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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">The Performance Jam Contact
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">5 Day Intensive Workshop by
Scott Wells from San Francisco<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">WHEN: November 2-6, 2009,
12:00-18:00<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">WHERE: Schwelle 7 Studio,
Berlin / Germany<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">WEB:
<a href="http://www.schwelle7.de/Scott%20Wells.html">http://www.schwelle7.de/Scott%20Wells.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">REGISTRATION: <a href="mailto:xs4jan@gmx.de">xs4jan@gmx.de</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">PRICE: 200 EUR<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">SLEEPING: We can host up
workshop participants in our special sleeping cocoons. The cost is 10 EUR a
night per person.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">The Performance Jam Contact
Ensemble.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">I'd like to create an
atmosphere that has more intention and group focus than a jam, but less
stringent than a formal performance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>We'll develop our ensemble work and gain performance skills and
resources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Contact Improvisation
will be an element of our practice, an element to mix with soloing, ensemble
and compositional work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">We will take single
elements<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(e.g. a flying skill)
into scores.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">We will use this
progression:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">1)<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Connecting with yourself, using body sensations or images as
they come up or the stories in your head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Noticing impulses to move--being able to feel your impulses, and pick
which ones to follow. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">2)<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Connecting with others<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(Ensemble),<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Awareness of
others in the group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>For example,
f<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>your working with levels, can
you track the others’ levels as you move.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Mirroring or copying others is one of our skills for this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">3)<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>What is interesting to watch?<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Connecting with the watchers (audience).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Do you sense what is interesting for
them to see?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Do you
sense what place onstage will be psychologically dynamic OR make the picture of
what is happening see-able.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>This is composition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Scott Wells will support
this score through teaching contemporary dance technique, improvisation,
contact and partnering:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Contact Improvisation –
Basic Skills and Thrills<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">With trust + skill, pleasure
+ technique we will venture into the realms of contact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We will go for the pure contact moment
and there will be lots of practical work for jumping, catching, landing, a variety
of handstands and acrobatics. This skills based class is meant as preparation
for jamming, choreography and to give you the tools to have your dance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Contact Improvisation –
Flying ≠ Jumping<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Lose your head to fly
contact improvisation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Flight
patterns, Fluid Acrobatics<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and
Pure Contact<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">We will work for clear,
satisfying contact improvisation in which pleasure is the first teacher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We will practice flying, catching,
landing, fluid acrobatics, deft maneuvers.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>For the acrobatics in particular everyone will work at their
own level and will learn best by building group safety and trust--I think
everyone will do something they never expected. We will practice integrating
the flying and acrobatics into the contact flow.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>That is: aerial interactions that increase the contact.
Jumping ≠ Flying because jumping is is a muscular action, whereas flying is a
joint nervous system based and is affected greatly by emotions and
attitude.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Wrestling with Affection<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">We start with seeking the
softest connective contact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Then
we venture into wrestling accessing a wide range of feelings, play, and
sensuality. Introduction to techniques for safe and aggressive contact
including soft takedowns, resistance and collaboration. Safety, listening, ease
and quick reflexes are emphasized for this style of contact improvisation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Partnering – Physics of
empathy <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">We will learn partnering
from Scott Wells’ repertory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This
will be contemporary partnering grounded in contact and air-born in dreams of
flight. We will use improvisational tuning exercises to get in sync and learn
set phrases that combine solo dancing, flying lifts, and fluid acrobatics. I
will breakdown some ambitious lifts into workable steps. And approach flying
and acrobatics as exercises in emotion and orientation and so give support to
each as you expand your abilities. We go for honest moments of impact and
desire; to articulate the delicious, perform the intimate, understand when to
use force, where to soften, how to be empty and why we dance with each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Material developed in the
workshop will be presented to the public in an informal showing at the end of
the week, Friday, 6 at 8:30 pm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">CV Scott Wells<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">In 1981 Scott he discovered
the pleasure of contact improvisation shortly after becoming obsessed with the
struggles of modern dance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He
stuck with both and currently directs a company in San Francisco<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and tours annually to Europe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In 2005 Scott received the San
Francisco Award for Outstanding Choreography. and was selected by Dance
Magazine as “one of the 25 To Watch in 2005”.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>He is highly regarded contact improvisor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“an electrifying style of contact”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>SF WEEKLY. Scott has trained
extensively in contemporary dance and the Alexander technique. and has an MFA
in dance (the highest academic degree for dance).<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>He has taught at festivals in Turkey, Canada, Seattle
(SFADI), Vienna (Impustanz), Romania (Trans-Contact),<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>and Germany (Freiburg Contact Festival as a main teacher)
and will teach this year at the Budapest Kontact Festival and the Barcelona
Contact Improvisation Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Scott’s style of contact is
athletic and emphasizes freedom of movement, flying, fluid acrobatics (easy to
advanced), safety, precision, pleasure and technique.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>What students often like best in Scott's classes is the
variance between the meditative, listening, slow and sensual dancing and the
fun, playful, very physical dancing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>And students appreciate how the scary or advanced moves are safe,
relaxed and made possible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Schwelle 7<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Uferstraße 6, HH 1. OG<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">13357 Berlin/Germany<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Phone: +49 (0) 30-4736 3500<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><a href="http://www.schwelle7.de/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:
none;text-underline:none">http://www.schwelle7.de</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Email: info (at)
felixruckert.de<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">TRAFFIC LINK: UB Nauener
Platz, Pankstr, Osloer Str, SB Gesundbrunnen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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