Workshop ADRIAN RUSSI: CI and instant composition, October, 5-9, Schwelle7, Berlin/Germany
Workshop ADRIAN RUSSI: CI and instant composition
Intensive five-day workshop: integrating movement technique, improvisation and skills for performance
WHEN: October, 5-9, 12:00-18:00
WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany
In this workshop we will explore intensively the relation between movement technique in CI and performance – how CI and skills for instant composition can support each other and which are the possible traps to be avoided while dancing for an audience.
The morning classes will be focused on movement skills in solo, duet and trio. We will look for ways how to deal with gravity in a clever way, how to move upside-down and to integrate flying and falling into our dance. The key ingredients will be a distinguished body awareness in order to move and to communicate with our partner precisely, the playful interaction of technique and improvisation and the conscious (and constant) use of timing and space – what in fact are also fundamentals for performing CI.
In the afternoon classes we will go beyond CI-technique and improvisational skills to see what is changing deeply when one is exposed to an audience. It’s a lot about getting more present, connecting the inner with the outer space and communicating with our partners also on distance. Having trust in your instincts and your intuition will be as much important as learning about compositional aspects and using CI-technique in order to give a clear base to the performance.
For those who will feel ready the workshop will end with a public studio performance to show our work to an audience and of course to bring our practice into reality. Good to know: finally performance can be trained only while performing.
Come prepared to both move a lot and dive deep down into a subtle work with your body and to get energized from being on stage!
PERFORMANCES
The workshop will therfore culminate in an evening of Performance/showing on Friday, October, 9 at 8:30 pm
Adrain Russi will also perform with Jörg Hassmann, Mirva Mäkinen and music by Marko Hefele, Violin + Barnaby O'Rorke Tree, Cello:
Trio Performance on Tuesday, October , 6 at 8:30 pm
Bio ADRIAN RUSSI:
Adrian Russi is a CI-teacher, performer and body therapist, who has been involved in Contact Improvisation since 1992.
After he studied New Dance at “bewegungs-art” in Freiburg/Germany he continued his education with many different teachers, among them Steve Paxton and Nancy Stark Smith who have started to develop CI in the early seventies with a group of other movers.
He is based in Switzerland where he offers his work as a free lancer to a wide range of people. He is regularly invited to international festivals and to teach workshops all over Europe. In his teaching he focuses on the technical aspects of CI (ease, precision and strength) as well as on matters of perception (sensation, connection of inner and outer space, of bottom and top) and a creativity coming from a distinct body-awareness. For him the pleasure to play, deep engagement in the dance, and respect for others are the basis for gaining the most possible in dancing CI.
As a performer he works with many different international artists and his performances are primarily based on free improvisation incorporating Contact Improvisation, dance, dance-theatre, voice and live music. In 2007 he initiated “Moving Men”, a men’s trio with Charlie Morrissey and Jacky Miredin touring with there performance-work all over Europe. For more information go to www.adrianrussi.com
WEBSITE: http://www.schwelle7.de/Adrian%20Russi.html
REGISTRATION: xs4jan (at) gmx.de
PRICE: 200 EUR
SLEEPING:
We can host up workshop participants in our special sleeping cocoons. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person.
LOCATION
Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6 HH 1. OG
13357 Berlin/Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 30-4736 3500
http://www.schwelle7.de
Email: info (at) felixruckert.de
TRAFFIC LINK: UB Nauener Platz, Pankstr, Osloer Str, SB Gesundbrunnen
