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font-style:italic'>!ANNOUNCEMENT!</span></font></i></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>What:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> A Contact
Improvisation skills workshop, taught by experienced dance/contact improviser
Cathy Paine.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>When:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Sunday,
October 5<sup>th</sup> from 3:00pm to 5:00pm</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Where:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> In Hampden, at the
Experimental Movement Concepts Studio, 3618 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD 21211</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Cost:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> $5</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>This workshop is open to everyone (no previous
dance training required) and is offered in response to the overwhelming
interest generated by the first meeting of the Exploratorium on Sunday, 9/14.
Thanks to all of you who attended, as well as to the many who emailed their
intention of attending the next exploratorium on 9/28!</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>ABOUT
THE WORKSHOP</span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Contact Improvisation is a 30 year old form of movement
improvisation first developed by American contemporary dancers Steve Paxton and
Nancy Stark Smith, and is currently practiced, taught and performed throughout the
world.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Contact Improvisation is primarily a duet form of movement
improvisation, based on shared physical contact, and can be introspective,
fluid, spectacular, awkward, personal, hilarious, and/or profoundly moving (in
every way!)</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>In this workshop we will be learning and exploring some
specific skills of weight sharing, skeletal support, balance and
counter-balance, rolling, falling and flying. (Yes, flying!) A greater
proficiency will open the door to physical safety and greater risk-taking. Come
with your openness, sensitivity, love of moving and sense of humor – we will
be moving into the unknown!</span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>ABOUT
THE INSTRUCTOR</span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Cathy Paine is a professional dancer, teacher, choreographer
and performance improviser, and a certified <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Feldenkrais®</span></i>
practitioner specializing in working with creative and performing artists. Cathy
first performed in Baltimore in 1978, at Theatre Project, under the auspices of
Philip Arnoult, with her D.C. based dance company <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>Cathy Paine & Friends</span></i>. Twenty years later, a resident of
Baltimore, she received Theatre Project’s 1998 “Outstanding
Choreography” Award. She is the founder and director of <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Movement Incorporated</span></i>, a non-profit arts
organization in Baltimore supporting experimental and improvisational dance,
movement and performance, and she has recently been</span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>featured in <u>Dance
Magazine</u>, <u>Lifetimes</u>, <u>Feldenkrais Journal</u>, and <u>Contact
Quarterly</u>. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Since 1974 Cathy has performed and taught throughout the
United States and in Germany, England and Hong Kong, at venues including The
Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, The Hong Kong Arts Centre(HK) and
Knighton Fields Centre (U.K.) She has been on the dance faculty at Kenyon
College, University of Montana, The American University, U.C.L.A., Towson
University and UMBC, and has received grants and awards from The National
Society of Arts & Letters, The D.C. Commission on the Arts &
Humanities, The Virginia Commission for the Arts, The Maryland State Arts
Council, and The Yorkshire Arts Council of Great Britain. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>From 1990-95 Cathy produced the <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>New Dance Improvisation Festival</span></b> in D.C., VA and MD, used as a
model for dance improvisation festivals in Richmond, Philadelphia and Carrboro,
NC. Her most recent performance, with musician John Berndt, took place in the
ATM lobby of a Bank of America; upcoming performances are scheduled at Dance
Place and the Baltimore Museum of Art. For information about performances,
workshops, classes, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Feldenkrais</span></i>,
or the Exploratorium, please email <a href="mailto:cathypaine@mindspring.com">cathypaine@mindspring.com</a>.
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