From admin at ashevillejam.com Thu Mar 1 16:00:12 2018 From: admin at ashevillejam.com (=?utf-8?Q?Asheville=20Jam?=) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 21:00:12 +0000 Subject: [CI-Announce] =?utf-8?q?Juicy_Events_Coming_Up!?= Message-ID: Touch&Play in Asheville Touch&Play is in Asheville! Saturday March 3rd Open Contact Improv JAM Location: Center For Art and Spirit, 1 School Rd, Asheville, NC 28806 Time: 4:00-6:00pm Cost: $5 No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds Please wear soft, dance friendly clothing (natural fibers, loose pants and sleeved shirts are ideal) * * * Asheville Jam is a collective that organizes Contact Improvisation dance jams, workshops and events. Asheville Jam has a core group of organizers who strive to support the practice of Contact Improvisation and to help the community thrive and grow. Many of us have been active in this group for years. In recent months we have been engaged in some challenging discussions about boundaries and how to create a safer environment for our dance floors, particularly for women and newcomers. Our discussions have been prompted in part by the linked article by Kathleen Rea. (https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=bbf25e0993&e=b3eb16b6a5) (https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=0621b53c7e&e=b3eb16b6a5) Inspired by her clarity and bravery in bringing difficult issues to public light, we are recreating our jam guidelines. See our working draft of the AVL JAM guideline statement. (https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=5cb23824a6&e=b3eb16b6a5) https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=0c5795e0a1&e=b3eb16b6a5 would love for all of you to read her article, and engage with us and each other about this content. You can contact us at admin at ashevillejam.com (mailto:admin at ashevillejam.com) . ** ------------------------------------------------------------ * * * ** COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------------------------------------------------------ These are CI and dance related local, regional, and sometimes national & international events from the greater CI community. Noguchi Taiso (Water Body Movement) with Mari Osanai https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=6795f56be5&e=b3eb16b6a5 When: Thursday thru Sunday, March 8-11, 2018 Times: Th/Fr: 6-9PM, Sa/Su: 1-6PM What: 4-Day Intensive Workshop in Noguchi Taiso (Water Body Movement) Who: Mari Osanai - Master Teacher Where: New Studio of Dance, 20 Commerce Street, Asheville, NC (https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=82e9cb09fe&e=b3eb16b6a5) Cost: Full Workshop $240 / Thursday and Friday $45/each / Saturday and Sunday $85/each Tickets: mari-osanai-asheville.brownpapertickets.com (https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=6ed62f1243&e=b3eb16b6a5) Noguchi Taiso physical training technique was founded in Japan by Michizo Noguchi. This introductory workshop will help you find new ways to improve your movement efficiency, while letting go of unnecessary tensions. Mari explains ?it's not about strength or resistance, or forcing the body to move in a certain way. Instead, it allows the body to melt. It is tender and flexible, and lets us give in to gravity rather than fight it. Noguchi Taiso allows us to find a more natural way to move. * * * ** Durham Dance Tsunami ------------------------------------------------------------ https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=2acd26477f&e=b3eb16b6a5 When: March 16 - 18th What: A Weekend Dance Extravaganza: Ecstatic Dance and Contact Improvisation with KJ Holmes Where: Shared Visions Retreat Center 3717 Murphy School Road, Durham, NC 27705 Cost: $120 for full workshop, (partial workshop registration available) Registration: https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=6c9f1ebc9b&e=b3eb16b6a5 (http:// https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=dab6b04214&e=b3eb16b6a5) The Spring 2018 Durham Dance Tsunami weekend opens with a 2 hour Ecstatic Dance on FRIDAY evening followed by a 10 hour weekend workshop with K.J. Holmes on Saturday & Sunday. K.J. will be focusing on a combination of Contact and Solo Improvisation skill building. We will have open warm ups before the mroning classes both days with live music. The Friday evening dance and Satruday evening underscore are open to the community. The oferings will be appropriate for all levels. * * * 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=36c0b9a8b4&e=b3eb16b6a5) Registration: Register Here (https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=86199aac7a&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: Cassie Drew - Pushing the Edges of Trust Through Acro Zahava Griss - Exploring Power Play & Genger Moti Zemelman - ConSensual: Contact Improv & the Art of Consent 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=1f684da02c&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=fe7e72b5ba&e=b3eb16b6a5 (https://ashevillejam.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9a390fa29763a385da555988&id=8b68d656ba&e=b3eb16b6a5) Early Bird Price Deadline: March 25th The East Coast Jam s 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=ad38036006&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=e8ecb5bc49&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=14071e3ca6&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 Tue Mar 6 03:56:11 2018 From: xs4jan at gmx.de (Jan Boeschoten) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 09:56:11 +0100 Subject: [CI-Announce] =?utf-8?q?=E2=9D=8C_Scott_Wells=3A_The_Flying_Scor?= =?utf-8?q?e_-_Workshop=2C_Berlin_25-27=2E5=2E18?= Message-ID: <10B7C841-7B15-4134-B88E-7BCF02798251@gmx.de> 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/2254272381466308/ 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... 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Use the PayPal option for PayPal or credit card; use the PayLater option for cash, cheque or Interac. *...I want to eat, but I have allergies.* Our food will be vegan, with gluten-free and nut-free options. If you have other food sensitivities, contact Olya Glotka at olya.glotka at gmail.com today. She'll be communicating with the caterers tomorrow. *...I want to help out.The ORCJ is run entirely by volunteers. If you'd like to be one of those volunteers, please email Henry Wai at henryhwai at gmail.com . ...I want to host.* We have 73 out-of-town dancers who are looking for floors where they can spread their sleeping bags at night. We only have 48 spots for them. To help bridge the gap, please contact Dmitri Seleznev at ORCJhousing at contactimprov.ca. You don't need to attend to host. And it's fun. *...I want to attend, but I don't have the money.* If finances are a barrier, contact Charlie Halpern-Hamu at ontjam at contactimprov.ca. We'll work out an amount and timing that make sense for you. *...I want to attend, but I can't make the whole weekend.* Each morning (9-2), afternoon (2-7) and evening (7-12) costs just $20. Part-day registrations are available at orcj.yapsody.com. The schedule can be font at tinyurl.com/orcj2018schedule. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: