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San Francisco Summer Contact Intensive 2008
July 14-26 Performance, Focus, The Psyche, and Contact
Contact improvisation is a dance of continuity, a flow from one surprising moment to the next, met with awareness and a developed sense of interpersonal trust. Each dance becomes a unique experience of weight, force, lightness, support and touch. By focusing each class on specific movement challenges that allow the dance to expand experientially, we begin to increase our perceptive capacity and allow the imaginative world of dance to emerge. Each participant is given the tools and the language to pursue their curiosity. The dance is driven by a desire to expand and collapse, and to make more present each shared moment. We will explore the idea
of a poetics of human interaction, looking at what are the ranges
of interaction that we can play with as one plays with word in a
poem. We look at what it is to "experience" a moment of
interaction, as opposed to simply move through the moment. We look
at qualities of speed, the moment of reflection in a pause and how
that can potentially allow an experience to be more vibrant and
nuanced. We look at how this relates to a play of athleticism and
immediate, lively presance and physical interaction. We look at
how we affect other's experiencing of a moment with our actions,
whether the other is a partner in physical dance or an observing
audience. Thinking of focus and attention, we look at identifying
foci, distilling and amplifying foci and relating foci to each other
with a kinesthetically and emotionally felt sense of composition. Exercises will be borrowed from somatic psychotherapy as a way to touch into emotional veins and to cultivate an awareness of subtleties of emotion, motivation, and memory that live in the body in a way that allows our art making new potentials of a felt sense of meaning and significance. While looking at technical skills and the pleasure of a conscious play with physics, we will also explore "states-based" work where we look at different ways of organizing the mind/body/environment relationship as foci -- looking at states based in fire/earth/air/water elements, states based in psychological archetype or character and other less easily labeled states that we discover in process. Participatory Performance:
we explore performing interaction, where we act with a consciousness
to shaping the experienced physical poetry of our partner's experience
and inner world. We explore the relationship of My experience to
Your experience in a connection. Exercises borrowed from the rehearsal
process of Axolotl
participatory performance experience and other Body Research works.
Over the 2 weeks, Daelik, Delia, and Karl will take the structures and skills developed in the workshop into a performance study with the participants blending elements of stage performance and participatory performance (showing is 7pm, Saturday, July 26).
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July
12-26
This
intensive brings together the theatrical specificity of MACHiNENOiSY
with the psychological investigations of Body Research to explore
Contact Improvisation as a practice in physical poetics and as a
performance tool. Physical specificity and clarity of focus will
be central themes. Daily technical training in intelligent body-use,
articulate physicality, listening skills, and athletic readiness
helps support contact work that has a felt sense of significance,
whether it be kinesthetic or emotional.
MACHiNENOiSY
work places emphasis on 'intention' and 'attention' while dancing
to heighten awareness of the shift from simply practicing the form
to the concept of performance. 'improvisational style where curiosity
and high flying physicality meet. Adventurous. Tender. Functional.
Performative.