From xs4jan at gmx.de Wed Feb 6 08:23:35 2019 From: xs4jan at gmx.de (Jan Boeschoten) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019 14:23:35 +0100 Subject: [CI-Announce] Scott Wells: The Flying Score - Workshop, Berlin 24-26.5.19 Message-ID: The Flying Score ? Workshop by Scott Wells Workshop in Contact Improvisation, flight patterns and fluid acrobatics May 24-26, 2019 ? 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 24.5.: 16-20:00 ? Saturday 25.5.: 10-18:00 (break 13-14:00) (19-22:00 public Contact Jam) ? Sunday 26.5.: 11-18:00 (break 14-15:00) (=total teaching time: 17h) TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/109335346 COST: Early bird: 145? (money transfer until April 24, 2019), 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/2019/01/06/the-flying-score-ws-by-scott-wells-may-24-26-2019/ SHARE YOUR INTEREST: https://www.facebook.com/events/2029150373840935/ 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 From springecj at gmail.com Wed Feb 6 17:07:44 2019 From: springecj at gmail.com (Ken Manheimer) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019 17:07:44 -0500 Subject: [CI-Announce] Registration for Spring 2019 East Coast Jam is Open In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi! We've started outreach for the 2019 Spring East Coast jam , a five-day / four-night contact improv retreat happening April 10th to the 14th rural West Virginia, around 1.5 hour drive from DC. We'd love to see you there - it's a great opportunity to gather with contact improvisers in a lovely setting, with time to breathe and dance. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Spring East Coast Jam Date: Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 7:37 PM Subject: Spring 2019 East Coast Jam - Registration is Open Let's dance! East Coast Jammers: Spring 2019 East Coast Jam registration is now open! Here's information about the jam and registering. - The jam will take place from April 10 to the 14th at Claymont Court Estates , a 1.5 hour drive from Washington DC. - Spring 2019 Jam registration: https://eastcoastjam.com/jam-registration/register-here - Spring 2019 Jam details: https://eastcoastjam.com/events/spring-2019-jam The cost is the same as last year, $400 for the full jam with the early-bird discount, and your registration is secured by a $50 deposit. March 24 is the last day of the early-bird discount, and all is refundable up until that point. (So no reason to delay!) We provide as clear instructions as we can muster on the registration and event pages, links above. It's pretty chilly around here, right now, so a little difficult to imagine being in the country in the sun heading to the octagon to dance with warm and friendly people. But that's where we're heading. The prospect of dancing with you warms us. Come dance! *Please help spread the word* - links, dates, and love - with all who might like to join us. We look forward very much to having time to breathe and dance and wander with you soon! - Jam dates: April 10 to April 14, 2019 - Cost for full jam (increases after March 24): $400 - See the jam event page for all the details - Register here ! - Share this and the Facebook event with your friends and interested groups Questions? Contact springecj at gmail.com With love, Jonathan, Kathleen, and Ken -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ontjam at contactimprov.ca Tue Feb 26 21:57:12 2019 From: ontjam at contactimprov.ca (Ontario Regional Contact Jam) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 21:57:12 -0500 Subject: [CI-Announce] ORCJ 2019 draft schedule + Last day for discounted registration Message-ID: (Hit reply to ask to unsubscribe.) Last chance for discounted registration Prices for the Ontario Regional Contact Jam go up from $120 to $140 in just a couple of days, on Thursday, February 28 a little after midnight. The jam itself is only a few weeks away: Friday to Sunday, April 19-21, at Canada?s National Ballet School, 400 Jarvis St , in Toronto. You should register now at orcj.yapsody.com. Hit reply if money is a problem. We are the largest jam in North America, approaching 300 attendees. Already registered? Invite a friend on Facebook or by forwarding this email. Making space for everyone We have a lot of people coming from out of town, and we hope to offer housing to as many as we can. You don?t have to attend the jam to participate, and you don?t need to provide any food. All you need is a spare floor. If you or someone you know can help, please tell Dmitri at orcjhousing at contactimprov.ca. We welcome complete beginners. If you or your friends are new to contact improvisation, consider our Friday morning class (details below). Following the class, participants can choose to continue with more of the jam. Most classes and all pre-jam warm-ups will welcome beginners. This jam is wheelchair accessible. For those who request ASL translation, attendant care, or have other accommodation requests, please contact henryhwai at gmail.com immediately to increase the likelihood that we can make arrangements. Tentative schedule This year?s programmers, Celia McBride and Laurie Davis, have made a number of innovations with this year?s content and schedule. You can view the most recent revision of the draft schedule here . Vegan lunches will be provided on site, as will afternoon snacks. FUNdamentals: A Class Especially for Complete Beginners You can start with a FUNdamentals two-hour introductory class for people new to contact improvisation at 10 am on Friday, April 19. - For us to make contact, we need to be fully present. And to be fully present, we must feel seen and safe. - Starting with self-awareness, we will move into awareness of the floors and walls, and then moving in and out of other people?s physical space. - This workshop will focus on communication, attunement, calibration, awareness, and fun/play. The class is included free as part of full-weekend registration ? or the cost is $30 for Friday morning from 9 am to 2 pm, including the class, lunch, and dancing time. You have the option to upgrade your registration to attend more of the jam. We welcome you ? all of you It is important for us that everyone feels welcome: people who are new to dance, people with disabilities, all kinds of bodies, minds and hearts; that all gender and gender expressions are welcome, women and men; cis and trans; of all ages, sizes and shapes, skin colours, cultures, subcultures and countercultures; that gays, lesbian, bi, queer and straight people are welcome. Whatever your story or the story of your people, your mother tongue, you are welcome, the fullness of you is welcome, no parts left out. Whatever your mind state, whether your heart is heavy or light, troubled or clear. If there?s a way we can better include all parts of you, please let us know; we want to know. We are going to make mistakes, and we want to learn from them and to create a jam that welcomes you. Nous trouvons important que chacun se sente bienvenu: les nouveaux, ceux avec des limitations physiques ou autres, tous genres de corps, coeurs et esprits. Toutes les expressions de genre sont bienvenues (femmes et hommes, cis et trans), ainsi que les gens de tous ?ges, grandeurs, formes, couleurs, cultures, sous-cultures et contre-cultures, gais, lesbiennes, bis. Quelle que soit ton histoire ou l'histoire de ton peuple, ta langue maternelle, tu es bienvenu dans tout ce que tu es. Quel que soit ton ?tat d'esprit, que ton coeur soit l?ger ou lourd, troubl? ou clair. S'il y a une fa?on pour nous de mieux inclure toutes les parties de toi, stp nous en parler, nous voulons le savoir. Nous ferons des erreurs et nous voulons apprendre de ces erreurs afin de cr?er un jam qui t'accueille vraiment. More information - Please help! Can you offer a floor to a visitor? Email Dmitri . - Can you volunteer during the event? Email Henry . - Questions or requests around food? Email Olya . - Any other question? Hit reply to this email to contact Charlie . - Website: contactimprov.ca/orcj - Facebook: facebook.com/events/1805418556421355 - Register here: orcj.yapsody.com - See you there! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: