Known – Unknown
Contact Improvisation Intensive Workshop with Andrew de Lotbinière Harwood
WHEN: October, 19-22, 2009, 12:00-18:30
WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany
KNOWN – UNKOWN
A movement laboratory – investigating improvisation, expression, composition and performance
Andrew Harwood: I view this workshop as an exhilarating and formidable adventure into the deeper layers of improvisational dance. Our goal is to find a sense of timelessness in our dancing – a state of consciousness that is aware but not self-conscious. Working with dancers in a collaborative fashion is exciting to me. My desire is to draw out the creativity, individuality and integrity of each dancer while cultivating a team-like atmosphere. I wish to encourage the dancers to let their own imagination, spirit and presence shine and allow various performance qualities to emerge.
The realms where the known and the unknown converge are two distinct and yet complementary worlds, where a rich array of ideas, movements and images are merged and juxtaposed. Through various forms of improvisation, Contact Improvisation, composition and chance procedures we will practise instant inventiveness, make personal choices, refine our sensing skills and build material. A series of schemes, games, images, states and structures will help dancers create a repertoire of personal gestures and phrases and develop various improvisational strategies which in turn will become the framework for composing solo, duet and group material be it set or improvised or a combination of both. This entire process relies on the dancers willingness to listen to themselves and each other, to take risks, to call upon their confidence and to allow their skills as interpreters to come into focus.
WORKSHOP: http://www.schwelle7.de/Andrew.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
CV ANDREW HARWOOD
Andrew de Lotbinière Harwood is a leading international teacher, performer and creator in the field of instantaneous choreography, compositional improvisation and contact improvisation since 1975. He is the artistic director of AH HA Productions, a project oriented company dedicated to improvisation. Andrew studied, taught and performed with Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith and Nita Little, the founding members of Contact Improvisation. He also has a background in gymnastics, athletics, yoga, contemporary dance, somatic studies, release technique, compositional improvisation and Aikido. His work has been presented in numerous international festivals since 1980 (Impuls Tanz, La Biennale de Venise, Festival Montpellier, Festival International de Nouvelle Danse., Festival des Antipodes, Improvisation Festival New York, Bates Dance Festival, Kontact Budapest, Jose Limon Dance Festival, etc.). Andrew danced for the companies of Fulcrum, Jo Lechay, Marie Chouinard, Jean-Pierre Perreault, and the improvisational ensemble The Echo Case. He has also collaborated in performance with Chris Aiken, Peter Bingham, Kirstie Simson, Ray Chung, Lisa Nelson, Mark Tompkins, Benoit Lachambre, Lin Snelling and Ginette Laurin among many others. He is the recipient of the Canada Council’s Jacqueline-Lemieux award for the year 2000.
