<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Nien Mari Chatz</b> <<a href="mailto:nienmarichatz@wanadoo.fr">nienmarichatz@wanadoo.fr</a>><br>Date: Jul 14, 2007 5:24 AM
<br>Subject: Greetings from France and Question<br>To: <a href="mailto:contact-improv-catchall-owner@yahoogroups.com">contact-improv-catchall-owner@yahoogroups.com</a><br><br></span><div style=""><div style="margin: 0px;">
Hi everybody. I would like to know if you were interested in distributing this message throughout your group. I live in South of France and am not necessarily interested in joining the group myself. </div><div style="margin: 0px;">
What do you think? Greetings from the Pyrenees, and have a beautiful summer, </div><div style="margin: 0px;">Nien Mari Chatz</div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: center;" align="center"><font size="5"><span style="font-size: 18px;">
<i>Nomadété at Cavalus 2007</i></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: center;" align="center"><font size="6"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><i>MOVING MOUNTAINS - DANCING NATURE</i></span></font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: center;" align="center"><font size="5"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><i>Summer workshop in the Pyrenees/France with Nien Mari Chatz</i></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: center;" align="center">
<font face="Verdana" size="5"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><i>August 6 – 12</i></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: center;" align="center"><font size="5"><span style="font-size: 18px; text-decoration: underline;">
"NEW DANCE COCKTAIL"</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: center;" align="center">CONTACT - IMPROVISATION - BODYWORK & PERFORMANCE<font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> with Nien Mari Chatz
</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;">For beginning and advanced movers</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px;"><b>CONTACT IMPROVISATION</b><font size="3">
<span style="font-size: 11px;"><br></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Practicing Contact Improvisation in the middle of nature will invite us to open all our senses and to discover new ways to dance together.
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> A part from technical questions, Bodywork principles will be integrated in the creative research of partnering and improvisation.
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> CI is an athletic yet sensual movement form involving two or more partners who are playing with physical contact while rolling, sliding, jumping, catching and carrying each other. Both dancers are improvising with the swing of gravity and centrifugal force, thus creating spontaneous, unique movement dialogues.
</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px;" align="justify"><b>BODY WORK</b><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><br></b></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Release-Alignment and Body-Mind Centering
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b> </b></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;">are innovating methods designed to deepen our understanding of movement and to bring more depth and creativity into dancing.
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;">We'll investigate three aspects of these methods and apply them directly to Contact Improvisation:
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>«Bamboo in Wind»</b></span></font>
<font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><br></b></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><br></b></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Experiential Anatomy based on Alignment/Release technique, including touch and movement research practice.
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Through sensory exploration of the dynamics of the skeleton, we learn to release unnecessary muscular tension, to use the alignment our bones as support, and to gain more ease and efficiency while moving.
</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px;" align="justify"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b> «Infants & Animals»</b></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><br></b></span>
</font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><br></b></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Developmental patterns of the baby will be explored, in order to help clarify our movement history, perception and coordination.
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>«Weather of Heart Dances»</b></span>
</font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><br></b></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> The organs and their expression in movement: Discovering the "personality" of the organs will enrich our vitality and sense of presence while moving.
</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px;" align="justify"><b>IMPROVISATION</b><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><b><br></b></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> How to find - and hold - our inspiration to move sponataneously? How to keep mind and body in focus, so that we stay relaxed, aware and sensitive while letting dance happen – almost - by itself? How to make up, change or break rules while sharing in improvisation our stories of the present moment?
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Practice will include awareness techniques and associative observation, as well as movement games and open scores, in order to clarify how we create a dance out of the moment, either as a soloist or in a group…
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> We'll dance in the empty hay barn above the horses, as well as outdoors on a large mountain plateau, looking over the peaks of the Pyrenees.
</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px;" align="justify"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Evenings are open for informal performance, jamming and stories around the fire…</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px;" align="justify">
<b>PERFORMANCE </b>in public space on Saturday 11th of August in St. Girons, on market day. </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px;" align="justify"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>Fee:</b></span></font><font size="3">
<span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><br></b></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>Including the workshop (5-6 h/day) and housing (6 days/7 nights) </b></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;">
<b><br></b></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><br></b></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>Before july 20th: 245€ (at the farm, 215€ in your tent)</b></span></font><font size="3">
<span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><br></b></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><br></b></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>After july 20th : 275€ (at the farm, 245€ in your tent)
</b></span></font></p><div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>Accomodation: in 2 to 5 bed rooms at the farm </b></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;">
<b>or in private tent on the plateau (15 min walk)</b></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; min-height: 15px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;">
<b>Meals</b></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>: they will be prepared together, count 75€ for the week. </b></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; min-height: 17px;">
<br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b>Arrival:</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Monday, August 6 at 6 pm</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b>Departure:</b></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Monday, August 13 at 10 am</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i>NIEN MARI CHATZ </i></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;">Nien Mari, born in Germany, completed her dance training at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in Amsterdam, during which time she studied extensively with Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark-Smith, Pauline de Groot, Kirstie Simpson, Julyen Hamilton and many other pioneers of the Post-Modern and New Dance Avant-Garde.
</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;">She studied Body Mind Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen in the USA.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3">
<span style="font-size: 11px;">In performance, NMCH has collaborated with Pauline de Groot Compagny (Amsterdam), Yoshiko Chuma & Tan Dun (NYC), Tanzfabrik (Berlin) and other dancers, filmmakers, musicians and visual artists internationally.
</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;">Since 97 she lives in France.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;">Her approach to movement is based on the principles of somatic Bodywork, NMCH has specialized in Contact Improvisation as a medium for movement research, and training since over twenty years.
</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;">As teacher, improviser and choreographer she</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><b> </b></span></font><font size="3">
<span style="font-size: 11px;">co-created professional Dance programmes and has taught at Dance Institutes and Universities in the Netherlands, Germany, USA, Scandinavia, Spain, France and England since 1985. </span></font>
</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;">In Nien Mari's teaching, students are encouraged to trust their own perceptions and their potential for effortless learning and moving. Together with technical progress they tend to quickly develop clarity, lightness and creativity in their dancing.
</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px;">Workshops are held in English, German, French or Dutch.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; min-height: 15px;"><br></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: center;" align="center"><b>
For your REGISTRATION: </b></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: center;" align="center"><b>Please fill in the attached form and send it to us by letter. Thanks !</b></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: center;" align="center">
<b><br></b></p><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>PRACTICAL INFORMATION: All details concerning your arrival, etc. will be sent to you after registration.</b></span>
</font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px;" align="justify"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><br></b></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>CONTACT: Nien Mari Chatz mail:
</b></span></font><a href="mailto:nienmarichatz@wanadoo.fr" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><font color="#061d74" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>nienmarichatz@wanadoo.fr</b>
</span></font></a><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b> mobil: +33 6 33 22 05 67</b></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; min-height: 17px;" align="justify"><span><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;">
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<font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>AND: there is the Barcelona International Contact Festival happening during the last week of August... (only 4 hours drive from here or by a cheap littletrain through the Pyrenees,...check it out!
<font size="5"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal;"><i><a href="http://www.contactfestival.es" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.contactfestival.es</a></i></span></font>
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