WORKSHOPS, RESIDENCES, FESTIVALS IN LATVIA
AND ABROAD:
▪ APRIL 19 - 22, 2011, VILNIUS,
LITHUANIA
Trisha Brown
technique and repertory with Brandi Norton
Trisha Brown, the most
widely acclaimed choreographer to emerge from the postmodern era, first
came to public notice when she began showing her work with the Judson
Dance Theater in the 1960s. Along with like-minded artists including
Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, and Simone Forte, she pushed the limits of
what could be considered appropriate movement for choreography thereby
changing modern dance forever. This “hot-bed of dance revolution,” was
imbued with a maverick spirit and blessed with total disrespect for
assumption, qualities that Ms. Brown still exhibits even as she brings
her work to the great opera houses of the world today.
This workshop, taught by alumnae dancer Brandi Norton, will explore
fundamentals that are integral to understanding the range and detail of
Trisha Brown's movement style. Technique classes offer the opportunity
to work on alignment, use of weight, clarity of initiation, and
anatomical awareness. They begin with a warm-up that develops internal
space, movement initiation skills, and connection through the body.
Repertory classes’ emphasis will be placed on learning movement as the
Company does, with attention to detail, spatial clarity, performance
quality, and dancing with others. Concepts explored in the daily class,
such as use of weight, movement initiation, and spatial clarity will be
applied to the choreography Set and Reset.
Brandi Norton was involved in the creation of 8 new choreographies with
Ms. Brown, including El Trilogy, PRESENT TENSE and Winterreise. She
joined the Trisha Brown Dance Company in 1997 and enjoyed a fulfilling
career there until 2006. Brandi then took part in the Jerwood Bank
Project with the Siobhan Davies Dance Company in London. She has since
been on faculty at the Stella Adler School of Acting. Ms. Norton has set
the work of Trisha Brown all over the world, most recently at Documenta
12. Ms. Norton and Sonja Kostich were invited, as the co-directors of
the new dance company OtherShore, to be the first artists-in-residence
at the Baryshnikov Arts Center to be fully produced through its
presentation series. Brandi is proud to be working with Ms. Kostich as
founding directors of OtherShore.
April 19-22, Tuesday-Friday, Vilnius, Arts Printing House studio III (Siltadarzio
str. 6)
12:00-13:30 Technique A level
13:45-15:15 Repertory A level
15:30-17:00 Technique B level
A level – professional and advanced dancers.
B level – intermediate dancers, having contemporary dance experience of
two or more years.
Price:
Technique (4 classes) – 80 Lt
Technique and repertory (8 classes) – 140 Lt
1 class – 30 Lt (only if places are available!)
Number of participants is limited so please register in advance by
e-mail
info@vytisdc.lt Please indicate which classes and at
what level you wish to attend and attach a short description of your
dance experience. Organizers reserve a right to offer another level if
the experience is not sufficient.
For more information contact us by e-mail
info@vytisdc.lt and phone +370
675 90206
▪ MAY16 - 20, 2011, VILNIUS, LITHUANIA
Countertechnique intensive
with Nina Wollny and Angie Lau (Anouk van Dijk DC)
Details about Countertechnique workhop will be announced at the end of
March at our website
www.vytisdc.lt
▪ JULY 28 - AUGUST 5, 2011,
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
5 days 100 DANCERS dance meeting and
conference on dance improvisation and
new choreographic ideas
4 days 100 DANCERS site specific events
featuring 100 international dancers
exploring in city and harbor spaces
COPENHAGEN invites CI dancers, dancers
and choreographers to participate in a
new and compelling forum, network and
performance project.
100 DANCERS is a meeting place
connecting artists into improvisation,
dance meetings, site specific works and
cross media production.
100 DANCERS integrate artistic research
and dialog with spectacular site
specific performance in public spaces.
The participants are dancers and
choreographers who create and teach
within the field of improvisation,
contact improvisation and performance
work, also inviting musicians and new
media artists to apply their own
research.
The 100 DANCERS dance meeting is
facilitated by the participants, kindly
send us your proposals and ideas.
Public dance events will be created as
collaborative works, an exchange between
dancers, choreographers, musicians and
new media artists. The artistic process
is guided by Pipaluk, she's an
experienced creator of large scale
events.
We wish… it could be for free, but to
make things possible, our artists have
to pay for their own food and travel.
100 DANCERS cost 130 €
included is :
+ amazing dance spaces
+ summertime, swimming, exploring
Copenhagen sites
+ organized public performances in
international festival
+ luscious food, 9 days
+ basic sleeping
not included :
- your travel to/from Copenhagen
To apply for participation in 100
DANCERS, please send us a short email
describing your interest in the 100
DANCERS project and your professional
experience.
To book your place in the 100 DANCERS
meeting and events, we kindly ask
participants to deposit 130 € upon
acceptance.
Questions, confirmations & letter of
interest, please write to organizer :
Pipaluk Supernova
info@copenhagendreamhouse.com
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DANCERS website
▪ MARCH 4 -6, 2011, RIGA, LATVIA
CONTACT IMPROVISATION workshop
MOVING SPIRALS
by
ISABELLE ÜSKI (France)
About the
teacher:
Isabelle
works as a performer and teacher in France
and passionately shares her interest in
human interactions and moving creativity.
Nurtured with movement and meditative
practices (contemporary dance, authentic
movement, meditation, yoga and qi gong,
Laban-Bartenieff and BMC), voice exploration
and singing, medicine and dance studies,
traveling, she has been studying,
researching, performing and teaching contact
improvisation or instant composition for the
last 10 years. She has met many masters like
Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith, Lisa
Nelson, Kirstie Simson, Ana Halprin, Simone
Forti, Andrew Harwood and many dance
partners who deeply influenced her work. In
her workshops, she invites to a physical and
mindful work and encourages group and
individual curiosity, simplicity and
creativity. Five years ago, she settled in
Grenoble, French Alps, where she initiated
various local, national or international
events and which now holds one of the most
dynamic French CI communities.
More info:
http://www.chorescence.org/ENGLISH/IsabelleUSKI.htm
About the
workshop:
In this
workshop, we will enter contact
improvisation through spirals and open our
consciousness to the spirals that exist both
in the body and in the dance. We will
explore the physical spiral: how does it
bring body intelligence and how does it
organically unfold the movement? How does it
ground and free the movement? How does it
challenge the body and open it to spherical
space? We will also explore the imaginary
spiral: how does it help the dance to
unfold, to develop and to bring us to the
unknown? It will bring the issue of letting
go, letting the dance take you, releasing
our volition in order to welcome and play
with the dance and the game that is already
there.
Time:
12,5 hours
altogether:
March 4th,
Friday | 19:00-21:30
March 5th,
Saturday | 11:00-13:30 and 14:30-17:00
(break at 13:30-14:30) + JAM | 18:00-21:00
March 6th,
Sunday | 11:00-13:30 and 14:30-17:00 (break
at 13:30-14:30)
Space:
More info
will follow
Language:
Good base of
English is recommended
Participants:
Intermediate
level of CI is recommended
Take with
you
Comfortable
clothes, no shoes needed, but helpful could
be warm socks
Fee:
Early price
(if paid before 21.02.2011): LVL 35 / EUR 50
(JAM included),
full price
(if paid after 21.02 or on day): LVL 40 /
EUR 57 (JAM included)
each 2,5h
session: LVL 10 /
EUR
15
JAM only:
LVL 4 / EUR 7
Registration
fee: LVL 15 / EUR 20. It makes a part of the
participation fee. Nonrefundable in case of
cancellation
HA
membership card owners | students LVL 20 /
EUR 29
Registration:
Gunta |
gunta@i-deja.lv | +371 29726279
▪ FEBRUARY 4 - 8, 2011, RIGA, LATVIA
Contemporary
dance technique workshop for professional by Fiona Millward (
UK )
Price: 30.00 LVL.
Free for owners of HA member card.
sign for the
workshop on:
horasoc@gmail.com
Release Technique Class
This extended release technique class will
draw on a range of different practices, but
most notably elements of the Franklin®
Method of Dynamic Alignment, Imagery, and
Ball work, which can offer a powerful
stimulus for change from habitual patterns.
It will also incorporate the performative
practice of Deborah Hay to encourage a more
present engagement within each moment.
Each
class will begin with a particular
anatomical focus, either working alone or in
pairs, to offer a context of exploration for
the rest of the session. The aim is to
support each individual in the deepening of
their kinesthetic experience within set
exercises, in order to facilitate an
integrated and functional use of the body
when moving. Sequences will then explore the
texture of dynamics, detail, clarity, and
intention layered with the particularity of
the Hay performative practice.
Fiona Millward
Has
worked throughout the UK and abroad as a
dancer, teacher and choreographer since
1985.
She
regularly teaches in the UK and abroad both
independently and for the British Council.
Her teaching takes place in a variety of
settings, from independent classes to
companies and institutions, and for a range
of participants, from dance artists to
actors to non-professionals. She has led
classes and workshops throughout the UK, and
in US, Switzerland, Estonia, Russia,
Bulgaria and Latvia. Since qualifying as a
Franklin Method teacher in 2002, she has
shared this work in many different contexts.
Her
choreographic work has received many awards
and commissions over the years, and she has
enjoyed collaborative ventures with a
variety of artists, in particular Dance
Artists Darrell Jones and Olga Zitluhina,
Visual Artist Jo Fairfax, Theatre Director
Katie Goodwin, and The European Travelling
Project. She is also extremely grateful to
Olga for not only creating an extraordinary
company of dancers, but also allowing Fiona
to ‘borrow’ them for occasional projects in
England.
From 1999 – 2004 Fiona was Head of Movement
at the Oxford School of Drama and from 2001
– 2005 the recipient of a National Endowment
for Science, Technology and the Arts
fellowship (NESTA) for her work with the
Professional training programme Independent
Dance, based at the Siobhan Davies Studios,
which she has co-directed alongside Gill
Clarke since 1996.
▪ OCTOBER 1 - 10, 2010, BUCHAREST,
ROMANIA
eXplore
dance festival
Dance! Don't miss the
5th
eXplore dance festival, the only festival
for contemporary dance and performance in
Romania. Despite the ongoing economic
crisis, the festival has a richer program
than ever: 12 performances, 3 lectures,
dance films screenings and a special
presentation of Choreography students from
the National University of Drama and Film (UNATC).
All of these in 10 days and 4 venues in
Bucharest.
Internationally acclaimed artists such as
Wim Vandekeybus/Ultima Vez, Milli Bitterli,
Ivana Muller, Eszter Salamon are presenting
their works next to emerging choreographers
from all over Europe. The results of the
four international Jardin d'Europe
residencies, taking place between September
27 - October 10, will also be presented in
the frame of the festival.
Please find below the festival program, more
details on all events are available at
www.exploredancefestival.ro
or
office@exploredancefestival.ro.
Days left to start: 15. Get ready to
explore!
▪ SEPTEMBER
17. - 19.,
2010,
RIGA, LATVIA
Workshop
in Contact Improvisation Licence for
Flying
by
Harry
Selgado ( Brazil
)
Open for all level.
The description of the workshop at the
website of I-deja: www.i-deja.lv
For more info , please contact:
Pāvels Jegorovs,
pavel@i-deja.lv
▪
OCTOBER 1.- 3., 2010
, RIGA, LATVIA
Workshop
in Contactimprovisation
by
Ruslan Santah
( Kiev,
Ukraina )
JAM sessions in the evenings.
We will inform you about the time and place
soon.
registration by sending an e-mail:
horasoc@gmail.com
▪
AUGUST 8th, 2010, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
AUDITION for DEJA DONNE
DEJA DONNE is looking for a female dancer
for their research project " Rediscovering
Concepts " starting August 16, 2010 in
Munich.
There will be audition at ImPuls Tanz 2010:
WHEN: August 8th at 10:00 a.m.
WHERE: Arsenal / Burghtheater - Probebuhne &
ART - Werkstatten, Obekt 19, 1030 Vienna
Female dancers interested in participating
at the audition are pleased to send as soon
as possible:
1. CV
2. a portrait photo
3. possibly an internet link with own work
or someones choreography, where we can see
the way of dancing
Please, send this info to Elisa at :
dejadonne@dejadone.com
Deja Donne will screen the material upon
reception and will confirm your possible
participation immediately thereafter.
▪
AUGUST 16 - 21, 2010, VILNIUS, LITHUANIA
SUMMER DANCE SCHOOL ' 10
Teachers:
Annemari
Autere ( France / Norway ) / The Principals
of Balletbodylogic
Deborah Macedo ( Brazil / Denmark ) /
Gyrokynesis
Virpi Juntti ( Finland ) / Contemporary
Dance Technique
Patricia Greenwood Karagozian ( France ) /
Jazz Dance
Information: ph./ fax. +370 5 204 08 35,
cell: +370 656 70877,
info@dance.lt
,
www.dance.lt
.
▪ MAY 28-30, VILNIUS,
LITHUANIA
Intuitive Systems
for Contact Improvisation
(This workshop is open for everybody. The material will be prepared in a
way that as well beginners as experienced dancers can profit fully.)
In the five years of their
collaboration, co-teaching CI to beginners as well as to professional
dancers all over Europe and America, Daniela and Eckhard have been
developing a system of basic tools to access and deepen into Contact
Improvisation.
In this workshop we will explore the center-periphery connection as a
key principle to separate and reconnect the limbs to the center in
different ways. Through the action of releasing and activating, reaching
and folding, spiraling, etc, we will develop different movement
patterns, that will help us to let go from old and inefficient ones to
find ease and flow in our own pathways along the floor and through the
different levels listening to gravity and momentum.
With more awareness for our own body in motion, we will be ready to
connect to our partner’s body and fully commit to the dance, while we
stay centered and grounded, as we enter our spherical space.
We will explore the full range of giving and receiving, from light touch
(you are responsible for your own weight) to full weight sharing.
Through respectful listening and body actions like scanning, sensing,
reading, leaning, proposing, following, accepting, resisting, balancing,
counter-balancing, etc, we will engage ourselves in an open physical
dialog.
Understanding and integrating some of the principles, we will find more
trust and freedom in our own body, own movements and in the
communication with our partner.
Eckhard Mueller (Germany/France)
co-founder of the Contact Festival Freiburg, is enthusiastically dancing
and performing CI since 1988. In his teaching he is playfully searching
for depth in the understanding of the form. As a member of Cie dégadezo,
he has participated in diverse choreographique dance-theater pieces
since 2002.
Daniela Schwartz (Argentina/France)
is involved in the practice, preformance and teaching of CI since 1998.
Memeber of Cie dégadezo. As a visual artist, she is interested in the
body, space and movement in the present moment as Materia for research,
expression and création. Her multiple medias : video, objects,
installation are present in her practices.
Schedule: Friday: 19:00-22:00;
Saturday and Sunday 11:00-18:00 (1h break)
Cost: Sliding scale 55-70€, Single class (3h): 15€
55€ if registered by May 10,
65€ if registered by May 24,
73€ - later.
10% discount for students!
Location: Vilnius city center; will be specified for registered
participants.
Traveling: Check super cheap flights by www.ryanair.com to Kaunas or
Riga. Also check www.airbaltic.com and other companies.
Accommodation: We can help to find some free/inexpensive place to stay.
Information and registration:
Julija Melnik, +370 613 57997,
improv_lt@yahoo.com
http://contactimprov.blogas.lt/
▪
JULY
26. - AUGUST 01.2010 -
GOTTINGEN, GERMANY
CONTACT meets
CONTEMPORARY
2nd International
Festival for Contact Improvisation inviting
Contemporary Dance
Contact meets Contemporary is a Contact
Festival that invites and includes the
knowledge from other contemporary dance
forms. It will give tools to open the
contact duet for solo, trio or group
improvisations and performances. And it will
provide space for contemporary movement
technique to be purely danced with others.
The common ground where we meet is
improvisation.
Intensives 2010:
Rick Nodine (GB), Spherical Orientation
Mirva Mäkinen (Fin), Contact & Contemporary
- moving and communicating
Victoria Hauke (D), Directing the movement
energy (and being surprised)
Performance-Laboratory:
Sebastian Garcia Ferro (ES) and Ulla Mäkinen
(FIN), in cooperation with the Barcelona
International Dance Exchange, www.bide.be)
Classes 2010:
Iiris Raipala (Finnland) - Fall in Trust
Jennifer-Lynn Crawford (GB)- favourite
essentials of Contemporary Technique
Markus Hoft (D)- From Contact Improvisation
to Partnering
Iwona Olszowska (Pol) - favourite essentials
of CI, Nina Wehnert (D) - share the dance -
share the space / from contact into
improvisation
Jeff Wallace (USA) - Dancing into Contact
Trinidad Martinez - Contemporary Technique -
articulating the spine and leaping
Heilke Bruns (D) - Body-Mind Centering into
Contact Improvisation
Kathryn Crick (GB) - favourite essentials of
Contemporary Technique
Maria Elste (D) - Improvisation - radiating
out from the skin
Heike Pourian (D) - Bewegungslabor "Lebendige
Physik"
Katri Lukkonen (Fin) - Falling into spirals
Simonetta Alessandri (IT) and Asaf Bachrach
(ISR)
Classes
will focus on CI, Contemporary technique and
Improvisation. Around half the classes will
focus on fundamental principles to lay the
common ground and give access also for
people with less experience. The
morning-intensives will be followed by 30
min open labbing time to integrate the
material in a self directed way.
Jam session:
We imagine a space, where CI can be
practiced and contemporary dance can be
actually danced (instead of being only a
preparation for the dance on the stage). We
are curios how the classes. labs
performative frames and interludes will
inform the jams sessions.
Performances:
We want to create smaller and more relaxed
frames to explore „performing improvised
dance“ using feedback structures, scores for
watchers, settings for „rehearsed“ impros as
well as scores for random combinations of
performers.
One2ones:
Each participant will get a 20 minutes
private lesson with a teacher. One afternoon
will be dedicated to this wonderful and
efficent way of individual learning in a big
group.
One hour interludes
will create focussed space for dance
structures, lecture-demonstrations, dance
dates, bodywork and whatever we feel is
needed …
Do what you need:
The schedule has several open slots to
encourage a sense of doing less and
sometimes nothing – a reminder to follow
your own needs in an easily overstimulating
athmosphere of a festival. Evening Sauna and
swim, a little pool outside and open studios
may help this purpose, too.
Contact:
info@contact-meets-contemporary.de
Further information:
www.contact-meets-contemporary.de
▪
JUNE 29 -
JULY 4, 2010,
SÍN CULTURAL CENTER, BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
Kontakt Budapest International Improvisation Festival
Has been organized since 2002 is
open for people with all abilities.
The festival organizes classes and workshops, it offers space to
research and explore movements, to work deeply with different aspects of
improvisation and it gives possibility to perform, reseach in labs,
discuss, play etc.
Teachers of the festival 2010:
Vicky Shick (USA), Goda Gábor (H), Gál Eszter (H), Peter Pleyer (D),
Bóta Ildikó (H), Tal Avni (IL), Szilágyi Ilka (USA/H), Bakó Tamás (H),
Farkas Dorka (RO/H), Gábor Júlia (DK/H), Györke Tímea (H), Kéri Judit
(A/H), Kovács Kata (H), Hargitay Ákos (A/H), Mándy Ildikó (H), Szilágyi
Enikő (H), Bárdos Adrienn (H), Rózsavölgyi Zsuzsa (B/H)
Registration is NOW open!
To register please fill out the registration form:
http://www.kontaktbudapest.hu/
ATTENTION!
3 DAY INTENSIVE WORKSHOP BEFORE THE FESTIVAL
JUNE 25-27,
with LIOR OPHIR (IL)
Further information:
Gál Eszter: +36-70-338-9932
eszter@kontaktbudapest.hu
Péter Petra: +36-20-5531-478
info@kontaktbudapest.hu
http://www.kontaktbudapest.hu/
Festival organization:
Juventus Production
Fax: +36-1-407-4093
Gál Ágnes:
juventus.production@gmail.com
▪
JULY 26. - 30. 2010. BERLIN, GERMANY
Dance
Ranch Marfa in BERLIN
Performance Practice
Ensemble Thinking
Solo and Contact Improvisation
Taught by Nina Martin, Kelly Dalrymple-Wass, Andrew Wass, and Rebecca
Bryant Using Nina Martin's Ensemble Thinking, we will examine group
improvisation. Ensemble Thinking, a toolbox for performance, consists of
scores/concepts that allow the performer(s) and the audience to clearly
observe and participate in the improvisation as it unfolds. As a group
consists of individuals we will also explore the improvisation of the
individual body and the improvisation of contact between bodies. We will
also explore choreography as a means to discover new pathways in the
body and mind and challenge the personal critic. The goal of this
workshop is to give the performer clarity of options in improvisation.
Time schedule:
10:00 - 14::30
Price: 150 Euros
130 Euros if 50
Euro deposit received by June 26th
Adress: Bewegungsstudio
Prenzlauer Promenade 189
Berlin,
Germany
Trams M2, 12, and 13 stop Prenzlauerallee/ Ostseestraße
to register email/questions:
march2marfa@yahoo.com
www.lowerleft.org
▪
GYROKINESIS®
Partnering
Contemporary
Dance
teacher
Anna Achimowicz
(Poland)
-
dancer, choreographer, GYROKINESIS®
instructor, teacher, culture coo.
www.ani2.moonfruit.com
When:
24th-25th of APRIL
Where: Arts Printing House/ Menų
spaustuvė
Šiltadaržio skg. 6,
Vilnius
Lithuania, 3rd floor DANCE STUDIO
Schedule:
24.04 SATURDAY:
9.30 -11.00
GYROKINESIS®
11.15-12.45
Partnering
14.30-16.00; 16.15-17.45
Contemporary dance
25.04 SUNDAY:
9.30-11.00
GYROKINESIS®
11.15-12.45
Partnering
Price:
Six classes
180LTL (~52EUR)
One class
40LTL (~12EUR)
Discount for students:
Six classes
150LTL (~44EUR)
One lesson
30LTL (~9EUR)
Info: +370 686 88407,
e.mail: go.wind.art@gmail.com
GYROKINESIS® (saturday 9.30-11.00; sunday
9.30-11.00)
http://gyrotonic.com/Gyrokinesis.aspx
A system developed to alleviate pain and
heal injuries. It works the entire
body through seven natural elements of
spinal movement.
It incorporates many key
principles of dance, yoga, tai-chi and
gymnastics. This method systematically works
the joints, bones and muscles in order to
increase the range and speed of movement,
coordination and strength, and remove body
limitations. Gyrokinesis focuses on
breathing patterns, rhythm and repetition of
exercises in a harmonious flow of spinal
movements. As a novatory reeducation form,
works perfectly as support training for
dancers as well as non-professionals.
Partnering (saturday 11.15-12.45; sunday
11.15-12.45)
The partnering class focuses on how 2 bodies
can move in space as one. It is very
important in class that we firs work on the
movement material, created beforehand,
learning it, on creating it in the moment.
Partnering is very sensitive as far as
energy, timing, focus, and being in contact
all the time with your partner, either with
touch or awareness of the other person. It
is not a question of size, gender or
technique, the workshop focuses on the
importance of concentration, precision in
movement, security that has to be there for
hight and low lifts. The class can be taught
for professionals as well as intermediate
level discovering dance with a partner,
overcoming limitations and giving more
freedom in movement.
Contemporary DANCE (saturday 14.30-16.00;
16.15-17.45)
The training material incorporates
experience and research in fields of body
work, BMC®, Gyrotonic®, LMA®, manual
therapies, Applied Anatomy, various dance
styles, from ballet, underground modern jazz
to capoeira and tai chi meditations.
Alongside the main contemporary forms of
body practice, dance and improvisation come
together to explore the ranges of body
motion and possibilities.
▪ Sybrig Dokter and Benno Voorham
will be teaching a workshop at Arlequi from 24 july- 31 july.This course
is meant for people with experience in dance and/or theatre
improvisation.
Arlequi is situated just
outside Banyoles in the north of Spain.
Have a look at the incredible surroundings and studio at their website:
www.arlequi.de
If you need more information please contact Borréda Anna Borréda at
anna@arlequi.de
or
Benno or Sybrig at
lavadans@tele2.se.
If you want to
register, please do so at the website.
When dancing and
interacting with other dancers and an audience, there is a constant
demand to be wide-awake and have your senses sharpened. Our memory of
what just happened can guide us as to what direction to take in what is
coming. We will be working at that intersection of conscious choice and
the in the moment following of our instinct. In this workshop we will
explore and examine our habits in perceiving and responding to acts of
other people as well as having a look at the way we go from thinking to
doing.
The workshop will be based on physical practice and skills in moving
with ease and clarity. Getting to know the body’s possibilities through
moving, and to navigate it through space and time. Four days of working
in different constellations and moving in scores that sharpen our
compositional wit and challenge our ability to act and (not)react.
Benno Voorham is a dancer, choreographer and teacher from Holland,
living in Stockholm since 1995, using improvisation in all aspects of
his work. Several of his pieces have toured through Eastern Europe,
England, Germany, Ireland and Scandinavia in the last few years. He is
teaching workshops in dance improvisation throughout Europe and has won
a distinctive reputation for his original brand of teaching. He is
dancing Contact Improvisation for more than 20 years and is teaching
this form since 1986.
Sybrig Dokter is a dancer, dance maker and teacher from the Netherlands
living in Sweden from 1995. She received her dance education during the
late seventies in Rotterdam (Netherlands), London and New York. She
worked as a dancer in New York and Canada before moving back to Europe.
Sybrig has performed work by other choreographers as well as created her
own work. Her teaching and performing has taken her amongst others to
the Baltic countries, Russia, Moldova, Scandinavia and Great Britain.
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The 24 February deadline nears for applying
to AICC 2010 – the 2nd Aarhus International
Choreography Competition in Aarhus, Denmark.
Dear
Choreographers, Dancers, and Friends of
Dance,
You’ve spread the
word about the competition, and for that we
are grateful. The applications are coming in
from extraordinary, talented
choreographers.
But we know there
are still more out there who are interested.
Some of you are still preparing your
applications, but some of you need that
extra push to, perhaps, trust that
participation in AICC will be the
career-changing experience you’ve been
looking for.
The application
form and competition rules can be downloaded
from www.aicc.dk; all up-to-date information
will be posted on the AICC fan page on
Facebook; and all questions can be directed
to Judith Blak at aicc@aicc.dk.
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Tanz Hoch Zwei contemporary festival
for dance and performance - Tanzfabrik
Berlin, Germany:
International Festival - Workshops and
Performances from March 22 - Mai 5, 2010
Tanz
hoch zwei : Workshops and performances
Doing dance and
seeing dance, two ways of experiencing the
diverse sides of contemporary dance.
This event offers
the possibility to get to know the work of
an artist, in the studio and on stage.
We are happy to
present you 24 international artists and
their work inside the field of contemporary
dance and performance
Your Tanzfabrik
workshop program:
22. - 26.3. Making
The Body All Eyes - Phillip Zarrilli
24. - 26.3.
Superheroes - Carlos Pez & Peter Pleyer
27.3. Hoodwinks
and Hijinks - Jeremy Xido
28.-30.3. Butoh
deconstructed - Astrid Endruweit
29.3. - 1.4. Laban
Bewegungsstudien - Jan Burkhardt
Feldenkrais &
Improvisation - Katja Münker
Martial Arts into
Physical Theatre - Elias Cohen
Contemporary Dance
- Luis Lara Malvacias
Ragga/Dancehall -
Tibu Rona
6. - 9.4.
Afrikanischer Tanz - Elsa Wolliaston
Craniosacral &
Improvisation - Shannon Cooney
Tänzertraining -
Ori Flomin
Dance & Memory -
Ori Flomin
Improvisation - S.
Martin, B. Novak, K. Eriksson
Modern Jazz -
Xavier Reese
Yoga & Energy Flow
- Daniel Orlansky
Contact
Improvisation - Eckhard Müller, Daniela
Schwartz
16. - 18.4.
Improvisation - Andrew Morrish, Crosby
McCloy
16. - 18.4. & 3. -
7.5. Axis Syllabus - Frey Faust
Tanz Hoch Zwei
Programm workshops and performances:
www.tanzfabrik-
berlin.de
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Call for duets!
The main program of the Diversia
Festival includes contemporary dance piece duration 15-45 minutes with
two performers on stage.
Contemporary Dance
Duets Festival Diversia take place in Kostroma (Russia) from September
25th – September 30th.
Applications must be postmarked by April, 30th.
Submission Packages must include:
1. completed application form with all information available (check the
website:www.dialogue-dance.ru
)
2. company (duet) CV
3. DVD of the proposed work
Send completed packages to this address:
Russia, Kostroma, 156002, st. Erohova, 3a
STANTSIA art venue
Contemporary Dance Duets Festival Diversia
Diversia Festival will cover full accommodation for the participants and
work with Embassies to assist with travel. Diversia Festival do not pay
a fee.
For additional questions contact with Ivan Estegneev:
dialoguedance@gmail.com
--
skype:
dialoguedance
phone: +7 4942300285
web:
www.dialogue-dance.ru
blog: diversiafest.blogspot.com
▪ CodaSpace
Dansens Hus offers free rehearsal space in
all of July for professional choreographers
and companies. We also offer Joanne Leighton
a.o. as mentor - who through out the month
will assist with feedback and support in the
process of creating choreography.
Dansens Hus has 6
studios available placed in very inspiring
surroundings in an old factory building in
the Carlsberg area in Copenhagen just beside
a lovely park. The perfect spot, for a
period of concentration and inspiration in
the lovely summertime.
The working period
that we offer can be everything from all of
July to just a few days. Monday to Saturday
at 10am to 5pm. All travel cost and
accomondation are to be paid by the
choreographers or companies themselves we
only offer you the space, the mentor and the
inspiring surroundings.
To apply for a
working period you will need to e-mail us (susanne@dansenshus.dk)
the following information - no later than
March 1st 2010:
* Name, address
and contact number of choreographer or
company applying
* Working period
request and hours per day
* A few lines
describing the focus of the work period
* How many people
you will be in all
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AWARENESS PERCEPTION PRESENCE:
Moving from the Fish
Body
February 5-7 2010, Vilnius, Lithuania
Physical dialogue with ourselves – a
movement workshop for different level, style
and experience movers (dance, theatre,
martial arts, etc. practitioners), as well
as people with great interest in efficient
movement and own body perception.
Basic English knowledge is required, no
translation will be available.
No previous physical experience is needed.
Malcolm has spent the last five-years
developing a body of work called Awareness
Perception Presence in which he combines the
Feldenkrais Method, Experiential Anatomy and
other specially-devised material to enter
into a physical dialogue with ourselves and
our environment. In this particular series,
we'll explore the Fish Body (axial skeleton)
taking some of Steve Paxton's Material for
the Spine as our reference.
Each class begins with a guided exploration/
lecture/dialogue in which the specific theme
of the class is introduced through movement
and associated anatomical details. Then
follows a Feldenkrais (ATM) class which aims
to clarify some aspects of the theme and
generates a more general state of
self-awareness. The final part of the class
is spent in self-directed exploration taking
the references movements as a starting
point. The set material is simply standing
and walking so makes no special demands
physically.
These workshops are a practical exploration
of how somatic movement practices can be
applied to the performing arts as a kind of
“invisible technique”. While they do not
necessarily teach any performable material,
somatic practices can enhance how you
perform, your ability to learn new skills
and suggest new movement vocabulary. They
also offer a way to deal with longstanding
aches and pains, and your ability to recover
from or, better still, avoid injuries.
Malcolm Manning:
I am a somatic movement researcher, educator
and performing artist - movement is life and
just about any situation can be analysed in
terms of what moves, how, where, when and
with what quality - I am fascinated by how
people move and by how I move, both alone
and in relation to others .
I have been based in Finland for the last
eight years where I am currently a part-time
senior lecturer in the dance department of
the Theatre Academy of Finland (Finland's
highest level dance education) and have
helped to develop and teach around two
months a year on the one-year Dance And
Somatics education in Joensuu. I also tour
Europe teaching, at various venues including
TanzQuartier Wien and ImpulsTanz.
For more info visit www.movetolearn.com
Fee: Cost of the workshop is 57-73 EUR.
With early registration and deposit* (20 EUR)
paid:
57 EUR, till 22nd of January ,
64 EUR, till 29th of January,
Later – 73 EUR.
* 10 EUR of deposit is unrefundable in case
of cancellation
Time:
February 5 (Fri) 18:30-21:30
February 6 (Sat) 11:00-14:00; 15:00-17:30
February 7 (Sun) 11:00-14:00; 15:00-17:30
Venue: Space in Vilnius city centre, to be
announced…
Lodging: We might help with finding some
free or non-expensive accommodation.
Information & registration:
+370 613 57997
improv_lt@yahoo.com
http://contactimprov.blogas.lt
For Latvian participants:
inese@i-deja.lv
+371 291 37826
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CONTACT IMPROVISATION WORKSHOP
PLUS SOMATIC MORNING CLASSES
5-DAY INTENSIVE WITH MALCOLM MANNING
morning classes 11am - 1:30pm: Awareness Perception Presence class
afternoon workshop 3:00pm - 6:00pm: Contact Improvisation workshop
WHEN: Monday – Friday, January 25-29, 2010
WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany
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WORKSHOP: CONTACT IMPROVISATIONAL MIND
Contact Improvisation Workshop - advanced only - (3:00pm - 6:00pm)
(Includes participation in the morning classes - see below - 11:00am -
1:30pm)
When are we truly improvising CI and when are we just running through
familiar patterns and pathways? As we become more experienced and
skilled in the form, how can we keep our dancing fresh and
improvisational?
One way is to study how to be present to ourselves and to extend our
perception of ourselves. The Awareness Perception Presence morning class
(see below) series aims to address to these issues. In the context of
this workshop, you could think of them as an extended warm-up or
preparation to dance CI.
In the afternoon sessions, we'll follow a process that unfolds by
exploring a series of simple CI scores designed to interrupt the
familiar. We'll also create our own scores, explore some less-common
contact technique, watch each other dancing, and dialogue on the
improvisational nature of CI.
During the workshop, the exploration of scores will be directed mainly
toward the question of improvisation in CI. My experience is that they
are interesting to watch and also open up strategies for performing CI.
The workshop will therefore culminate in a showing where we will dance
some of the scores that we have worked on for an audience.
Participation in the workshop showing is not absolutely necessary but
strongly encouraged. It will take place on Friday, January 29, 2010 at
8:30 PM
For the afternoon workshop there is a limited number of places,
available for participants with at least three years experience of
dancing and studying contact improvisation. If you are interested then
please write a brief outline of your experience and interest in
attending (no more than one side A4).
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MORNING CLASSES: AWARENESS PERCEPTION PRESENCE:
MOVING FROM THE FISH BODY
Morning Class series - open for all levels - (11:00am - 1:30pm)
(You can also attend only the morning classes without the workshop)
Malcolm has spent the last five-years developing a body of work called
Awareness Perception Presence in which he combines the Feldenkrais
Method, Experiential Anatomy and other specially-devised material to
enter into a physical dialogue with ourselves and our environment. In
this particular series, we'll explore the Fish Body (axial skeleton)
taking some of Steve Paxton's Material For The Spine as our reference.
Each class begins with a guided exploration/ lecture/dialogue in which
the specific theme of the class is introduced through movement and
associated anatomical details. Next a Feldenkrais (ATM) class which aims
to clarify some aspects of the theme. The final part of the class is
spent in self-directed exploration taking the references movements as a
starting point.
SInce we work alone in these classes, it is possible to open these to
anyone who wishes to attend. The set material is simply standing and
walking so makes no special demands physically.
------------ --------- --------- --------
MALCOLM MANNING: I am a somatic movement researcher, educator and
performing artist. Movement is life and just about any situation can be
analysed in terms of what moves, how, where, when and with what quality
- I am fascinated by how people move and by how I move, both alone and
in relation to others.
I have been based in Finland for the last eight years where I am
currently a part-time senior lecturer in the dance department of the
Theatre Academy of Finland (Finland's highest level dance education) and
have helped to develop and teach around two months a year on the
one-year Dance And Somatics education in Joensuu. I also tour Europe
teaching, at various venues including TanzQuartier Wien and ImpulsTanz.
For more info visit
http://www.movetolearn.com/
WORKSHOP: http://www.schwelle 7.de/Malcolm. html
REGISTRATION: xs4jan (at) gmx.de
FEES:
Workshop including morning classes: 5 days / 200 EUR
Morning classes only: 5 days / 120 EUR
SLEEPING:
We can host up workshop participants basic opportunities to stay
overnight. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person.
----------- LOCATION --------
Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6 HH 1. OG
13357 Berlin/Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 173 - 6118404
http://www.schwelle7.de/
Email: info (at) felixruckert. de
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MAL PELO'S WORKSHOP
L'animal a l'esquena (Celrŕ) From 22/02/2010
to 26/02/2010
Mal Pelo suggests working on their method of
approaching movement and the idea of the
silent pause. Using improvisation that
materializes from a series of decisions
based upon our experiences, our senses, and
our capacity to imagine, provides the
journey from silence to movement.
Pre-inscription opened until February 5th.
We remind you that the pre-registration for
the workshop in January (18th to 22th)
remains open until January 8th.
L'animal a l'esquena - L.G. Mas Espolla
S/N 17460 Celrŕ (GIRONA) Telf: 972492634 /
Fax: 972494287
Please visit
www.lanimal.org
for further info
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BAC
AIR residency för Baltic and Nordic artists,
curators and contemporary art writers now
open for application
Baltic Art Center in Visby, Sweden, now
welcomes applications to the 2010 AIR
residency for Baltic and Nordic artists and
art professionals.
DEADLINE: 15 JANUARY 2010
To be eligible for the residency you have to
be a professional working artist, curator or
contemporary art writer from one of the
Baltic or Nordic countries (Lithuania,
Latvia, Estonia, Denmark, Norway, Finland,
Iceland, Greenland or the Faroe Islands), or
be based professionally in one of these
countries. Please note that we do not accept
applications from Sweden this year.
Applications must be received on or before
15 January 2010. Successful applicants will
be notified by 15 February.
There is no application form. You apply with
a CV, documentation of previous works and a
project description for the activities you
wish to undertake at BAC. Please apply in
English as the applications will be reviewed
by an international jury. The applications
are assessed on the basis of merit and the
ability of BAC to support the proposed
project.
You can apply to come to BAC for a minimum
of 4 weeks and a maximum of 8 weeks during
the period April – June, or September –
December 2010. Please specify your preferred
time and length of stay in the application.
Applications with a clearly formulated
project description and indication of how
you are planning to use your time at BAC
will be prioritized. Please describe the
project you intend to work on at BAC and how
your working process would benefit from the
residency. BAC welcomes projects at all
stages of development; from the early stages
of research through to production and
post-production. All residents are expected
to hold a public talk about their practice
during their stay at BAC.
As an AIR resident at BAC you will receive a
monthly stipend of 14 000 SEK. Travel
expenses to and from Visby will be covered.
You will be allocated an apartment and a
desk space adjacent to the BAC offices.
Should your project require a separate
studio space or other facilities, this can
be arranged if agreed in advance. Please
state your needs clearly in the application.
BAC offers modest financial support for
specific production costs up to 20 000 SEK
per project. Please include a budget should
you require financial support for your
project.
Applications should be sent by email to:
application@balticartcenter.com.
Please write “AIR application 2010” in the
subject heading of your email. We do not
accept applications sent by post.
Please visit
www.balticartcenter.com
for further
information.
The AIR residency is supported by the
Nordic Council of Ministers.