Contact Improvisation Events Archive: 2000

This page holds announcements of events after the event ends, to preserve the historical record.

January 14-16 Andrew Harwood's Contact Improvisation Intensive Boston, MA

Mixed Level. Friday night to Sunday afternoon. Developing acuteness to feeling and receptivity to impressions, we will move together safely and spontaneously maintaining an ever shifting point of contact. Emphasis will be on physical presence, instinctual awareness, clarity of intention, energy, body intuition, and trust. To register or for info: 781-395-9428 or pganesha@aol.com
[added 5 Jan 2000]

January 17 Andrew Harwood's Instant Instinct Boston, MA

Advanced Level. This laboratory is a vehicle for exploration of the imagination and instinctual awareness through improvisation, Contact Improvisation, composition, planned accidents and chance procedures. A variety of schemes, games, images, states will help dancers harness their movement discoveries and create a repertoire of personal getsures and phrases which will become a framework for composing solo, duet, and group material. to register or for info: 781-395-9428 or pganesha@aol.com
[added 5 Jan 2000]

January 22-23, 2000: SENSING COMPOSITION/COMPOSING SENSATION: An improvisation workshop Berlin

Sensing Composition/Composing Sensation introduces material developed by Lisa Nelson and Image Lab, including the Single Image score and the Tuning score: simple, profound and creative tools for illuminating dance-making. We will luxuriously explore our senses of sight, hearing, and touch -- as well as our "sixth sense," our sense of our own weight in gravity -- through solo research, partnering and group dancing. The Single Image score, a lens for looking at the elements of a dance event, and the Tuning Score, in which players direct the improvisation from within using verbal calls, will help us organize our sensations and perceptions into dynamic composition.

Sensing Composition/Composing Sensation is open to curious people of all backgrounds and abilities. The workshop may be of special interest to improvisers wishing to deepen or expand their practices, to choreographers looking for new compositional tools, to performers who want to add dimension to their stage presence, or to beginners interested in starting somewhere. Taught in English by Sherry Cohen.

Ort: LOT werkstaette fuer bewegte koerper
Weserstrasse 184
12047 Berlin 2HH 1 Etg.
U Rathous Neukoelln
624.85.57
DM 160,-/140,- erm.
Anmmeldeschluss: Montag, 17.1.2000

[added 4 Jan 2000]

Jan 24 - 12 March 2000 Lasqueti Winter Intensive

a seven week workshop and laboratory in contact improvisation and interdiscipinary, body-based creative process and performance directed by Karl Frost. An opportunity to deepen into creative process and the body on quiet, isolated Lasqueti Island in the Georgia Straight, near Vancouver. Study of movement and the body, moving into writing, voice, music theater, image, and performance. contact bellijez@hotmail.com or karlfrost@hotmail.com
[added 21 Nov 1999]

February 5th - 6th, 2000 Martin Keogh teaches READY!, a contact improvisation weekend intensive.

Deposit $20, total price $90. For a full description, times and registration info see http://users.lanminds.com/~contact/www.feet.org/keogh.html or write to Rosy Simas.
[added 4 Jan 2000]

February 5th - 6th, 2000 Christina Svane Moving Words Earthdance

Let this be a weekend of surrender - dancing in open-hearted, open-armed, soul expression, singing spontaneous foolish lovesongs to The Friend, and embodying that friendship for each other. We will work with structures that allow us to give and receive profound support - through touch, sound, and text - and invite the imagery of our spiritual paths out into the open. Singing, scribing, listening, witnessing, dancing, invoking, receiving, recognizing what is always there.
[added 4 Jan 2000]

February 18-20 Philadephia Contact Improv Festival

Classes, Jams, and Performances all weekend, lead by Chris Aiken (Minneapolis), Andrew de L. Harwood (Montreal), and KJ Homes (NYC). All events at the beautiful suburban campus of Bryn Mawr College. For info and registration, call Francesca 215-849-5734 or email cdeep@alumni.princeton.edu
[added 6 Jan 2000]

February 26-27 Andrew de L. Harwood: Contact Improvisation for the Experienced Earthdance

Contact Improvisation for the Experienced In this workshop we will focus on the skills used in creating dynamic, surprising, daring and unusual contact duets, trios, and ensembles. Tumbling, flying, take-downs, pick-ups, variable speeds, use of direct action and initiation, resistance, disappearance, subtle ways of moving weight, flowing through unfamiliar circumstances, extending our personal range of movement...these, and more, will be explored.
[added 4 Jan 2000, modified 6 Jan]

March 17-19 2000 Chapel Hill Contact Jam North Carolina, USA

At the University, in Chapel Hill. For more information please see http://shakti.egr.duke.edu/Contact/chjam.html
[added 22 Nov 1999]

March 17-19 2000 Bill McCully and Andrew Gaines Authentic Movement for Men at Earthdance

Open to men experienced in the practice of Authentic Movement. For the past seven years this workshop has been a powerful and generative opportunity for men to come to know one another in a nurturing, supportive environment. Through dancing, watching, writing, drawing and discussion we explore our definitions of what it means, individually and collectively, to be men.
[added 4 Jan 2000]

March 25-26, 2000 Spring Equinox JAM at Earthdance

[added 4 Jan 2000]

April 1-2, 2000 Magnolia and Johanna Walker: Authentic Movement for Women at Earthdance

Open to all women, this workshop can serve as an introduction for newcomers, or as a deepening of the form for those with experience. Come rest, and be, and explore your Self. We promise lots of time for writing, drawing, reflection, and integration.
[added 4 Jan 2000]

April 6 - 9 Workshop and Jam Paris France

The jam takes place at CND, 15 rue Geoffroy l'asnier 75004 Paris M*ST.Paul. On the 6th april 2000, from 5pm to 9pm. Free entrance. The worshop is directed by Frey Faust from the 7th april to the 9th april 2000. Registration fees : 500 f.fr at StZˇphanie Auberville email / chez.marcel@free.fr phone 00 33 (0)1 43 31 05 11.
[added 2000]

April 11-16 2000: East Coast Contact Jam Claymont Court, WV, USA

$288 Arrive Tuesday or before Wednesday lunch
$245 Arrive Wednesday afternoon or before Thursday lunch
$200 Arrive after that
Price includes vegetarian meals from Tue thru Sun luch, shared lodging in elegant mansion estate, pleny of camping, sauna, two luscious dance spaces, and lots of grass and apple blossoms to dance on and among. To keep the cost of the Jam down we ask each participant to work for 2 hours. Jam limited to 45 participants. Register early!! Send $75 non-refundable, non-transferable deposit to

Johanna Walker
114 Middle St
Hadley, MA 01035

Make checks payable to Johanna Walker
Please note with registration:

• any dietary and physical access needs
• day and time of your arrival
• if you need to be picked up at the bus, train or airport

More info call: Johanna (413) 584-1562, Diana (410) 869-7952 dianahil@mindspring.com, Ando (413) 634-1040 andolawrence@aol.com. See also http://www.python.org/~guido/ecj/
[added 18 Nov 1999, updated 11 March 2000]

April 15 Listening and Spiraling Up Cambridge, MA

a mixed level workshop
With an awakened cellular awareness, we will listen to the points of contact with our partner. We will deepen kinesthetic practices including breathing, being grounded, and weight flow. Practicing this as the primary initiator for movement, we will concentrate on spiraling center up and around a moving support, moving upside down, and developing moment to moment presence. Let's lusciously warm-up, learn specific skills, and dance with abandon and focus!
April 15, 12:30-4:30pm $30 prereg. by 4/5, $45 after. at the Dance Complex, 536 Massachusetts Ave, Central Square, Cambridge, MA
For info: pganesha@aol.com To register: send check to: Patrick Crowley, 1146 Beacon St, Brookline, MA 02446
[added 16 March 2000]

April 17th - 23rd, 2000 The first Dartington International Improvisation Festival Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon, England

Additonal information here

April 21-23, 2000. Moab Jam in sunny Moab, Utah

Come dance, play and soak up the sun in the desert in the spring time! The desert comes alive this time of year as the cactus and wild flowers start to bloom. It's a beautiful setting for a fabulous jam. The dance space is the Moab Arts and Recreation Center, a beautifully renovated stone church building with two rooms to dance in. The group will camp in the desert at a fabulous spot just north of Moab with views of arches and the snow-capped LaSal Mountains. Shahara Brook and Carolyn Stuart will be teaching and Todd Paulsmeyer is the organizer. Get more info and check out the pictures of the dance space and camp area at the website http://home.earthlink.net/~tpaulsmeyer/moabjam.htm. For more info call Todd at 801-467-8064 or e-mail at tpaulsmeyer@earthlink.net. This jam is open to all levels. Saturday evening is a jam open to the local public and attended by local improv musicians. If you live in Moab, come stop by and join the fun.
[added 9 Feb 2000]

April 21-24, 2000 Osterjam Bern, Switzerland

	Location:	Martial Art Studio (beautiful space with a fantastic ambiance!) Tempelstr. 20, 3608 Thun Allmendingen (20 kilometers from Bern near the lake of Thun)
	Accomodation:	You can sleep in the dance studio (fee Fr. 5.- per night) (Please bring a matt and your sleeping bag.)
	Cost:	140.- Fr. (including all meals) If you register before 3rd March, the fee will be only 120.- Fr.
	Registration:	Heidi Karlen, Eigenheimstr. 17, 3084 Wabern Tel: 031 / 961 52 47, heidi.karlen@bluewin.ch
	Deadline:	7. April 2000
	Programm:	Freitag 13.00 Uhr Beginn der Jam, ca. 19.00 Uhr Nachtessen Samstag Tanzen - Plaudern - Essen - Schlafen Sonntag noch mehr Jammen - Lachen - Tratschen Montag weiter geht's bis ca. 14.00 Uhr

[added 11 March 2000]

April 29-30 Mark Zemelman Movement and Drawing at Earthdance

What do you get when you combine ink, charcoal, and lead with creative movement, contact improvisation, and authentic movement? The focus of this class will be in exploring connections between dance and visual art. We will seek to discover how each medium can inspire and inform the other. Nurturing a deep trust for the body and our intuitive senses, we will draw with our feet, dance with our pencils, create the architechture of dances by looking at our sketches
[added 4 Jan 2000]

May 13-14 Shakti Smith Beginning Contact Improvisation at Earthdance

Wake up your Improviser, Soften your body, Hone your Skills. Come immerse yourself in two full days of Contact Improvisation-you'll walk (dance) away with a working body knowledge and sense of the form. This class is geared for the beginner, and also invites more experienced contacters to join in to reconnect with the roots of Contact.
[added 4 Jan 2000]

May 13 Commitment and Flight, Cambridge MA

an intermediate workshop
Using group games we will practice being airborne in safe and exciting ways. We will develop awareness of dancing from the core of the body including center and the central channel through the torso and head. Investigations of groundedness and bouyancy will bring us into flight. How can full commitment and letting go of expectation bring deepening into our senses and development in our reflexes? Different improvisation scores will facilitate these questions and explorations.
May 13, 1:30-5:30pm $30 prereg. by 5/3, $45 after. at the Dance Complex, 536 Massachusetts Ave, Central Square, Cambridge, MA
For info: pganesha@aol.com To register: send ck. to: Patrick Crowley, 1146 Beacon St, Brookline, MA 02446
[added 16 March 2000]

May 19 - 21 Contact Improvisation as a Healing Modality Austin, Texas

lead by Pat Stone and Olivia Whitmer at Southwest Texas University Campus (25 min. from Austin via I-35) Price: $150 for students, $175 for non-students. Housing: Free on-campus housing is available. Please contact Pat Stone email: pat.stone@prodigy.net phone (512) 441-5106. For more info see flyer
[added 2 April 2000]

May 20 - 21 Richmond Contact Improv Jam, Richmond Virginia

CI jams and classes, Ashtanga yoga, Continuum and Wigged Out Boogie; $45 includes all & Sat. dinner; contact Cheryl at cpallant@att.net; register by sending $ to Cheryl Pallant, 108 S. Colonial Ave., Richmond VA 23221
[added 2 April 2000]

May 20-26 Contact Improvisation and Release Technique, Lasqueti Island, BC, Canada

Contact Improvisation and Release Technique with Karl Frost and Helen Walkley on Lasqueti Island, BC, Canada, $150, info at (250)333 8608 or dancingwilderness@hotmail.com
[added 20 April 2000]

May 27-28, 2000 9th annual May jam Boston MA

Come join us for clear delicious DANCING succulent groovie woovie fascinating fun musical mind bending elemental body-warming lovely enlightening shadowy DANCING joy!

We are happy to hold the May Jam again at the beautiful Radcliffe Dance Studio (gym) at Radcliffe College in Cambridge. More information at http://ContactImprov.homestead.com/
[added 22 May 2000]

May 27-28 Work Weekend at Earthdance

[added 4 Jan 2000]

June 1-4, 2000: 5th international Blackforest Contact Jam

Four days of dancing exploration, jamming, fun, serious contact, making and meeting friends, live music, campfire,...and more. danceability experienced contactors welcome! early registration recommended, - fills fast info: ines heckmann, Tel. xx49-761-476 26 54 or Martin Zeidler at: Zeidler-hurz@gmx.de
[added 23 Nov 1999]

June 2 - 11 the BODYCARTOGRAPHY INTENSIVE , San Francisco USA

10 full days of dancing in and around the Bay area.

"It is not about superimposing yourself on a place. It is about creating art with place as a medium." --Otto Ramstad

Mornings will be spent in the studio practicing our contact skills and developing our dancing scores for the afternoon. Afternoons and evenings will be spent outdoors in public spaces, wild and urban researching, performing, playing and documenting our experiences.

"The work of the BodyCartopgraphy Project validates the experience of my body, what I feel and sense in the present moment, in the environment I live and play in. It allows for critical, spiritual and art making dialogue around these issues with others, participant and public alike. Together we create a sustainable responsuble art making structure ( in the face of corporate abuse) that is invested in the relationship between our bodies, our communities and the environment." Olive Bieringa

For more information please check our website at http://www.bodycartography.org/ For participants coming from outside SF, some housing is available. Intensive fee is $200 Interested participants should contact Olive asap at olivebee@earthlink.net
[added 20 April 2000]

Thu June 8 - Sun June 11, 2000 Califoria Contact Jam Harbin Hot Springs, California

http://home.earthlink.net/~rachelsh/dance/contact.html
[added March 11 2000]

June 11-18 Moving's View at Earthdance

Nancy Stark Smith, Susan Schell, Karen Nelson A week of improvisation, dance practice and study including Contact Improvisation, Authentic Movement, and current passions. Each day will include three classes:

• Daily Dancing Forms to Feel and See,
• Authentic Movement-Harvesting our Returns,
• Questions Into Dancing/Contact Improvisation.

Evenings will be open for relaxing and spontaneous events.
[added 4 Jan 2000]

June 12 - 30 The Zen Monkey Project Summer 2000 Intensive Training. Charlottesville, Virginia

Come join Katharine Birdsall, Ray Eliot Schwartz, and members of the Zen Monkey Project for three weeks of Body-Mind Centering, Alexander Technique, Contact Improvisation, Technique, Vocabulary, Improvisation, and Public Performance. Since its inception in 1995, the Zen Monkey Project has been consistently exploring the boundaries of somatic movement education and contemporary dance forms. Their style is rigorous, experimental, and alive. Investigating the body, developing dynamic presence, and supporting curiosity are hallmarks of their distinctive synthesis. Monday thru Friday, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m, June 12-30 Cost: $450 (U.S.) for more info please call (804) 295-7856 or e-mail: ray987@hotmail.com
[added 31 Jan 2000]

June 19-23 Klein Technique Workshop, Seattle, Washington, USA

Taught by Susan Klein and Barbara Mahler 12:00-4:00 pm, Velocity 1, 915 E. Pine St., 2nd floor lhurwitz@speakeasy.org, 206/329-5104. A comprehensive exploration and interweaving of the theory and practice of the Klein Technique. We will emphasize the ideas of moving from our deepest structural and energetic tissue, the bone, through working on the deep muscles of postural support: the psoas, the hamstrings, the pelvic floor muscles and the external rotators. Klein Technique been developed and taught by Susan Klein and Barbara Mahler for over 25 years in numerous countries. Among their students are many of the best known members of the dance community, including Trisha Brown, Stephen Petronio and members of their companies.
[added 20 April 2000]

June 21-25 Carolyn Sadeh Home and the Marketplace: Authentic Movement and Action Theater at Earthdance

This workshop will bring together two powerful disciplines, layering the tools of Action Theater with the material discovered in Authentic Movement. We will work to sharpen our awareness of how we make choices, and look for an organic way to develop structure that allows us to move from one form to the other without total shift in presence. Some experience in either form important.
[added 4 Jan 2000]

June 25 - July 8 Hot House: Launch, Plunge and Sweat Fresno, CA

Lower Left, known for their collaborative spirit and fresh approaches to postmodern dance, and Diane Madden, principal dancer with the Trisha Brown Dance Company, are featured guest artists at CSU Summer Arts Festival 2000 June 25 to July 8 in Fresno, California. Classes in contact improvisation, Hamilton Floore Barre, Feldenkrais, Creative Research, and Trisha Brown Rep. Come and expand your vocabulary, deepen your movement articulation, and delve into the creative process. Scholarships and college/university credit available. Email sandback@mail.sdsu.edu.
[added 11 March 2000]

June 28- July 2 July 4th Jam at Earthdance

[added 4 Jan 2000]

June 29 - July 4 West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival, Berkeley, CA

Classes, Jams, Performances, Discussions...five full days of dance, with about 30 teachers leading classes. e-mail wccif@yahoo.com for details or to be added to the mailing list. http://www.newcollege.edu/community/wccif/default.htm
[added 8 Jan 2000]

July 6-14: 15th European Contact Improvisation Teachers Exchange Budapest.

at the Hungarian University of Physical Education. For more information write to juve2gal@mail.datanet.hu or eszter.gal@wxs.nl 1165. Budapest, Irinyi J. u. 16. Hungary
[added 8 Dec 1999]

July 7-24: Contact Improvisation Teachers' Training Lab San Francisco, CA

The Lab is a 15 day intensive training and support group for Contact Improvisation teachers. Led by Jacky McCormick and Keriac along with support from other experienced Bay Area Contact Improvisation Teachers. It will be held at DanceGround Keriac, 1805 Divisadero St. SF. California. For information contact: Jackymcc@hotmail.com The main foci are:

• Research... This training, meeting 6-8 hours daily for 15 days, is designed as a lab for gathering teaching ideas, trying out new material, and researching problem solving strategies.
• Exchange....Participants will explore and exchange ideas on class preparation, content, teaching methods, feedback, meeting students' needs, philosophy and values, history of Contact, and professional concerns.
• Feedback... Participants will gain insight into their own strengths and personal style as contct dancers/teachers through leading one or more lessons followed up with support and constructive feedback.
• Support...The leadership of the two facilitators will be augmented by many experienced CI master teachers taking the mentor role through teaching, leading, modeling, demonstrating, sharing secrets, and answering questions.
• Dancing and Jamming... Each day will also include a physical warm-up and lots of dancing and jamming.
  Registration Deadline : May 21, 2000 Eligibility: At least one years' experience teaching Contact Improvisation is recommended. Tuition: $650 Housing: Participants are responsible for arranging their own housing Housing help and info packet is available by request. Information and registration:Jacky McCormick 2225 Floral Hill Drive Eugene, OR 97403 541 684 8642 email jackymcc@hotmail.com
  [added 22 May 2000]
  July 8- 16 Zona Z International Creators and Dancers Meeting Bras’lia, Brazil
  The Zona Z - International Creators and Dancers Meeting is divided into courses, conversation, performances, fotographers exposition, show video, meeting during nine days of July. These events will take place in Bras’lia, the capital of Brazil. Participants include: Jordi Cortes Molina (Spain), Ryuji Oka Lee (Japan), Giovane Aguiar (Brazil) Camillo Vacalebre (Italy) Mark Hopkins (England), Tica Lemos (Brazil), Helena Katz, Camillo Vacalebre, Guilherme Malheiro. Information: USINA, SHCGN 713 Bloco O Casa 38 70760-745 Bras’lia-DF usinaclub@ig.com.br (61) 273-5673 tel./fax.
  [added 2 April 2000, updated 24 April 2000]

  July 14-16 Wolcott JAM! Wolcott, Vermont, USA
  Come join your friends in Vermont for a weekend full of contact improvisation, great food, sauna, swimming and camping around a bon-fire. We will be dancing in an old New England town hall with a great wooden floor. If you get over-heated, there is a refreshing river just behind the town hall that we play and dance in. Come make magic with us in the Green Mountains. Things to bring: tent, sleeping bag, swim suit, musical instruments for around the camp fire, tooth brush.
  Registration: $45-whole weekend, $25 one-day (Canadian at par)

  Shawn May
  96 Park St.
  Burlington, VT 05401
  802-865-2399

  [added 8 June 2000]

  July 30 - Aug 5 Wild Meadows Improvisation Intensive Schellsburg, PA
  Facilitators: Chris Aiken, Dan Burkholder, Cyrus Khambatta, Sharon Mansur and Caroline Waters. Cost: $400 ($100 dep. by July 5) includes food, lodging and workshop fee. Travel may be possible with others. Workshop takes place on 200 acres of farm and forest land at the base of the Allegheny mountains. A quiet farm setting nestled between two ridges far from civilzation. This workshop is designed for intensive focus on the exploration of improvisation, including a daily warm-up, three class sessions and a guided jam at the end of each day. The work will include contact improvisation/releasetechnique, issues of improvisational composition and The Viewpoints, ensemble building techniques, site-specific exploration and some work with voice, text and theatricality. Combining pratitioners with diverse approaches, the intention of the workshop is to expand the scope of improvisational possibilities available to the performer. Participants will be encouraged to explore the boundaries of their own choices and find new sources of inspiration. For info: contact Cyrus at PHFFFT@hotmail.com or (212) 942-6028
  [added 2 April 2000]

  July 31 - Aug 18, 2000 SOARING OFF THE MOUNTAIN San Francisco, California
  Three Weeks of Intensive Training in Contact Improvisation With Ray Chung and Martin Keogh See web page for details.
  [added 29 Jan 2000]

  Aug 9-12, 2000 Movement as Teacher Charlottesville, VA
  A workshop for anyone wanting to explore the joy of movement and creative expression. Our ongoing summer workshop has been such a huge success that we are expanding our offerings. Join us for four full days of exploring the juicy edges of your creative world, with intensive study in Body Mind Centering, Authentic & Creative Movement using Laban Movement Analysis, Text and Movement using Barrtenieff Fundamentals & Laban Movement Analysis, Movement Inspired by Continuum, Yoga through Alexander Technique, and Dance Therapy. The workshop will take place August 9-12 in Charlottesville, Virginia, nestled in the Blue Ridge mountains. Faculty include Simona Aronow, M.A.,CMA, ADTR; Jane Franklin, CMA; Denise Hyland, Daria T. Okugawa, AmSAT; Ray Schwartz; and Jody Wager, ADTR. Cost is $225 for 4 full days or $125 for 4 half days. For more information, contact Krista Weih (804) 823-4454 or kristaw@cstone.net.
  [added 22 May 2000]

  August 10-15, 2000: 7th annual SFADI (Seattle Festival of Alternative Dance & Improvisation)
  August 10-15, Odd Fellows Building, 915 E. Pine St. lhurwitz@speakeasy.org, 206/782-5707 5 day of classes, jams, faculty and student performances, and discussions. 5-class intensives with Ishmael Houston-Jones, Shelley Senter, and Nancy Stark-Smith. 4-class mini-intensive with Christina Svane. Plus Thomas Arthur, Cathie Caraker, Heidi Drucker, Kim Epifano, Manuela Fischer, Joan Hanna, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Lila Hurwitz, Lily Kiara, Joan Laage, Tonya Lockyer, Beth Lowry, Mark Lynd, Andrew Marcus, Mary Sheldon Scott, and Carolyn Stuart. Classes include Contact Improvisation; Voice/Text & Movement; New Dance Techniques; Body-Mind Centering; Performance Skills; Skinner Releasing; Improvisation; Feldenkrais; Alexander; Butoh & more.
  [added 16 Dec 1999, updated 20 April]

  August 14-September 1 SKINNER RELEASING INTRODUCTORY INTENSIVE University of Washington
  The Skinner Releasing Intensive offers a unique approach to movement, integrating creative process with technical growth. Featuring daily classes in: Skinner Releasing Technique, Improvisation, Finding Forms, and Aerial Dancing on Low-Flying Trapezes. Classes with Joan Skinner, Robert Davidson, Stephanie Skura, and Theresa Moriarty. [I don't have any other info about it - jrd]
  [added March 11 2000]

  Aug 21 -25 Technique/Composition Seattle, WA
  Taught by Andrew Marcus
  12:00-3:00 pm, Velocity 1, 915 E. Pine St., 2nd floor lhurwitz@speakeasy.org, 206/329-5104

  This class prepares the body for spatially clear dancing, and the mind for rapid identification of the intentions that underlie movement choices. Initially training the skeleton to support movement through planes in space - we will ultimately build dances designed communicate meaning with utter efficiency.

  Andrew Marcus has been focusing on possibilities of improvisational performance since 1985. Over the last 7 years he has developed Sensation and Form, a highly physical approach to dance composition and Technique for a Soft Body, a non-traditional approach to movement technique and alignment. Andrew has been an artist in residence at Movement Research in NY and is currently a faculty member of the Experimental Theatre Wing of NYU and The New School for Social Research.
  [added March 11 2000]

  Aug 21 - 29 Andrew de L'Harwood and Chris Aiken Opening to the Unknown Improvisation, Composition and Performance at Earthdance
  Following last year's extraordinaire success, this workshop/lab has been extended to 9 days. If you are a passionate practitioner of improvisation and performance, this is for you. The curriculum includes three sessions each day focusing on: Release Technique/Contact Improvisation, Improvisational Scores/Composition, and Performance. This is intended as a comprehensive training for those ready to risk the unknown and willing to extend themselves on physical, emotional and mental levels.
  [added 4 Jan 2000]

  Aug 23-28 Inspiration in the Aegean, Folegandros Greece
  A workshop in the Alexander Technique. Accommodations are in local hotels and class is held in the Neoclassical, one-room village schoolhouse. Participants range from absolute beginners to certified Alexander teachers. Tuition is $425 if paid by May 26, 2000; $475 after May 26. Led by Judith Grodowitz of NYC. Fee does not include accommodations, food, or travel. More info at: http://www.alextech-nyc.com
  [added 2 April 2000]

  Aug 29 - Sept 3 Contact Improvisation Festival 2000 Freiburg, Germany
  Six days of classes with Dieter Heitkamp (Germany), Ka Rustler (Germany), Mark Tompkins (France), Cathie Caraker (US/Netherlands) and 16 other Contact Teachers from Germany. Workshops, discussions, labs, performances and, of course, jams.... Four studios in one place. An event for about 100 people. Cost: 350.-DM includes meals and sleeping accomodations. For more information:

  Benno Enderlein
  Uhlandstr. 16
  D-79102 Freiburg
  phone: Eckhard: 0761-476 53 84
  Barbara: 0721-384 24 64
  Benno: 0761-709 805
  email: Freiburger.CIF@gmx.de

  [added 22 May 2000]

  Oct 8 -12 Breitenbush Hotsprings Jam Oregon USA
  $340 send $50 by Sept first. Friday night jam in Eugene at Agate Hall Oct 7th to get things moving. Contact David Sommerville for more info at cimprov@teleport.com or 10 Ash st., Eugene,OR 97402 (541)687-5780
  [added 29 Jan 2000]

  Oct 18-22 East Coast Contact Jam, Charlestown, WV
  Contact impovisation in a relaxed woodsy, spacious setting with plenty of grass for playing and a sauna. In addition to 2 to 3 jams daily, optional workshops are led by organizers and participants amd may include contact skills, improvisational scores, authentic movement, chocolate and nap structures. $250 covers dancing, vegetarian meals, and shared housing. Contact Roy Wood, 716-254-6514 or roy.wood@kodak.com or Mugsy Lunsford at mugsy@cavtel.net
  [added 20 April 2000]

  Oct 21-26 A Weekend and/or Week Long Intensive with Ruth Zaporah Action Theater at Earthdance
  Action Theater is an improvisation form that strengthens the embodiment and expression of presence. In this 4th annual East Coast intensive, participants will engage in techniques to develop and integrate movement, acting, voice, composition, listening and relationship. As behavior is repeatedly dismantled and reconfigured, we let go of habitual ways of being. Dancers experience the feeling and movement of speech; actors let their bodies participate; all
  [added 4 Jan 2000]
  Nov 20 - Dec 1, 2000 Contact: Deepening the Form Melbourne, Australia
  with Nancy Stark Smith Deepening our practice of the duet movement form Contact Improvisation through a combination of skills, scores, and open dancing, we will explore a full range of physical and energetic states in our dancing; alone, in contact, in ensemble, in time, and in space. We will touch back into the basic Contact principles and sensations to simplify and challenge our play with the forces, with each other, and to stimulate new depth in our personal expression. We will study and feel how forms arise in the improvisation, how to identify and pursue them, and how the dancing, while rooted in a deep physical sensitivity, can articulate the serendipitous nature of form, feeling, and imagination.
  An understanding of the fundamentals of Contact Improvisation is required by participants.

  Cost: $450 or $400 early bird (payment in full by Oct 2) prices in Australian dollars.

  For Registration or further information please contact Wendy Smith ph +61 3 9534 1326 e ikiru@mira.net
  This workshop is organised by State Of Flux.
  

  Dec 16 - 17, 2000: Contact Improv workshop Seattle, WA USA
  With Karl Frost

  Sat, Dec 16, 10:30-3 Fundamentals of Contact Improvisation
  at the Freehold Theater, Oddfellows Building, Seattle
  Contact Improvisation is a 28 year old artsport concerned with the possibilities of bodies in contact. An anarchist dance with no rules but with many years of accumulated and divergent experience, practices, and techniques. It is simultaneously a dance form and a physical practice. The Saturday workshop is an overview and integration of the fundamentals of contact improvisation presented both as an introduction for the beginner and a deepening into practice for the more experienced contacter -- an exploration of some of the more common elements of a contact dance

  • giving and receiving weight (into lifting/being lifted)
  • flow of momentum
  • physical listening
  • movement into and out of the floor
  • use of falling for ease, momentum, and connection
  • surrendering into the unpredictable
  • getting the mind out of the way, so the body can act and the dance can unfold.

  Sunday, December 17 10:30-4:30 Integrating contact and improvisation
  at the Seattle Mime Theater, Oddfellows Building, Seattle
  $30 ($40 for Saturday and Sunday)
  Release approaches to dynamic and unpredictable partnering work in improvisation and composition. Integrating contact and partnering into a kinesthetically based improvisation. By considering the partner as just another part of the dynamic environment, we learn to stay present in our own dance while making contact. That is, we stay present with our own experience and intentions while acknowledging and working with the interplay of another body in the space or in contact. The ideas of manipulation, surrender, and resistance will help shape our interaction and focus our intentions. We will also work on the concept of passive sequencing of momentum through and between bodies as an avenue into ease and fluidity. Looking at dance as a form of physical theater, we explore contact in relation to kinesthesia, feeling, and narrative as well as the more abstract elements of perceived space, time, and shape. Previous ci and improvisation experience assumed

  Contact 250 333 8608 or onionoak@hotmail.com for more info [added 27 Nov 2000]

  Dec 18, 2001 Audition/class with Karl Frost Seattle
  Seattle Mime Theater, Oddfellows Building, Seattle looking for a handful of dancers from around BC and the Northwest. The project will focus on dynamic and unpredictable partnering work and will be a mixture of improvisation and choreography. It will involve a 3 week intensive rehearsal process on remote Lasqueti Island in BC. Performances TBA, most likely on Lasqueti and in Vancouver, Victoria, and Seattle. looking for dynamic and athletic dancers with a sense of daring, flow, and release who are comfortable with improvisation and contact work. Years of experience not as essential as chutzpah and ease. The work will focus less on muscle work than on finding speed and flight through release and channelling momentum. No pay, but food and lodging covered on an incredibly beautiful rural island, plus great training in contact. Rehearsal dates TBA, most likely late July/early August. Even if you don't want to be in the piece but just want to check out the class, feel free to come. The audition will be in the form of a class: an hour of warm-up and exploration of principles followed by a two hour series of tricks and partnering sequences of increasing difficulty. It'll be a lot of fun! Karl Frost has been practicing and performing contact improvisation and interdisciplinary, dance-based performance since the mid 80s. His physical work is influenced on the one hand by modern release technique and on the other by his study of martial arts (capoeira and hapkido). He is known internationally for his dynamic movement style and for the edge-pushing, experimental nature of his work, both in process and performance. His performing and teaching has been showcased across N and S America, Europe, and Australia. He is the director of the Dancing Wilderness Project, an ongoing investigation into the interrelationships amongst wilderness experience, body-based creative process, and how we live our lives. He is part of the interdisciplinary experiment, Onionoak, based on Lasqueti Island.
  [added 27 Nov 2000]

  Dec 28, 2000 - January 1 2001: A 2001 Jam Odyssey at Claymont West Virginia USA
  Find new inspiration and feelings of renewal while celebrating the REAL millennium with us at Claymont - a 400 acre retreat nestled in the Shenandoah Valley of West Virginia. We'll stay in a beautiful mansion, eat glorious vegetarian fare, bake in a soothing sauna, honor the new year, and dance in a giant octagonal wood floored barn. Last year's jam was a powerful event. Come connect with that again! US $250 Thursday - Monday; $210 Friday-Monday; $175 Saturday-Monday. To register send $50 to Lawton Rogers, Rt. 1 Box 279, Charlestown WV 25414. Email lawtonrogers@hotmail.com [added 31 Oct 2000]

  Dec 29, 2000 - Jan 2 2001 New Year's Jam at Earthdance
  This year's facilitators (Shakti Smith, Boston; Scott Waldron, NY) will bring an emphasis on fostering communication so that everyone's voice is honored as the jam unfolds. They wish to cultivate an awareness of our interconnectedness in the dance not only creates more safety, but also enhances the dynamic range of our creative expression. $250
  [added 24 Oct 2000]