The second Thursday and last Friday of each month there is a CI class at Crossways Community Center in Mt Vic, the other Thursdays in the month there is a CI JAM.

Thursdays 5:15 to 7:15
Fridays 5:30 to 7:30

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 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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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/

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.

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.

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

The January 2014 OPEN training is a residential workshop specifically designed to develop our practice of contact improvisation and other related improvised dance work. The workshop will include physical training, improvisation and composition scores, listening practice, 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 will move toward greater clarity and inspiration in our dancing and watching.

Please come prepared physically and psychologically for intensive practice (and a bit of fun!).