Upcoming Events

The Dancing Wilderness Project
Cascade Mountains,Washington
August 9-15, 2010
Wilderness Backpacking and Dance

The 3rd annual
SIERRA CONTACT FESTIVAL
August 20-25, 2010
at Sierra Hot Springs
Sierraville, California

The 8th annual
Thanksgiving weekend
Contact Improvisation workshop

November 26-28, 2010
Berkeley, California

The Davis Contact Jam
3 days of contact exploration
December 10-12, 2010
Davis, California

AXOLOTL
interactive blindfolded performance
and
BODY OF KNOWLEDGE
an interactive performance exploring how
feeling and thought exist through the body
and how environmental and political issues
exist alongside personal and private realities
February/March 2011

 

 


Sierra Contact Festival

Festival Schedule 2010

The festival schedule will be tweaked again for 2010, but as a reference point, here is the schedule from 2009...

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Schedule for 2010 Sierra Contact Festival

Times Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
8:30a-9:30a   set up and arrival Breakfast served  
9:00a- 10:00a   Morning 1 on 1 Dates  
10a-12a   Class/Presentations breakdown and clean up

Rosemary Hannon

Un-Creating

Fundamentals Lab

Leslie Howabauten

CI and Time

Kat Single

Narrative

Maxima Kahn

Dance as Relationship

Michael Hodapp

Receptive vs Creative

Cathie Caraker

Touch Imaging

Vitali Konanov

The Field of Touch

Laura Bishop

Luminous Body and CI

Karl Frost

Questions of Human Ecology and Contact

12a-2p   Lunch, discussion, soaking, hiking  
2p-5p set up crew arrives Laboratory Lab and closing round robin  
5p-7p   aquatic dance (lab/jam)    
7p-8p   dinner served    
8:30p   Opening Circle evening activities ... jam, lab, performance informal evening jam  

Notes on the Schedule:

this schedule is subject to change.

For information on the structure of lab time, how we divide into work groups, and how we propose subjects, goto Labs

For more detailed descriptions of the presentations, click here on Presenters.

While dancing can continue past 10pm, the quiet hours at the hot springs are 10pm to 10am, and our activities should reflect that.

We will have 2 work spaces available to us (a 1500 sq ft parachute tent w/ vinyl floor (The Dance Tent) and an 800 sq foot studio space (The Green Room)).

If you would like to come early or stay longer, you are welcome to. We'll have the green room available to us through Thursday night.

If you are interested in offering a presentation at the festival, we are accepting proposals. Presenters have their festival fee waived and just have to cover room/board. Contact info@bodyresearch.org

** 1 on 1 Dates: For those who choose to participate, the score is that you pre-arrange a date to dance with someone for an hour in the morning from 9AM to 10AM. We will do this in the studio space, which will be a "no-talking" space for the hour.