<div class="gmail_quote">Hi friends! </div><div class="gmail_quote">I thought I'd forward this along in case you are ringing in the new year in the sf bay area;</div><div class="gmail_quote">there are only a couple of spots left and this workshop promises to be deeply gratifying.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">(plus i just got word that if you need a payment plan to make it happen, you can contact CIRF directly at contact@ciResearchForum.org or 415-335-6384 !)</div><div class="gmail_quote">...</div><div class="gmail_quote">
happy dancing and best wishes for 2010!</div><div class="gmail_quote">~kim<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Happy holidays, dancers!<br>
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In case you haven't heard, there are only a couple of late-reg spaces left in CIRF's<br>
<strong><font color="red">New Year’s Intensive (NYI) Jan 1-3, 2010:<br>
<em>Research Into Scores</em></font></strong><br> with Jennifer Chien and Brenton Cheng<br>
at CounterPULSE in San Francisco, CA (USA)<br>
$185 Registration includes 1-year CIRF membership.<br>
(see website for growing list of CIRF discounts/benefits with membership.)<br>
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<strong>Already registered? Forward this email to a friend!</strong><br>
<strong>Not sure</strong> if this intensive is for you? <strong>Read on</strong> for more detailed information!<br>
<strong>Questions? </strong>Ask them at: contact@ciResearchForum.org or 415-335-6384</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br>
(Payment plans and special accommodations are available. <br>
Check out the FAQs link at the bottom of this email.)<br>
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If you're in, you can go to registration right now:<br>
<a href="http://ciResearchForum.org/membership" target="_blank">http://ciResearchForum.org/membership</a><br>
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Or, please read on for more details and link to full description:<br>
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<strong>In this Intermediate Intensive you will learn/enhance how to:</strong><br>
- Craft scores for performance, jamming, artistry, and personal practice.<br>
- Integrate contact improvisation (CI) into more <br>
open improvisation without losing track of partners.<br>
- Discover new tools for staying engaged and true to your own impulses.<br>
- Identify your own superpowers and get new ones.<br>
- Enhance skills for dancing CI with more than one person.<br>
- Big picture vs. little picture focus – make the dance meaningful.<br>
- Learn how specific scores and parameters can
clarify your compositional intent. <br>
- Move beyond your current edge by employing new concrete tools/pathways.<br>
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<strong><font color="red">SCHEDULE</font></strong><br>
<strong>Fri Jan 1:<br>
7-10pm </strong>Intros & Intentions Jam: semi-open score, watching, collecting, harvesting<br>
<strong>Sat Jan 2:<br>
10am-6pm</strong><br>
10am-1pm CI Class: Skills and Patterns<br>
2-4pm Tools/Exercises for Group Tuning<br>
4-6pm Scorework: Practicing & Feedback<br>
<strong>Sun Jan 3:<br>
10am-6pm </strong><br>
10am-1pm CI Class: Personal Style and jumping out of your own frame<br>
2-4pm Tools/Exercises for Solo Resourcing vs. Group Action<br>
4-6pm Scorework: Development, Usage and Crafting. Final Harvest.<br>
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<strong><font color="red">CounterPULSE </font></strong><font color="red">Studio Theater</font> has a full kitchen where students can store/prepare lunch Sat & Sun, <br>a beautiful sprung wood dancefloor, good heating, and is conveniently located<br>
a quick walk from all major public transit and good vegan/vegetarian/organic meat restaurant options. <br>(Details at link below.)<br>
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For Brenton & Jen’s juicy bios, Intensive full description and FAQs go to:<br>
<a href="http://ciResearchForum.org/nyi_info" target="_blank">http://ciResearchForum.org/nyi_info</a><br>
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<em>We hope to see you there for a lovely and lively cap on the holiday season!<br>
~CIRF Staff<br></em>
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