOU are cordially invited to Scott?s workshop - please forward to interested FRIENDS: The Flying Score ? Workshop by Scott Wells Workshop in Contact Improvisation, flight patterns and fluid acrobatics May 25-27, 2018 ? Tanzfabrik Berlin (Kreuzberg) Scott Wells, San Francisco Artistic Director of Scott Wells & Dancers ? contemporary dance ensemble ?renown for their high-flying, gravity-defying dance? SCHEDULE: ? Friday 25.5.: 16-20:00 ? Saturday 26.5.: 10-18:00 (break 13-14:00) (19-22:00 public Contact Jam) ? Sunday 27.5.: 11-18:00 (break 14-15:00) (=total teaching time: 17h) TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/109335346 COST: Early bird: 145? (money transfer until April 25, 2018), thereafter: 185? YOUR REGISTRATION: For registration details and workshop questions please contact me by e-mail at xs4jan at gmx.de EVENT WEBSITE: http://contact-improvisation.net/2018/02/27/the-flying-score-ws-by-scott-wells-may-25-27-2018/ SHARE YOUR INTEREST: https://www.facebook.com/events/224081734805089/ WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION ? The Flying Score: Starting with contact as our foundation, we?ll traject towards a space that supports freedom of flight and expression: expression that takes us into interaction and ensemble improvisation. That is: we start at zero to redefine what is contact?to ourselves, others, reality, gravity. We start at zero to connect with our bodies, our interest and spontaneity. Some notions: We will decode momentum to ride moving support ? riding momentum is about letting go without being out-of?control. We?ll track flying centers of gravity to find aerial interactions that increase the contact. I like to inject some body systems material (BMC, Alexander Technique and bodywork). For example: Jumping ? Flying because jumping is a muscular action, whereas flying is in the bones and is affected greatly by emotions and attitude. Some of the techniques that will be tought are: ?flying patterns? (lifts, how to spring, how to jump, how to fly), ?fluid acrobatics? (actobatics in movement), ?pure contact?(contact improvisation basics). For the acrobatic and advanced patterns everyone will work at their own level and will learn best by building group safety and trust ? everyone will do something new. We will learn some repertory and practice taking the aerial work into improv. I like feedback and will see what the group is up for. We will practice flying, catching, landing, fluid acrobatics and deft maneuvers. We?ll be doing my favorite contact exercises and current curiosities--created or learned over the decades of investigation and indulgence. We use these to warm up, center and to re-enter the ?beginner?s mind? of contact improvisation. We will practice integrating the flying and acrobatics into the contact flow. That is: aerial interactions that increase the contact. We will take the aerial work into improvisation FLYING SCORES. VIDEOS: https://vimeo.com/115280415 https://vimeo.com/71350780 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAxE41NM5Pg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBnus7agXHk https://vimeo.com/132053009 https://vimeo.com/69625456 BIO Scott Wells: In 1981 Scott Wells discovered the pleasure of contact improvisation shortly after becoming obsessed with the struggles of modern dance. He stuck with both, received an MFA in dance from the University of Illinois (1991) and currently directs a company in San Francisco. Scott Wells & Dancers is celebrating 25 years of making dances in San Francisco. Wells has created works for skateboarders, for boxers and choreographed West Side Story for Sonoma State University. In 2010 and 2005 Scott received the Izzie (San Francisco?s most prestigious dance award) for Outstanding Choreography and was selected by Dance Magazine as ?one of the 25 To Watch?. In 2016 Wells choreographed Touchy Subjects with Keith Hennessy and in 2017 choreographed On the Occasion of our 25th Anniversary (and eviction) we ask, ?Was that good for you?? with Kathleen Hermesdorf. Wells has been practicing Alexander Technique for twenty five years and BMC for fifteen. Scott?s style of contact is athletic and emphasizes freedom of movement, flying, fluid acrobatics (easy to advanced), safety, precision, pleasure and technique. What students often like best in Scott's classes is the variance between meditative, playful, and very physical dancing. And students appreciate how the scary or advanced moves are safe, relaxed and made possible. PRESS: ?Scott Wells...has a dizzying abundance of pure dance-making talent? Rachel Howard, SF Examiner "Wells has become over the last fifteen years the Paul Taylor of Contact Improv ? that is, the first to make dances in this idiom that are deeply musical, somehow "normal," imaginative, witty, often hilarious, sometimes fierce.? Paul Parrish, Danceviewtimes "Come for the Thrills, Stay for the Artistry." Allan Ulrich, Voice of Dance "Sproing! Once you adjust to the notion that very fit people are supposed to be bouncing off walls and flying in your face, you can relax and let them (Wells and dancers) do their thing, which is an electrifying style of contact improvisation" SF Weekly 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 PHOTO CREDIT: David Papas -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Scott-Wells-mi.jpg Type: image/jpg Size: 49284 bytes Desc: not available URL: From elskeseidel at hotmail.com Wed Apr 25 03:16:34 2018 From: elskeseidel at hotmail.com (Elske Seidel) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 07:16:34 +0000 Subject: [CI-Announce] Early Bird until April 29! Contact Skills with Elske Seidel | 27. Mai 2018 | Mime Center Berlin In-Reply-To: References: , , , , Message-ID: [cid:34882da8-078f-44d2-8429-26c2ef96bfc4] Contact Skills with Elske Seidel Mime Center Berlin | 27 May 2018 intermediate - advanced This workshop is meant for people with a solid base in Contact Improvisation that wish to go further. It might involve taking risks as we explore, play and learn. We will practice useful technique and movement principles that will support us in finding ease and flow in our mutual dance with gravity. Equally, we will work somatically, experiencing and understanding movement from within, going deeper. Key Words will be The Falling Body, Following Through, Riding the Fall, Movement Efficiency, Lightness, Quality, Support. One goal of this workshop will be to give inspiration as well as tools in order to stimulate and support the individual growth and development in each of us as we are dancing together. Time: Sunday 27 May 2018 10:30am-1pm + 2:30pm- 5pm Price: 64? / 48? (with bank transfer until 29.04.) Place: Mime Centrum Berlin ? Studio 2 Kunstquartier Bethanien Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin ? Kreuzberg Registration & Info: http://elskedance.de/en/events/5a4ead4084c60bb6108d7c64/view 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 photo@ Katelyn Stiles, flyer design@ mapp.graphics www.elskedance.de Elske Seidel Liberdastr. 14 12047 Berlin mobil: +49 (0)176-245 11 506 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Contact Skills VS WEB1.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 140145 bytes Desc: Contact Skills VS WEB1.jpg URL: From elskeseidel at hotmail.com Mon Apr 30 01:53:23 2018 From: elskeseidel at hotmail.com (Elske Seidel) Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 05:53:23 +0000 Subject: [CI-Announce] CI Training Program Hamburg Germany Oct/Dec-May 2018/19 with Elske Seidel & Daniel Werner In-Reply-To: References: , , , , , Message-ID: CI Training Program 2018/19 Hamburg (Germany) Elske Seidel and Daniel Werner [cid:part1.AFD23628.B567F1C0 at dancecontact.de][cid:part2.696A6873.6ED91B8F at dancecontact.de][cid:part3.9D1617EF.7618B13C at dancecontact.de][cid:part4.F69D527D.12F30F82 at dancecontact.de][cid:part5.5071A9B7.F1CD9106 at dancecontact.de] 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): 26.-28.10 2018 / Elske & Daniel (single booking possible) WE 2: 7.-9.12.2108 / Daniel (still possible to join) WE 3: 25.-27.1.2019 / (Laboratory: Participants will research on their own. Bringing their personally relevant topics and questions to the dance.) WE 4: 29.-31.3.2019 / Elske WE 5: Intensive: 3.-5.5.2019 / 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) April 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: ? 690-590 (till July 30), later ? 740-640 Introduction weekend only ? 140-110 (till July 30), later ? 160-130 Sleeping in the studio for ? 7/night possible! Place: TRIADE ? Zentrum f?r Tanz und Performance Bernstorffstrasse 117, Hamburg St Pauli, Germany http://www.triadehamburg.de Info & Registration: Daniel Werner daniel.dancecontact at icloud.com www.dancecontact.de Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/1748740288543693 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 for Experienced Contact Dancers/ Arlequi (Spain), ECITE (European Contact Improvisation Teachers Exchange) / Ponderosa / D, Contact Saturdays Berlin/ Tanzfabrik Berlin, 23h Jam Berlin, Berlin Weekend Jam, Contact Festival Fuerteventura (Spain), North Sea CI Camp (Ger) and Nature as Teacher Berlin. www.elskedance.de www.canarian.contactfestival.info www.dyq.somebodyelse.de If you do not want to receive any further information, please answer to this mail with "no further information" as the subject. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ATT00002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 24825 bytes Desc: ATT00002.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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