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<div class="MsoNormal">PLEASE forward to friends, collegues and peer groups, Thanks Jan</div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">Katie Duck: „IMPROVISATION“<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">5 day Intensive Workshop with Katie Duck<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">WHEN: <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Workshop: Monday - Friday, April 12 - 16, 2010, 12 am - 6pm<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Performance: Saturday, April 17, 8:30 pm<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">(this workshop announcement with links: <a href="http://www.schwelle7.de/Katie%20Duck.html">http://www.schwelle7.de/Katie%20Duck.html</a><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">about Katie Duck: <a href="http://www.katieduck.com/">http://www.katieduck.com</a>
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<div class="MsoNormal">Katie Duck has been teaching workshops internationally since
the mid 70’s alongside her professional career as a performer and
choreographer. She integrates her current research making each workshop
completely unique. She draws from her experiences in live performances,
music collaborations, as a director and choreographer. She has lead two
companies over the past 30 year; Groupo based in Italy - Magpie Music
Dance Company based in the Netherlands.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Over the past 10 years her workshops have been titled “Improvisation”
in order to emphasis her views on theater as a live art form reflective of how
she executes her own professional performances. Her research is placed in
practice with lectures containing her recent interest in brain studies and
film. (see research materials below - see duck projects).<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Katie’s workshops are aimed toward all dancers, performers
and musicians. She does not aim to provide a technique or style for how one
conducts them-self in a live performance. Her work is relevant for any
performance situation without discrimination for levels or performance
platforms. She does ask that anyone who chooses to study with her have an
intense interest in the work and is willing to experiment and take risks with
the material she offers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">Her warm-up and exercises emphasis how the eyes and the ears
work in co ordination with movement, sound and exposure to gathered crowds
altering our perception of time, space, feelings and emotions. Improvisation
sessions revolve around the terms pause, flow, exit, choice and presence with
discussions articulating play, memory and intuition.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Her aim is to provide a situation where artists can practice
together and grow in confidence toward public performances with an objective to
clarify that improvisation not the antitheses of choreography or composition
but rather the way choreography and composition can be executed. She promotes
to her students that the mental connection to the practice of improvisation can
be accessed weather they are doing set or open framed performance pieces and
that the definitions of what improvisation within art practices mean today need
to be reflective to advances in brain-studies and technology.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">On Saturday, April17 at 8:30 pm, Katie Duck will show
the solo performance<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">PORTRAITS alongside with a piece developed with the
participants of the workshop during the week.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">Katie Duck<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Born in Oxnard California (1951), Katie Duck is a dancer,
choreographer and teacher. She began performing in plays and musicals as a
teenager, attended the University of Utah as a modern dance major and then
joined the Salt Lake City Mime Troupe touring in the United States and
Europe. (1973-6).<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">She left the United States in 1976 to live in Amsterdam,
Holland and toured throughout Europe as a performer in solo productions, in
productions with Carlos Traffic, Jango Edwards (friends roadshow) and in
improvisations with Amsterdam music artists Ernst Reijseger (cello), Tristan
Honsinger (cello), Sean Bergen (sax) and Michael Moore (sax). She changed
her name to Katie Duck while touring her first solo in Europe “duck play” in
1976.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">In 1979, she moved to Italy where she formed the
company GROUPO. She toured through out Europe with her one-hour
productions Rutles, The Orange Man, Brown eye Green eye and Mind the gap and
participated in free lance improvisation collaborations with <a href="http://www.julyenhamilton.com/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:
none;text-underline:none">Julyen Hamilton</span></a>, Kristie Simpson and Steve
Paxton among others. In 1986 she accepted a senior lecturer position at <a href="http://katieduck.com/DartingtonTime.html"><span style="color:windowtext;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">Dartington College of Arts</span></a>
teaching for the theater department as head of the choreography course. In 1991
she accepted a part time post at the <a href="http://www.theaterschool.nl/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">AHK Hooge
school voor de kunsten</span></a> dance departments in Amsterdam teaching
movement research, improvisation, composition and technique.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">Throughout her career she has worked with music artists who
share her passion for live time performance and the integration of music, text
and dance within compositions for performance. She has performed in duet and in
ensembles with music artists <a href="http://www.hanbennink.com/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">Han Bennik</span></a>,
<a href="http://www.andymoor.com/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:
none;text-underline:none">Andy Moore</span></a> (<a href="http://www.theex.nl/home.html"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:
none;text-underline:none">the EX</span></a>) and many others. Katie created the
Company <a href="http://katieduck.com/MagpieHistory1995-2005.html"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">Magpie Music
Dance Company</span></a> in 1995-2005 in Amsterdam to reflect her work with
improvisations musicians. Magpie toured in Europe, the USA, Asia and
Scandinavia and received national funding from 2002-2006 for tours within the
Netherlands from the <a href="http://www.nfpk.nl/"><span style="color:windowtext;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">Nederland fonds voor the podimkunsten</span></a>.
In 2006 she evolved Magpie into an umbrella organization,<a href="http://www.katieduck.com/magpie%20umbrella"><span style="color:windowtext;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"> Magpie Umbrella</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">Katie has initiated numerous dance and music improvisation
on-going events in her three bases Holland, Italy and England. In her current
base Amsterdam. Her initiatives include a yearly <a href="http://katieduck.com/improvisationfestival1994-99.html"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">Improvisation
festival </span></a>at the Frascati Theater (1994-9), a monthly improvisation
series at the Fijnhout Theater (1992-3), the Muiderpoort Theater (1994-9), The
Melkweg Theater (2000-2001) and <a href="http://ot301.nl/page=site.home"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">OT301 </span></a>Cultural
center (2002-2006).<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">By 1988 she discovered the internet evolution and created an
international focus group for email announcements, a youtube <a href="http://katieduck.com/Videos.html"><span style="color:windowtext;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">presence </span></a>with her home
videos and continues to encourage artists to build their internet presence as
part of their creative work.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">She has been organizing workshops in Amsterdam since 1995 at
the<a href="http://www.studioseven.nu/"><span style="color:windowtext;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"> studio seven</span></a> in Amsterdam
first under the title PIA and now under the title <a href="http://www.katieduck.com/magpie%20umbrella"><span style="color:windowtext;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">Magpie Umbrella</span></a>. She
presently runs an <a href="http://katieduck.com/magpie_umbrella_improvisation_summer_course_+_workshop_series.html"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">improvisation
summer course and workshop series </span></a>in Amsterdam and is the tutor and
stage coordinator for the<a href="http://www.theaterschool.nl/nl/opleidingen-dans/choreografie-school-voor-nieuwe-dansontwikkeling/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"> SNDO </span></a>choreography
department and improvisation teacher for the<a href="http://www.theaterschool.nl/nl/opleidingen-dans/moderne-theaterdans/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"> Modern
Dance</span></a> department at the AHK Hooge School voor de kunsten. She
continues to direct, perform (<a href="http://katieduck.com/DuckProjects.html"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">Duck Projects</span></a>)
and conduct her <a href="http://katieduck.com/Education.html"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">workshops</span></a>
touring yearly in Asia, the USA, England, Scandinavia and Europe.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">Katie Duck: For Reviews //// Writing
///// Archive 2008-9
//// Extended Biography, please go to <a href="http://www.schwelle7.de/Katie%20Duck.html">http://www.schwelle7.de/Katie%20Duck.html</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">Fee: 200 EUR<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">registration: xs4jan [at] gmx [ dot] de<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">SLEEPING: We can host up workshop participants in our
special sleeping cocoons in the studio. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">More... <a href="http://www.schwelle7.de/GAESTE.html">http://www.schwelle7.de/GAESTE.html</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">Schwelle 7<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Uferstraße 6 HH 1. OG<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">13357 Berlin/Germany<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Phone: +49 (0) 173 - 6118404<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.schwelle7.de">http://www.schwelle7.de</a><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Email: info (at) felixruckert.de<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">TRAFFIC LINK: U8 Pankstraße, U9 Osloer Straße, U9 Nauener
Platz, SB Gesundbrunnen, SB Humboldthain, Bus M27 Brunnenplatz<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://maps.google.de/maps?daddr=13357+Berlin,+Uferstr+6">http://maps.google.de/maps?daddr=13357+Berlin,+Uferstr+6</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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