This class features guided warm-ups, fundamental exercises and skills, improvisational scores and structures, solo/group/ensemble composition and time for open dancing/jamming. Contact improvisation will be a common element in our palette, but we will also weave many other threads into the fabric of our evenings as well. This is a mixed level class open to drop-ins, appropriate for experienced dancers, but also very beginner friendly, with plenty of grins and giggles!

We invite filmmakers, choreographers, dance and video artists, producers, distributors and broadcasters to submit programmes produced since January 2008 (Category II) resp. January 2010 (Category I).

Prizes will be awarded in the following Competition Categories:
- Category I: Contemporary DanceArt-Films not longer than 15 minutes (only FIRST productions),
- Category II: Contemporary DanceArt-Films (over 15 minutes – max. 45 minutes), FIRST as well as FOLLOWING productions, but not older than 2008).

Closing date for inscription: 15th November 2012.

More about the festival and all about the competition on
www.tanzfilmfestival.ch

Bodysurf Scotland is proud to present Brand New 12/13, the 10th of its now legendary new year dance events. This year’s event focuses on the dance form Contact Improvisation and is hosted by CI dancers and teachers Karl Jay-Lewin, Robert Anderson and Jovair Longo. It takes the form of a Jam – an unstructured time for dancing together – and is open to both beginners and experienced dancers. There will be led warm ups and optional movement classes to join outside of the event – not to mention a Hogmany party, hot tub, new year’s day ‘polar bear swim’, walking on the beach and time for relaxing.

The venue for the Jam is the magnificent Universal Hall Arts Centre in the Findhorn EcoVillage Community, NE Scotland. The Hall houses two dance spaces, a café and hot tub.

Accommodation: Self catering B&B chalets from £27 per night. Low cost shared rooms in homes of local dancers may be available, as well as local B&Bs. Enquire for details.

For more details and timetable:
http://www.bodysurfscotland.co.uk/brand-new-1213/

Bristol’s 3 day Contact Improvisation New Year’s Celebration Jam
~ book now for early bird price – ends 21st Dec ~

Dates: Sunday 30th December 2012 – Tuesday 1st January 2013
Times: 30th Dec: 11am-10pm | 31st Dec: 11-1am | 1st Jan: 11-6pm★
Venue: tbc

A celebratory event of contact improvisation to welcome in the New Year, co-created by the community who come, all welcome.

Event highlights to include:
♥ Lots of lush Jam-time
♥ Live music to titillate the senses
♥ Lead warm-ups to ease us in
♥ Silent spaces
♥ Children under 15 welcome for free★★
♥ New Years eve shared feast
♥ Space for attendees to create-your-own sessions
♥ Surprises…

To book: email ny2012-13@contactdance.co.uk or call Claire on 0777 373 8241

★ exact timings may change
★★ please let us know in advance if you plan to bring children, and/or need accommodation.

a 3-week OPEN training with
NANCY STARK SMITH

January 7 – 25, 2013 (arr. Jan. 6)

Contact Improvisation
Solo Training • Changing States
Improvisation Scores • The Underscore
Composition • Performance

A 3-week residential workshop focused on contact improvisation and other related work: physical training, improvisation and composition scores, jamming, watching, discussion, feedback, labs, contemplative practice, and performance studies. In solo, duet, trio, and group work; in and out of contact; in silence and with live music, we’ll move toward greater clarity and inspiration in our dancing and watching.

Please come prepared for intensive practice (and a bit of fun!). Intermediate level in CI required. Fill out online application form—outlining your background and skill level in contact improvisation, dance, and improvisation, and your reasons for wanting to attend. All registrations must be approved by Nancy.

The workshop will meet Monday–Friday, 10 am to 5:30/6 pm in studios at Earthdance, in Plainfield, MA, (a beautiful dance retreat center located 35 minutes west of Northampton, MA, in the Berkshire Mountains), and in town at an Aikido dojo. There will be some evening and weekend activities.

Early Registration Deadline: October 15, 2012
For details & application form:

8 Week Wednesday Night Improvisational Contact Dance Series:
Jan. 9th through Feb. 27th
Shotwell Studio 7:30-9:30pm 3252A 19th St. at Shotwell, SF Series $150, $20 drop in per Class
This Workshop & Series taught by Stuart Phillips will explore unblocking patterned responses, making way for more authentically relating scenarios through dance improvisation. Our approach is authentically shifting our psychological view to more unfamiliar states, ultimately opening our shared dance experience to more poignant unknown realms which are extremely satisfying & nurturing.
A methodical approach consists of simple psychic group guidance, clean physical, mental or emotional foci unblocking patterns into cleaner expression of focus. Solo time hones true alignment with self. Then we move into being real in relationship with other and self, as duet, trio, quartet, quintet, etc., allowing personal truth to become the only excitement. This method of approach to dance Improvisationally changes participants’ dance styles to more personally aligned states, transforming ourselves into deeper pathways from self into manifested Dance.
Stuart has been involved with teaching & performing in the contact improv community for over 25 yrs, & with the improv dance environs for over 31 yrs.
Send checks to: stuart phillips, 1002 59th, oakland, ca, 94608 stulip6.wix.com/stulips

6th annual winter Contact Improvisation retreat
w/ Touchmonkey, Carolyn Stuart and Patrick Gracewood
@ Breitenbush Hot Springs, retreat center extraordinaire near Detroit, Oregon

This year the theme will be Contact Games.
We’ll investigate our options in Contact Improvisation by focusing on and defining the ‘games’ we play, inside ourselves and in relationship.
The use of games provides a balance of fun and seriousness, structure and freedom. Games bring focus to the vastness of improvisation by creating bite-size pieces for you to study and integrate.
As usual, the purpose is to expand our understanding of and ability for mutual well-being- the gift of Contact Improvisation!

Treat yourself to beginning the new year with this immersion to deepen your skills of self-care, connection and playfulness.
It is an excellent event for those that prefer a smaller size group. The event is limited to no more than 20.
All levels of experience are welcome. We start from where we are and let curiosity and investigation take us where we need to go.
Let the games begin ;~)

We gather three times each day-

In the Mornings we’ll study our inner games by focusing on our ability to witness what is.
Experience is always occurring. How aware of it are we?
We’ll practice noticing what we notice and become more aware of the choices we are making moment by moment.

In the Afternoons we’ll play with the relational games of Contact Improvisation.
We’ll name, claim and expand the possibilities for mutual well-being through improvising in contact.

In the Evenings we’ll explore group games.
We’ll use the evenings to enjoy group activities to apply what we’ve gleaned from studying our personal and relational dancing.

The whole event, on and off the dance floor, is an exercise in co-creation. Simple structures are meant to support the research and discovery of mutual well-being. What happens along the way is dependent upon the interests and expression of everyone present.
Contact Improvisation offers a sustainable paradigm of thriving for all. Join us in the development this way of being, a new way of living!

Touchmonkey is the name Carolyn Stuart and Patrick Gracewood give their on-going thread of investigation in C.I., now in it’s 25th year!
They are delighted and surprised at how the richness continues to pour forth, to unfold, is unending in it’s life enhancing, enchanting ways.

View the event online ~ http://breitenbush.com/events/jan13-18stu.html

A weekend of dancing with the Boulder community!

The warm water invites you to let go and to experiment an organic and fluid way of moving. You learn how to play with its resistance and dynamic, how to transition between following the waves and making soft and clear propositions. You go into aquatic and subaquatic explorations, experience effortless breathing and play with the balance between weight and weightlessness. On land you also learn how to let yourself fall, how to stay in graceful flow or dynamic stillness, falling into motion.

The transition on the floor will let you experience the fluidity connected to gravity and gives you the chance to deal with the natural force of water and earth.

6 Sessions
Every Wednesday evening 19:00-21:00
6 February – 20 March

Instructors: Kosei Sakamoto (坂本公成) & Yuko Mori (森裕子)
For more information and useful links: http://goo.gl/PUJxZ (in Japanese, but fairly comprehensible when run through Google Translate)

Like scaling Mt Everest, States of Grace is a pinnacle — elusive, ever-present, dangerous, fantasized, in our minds. And our bodies. “States of Grace” is what can happen when all the balls are in the air at once: solo dancing, contact improvisation, non-CI improvisation, contemplation, composition, listening, performance/art, mystery, and humanity. Many questions. Embodied research. Can we move easily between solo, contact improvisation, group work, somatic sources and impulses, and compositional awareness? What does this make? Only way to discover is to do it and find out. The Underscore on Sunday is the culminating vehicle for our discoveries. Participants should have previous experience with Contact Improvisation. Workshop locations vary: WED-FRI 10am-6pm will take place at Eden’s Expressway. SAT 10:30am-5:30pm and 6-7:45pm, Underscore talk-thru, will take place at Gibney Dance Center. SUN 12-4pm, Underscore practice, will take place at New York City Center.

The Underscore is a long jamming/contact/improvisation/composition score that Nancy has been developing since the early 1990s as a framework for dance improvisation research. It guides dancers through a series of “changing states” — from solo relaxation and sensitizing to gravity and support, through group circulation and interaction, contact improvisation engagements, opening out to full group improvisation, and back to rest and reflection. Previous experience with Contact Improvisation and attendance at the talk is required for participation in the Underscore practice.

Locations vary:

Gibney Dance Center: March 9 SAT 6-7:45pm, Underscore talk-thru will talk place at Gibney Dance Center.

Underscore practice: March 10 SUN 12-4pm, Underscore practice will take place at New York City Center.

The warm water invites you to let go and to experiment an organic and fluid way of moving. You learn how to play with its resistance and dynamic, how to transition between following the waves and making soft and clear propositions. You go into aquatic and subaquatic explorations, experience effortless breathing and play with the balance between weight and weightlessness. You will connect yourself to the nature around and let your dance connect you to your powerful natural beeing.

3 workshops in a great environment. You can sleep in nice bungalows direct by the sea. Ecolodge with a watsu pool. Details on http://www.thedunehotel.com/index.php?page=magic-water-course&hl=en_US

see www.earthandwaterdance.com/earth-and-waterdance-ci-in-water.html for the english description
Teaching Manou Blanchard (CI, WATSU, waterdance)

Organizer:
mail: magic.water.india@gmail.com (Laurie Moermann)

Welcome to the second Contact Improvisation and CI-in-Water Festival on Koh Chang island in Thailand!
Welcome to a deep dive into your body experience!
http://ci-thai.com/en

1-11 March 2013
In the program:
Contact Improvisation in water – intensive workshop with Manuela Blanchard Russi (Switzerland)and Sasha Bezrodnova,
Contact Improvisation on the land – intensive with Masha Grudskaya (advanced) and Nastya Saevich (Russia, all levels),
Jams every day,
Authentic movement, art- and performance jams…
And also… swimming in the cleanest sea, kayak trips, elephant rides, traveling to beautiful islands of the area, and much more!

Warm water allows to find full relaxation and flowing quality in the body. We will practice easy, light, fluid, natural movement in our dance. Yielding and letting go gives chance to connect with inner depth, to live, breathe and manifest oneself naturally. This is an invitation to travel inside and outside at the same time, developing contact with oneself and with the world.

REGISTRATION is opened!
Register on the website http://ci-thai.com/en !!!

You can contact us at ci.tailand@gmail.com
or personally:
Masha mariagruds@gmail.com
Sasha sashaffect@gmail.com

CONTACT IMPROVISATION is a moving, “meditation in action” form of dance. Movers focus on direct experience of the physical forces we sense and relate to as humans on earth: gravity, momentum, kinesthesia, the stuff of physics.

In this workshop we will review some essential images of Contact, such as the small dance of skeletal balance as introduced by Steve Paxton. We will practice various rolls and puzzles and embody these navigation tools to enhance our solo and partner dancing. We will employ practical safety movements to help our muscle memory kick-in when we need it— during the complex partnering of a freely improvised duet. We will practice freedom. And, we will play with composing group improvisations influenced by Lisa Nelson’s Tuning Scores where perceptual measurements made by each individual guide the communication between players.

Class is open to all levels; dancing with mixed levels will be encouraged.

KAREN NELSON has been dancing Contact Improvisation since 1976 or so. Now, in 2012 and after an 8 year break in her training, dancing is a well-spring of fresh gravity. She has toured, teaching and performing in many places worldwide and has collaborated with many wonderful artists. Her work with Steve Paxton and his system “Material for the Spine” has a tremendous influence in her Contact teaching and dancing. Along with Alito Alessi in the 1980’s, she started the Breitenbush Jam and DanceAbility in Oregon; and with others later in the 90’s, Diverse Dance Research Retreat held on Vashon Island, WA. For the last 2 decades or so, composition within improvisation has been a passion; working with Lisa Nelson and her approach of Tuning Scores is a constant source of inspiration and investigation.

Dancing in the nature of the movement.

Place: Senderos del Monasterio, San Esteban

(6 Km. From Capilla del Monte)

Córdoba, Argentina.

This is an open space

to manifestate everything that we want

A participated sharing 

with focus on dance

co creating each experience.

and sharing the costs between all of us.

 
ºº15 days exploring a permanent dance state°°

Circularity – Improvisation – Trusting – Self regulation 
 

• * *

You can participate as long as you wish.

The estimated values per person per day are:

*For the stay: 1 day = $40 pesos (15 days = $450 pesos)

*For the food: 1 day = $40 pesos (15days = $450 pesos)

It´s welcomed to contribute with more, in a rapture of

generosity, and also with less

in case you don´t have that amount.
 
*

.. What to bring ..

 
For You:

Plate, knife, fork, spoon, glass/cup, mate/tea, tent, towel, sleeping bag, warm clothes, spices.

 
To Share:

• Silk, trapecy, hammock, juggling things,  musical instruments, music…

• CI books and magazines (for the reading area)

• Videos and pictures from other meetings for a projection night.

• Papers, paints and toys for the children´s area.

• We´ll have a place to show, sell and exchange our creation.
   

.. Animals stay at home ;) ..

 
*

You can camp or rent a room
 

The value of the rooms comming soon…

.: How to get there :.

http://www.senderosmonasterio.com.ar/ubicacion.htm

If you come from Cordoba´s Capital, take a bus In Cruz del Eje´s direction, and get down in the first stop after san esteban.

If you come from Capilla del Monte take the bus and get down in Senderos del monasterio´s stop, the stop before San Esteban entrance.

From there 4 blocks walk.

Bus Company: Ciudad de Córdoba o Sarmiento.

 
Any questions, curiosities, proposals, comments

Write to us!

Thanks and good dances!!!

Of Limb and Language
Sense Object (Miriam Wolodarski)

Twindependent
richien (Rowena Richie & Jennifer Chien)

CounterPULSE Winter 2013 Artists in Residence
MAR 21-30, THU-SAT at 8PM
$20-30

Miriam Wolodarski’s Of Limb and Language is a game show, a communicational tragicomedy, a brutal love affair between semantics and somatics… Our hearts are at the tips of our tongues.

Inspired by both the scientific and metaphorical implications of twinship, Richien’s Twindependent is a dance theater piece incorporating live music and video projection.

~ book now for early bird price – ends 28th Feb ~

A space to Dance, Learn, and Jam. All welcome.

Event highlights to include:

• Lots of lush Jam-time
• Saturday class with Rick Nodine
• Sunday class with Lucia Walker
• Live music
• Space to relax
• Friday Night Film jam
• Children under 15 welcome for free

Click here To book

Teachers / Facilitators: Rick Nodine and Lucia Walker

Location: St. Michael’s Parish Hall
Date(s) & Time(s): 22 Mar 2013 until 24 Mar 2013
Price: £40 – £55

Lucia Walker

has been practicing and teaching Contact Improvisation since 1986. She first encountered the form in workshops with Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark-Smith and Kirstie Simson. In 1987 Lucia qualified as a teacher of Alexander Technique and teaches the technique to individuals, groups and on teacher training programmes in England, Germany, US and Japan.

Lucia worked for many years with Jointwork Dance Group exploring improvised performance and continued this research with Telling Times International Theatre project. She also works on performance collaborations with other artists and dancers Attention, vitality and curiosity are central to her work as a teacher and a performer.

Rick Nodine

After completing a degree in biology, Rick Nodine went on to study contact improvisation with the pioneers of the form. He began a performing career in the early 90s, and In 2001, he became a member of staff at London Contemporary Dance School where he teaches composition and improvisation.

For the past 15 years Rick has collaborated with dancers, actors, musicians and designers to create improvised performances.

As a guest teacher Rick has been invited to teach in 10 countries and more than 30 cities and this year he has been selected as a Key Teacher to represent the UK in the international IDOCDE project, a Contemporary dance education documentation project.

Recent Choreography has been for The National Theatre, Glyndebourne Opera, Shift, Edge, Coventry University, Devon Youth Dance, LCDS and he is a 2013 Place Prize Finalist.

We love meeting self and other through the practice of Contact Improvisation. This Festival, brings an opportunity to dive into it with profound rigorousness, while keeping play and joy present through the learning process.
During four days, we will enjoy classes, workshops and forums in a diversity of sites, carefully selected to stimulate your senses … in the historic neighborhood Cabanyal in Valencia, by the Mediterranean seaside.

Teachers; ADRIAN RUSSI / BARBARA LUCARINI / BASTIEN AUBER
PATRICIA GRACIA

Workshop for beginners andopen for experienced dancers.

“The simple pleasure of moving and living through one’s body is what I think matters most here. And the pleasure of dancing with someone in a spontaneous, unplanned way, free to create without disturbing one’s partner. It’s an extremely inspiring form of dance.” – Steve Paxton, founder of CI

Contact improvisation (CI) is one of the most welcoming and friendly dance forms. It’s open for people of all body types, ages, backgrounds and athletic ability.

In contact improvisation two moving bodies are following physical point of contact and they roll, fall, fly, support and give weight to each other. They are sharing the dance and playing with the physical laws as gravity, momentum, inertia, etc.

This workshop will help to release excess muscular tension, get in contact with our bodies and liberate the natural movement.

During the workshop we will work on:
- relaxing the body and releasing unnecessary muscular tension;
- physical touch and point of contact,
- listening to the partner, following and leading,
- sharing the weight
- different ways to support/lift,
- soft landing, falling and rolling,
- moving efficiently in different levels,
- inner and shared balance.

There will be technical material and we will also focus on our personal curiosity, exploration and pleasure of dance. We will create a space for finding the trust in ourselves and our partners, spontaneity, support and presence.

No previous experience in CI or other dancing is needed. You don’t need any personal partner as well!

Julija Melnik, BA, MA – Tutor in Dance – is leading regular contact improvisation classes, jams and workshops in Lithuania. She has also taught outside of Lithuania (Ukraine, Latvia, Russia, France, Germany and USA ). Julija is actively participating in International CI festivals, teachers’ conferences and is also organizing CI events in Lithuania: annual CI and Performance Mini-festival since 2007, regional CI teachers’ conference in March ‘08, Vilnius CI and Performance Festival ‘09.
Julija has studied contact improvisation with CI pioneers – Steve Paxton and Nancy Stark Smith, and also with Nina Martin, Andrew Harwood, Angela Donii, Joerg Hassman, Charlie Morrissey, Adrian Russi and many others. She is also exploring other improvisational forms and performance, and has studied with Julyen Hamilton, Daniel Lepkoff, Nita Little, Alexander Girshon, Keith Hennessy, David Zombrano and others.
Julija is also practicing Argentinean tango, Gurdjieff movements, house dance, salsa, contemporary dance. Her movement research is informed as well by practices of meditation, bodywork, dance therapy and other movement techniques such as Feldenkrais, Lou Yong.

AIM Alexander Technique Informed Movement

Two Workshops, Two Days, Two Teachers!
• Free Patterns of Tension
• Recover Your Efficient Effortless Movement

Saturday, April 13, 2013 2-6pm – AIM and Injury Prevention for the Dancer
Observe, inhibit, and redirect! Learn how these principles of the Alexander Technique can support your dancing to prevent injuries and enhance your overall performance. We will work with directing our attention to allow for more ongoing awareness of ourselves, and beginning to free patterns of tension to access our underlying support. We will use improvised solo structures to witness each other dancing. Movement exercises will be taught to engage your imagination and will draw upon your body and mind as inspiration to dance, while applying the Alexander Technique principles.

Sunday April 14, 2013 2-6pm – AIM and Contact Improv
Execute momentum based partnering with greater ease and fluidity. We will alternate between exploring underlying themes from the Alexander Technique and then integrating these directly into Contact Improv dance. Contact Improv exercises will draw on the spontaneous interaction between people playing with weight, momentum, gravity, and intuition. We will guide you to access your core-support, spiral, and multi-dimensionality while dancing. The Alexander Technique enables whole body integration in movement and stillness. Letting go of our habitual reactions allows for greater flexibility in the choices we make while dancing.

SUSAN SINCLAIR is Director of Sinclair Studio where she has maintained a private practice teaching Alexander Technique and the Pilates Method for over 20 years, and has directed her Alexander Technique Teacher Training Program since 2003. After injury in dance training Susan was able to retrain herself using Alexander and Pilates and went on to explore contact inprovisation, aerial dance, Tai Chi Aikido, Feldenkrais and Developmental Movement. Susan has taught numerous classes and workshops in Toronto, and taught in Alexander teacher trainings in the USA, Germany and Japan since 2000. She has presented her work at the last two International Congress of the Alexander Technique in Lugano Switzerland, as well as to her colleagues at Alexander Technique International, both in the US and Europe. Currently, Susan is on faculty at The Houston School of the Alexander Technique and will teach at the Alexander Alliance teacher training program this spring in Tokyo, Japan.

SUZANNE LISKA is a dance artist, teacher, Co-Artistic Director of Flightworks, and Co-Founder of the aLOFT Project. As a company dancer for Kathleen Rea’s REAson d’etre Dance Productions, Suzanne danced in the three times Dora Award nominated “Long Live” and for “Vivid 4”. She has also danced for choreographers Karen Kaeja, Pam Johnson, and Sue Lee, and has performed at Dusk Dances, Dance Matters, Art Whispers, DARK, and Harbourfront Centre, as well as many other venues and festivals. Suzanne teaches professional dancers, actors, high school and elementary school students, and community dancers. Specializing in dance improvisation since 1998, she teaches Contact Improv Dance and Spontaneous Composition (Improv Ensemble dance). Suzanne is a faculty teacher at the Randolph Academy for Performing Arts.

Workshop of ContactTango with Javier Cura

Contact and Tango are two dance forms that focus on the relation to the partner and on the flow of energy circulating between them. Using the dynamics of fluids as a visual metaphor for these dances we will bring their elements together to create a richer and more liberating form of physical expression.
There is no need to have any experience in either or both techniques

Infos over Javier Cura at http://javiercura.com/

We are very happy to have the opportunity to teach together 4 days long (Feast of the Ascension) and go deeper in the theme “independant and connected”. For the content, see description on our website (with pictures)

Location:
Despite its proximity to the city centre of Berne, the “Weissenheim” is a quiet place surrounded by nature. A nice hill wellcomes us for picknick at lunch time. You can also go to the river after the workshop time or enjoy the old city (both 25’ walk or by bus).

We will offer the opportunity for those who want to dance outside 1 or 2 afternoons, depending the weather and as an option (parralel to a contact class in the studio). And so experience the qualities of connection and autonomy within nature.

We are happy to invite you to CRIMEA CONTACT QUEST 2013!

II-nd Festival of Contact Improvisation and Perfomance on the Roads of Crimea, Ukraine!!! Dates: 11-19 MAY 2013

Registration open! www.contactquest.org

Contact Quest is a unique experimental dance project to explore a space of Contact Improvisation & Performance in a motion!

9 MAGIC DAYS OF DANCE ON THE ROAD… 5 BEAUTIFUL TEACHERS… AMAZING MASTER-CLASSES AND LABS… AND MUCH MORE

Contact Impro, Aerial Dance, Water Motion, Contemp, Contactango, Ecstatic Dance, Voice & Live Music

This year with us:

Angela Doniy – CI & Meditation. Water Motion
Lior Ophir – CI & Performance
Ezequiel Sanucci – Contact Tango. Dance Improvisation
Vanessa Cook – Human Landscape. Aerial Dance
Shantam – TantraCI
Arun Ji – DJ & Ecstatic Dance
Davide Swarup – Musician / Hang
Mirra – Chéf de Cuisine / Yoga
Johan Planefeldt – Filmmaker

love & inspiration
CCQ Fest Team

Website: www.contactquest.org
Facebook: www.fb.com/ContactQuest
Vkontakte: www.vk.com/contactquest
Youtube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/contactquest
Vimeo Channel: www.vimeo.com/contactquest

Publication:
CQ Contact Improvisation Newsletter
Winter/Spring 2013 vol.38 no.1
Guest Editor: Dey Summer
CQ Newsletter Editor: Nancy Stark Smith

http://www.contactquarterly.com/contact-improvisation/newsletter/view/crimea-contact-quest.php

2 Workshop Classes

INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCE
11:00-1:00
Scores: Sparking Imagination for Contact Dancing

The class will explore our dance relationships using scores. Scores are shared information that each dancer begins a dance with. The shared information can be a physical task, a quality or a real human relationship. Non-verbal negotiation of the shared information is the dynamic that drives the dance and keep the dancer’s mind engaged as well as the body. It is a wonderful way to connect with dance partners and find new and exciting dance territory.

BEGINNER/INTERMEDIATE
2:30-4:30
The Physics of Contact Improvisation

This ALL-LEVELS class will explore the unique way that Contact Improvisation is a dance form that engages with the basic principles of physics to create a movement dynamic. We will explore gravity, momentum, support and vision working with our first partner, the floor, and then with others dancers.

Read more about Pam Johnson:

Pam Johnson is an internationally recognized performer and teacher of Contact Improvisation. Originally from Indiana, Pam has been dancing, choreographing, teaching and directing in Toronto for 32 years. She has danced for many choreographers, choreographs and produces her own work, choreographs and coaches for theatre and most recently has begun directing theatre and music video. Pam’s dance specialty is Contact Improvisation. She is co-coordinator of the Toronto Sunday Contact Jam, now in its 35th year. She is a faculty member in theatre at Humber College and George Brown College as well as the School of Toronto Dance Theatre. She has recently taught at the Montreal Annual Jam and a
mini-GLACIER in Detroit.

2013 we celebrate 20 years of the international BeJam and 33 years of contact improvisation in Berne. For that reason, there are this year tree structures of events scheduled around CI in Berne.

Registration is open from now on

Come for 3nights and 3days, May long-weekend intensive with evening jams with Stacey Murchison and Monica Strehlke.

Moab Workshop: May 18-23, 2013 — with Jules Beckman
Moab Jam: May 23-27, 2013

Website: www.MoabJam.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/MoabJam

Registration opens at 12pm (noon), MST (Colorado time) on:

• Sat, March 2 – for Workshop only, or Workshop + Jam
• Sat, March 9 – for Jam only, and any remaining Workshop spaces

Jules Beckman Workshop description: “Integrating Wildness: Everything Comes Alive (when contradictions accumulate)”
In this workshop we will experiment with connecting primal animal intuition to contemporary human life. Our objective is to abandon domestication and reclaim our basic wildness in which instinct acts as a liberating force. It will be both rejuvenating and activating. We will explore how music supports articulate wildness, bridging organicity and identity.

Jam description: The Moab Jam features rich dancing, creative friends, beautiful surroundings, and opportunities to explore both on and off the dance floor. Being under the wide-open desert sky surrounded by colorful landscape fills one with the spirit to move and create. We invite you to come join us and experience the magic of dancing in the desert. We create a friendly and supportive environment where you can enjoy the Jam that you want — whether it’s dancing non-stop, spending time with new and old friends, or taking lots of time to nourish yourself with the solitude of nature. Jam hosts lend their inspiring presence to the jam, and part of their role is to circulate and “juice-up” the dancing spaces. They lead warm-ups, facilitate mixers, guide afternoon classes or labs, provide feedback/coaching, and offer one-to-one sessions.

Jam Hosts include: Jules Beckman, Brad Stoller, Bradley Teal Ellis, Cathie Caraker, Jeff Bliss, Lani Nehale, René Alvarez, Ronja Ver, and others!

W&M Physical Theatre and Margarita Kozhevnikova present:

A 3-day Intensive Workshop in Contact Improvisation dance
with Martin Keogh for all levels (some contact experience is an asset.)

Dates and times:
Friday, May 24th (6:30pm-9:30pm)
Saturday, May 25th (10:30am – 5:30pm)
Sunday, May 26th (10:30am – 5:30pm)

‘Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?’ Mary Oliver

In this three-day workshop we will use the form of Contact Improvisation dance to investigate our relationship to time. With games, some sweat, and the unique physicality of the contact dance form, we will explore the following themes:

• How do we relate to having only a finite amount of time?
• What does it mean to have “enough” time?
• What happens to our dance when we dilate time by putting our attention in the details?

These questions will arise as we master more of the skills and thrills of the contact dance form. Special emphasis will be placed on finding comfort in our own skin as we surprise ourselves in flight and extended follow-through.
Come away with a deeper sense of presence and connection to dance, to life and maybe even to each other.

We will also explore:

• Moving from a base of sensation
• Dancing with a shared central axis
• Seeking ease in going off balance
• Finding the spontaneous acrobatics of the form
• Spending more time in nuance, disorientation, and extended follow-through

Bio:
Martin Keogh has taught and performed contact improvisation for over three decades. For his contribution to the development of the form he is a Fulbright Senior Specialist and listed in Who’s Who in the World. Martin spent time traveling to monasteries in Japan and Korea and was the director of the Empty Gate Zen Center in Berkeley before discovering the world of dance. He has co-facilitated teacher’s conferences on five continents and is the author of The Art of Waiting and As Much Time as it Takes, and the recently released: Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World.

Martin now rarely tours as he concentrates on his writing. He currently lives in San Miguel, Mexico where he is on the board of directors of El Charco del Ingenio. The Dalai Lama recently designated this conservation area a “Zone of Peace.” http://www.elcharco.org.mx/Ingles/index.html

More info at: www.martinkeogh.com

In D-79837 Ibach/Südlicher Hochschwarzwald auf 1000m Höhe. Inklusive vegetarische Bio-Vollverpflegung im Öko-Holzhaus, Übernachtung mit Isomatte und Schlafsack im Tanzraum. Angeleitete Warm-Ups, Bodywork und sehr schöner Live-Impromusik. Vorkenntnisse in Contact erwünscht. 10€ Aufzahlung für Water-Flow-Dance-Einführung und Badeeintritt am Sonntag.
FREITAG
Ab 17 Uhr Ankommen (bitte benutzt alle den Parkplatz bei der Ibacher Gemeindehalle (zum Ökohaus + Abendessen ca. 300m die Straße bergauf gehen)
Beginn Uhrzeit: 18 Uhr Abendessen, Hochtal 29, D-79837 Ibach
20 Uhr Eröffnungskreis danach Contact
SAMSTAG
ab 8 Uhr Frühstück
10 Uhr Contact
13 Uhr Mittagessen
15 Uhr bei schönem Wetter in der Natur
ansonsten angeleitetes Bodywork
18.30 Uhr Abendessen
20 Uhr Contact
SONNTAG
Ab 8 Uhr Frühstück
Danach Clean-Up Tanzparty
11 Uhr Abfahrt zum Revitalbad in Menzenschwand
11.30 Uhr Einführung in Water-Flow-Dance, Underwater-Contact-Dance-Jam
14 Uhr Abschlusskreis im Wasser
www.christinefreitag.de

A workshop for people with previous experience in contact improvisation (CI) who would like to deepen the foundation and open the range of their dancing. We’ll study basic Contact principles and sensations to simplify and challenge our play with the physical forces, with each other, and to stimulate new clarity and depth in our dancing.
Through a combination of skills, scores, listening practice, and open improvisation, we’ll explore a full range of physical and energetic states in our dancing, with and without live music. We’ll deepen and refine our dancing in CI while expanding our awareness to include focused listening, composition, and conscious, varied relationships between what we hear and how we move.
Nancy’s longtime collaborator, composer/improviser Mike Vargas, will contribute his point of view and his music in the sessions.

L’associazione Hexperimenta ha scelto come uno dei settori da perseguire, quello della danza urbana, nella convinzione sempre più forte che la danza, come del resto tutte le forme artistiche, non possa che arricchirsi entrando in un contatto molto più diretto con le persone, offrendosi essa stessa nei luoghi del sociale, esportandosi e reinventandosi in spazi non esattamente deputati alla sua visione, ma proprio per questo forse più vitali e stimolanti rispetto ad un fare che si cerca nuovo.
In questo progetto i luoghi scelti sono i luoghi commerciali, luoghi della necessità e del superfluo, in qualche modo ricreativi, rassicuranti o tempi del desiderabile non raggiungibile.
Luoghi in cui comunque c’è uno scambio denaro merce a regolare i rapporti; ma, a testimonianza che i valori non potranno essere mai fino in fondo delegati all’unico spessore economico, anche luoghi di facce conosciute, dove ritrovare quella conoscenza e familiarità che la spersonalizzazione della città ci ha negato.
La danza verrà offerta come un dono di umanità che potrà essere colto o ignorato, da cui farsi attraversare o da guardare con occhio distaccato, che quindi esisterà per la dimensione che ogni shopper vorrà dargli.

Negozio IKEA Ancona
Via Aspio Terme, 60021 Camerano
A14 uscita Ancona Sud/Osimo, direzione Pescara

dalle ore 17 alle ore 20

per informazioni
Associazione Hexperimenta
info@hexperimenta.org – www.hexperimenta.org
stefania zepponi mob. 339.4507203
viviana falcioni mob. 339.6656300

Come to the first ever Buffalo Weekend jam presented by the Buffalo Contact Community and BCIJPG.

Experience three great days of contact improvisation with your friendly friends from Buffalo.

The weekend will include Jams, classes, performance, underscore and more.

Three day jam to include all meals and snacks.

If you need a place to stay please send an email to timothy.b.greco@gmail.com

Website, registration and performance information coming soon!!!!

Preliminary List of Activities:

Friday: Get to know you, warm-up, jam, linner, more jamming, performance

Saturday: Breakfast, warm-up, lab, lunch, jam, dinner, underscore

Sunday: Breakfast, warm-up, , jam, linner/ goodbyes, community jam
Hope to see you there!!!

Check out the new website
http://bcijpg.weebly.com/buffalo-weekend-jam.html

Join good company on the shores of the Wisconsin River for dancing and discovery. With somatic exercises, games, some sweat, and the unique physicality of the contact body we will savor and rock the boundaries of our dances. In this three-day intensive we will investigate the relationship of our pelvic floor to the unpremeditated dance. Contact Improvisation reveals to us that instability leads to mobility … and great instability leads to exhilarating mobility. We begin by decelerating our sense of time to enter the details of our pelvic bowl. From here we locate our ground to dance while in the act of falling. And dance we will.

Here’s the workshop flier and registration form: http://mazomac.com/martin2013.pdf

Explore relationship dynamics through contact dance improvisation

Dates and Times:
Three Sundays
June 2, 9 and 16, 2013
2:00-4:00 pm

Participants:
People in a relationship (romantic or friendship) can register together as a couple.
LGBT friendly.

Registration:
kathleenrea@rogers.com and brad.johnston.coaching@gmail.com
Please send all emails to both Kathleen and Brad as they are coordinating registration together

What the workshop series will be:
Explore your relationship with your partner through contact dance improvisation. Contact dance improvisation is a social dance involving touch, in which momentum between two or more people is used to create and inspire dance movements. The dance form is practiced with or without music. Techniques include rolling point of contact, balancing over a partner’s centre of gravity, following momentum, and “listening” with one’s skin surface. Contact dance improvisation is accessible to people with no previous dance training and to people with physical disabilities.

Discover and play with how contact dance improvisation practices can act as metaphors for relationship dynamics and patterns. Learn how non-verbal communication through dance can open up a moving and beautiful “world” that couples can create and share.

What it is not
Relationship in Movement Pilot Workshop is not group couples counseling or group couples therapy. Although your personal relationship issues are welcome to arise, facilitators will not be analyzing these issues or offering solution-based counseling in the way a couples counselor/therapist might. Couples in crisis are welcome to attend the pilot only if they are regularly attending couples counseling or therapy. (i.e. the workshop would be an adjunct to couples counseling or therapy they are receiving).

This is not a workshop in which you will explore sensual or sexual touch. The touch in the workshop will involve appropriate touch for public situations.

What you will do:
- learn contact dance improvisation techniques (at a very accessible level to all who attend)
- practice these techniques with your partner
- discuss, with your partner and with the group (as much as you want to share), relationship issues that arise through dancing
- dance with your partner and sometimes together as a group
- learn specific exercises designed to explore relationship themes that tend to arise between couples.
Please note: as facilitators, Brad and Kathleen will sometimes demonstrate contact dance movement with you to help you and your partner understand an exercise.

Meet the facilitators:
Brad Johnston is a Co-Active Life Coach with training from Coaches Training International (CTI). He earned his B.A. in Psychology and Theatre from Brock University and has a Graduate Diploma in Social Innovation from the University of Waterloo.

Brad has trained in organizational and relationship system coaching, embodied leadership and mindfulness. He is also an Innovation Facilitator with training from Procter & Gamble’s Innovation GYM in Cincinnati and facilitates in the area of complex social system change.

Kathleen Rea is a certified Psychotherapist with the OACCPP. She earned a diploma in expressive arts therapy from ISIS-Canada, a certificate in psychology from Ryerson University and a Master’s degree in expressive arts therapy with a minor in psychology from the European Graduate School. A practicing therapist for the past twelve years, she is also a therapeutic performance facilitator, helping people express their life stories through multidisciplinary performance.

Kathleen teaches contact dance at George Brown College and Niagara College. She founded and runs the Wednesday Dance Jam at Dovercourt House in Toronto. Kathleen has choreographed over forty works for her company REAson d’etre dance productions and for other organizations. Her award winning dance film Lapinthrope aired on Bravo Television and screened at numerous international festivals. Her production Long Live was nominated for three Dora Mavor Moore awards, including outstanding choreography. In 2010, Kathleen was co-winner of the K. M. Hunter Dance Award. Her book The Healing Dance was named by the editor of Canadian Living magazine as one of her Favorite Things in the March 2013 issue.
www.the-healing-dance.com

An introduction to the full spectrum of dance improvisation work that Nancy is currently exploring using contact improvisation as a base. This will encompass CI technique and practice, improvisation scores (including the Underscore), listening practice, compositional awareness, contemplative practice, jamming, and observing.

Through our dancing and watching, we will study physical and energetic changes of state, natural composition, presence, and relationship—in groups, solo, in and out of contact. Please come prepared for intensive practice (6 hours daily) and a little bit of fun!

The course is designed for people with intermediate/advanced level experience in contact improvisation. Please send a brief description of your background with CI and improvisation and your specific interest in this course. Please send directly to Nancy at contactq@aol.com, or fax # 001-413-586-9055. The workshop will be taught in English. Some fluency in English required.

INTENSIVE WORKSHOP C.I. IN LLEIDA (CATALUNYA).
WITH
Zita Pavlištová.
7-9 JUNE.

INFO: http://lleidacontact.blogspot.com.es

Motion in the gravitational field, are equipped with clever mechanisms that normally do not use in everyday life. Our body is able to send its material into different directions without having to spend too much effort in it, and thus can be light for our family every move, feel free to maintain attuned, responsive and mobile.

No need to rely on something solid. Instead of static support, learn to trust and support dynamic give it to others. This constantly moving and keeps changing, so we must also maintain our dynamic imagination. Perceive the trajectory of the movement and anticipate its course.

The purpose of this course is to refine the skills of perception of the dynamic forces that operate while moving with a partner, which determine our common movement upfront. We learn to recognize them in its first beginnings, even when they are not visible to the naked eye, even when we can not speak of a clear physical perception, when perhaps we have not come into contact with the couple. However, our body receives a clear message about the direction of the dynamic forces and in which direction will lead to the body. And that perception gives us a choice: follow it, change direction or provide the anticipated movement.

Discover how the shape of the trajectory and operate our own way with our body are related. Step by step, learn how to guide the course of our movement. Do not try to solve what we are body position, but where lies the momentum of the movement that is guided, in what direction is dropping weight, using gravity in various parts of our body, how to draw dynamic impulse from the ground or from of our partners.

Our body learns again to use the full potential. We perceive the space as a constantly changing map of trajectories. We compensate for these trajectories and feel in our body the effects of external forces and internal forces that we ourselves create. Awaken and cultivate new instincts. The movement of our body begins to evoke the movement of a tiger or a bird flying.

EVENT DESCRIPTION
The inaugural Contact Dance International Film Festival will bring 14 independent dance films from 7 countries to Toronto, Canada, June 12 & 13, 2013. The festival, produced by REAson d’etre dance productions, will highlight films featuring momentum-based dance, created by some of the top choreographers in the field of Contact Dance Improvisation. A unique opportunity for both film 7 dance lovers to experience the joy, chaos & intimacy of human connection through dance from the concrete balconies of Kyoto to a home studio in Sweden to a beach in India.

TICKETS ARE $10
PURCASH THROUGH TICKET WEB
DIRECT LINK http://www.ticketweb.ca/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=3527234
OR http://www.ticketweb.ca (SEARCH “CONTACT DANCE”)

WEDNESDAY FILMS
June 12, 2013 @ 8:45 pm, Dovercourt House , 805 Dovercourt Rd, Toronto, Canada

Contact Baby (Kathleen Rea, Canada, World Premiere) – Witness a contact dance pregnancy

Souvenir of a Summer Jam (Neige Christenson, USA, 2011) – A joyful and intimate dance shared by two woman at Earthdance.

Negative Space > Positive Space (Rachel Brown, USA, 2012) – Home studio jam in Brooklyn

Sense-8 (Katrina McPherson and Simon Fildes, USA, 2001) – Explore perception in this seminal dance film that merges contact dance techniques with camera & editing techniques.

Between the Lines (Blake Nellis, USA, 2009) – Filmed in Brussels a dance duet travels to various urban location sometimes blending in & sometimes emerging as an agent of change.

Usual (Yasukichi Suzuki, Japan, World Premiere) – Human connection occurs on concrete balconies and studios in the urban setting of Tokyo, Japan.

In Touch (Johan Planefeldt, Germany, 2012) – Filmed in Goa, India, developmental movement patterns & contact improvisation are poetically explored. The effect is like looking into humanity’s eyes.

THERE IS A WINE AND CHEESE MEET THE FILM-MAKER AFTER THE SCREENING

THESE CLASSES, WORKSHOPS AND JAMS ARE AVAIVLABLE FOR FREE WITH ADVANCED PURCHASE OF YOUR TICKET FOR THE WEDNESDAY FILM SCREENING

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013, DOVERCOURT HOUSE , 805 DOVERCOURT
11:30 am – 1:30 pm Fundamental Contact Dance Skills (Teacher Kathleen Rea)

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm All Levels Contact Dance Workshop (Teacher Suzanne Liska)

6:00 pm – 7:00 pm All Levels Contact Dance Class (Teachers Karen and Allen Kaeja)

7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Contact Improvisation Jam with music by Jennifer Gillmor

9:00 pm – 10:00 pm Film Screening $10

10:00 Meet the film-makers wine and cheese

THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2013, DOVERCOURT HOUSE , 805 DOVERCOURT RD
11:00 am – 1:00 pm All Levels Contact Dance Workshop (Teacher Neige Christenson)

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm All Levels Contact Dance Workshop (Teacher Jeremy Finch)

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Afternoon Contact Jam (Music Michelangelo Iaffaldano)

PLEASE NOTE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR WORKHSOPS, CLASSES AND JAMS AS SPACE IN LIMITED.
Please email kathleenrea@rogers.com listing the workshops, classes and jams you want to attend.

FOR MORE INFO
For more information www.reasondetre.com

EVENT DESCRIPTION
The inaugural Contact Dance International Film Festival will bring 14 independent dance films from 7 countries to Toronto, Canada, June 12 & 13, 2013. The festival, produced by REAson d’etre dance productions, will highlight films featuring momentum-based dance, created by some of the top choreographers in the field of Contact Dance Improvisation. A unique opportunity for both film 7 dance lovers to experience the joy, chaos & intimacy of human connection through dance from the concrete balconies of Kyoto to a home studio in Sweden to a beach in India.

SCREENING PROGRAM
The Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles Avenue
7:00 pm Meet the film-makers Q & A
7:30 pm – 9:15 pm Film Screening
9:15 pm – 9:30 pm Award ceremony and reception party

TICKETS ARE $12PURCASHED THROUGH TICKET WEB
DIRECT LINK http://www.ticketweb.ca/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=3527244
OR http://www.ticketweb.ca (SEARCH “CONTACT DANCE”)

THURSDAY FILMS

Five Ways In (Mike Poltorak, UK, 2013) – A glimpse of the Freiberg Contact Improvisation Festival. This is the “rock star” of all jams. It sells out a few minutes after registration goes on line.

Greyscale (Karen Kaeja and Allen Kaeja, Canada, Premiere) – A woman slipping into a collision of grey, of ash and lead, immediate and in between.

Moments of Practice (Irene Sposetti, Sweden, 2011) – Intimate moments of practice in a home studio in Sweden.

Stumble (Allen Kaeja, Canada, Premiere) – A subtle stumble on route sends three individuals into a collision course of the unexpected.

Groundswell (Suzanne Liska, Kathleen Rea, Lee Walder, Canada, Premiere) – Edges of anger and sensuality saturate the dance.

HASTA DONDE (Sharon Freedman, Spain, 2011) – Highly physical contact dance based choreography is a gem of intensity and nuances that will leave you speechless.

Sketchbook (Jeremy Finch, USA, 2011) – A personal look at a man’s decision to pursue his passion for dance in all its joys and frustrations. The film beautifully combines dance, hand-drawn animation and thoughtful narrative.

THESE CLASSES, WORKSHOPS AND JAMS ARE AVAIVLABLE FOR FREE WITH ADVANCED PURCHASE OF YOUR TICKET FOR THE THURSDAY FILM SCREENING

WEDESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013, DOVERCOURT HOUSE , 805 DOVERCOURT RA
11:30 am – 1:30 pm Fundamental Contact Dance Skills (Teacher Kathleen Rea)

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm All Levels Contact Dance Workshop (Teacher Suzanne Liska)

6:00 pm – 7:00 pm All Levels Contact Dance Class (Teachers Karen and Allen Kaeja)

7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Contact Improvisation Jam with music by Jennifer Gillmor

9:00 pm – 10:00 pm Film Screening $10

10:00 Meet the film-makers wine and cheese

THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2013, DOVERCOURT HOUSE , 805 DOVERCOURT RD
11:00 am – 1:00 pm All Levels Contact Dance Workshop (Teacher Neige Christenson)

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm All Levels Contact Dance Workshop (Teacher Jeremy Finch)

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Afternoon Contact Jam (Music Michelangelo Iaffaldano)

PLEASE NOTE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR WORKHSOPS, CLASSES AND JAMS AS SPACE IN LIMITED.
Please email kathleenrea@rogers.com listing the workshops, classes and jams you want to attend.

FOR MORE INFO
For more information www.reasondetre.com

How we use CI ?how we tread when we improvise,as team or as solo’s?
Through the basics which is the technique, how we take weight, how we give, support-supported,
lift-lifted, fall, fluid movement, push and pull,
the workshop is going deeper.
what if there is a jam vocabulary?
which are the must and must not?
how a jam starts?
why ?
do i have to be specific in my movent meanings?means quality of movement =technique=story line
how many can be on stage?and what they do ?do they have relation with the other ones?
how we create a team story?how we create a team session?how we create a team?
actions and interactions
eye contact
contact through the levels
contact through the musicality
contact through the opposite
or the common

Fr 14 June 2013
20.00 – 22.00

Sat 15 June 2013
16.00 – 18.00

Sun 16 June 2013
16.00 – 18.00

Location: t’ Werkhuys
Zegelstraat 13, 2140 Borgerhout
Antwerpen, Belgium

www.laveritadance.com

Come Sunday, stay till Saturday. 5day Intensive with two classes per day and evening jams.

This workshop, opened to everybody, invites you to a contact dance with nature: well rooted in the ground and in dialogue between your center and the center of the earth and those of your partners. We will go on an inward journey where we will explore the resonance of our body landscapes in tune with the natural surroundings.

Alone and as a group, we will engage in a sensual and playful approach toward our environment, using our skin and senses as interfaces and spaces to meet. When we find ourselves ready to open, we can allow the dance to take us into subtle touches or perhaps wild waves.

Methods
Improvised dance (Contact improvisation, new dance) as well as movement meditation, voicework, breathing and opening to the senses. There will be a big space for playfullness and creativity and also moments of sharings with the group.

Scheduled for June 23, 9-1 EDT at the Actors Fund Arts Center at 160 Schermerhorn between Hoyt and Smith to coordinate with Nancy Stark Smith and Mike Vargas’s Underscore in Lisbon, Portugal.

Global Underscore is a simultaneous practice of the Underscore around the world. The Underscore NYC group has continued the tradition that dancer Claire Filmon began in 2000 of creating and coordinating a global Underscore at the summer solstice.

The Global Underscore practice is a slightly modified Underscore. A special “small dance” stand happens during the skinesphere phase, in which each site faces the next site on the path of Underscores happening around the world. A closing small dance stand, facing the other direction, concludes the Global Underscore.

Buffalo’s third year in practice with Global Underscore.

June 23 2013
9am-1pm

The Alt Theatre
255 Great Arrow Ave
Buffalo, NY 14207

a 10-15$ donation is suggested

https://www.facebook.com/events/199285036888539/

Come join us for Malaysia’s third international contact improv festival. In this friendly small-scale festival, participants* get to study intensively with experienced teachers from various countries. There will also be jams and a performance event, and participants have the option to live on-site at the venue, which is the beautiful Rimbun Dahan, a residential arts complex situated not far from the city.

Teachers:
Geneviève Cron (France)
David Lim (Malaysia)
Yu Yen-Fang (Taiwan)
Xiaochu Yu (Taiwan)
Vangelis Legakis (UK/Greece)

Also, in conjunction with the 13th annual Global Underscore, Li Yong Wei from Singapore will be facilitating an Underscore practice on June 22 and 23.

*Past festivals were attended by participants from countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Australia, Russia, and the United States.

Mobility: Accessing the potential of the poli-directionality.

The West Coast Contact Improvisation Jam is a five-day JAM the weekend before July 4. That’s June 29 to July 3 at the Sawtooth Building in Berkeley, from 10am to Midnight each day, Saturday Jam until 2am! Join us for the five full days of classes, labs, and jams, or design your own festival schedule.

WCCIJAM is a grassroots contact improvisation festival. It is by us, for us: there will be ample space for participants to investigate, experiment, discuss, present, and above all jam! Whether we are long-time teachers or first-time beginners, the jam is a great opportunity to be immersed in dancing, and gain perspective on the many ways CI is practiced.

The class series will feature a different West Coast CI teacher each day. This years’ incredible teacher line-up includes Keith Hennessy, Scott Wells, Shel Wagner Rasch, Alicia Grayson, Brenton Cheng, and more! There will also be ongoing labs and presentations designed for sharing work and research.

Cost for the full jam is as little as $140 before June 1rst! For more information, additional attendance, pricing, and food options, please visit wccijam.org

Dancer’s looking for a good warm-up to the festival are invited to attend the pre-jam intensives on Thursday and Friday June 27th & 28th from 11 – 6, which will be team taught by a group of the Bay Area’s best contact teachers. All levels welcome.

A full week of study and jams with Karen Nelson. Includes all meals, tuition, camping and transportation on Lasqueti.

You are cordially invited to

IV Poland Contact Improvisation Festival
Warsaw Flow 2013
05-11.7.2013 r. Warszawa
IV Warsaw Flow
4 international teachers
4 polish teachers
4 dance spaces
4 performances

IV Flow Warsaw festival is about new approaches:
New teachers, new directions of development and new partners, we offer new ideas like: an open warm-up and an open space (open to suggestions from all participants), as well as site-specific work and work in natural environments.

Our teachers in 2013:
Scott Wells (USA)
Ray Chung (USA)
Wojciech Mochniej (PL/CA)
Jacek Owczarek (PL)
Jonathan Megaw (UK)
Otto Akkanen (FI)
Paulina Święcańska (PL)
Małgorzata Pianowska (PL)
REGISTRATION is open on: www.polandcontactfestival.com
Movies from Warsaw Flow 2012
Trailer:
http://youtu.be/rCcSgYSjBts?hd=1
Documentary: 
http://youtu.be/tcPx07RjlVg?hd=1
Evening Performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c6xC2MfJz4

Organizer: Artistic Foundation Perform
Place: Middle School and High School (Stefan Batory), 6 Myśliwiecka str, Warsaw, Poland

july 6-13 2013
Research, Creation & Performance in the Pyrenees

Trainings in Contact Improvisation, Butoh, Expressive Dance, Shiatsu, Jacques Lecoq Physical Theatre

With Karen Rémy

This laboratory is addressed to all those who want to experiment & confront themselves with their body & the space in dance theatre & performance.

Inspired by the environment we dive into the archaic root of our bodies. It is strong, authentic, meanwhile a paradox & grotesque. It is rooted in the profound – the side that is animalistic, mystique & close to nature – not in the known & civilised one.

In this play of fragility the body lives through multiple metamorphoses.
Listening to the contact, the interior & the exterior.
Tumbling the known, the perception & the space we begin to explore…

We search for the access to the archaic body, in contact with the elements & animals. We train in nature, we sleep under the stars or under canvas on a mountain plateau with horses. We prepare our meals in an open air kitchen & eat together while viewing a great Pyrenean panorama.

Karen Rémy (F/D) theatre & dance – since 2003 I deal with different styles and approaches of theatre & dance. My journey led me amongst others to antagon theaterAKTion, Ecole Jacques Lecoq, Laboratoire des Etudes de Mouvement, Theater Anu, Nomadance, The Nordic School of Butoh, Teatro Nucleo, Mimo Magique, Tokyo Space Dance, Shiatsu Schule Kreuzberg, Cie Maluki Théâtre and Derevo. My performing arts are supported by visual arts (objects, installations, sceneries) that are involved into the play and themselves become performers.

A week of living in the forest studying dance with two very accomplished dancers and all your meals provided and camping and transportation…

We (Angela, Vera and Alexey) are creating a School of Contact Improvisation and Performance for all those who are willing to learn this dance form.

We see it not as a one-time event, but as a place where you can come back to the basics or move on step by step.

We invited the teachers who have demonstrated their passion for the practice during the last decade and have given their support to all festivals in Europe, Asia, North and South America. They are undoubtedly high-class professionals.

A question occurred to these teachers: what happens after the festival? How does the experience of the festival grow into life? How do we want to grow with our students? How can we develop our joint experience and where?

So we start a School as a place and opportunity to plunge into the CI practice safely and tastefully. For participants of all levels. The way it happens in life and in a jam.

Where Your questions have time and space for clarification. Where You have an opportunity to communicate and dance with teachers from dawn till dawn.

We want the school to be an opportunity for transformation of Your dance and for the integration of living thoughts and new ways of movement.

We are interested in CI technique, CI philosophy, the basis and the depth of thoughts, from which it has grown, and all the fresh, that keeps making it so modern.

How can the Art of Performance be useful for the process of learning in CI? We see that the practice of CI itself doesn´t need an audience, but CI dancers can practice consciousness and develop inner witnessing, when the dance is perceived by an observer.

We want to challenge CI dancers by the fact that they are seen. We are interested in the art of improvisation as broadening of the attention in dance from sensations to interactions and composition.

Joining the CI and the stage we look for answers to following questions:
- How are meanings created in dance?
- Are the laws of composition and directing applicable for this dance form?
- Is there space for dialogue within this dance?
- Who is dancing?

Bread&Jam
Exploring Contact through Questions of Relating

This is an experiment. Its ingredients are: a beautiful old English country-home; the community who run it and who’ve spent decades studying embodied meditation & relational consciousness; ongoing lab-groups, sharing circles; daily Contact jams; a sensual zone with bodywork rooms, tantra temple & BDSM play space; input from experts in communication skills & emotional release; yurts & other small spaces for group and one-to-one work; delicious vegetarian food; a wood-fired sauna; a documentation space; dorms, caravans, chalets & camping space – and of course you, the curious reader: your interests, your creativity, your fears, your commitment to Contact Improvisation, your experience in other embodied forms; your hopes for yourself & for the world; your honest presence.

The BREAD&Jam experiment (Building Relations, Eating, Active Discussion & Jamming) is an invitation to balance the sweet fleetingness of jam encounters with something more substantial and nourishing. We’re interested in exploring the hypothesis that Contact Improvisation can, besides being a beautiful dance form, provide a potent tool for relating to oneself; to nature; in groups, pairs or trios; non-verbally or verbally; sexually; politically; therapeutically, spiritually and above all playfully.

At the heart of the event are small ongoing lab-groups that explore one or more of these facets of connection. These groups will be formed in advance according experimenters’ interests . The following themes have already been suggested:

· CI & Authentic Relating

· CI as an Embodied Meditation

· Living and dancing in community

· Body politics and CI

· Sexuality, Sensuality & Spirituality

· Power & Intense Sensation.

· Connecting to nature through our dance

Small daily sharing circles with people from different morning lab-groups will give people a safe space to share how they’re feeling and what they’re learning. The afternoons are reserved for a number of prescheduled workshops and many ad-hoc lab, jam, discussion and presentation proposals. The evenings will include nightly contact jams and more edgy late night activities for the curious.

We will keep this year’s Experiment fairly small – around 80 people – to allow a rich web of inter-relating. Everyone here is a collaborator so if you would like to help us create something amazing by sharing your curiosity, teaching, facilitation, music, bodywork, or documentation skills please visit our website and download the collaboration form (www.2013.touchandplay.org).

Earlybird ends 30th April!

Looking forward to Touch&Play with you,

Daniel, Jocasta & Sonja – The Touch&Play 2013 core organising team

Dos Rios Retreat July 20-26th. 2013. Dos Rios, CA
DROP YOUR CITY ARMOR!
With Sara Shelton Mann and Abby Crain

One week retreat at the amazing Dos Rios* on the Eel River!
Cultivate a rigorous artistic practice on the banks of the incomparable Eel River in Dos Rios, California.

Join long time practitioners Sara Shelton Mann and Abby Crain in this inaugural workshop retreat in the nature of Northern California. Strengthen your physical practice, build energy and release patterns, dialogue with your personal archetypes, and be guided into techniques of improvisation and composition with your inner muse. Time will be available to also participate in peer-led activities, use individual studio time and swim in the river. Come dance in the barn and discover something unexpected.

Early Registration:
May 1st $480
June 1st $500
on or after July 1st $550
(price includes three meals a day and space for tent camping)

space is limited and early discounts are DEEP, so sign up NOW!

To register, please send a non -refundable deposit of $150, along with your name and contact info and preference of sleeping accommodations to: Sara Shelton Mann, 499 Alabama St., #202, SFCA, 94110.

Or pay online here
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5621602364
and email your contact and sleeping info to abigaillilly@yahoo.com.

Accommodations: Tenting – bring your own or borrow one. There are limited bunking and very limited some private accommodations with beds available on the land at an extra charge. Please inquire if you are interested.

Food: Will be delicious and nourishing, and cooked by the amazing ASIA WONG!
Nearest Airports are SFO and Oakland. CArpools from the Bay Area can be arranged.

Schedule:

Registration: Sat. 20th 1-5

Sun. – Thurs.

9 -11:30
Morning Practice with Abby Crain (Cultivating the Responsive Body and the Creative Mind)

12-3
Lunch, work time, library time, peer led activities, more TBA

3-5:30
Facilitation in and Composing (Dialoguing with your personal archetypes) with Sara Shelton Mann

5:30-6:30
HOT AIR- Community Coversation/Think Tank about issues in Contemporary Art Making!

8:00 dinner

Thurs. 25th Open performance sharing and closing circle.

Fri. 26th Breakfast and pack up. Leave land by 2:00 p.m.

You will fall in love with the land and what it gives you. Even if you sleep for a week you will receive you as you. This is the first of an annual retreat. Get in on the beginning and give a special retreat to yourself.

*Dos Rios Retreat is a project of Dance Brigade’s Dance Mission Theater

A week long study. Christine will lead us through her creation called Plant Body Moving. Go to the website to read more.

To dance CI with lots of savor, creativity and with no unpredictable risks there is no other way than to listen deeply to our senses and to emphasize perception. This seems to be obvious for subtle and slow encounters and often gets lost when the dances are speeding up or get more powerful. But in fact acrobatic and spectacular dances require a high degree of listening and sensitivity in order to maintain a continuous communication with my partner and to deal with gravity and two bodies in motion at any moment.
This insight got more and more important for me in the past few years and finally gave me the inspiration to offer this summer a workshop focusing on our senses and on perception. On the one hand we will explore the different senses individually to find their specific meaning and potential for CI. Then again another essential step will be to experience the fullness of all the various sensations as an integrated and highly differentiated entirety that will Show us new and unexpected sources for our dance.
To me improvisation means basically to lead my attention and to differentiate between sensory input and perception. And from there dances will emerge full of tenderness and sensuality or flow and playfulness with the potential to go wild and cheeky or even grasping.
Open to participants with experience in CI

Fly like a bird, land and dance like a cat, a workshop with Tom Goldhand (Israel / Holland)

One of the best compliments a contact dancer can receive is – “you are as light as a feather”, another good indication to one technique is how we land on the floor, both these partners (the human one and the floor beneath our feet) teaches us how to refine our movement and dance.

In this workshop we will learn to be as light as a feather and to land quietly on the floor like a cat, we will learn to use our entire body – muscles, bones and joints in order to achieve this not so easy task.

By understanding different pathway in space and inside the body one can learn to refine his/her movement capabilities. Seeing spirals pathways as a way up to the air and down to the ground, realizing that one can influence the “heaviness” quality of his/her body and change it in order to be grounded or to be lifted.

We will also work on connecting both body half’s (upper and lower) into a coordinated one unit enabling us to land more softly and to jump higher and glide longer.

This workshop is intended for all levels practitioners of Contact Improvisation from beginners to very experienced practitioners of this wonderful form of dance.

The mission of the ELSEWHERE Canadian International Dance Improvisation Festival is to create a web of relationships between Canadian and international artists, aiming to foster the research in dance improvisation, Contact Improvisation and performance through cultural exchange. Taking place in a rural setting in Western Canada and co-facilitated by all female teachers, the ELSEWHERE CIDI Festival is an innovative laboratory of research that promotes sustainable living and the study, practice and appreciation of improvisational dance in Canada.

Intensive dance improvisation workshops with
Isabelle Kirouac (Quebec, Canada)
Trinidad Martinez (Spain/Germany)
Aharona Israel (Israel)

Daily CI classes with
Jen Mcleish-Lewis & Nayana Filkow (BC, Canada)

jams, performances, live music, sauna, ocean swims, camping, organic and local food

Contact.teu is happy to announce this first Impro Camp in Lomträsk (North Sweden), as a result of an extensive collaboration with friends, dance and art organizations, world wide … Come and join us in this unique opportunity combining;

- Innovative practice of CI, Dance Improvisation and
related body techniques,


- An intercultural social meeting to share our values
practicing a better world,


- A sensational holiday in an excepcional natural and
cultural envirnonment,

Impro Camp is an excursión of the senses towards freedom … We will explore the art of dance improvisation combining a diversity of mindful practices and scopes, facilitating an organic learning of the technical aspects in CI, composition, performance and jamming.

During ten days, a stimulating diversity of classes and activities will take place diving in and out of nature… in an fascinating natural environment offering total emancipation from tension.

An International team of expert teachers, together with the landscape, will facilitate the opening of our awareness and movement vocabulary … be ready to dance your nature!

Teachers; Cristiane Boullosa (BR) / Erik Jimenez (CR) / Shanti Vera (MX) / Patricia Gracia (ES) / Miguel Ángel Punzano (ES) / Patrick Häggström (SE)

Come for a week of study and play with 2 classes per day and evening jams.

2-weeks summer intensive with Joerg Hassmann
August 12-23 in Berlin
‘advanced basics’

As in the previous year I want to dive into the complexity of the technical basics of Contact Improvisation. One part of it will focus on movement priciples, which inform also the solo dance, giving a taste that the dance is bigger than just CI and that CI gains more freedom and choice if we move happily alone.

As a red thread we will revisit the back space in a non dramatic way. A constant practice of moving, leaning and falling backwards into and on top of the support of a partner will pretty sure grow the neccessary trust to integrate these movement optiones into our dancing. Being in touch with the moments of the beginning fear will bring some light into our strategies of learning and avoiding.

We have the luxury of a semi-residential workshop. We can cook and hang out in the spaces of ‘somatische Akdemie Berlin’. Staying overnight is possible. Living and working have moments of overlapping. In my experience those phases have a fantastic potential for learning. The last 60-90 minutes of the ‘teaching-day’ will happen without teaching instructions to support this state of an individual easeful journey through dancing, labbing, discussing, writing and hanging out with an alive body and mind.

And wow, Two weeks! What a luxury for relaxing into things and going through challenges, time for repetition, individual needs and ideas, change of directions…

level: good intermediate and advanced contact dancers

time:
August 12-23
Mondays-Fridays 10-17 (75 min break)

location:
Somatische Akademie Berlin
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30, 10999 Berlin
http://somatische-akademie.de/

2-weeks summer intensive with Joerg Hassmann
August 12-23 in Berlin
‘advanced basics’

As in the previous year I want to dive into the complexity of the technical basics of Contact Improvisation. One part of it will focus on movement priciples, which inform also the solo dance, giving a taste that the dance is bigger than just CI and that CI gains more freedom and choice if we move happily alone.

As a red thread we will revisit the back space in a non dramatic way. A constant practice of moving, leaning and falling backwards into and on top of the support of a partner will pretty sure grow the neccessary trust to integrate these movement optiones into our dancing. Being in touch with the moments of the beginning fear will bring some light into our strategies of learning and avoiding.

We have the luxury of a semi-residential workshop. We can cook and hang out in the spaces of ‘somatische Akdemie Berlin’. Staying overnight is possible. Living and working have moments of overlapping. In my experience those phases have a fantastic potential for learning. The last 60-90 minutes of the ‘teaching-day’ will happen without teaching instructions to support this state of an individual easeful journey through dancing, labbing, discussing, writing and hanging out with an alive body and mind.

And wow, Two weeks! What a luxury for relaxing into things and going through challenges, time for repetition, individual needs and ideas, change of directions…

level: good intermediate and advanced contact dancers

time:
August 12-23
Mondays-Fridays 10-17 (75 min break)

location:
Somatische Akademie Berlin
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30, 10999 Berlin
http://somatische-akademie.de/

Recordings from under the skin that I saw in a video last summer intrigued me completely. I felt
compelled to learn more about fascia and to renew my understanding based on my studies of
Craniosacral Bodywork from some years ago. Scientists are exploring this area since a while
intensively and they provide incredible pictures and a knowledge that body-workers all over the
world sensed already earlier before, e.g. that in fact fascia seems to be much more a semi-liquid
system than a solid fabric, as the word connective tissue might make one think.
Moving from your fascia brings up an amazing lightness and permeability, both physically and
emotionally. It changes your relation to the inner and outer space and let you experience time in a
new way. Furthermore it allows you to use well known CI-principals as poring weight, reaching or
feeding the point of contact in a much more differentiated way.
Fascia is not only the one thing that connects and wraps our whole body in all directions, but it
also supports our movement by its elasticity and the ability to transmit force and to change its
consistensy. It plays a main role in proprioception and is deeply related to the vegetative nervous
system. And these are just a few aspects…

We are very happy to invite you to ECITE 2013.
It is a great pleasure for our young CI Community to have an opportunity to host you in our Country!

ECITE will take place on 23-31 August 2013 in Poland in Krzyzowa at the International Conference Centre, a venue with an unforgettable atmosphere!

We are preparing ECITE 2013 to be a wonderfully inspiring, productive, pleasant and creative experience for all of us!

It will be a Space in the day for Theoretical Discussions, Practical Research, Performances & Videos. There will also be a time for having a rest and/or lots more dancing in the evenings!
Teaching methods and the form of CI are the topics of greatest interest for us, and we intend
to explore them from different angles.

We are able to host up to 70 people only, so do not hesitate to apply and feel welcomed to:

COME AND CREATE (the) CONTENT OF ECITE 2013 WITH US!

Our intention is to create an open platform for discussion about the past, present and future of
CI, including questions about:
• The Roots of CI, it’s directions and development.
• What is CI about today?
• What are recent influences?
• What could, can or will be the vehicle for CI’s further development?
• What could or should be the future directions for ECITE?
We would also like to explore the relationship of CI Practice and Teaching with:
• SCIENCE,
• SOMATICS,
• PERFORMANCE
We want to find out what inspires, intrigues, and draws you in to CI! Come and enjoy a time to share experiences!

We are looking forward to gathering participants of all generations who:
• Teach CI, are interested, inquisitive and committed in regard to researching and evolving CI!
• Who actively contribute to the form of contact improvisation,
• Who are interested in exchange and sharing,
• Who are from Europe and other continents.

Deadline for submitting the application is on 31th of March 2013
To find more information about ECITE 2013 and the aplication form please visit our webside: www.ecite.org

WE HOPE TO SEE YOU in Poland!
Best wishes from the ECITE 2013 organizers team!

Come to a forest retreat on a remote island in the north Pacific and commit to serious study of dance and play with 2 classes per day and evening jams. All meals, fabulous meals are included from Wednesday to Monday night. Play seriously and seriously play. The more we listen, the more we hear. The more we hear, the more we understand. The more we understand, the deeper the experience.

We invite you to our 3rd Contact Improvisation Festival in Crete, Greece that will take place in Heraklion from 28 of September to 4 of October. We are looking forward to welcoming you in our beautiful island and sharing with you our love and passion for dance, movement, art and Crete!

The teachers of our festival:

Aaron Brandes (contact improvisation)
Enikő Szilágyi (contact improvisation/contact for Every Body)
Anne Sorenson (contact improvisation)
Christina Klisiouni (contact improvisation)
Georgia Petrali (contact improvisation/parent & kid contact)
Konstantinos Michos (contact improvisation)
Ane Grimseth (shiatsu)

This year, the touring Crete – CI Crete Festival 2013 will follow, from 6 to 9 of October 2013. A tour with trecking, nature contact, relaxing, stretching, swimming, sauna and enjoying nature in beautiful Crete!

www.contactimprocrete.com

What Am I Doing? Where Am I Going? What Is Happening Now?
What Happens Next? Who Am I Really?

1) Guidance into where we source from.
2) How we influence our choices in the moment, what is our long range focus?
3)How does viewing perspective of the moment inform outcome?
4) How do we choose this particular arrangement? What can we get rid of to stay completely real all the time?
5) How dance informs & defines our experience, our self identity, our self empowerment.
Open to All
13:00-16:00

Stuart Phillips is & has been Devotionally Performing & Teaching Improvisational Contact Dance for over 26 years throughout the US, Canada & New 
Zealand, with a European tour late fall 2013 , & been Practicing, Performing & Teaching Improvisational Dance for over 32 years.