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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Contact Improvisation &
Instant Composition: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">integrating movement
technique, improvisation and skills for performance –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">(or: stories coming from our
hands and feet and the pelvis too)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">5 day intensive workshop – with
ADRIAN RUSSI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">WHEN: October 11-15, 2010, 12am-6pm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin,
Germany<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">CONTACT IMPROVISATION &
INSTANT COMPOSITION<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">In this workshop we will
explore intensively the relation between movement technique and performance,
how CI-skills and knowledge about instant composition can support and enrich
each other. This year there will be a focus on the use of our hands and feet
and therefore also on the connection of center and periphery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">In the morning classes we
will work on movement skills in solo, duet and trio. We will look for ways how
to deal with gravity in a clever way, how to move upside-down and to integrate
flying and falling into our dance. The key ingredients will be a distinguished
body awareness in order to move and to communicate with our partner precisely,
the playful interaction of technique and improvisation and the conscious use of
timing and space - what in fact are also fundamentals for performing CI.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">In the afternoon classes we
will go beyond CI-technique and improvisational skills to see what is changing
deeply when one is exposed to an audience. It’s a lot about getting more
present and connecting the inner with the outer space. Having trust in your
instincts and your intuition will be as much important as learning about
compositional aspects and using CI-technique in order to give a clear base to
the performance. The clever use of hands, feet and pelvis as intimate,
expressive and skillful body parts will enable us to meet each other not only
on a physical level but also more personally and to go deeper towards
manipulation and sensitive touch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">For those who will feel
ready the workshop will end with a public studio performance to show our work
to an audience and of course to bring our practice into reality. Good to know:
finally performance can be trained only while performing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Come prepared to both move a
lot and dive deep down into a subtle work with your body and to get energized
from being on stage!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">PERFORMANCES<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">The workshop will therfore
culminate in an evening of Performance/showing on Friday, October 15 at 8:30 pm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">ADRIAN RUSSI:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Adrian Russi is a one of the
leading CI-teacher in Switzerland and travelling all over Europe to teach and
perform Contact and Free Improvisation. He is deeply involved in CI since 1992
and in the meantime he is dedicating the biggest part of his life to this
wonderful dance form. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">After his studies of New
Dance at “bewegungs-art” in Freiburg/Germany he continued his education with
many different teachers, among them Steve Paxton and Nancy Stark Smith who have
started to develop CI in the early seventies with a group of other movers. Besides
this his teaching is also influenced by his studies of different kinds of
martial arts and Craniosacral Bodywork.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">He offers his work as a free
lancer to a wide range of people and also gets regularly invited to teach in
schools. In his teaching he focuses on the technical aspects of CI (ease,
precision and strength) as well as on matters of perception (body-sensation,
connection of inner and outer space, of bottom and top, centre-periphery) and
on a creativity coming from a distinct body-awareness. For him the pleasure to
play, deep engagement in the dance, and respect for others are the basis for
gaining the most possible in dancing CI.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">As a performer he works with
many different international artists and his performances are primarily based
on Free Improvisation incorporating Contact Improvisation, dance,
dance-theatre, voice and live music. In 2007 he initiated “Moving Men”, a men’s
trio with Charlie Morrissey and Jacky Miredin touring with there
performance-work all over Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">As an organizer of CI-events
he is involved in many festivals, jams and teachers-meetings, among them the
“Moscow Contact and Performance Festival” and the “International Berner Jam”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">For more information go to <a href="http://www.adrianrussi.com/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:
none;text-underline:none">www.adrianrussi.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">FEE: 150 Euro<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">REGISTER: per email to xs4jan
(at) gmx.de<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">UPDATES: <a href="http://www.schwelle7.de/Adrian%20Russi.html">http://www.schwelle7.de/Adrian%20Russi.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">SLEEPING:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">We can host up workshop
participants basic opportunities to stay overnight. The cost is 10 EUR a night
per person. More options: <a href="http://www.schwelle7.de/GAESTE.html"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://www.schwelle7.de/GAESTE.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">VENUE: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<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, backyard, 2.
floor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">13357 Berlin - Wedding /
Germany<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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none;text-underline:none">http://www.schwelle7.de</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Traffic link: U8 Pankstraße,
U9 Osloer Straße, U9 Nauener Platz, SB Gesundbrunnen, SB Humboldthain, Bus M27
Brunnenplatz<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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