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Axolotl
Participatory Performance
July
12-26 The
2 week San Francisco Contact Intensive
August
8 to 10 The
Dancing Wilderness Project
August
19 to 24
Body Research Contact Festival
at Sierra Hot Springs, CA
August
25 to Sep 1
Contact Camp at Burning
Man
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 San
Francisco Summer Contact Intensive 2008
July
12-26
a
weekend workshop, a two week intensive, and performances with
Body Research and Vancouver-based MACHiNENOiSY Dance Society
Instructors:
Delia
Brett and Daelik Hackenbrook
(MACHiNENOiSY,
Vancouver, BC)
Karl
Frost (Body
Research)
Workshops
July 12-13
Core Explorations of Contact
(open level weekend
workshop)
a look at contact's core physical explorations... physical
listening, off-balance and weight sharing, dynamic lifts that
use architecture and flow of motion, subtle pursuit of sensorial
details, and athletic availability for intentional collision
and its unpredictable aftermath... Working from an active relaxed
body, we will focus on the states of skin/flesh/bone to develop
articulate physical awareness and connect with another body.
July 14-26
Performance, Focus, The Psyche, and
The Poetics of Contact
(an intermediate/advanced
2 week CI intensive)
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 helps
support contact work that has a felt sense of significance,
whether it be kinesthetic or emotional.
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.
We branch out from explorations of physics into states-based
work, exercises from somatic psychotherapy, physical theater,
and participatory performance.
Emphasis will be placed 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.
Includes final showing of student work on July 26.
NOTE CHANGE IN FORMAT for July
14 -26...
- First week, July 14-18 is a workshop with MACHiNENOiSY,
- Second week, July 21-25, is workshop with Karl
Frost/Body Resaerch,
- Culminates in a performance on July 26 integrating
material from the 2 weeks (originally planned July 19 performance
is condensed into this night)
- Daily contact techniques class 12p-2p is a drop-in
class either for advanced contactors or for those who participate
in the weekend workshop.
For a pitch on why you might want to do this intensive, click
on
6
reasons to do the San Francisco Summer Contact Intensive
For more details on workshops,
click on the titles.
Performance
July 26, 7pm: workshop
performance, BOdy Research performance, and contact soiree
(note
original performance night of July 19 has been cancelled and performance
condensed into one night on July 26)
Click
here for info on Locations, Fees, and experience requirements for
workshops.
For
instructor bios and company mandates, click here.
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