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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">MAKING AND SEEING DANCE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">4 day intensive
Improvisation Workshop with Daniel Lepkoff<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">WHEN: Tuesday – Friday,
November, 15-18, 2011, 12 am – 6 pm<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">OVERVIEW OF THE WORK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">“My work is strongly focused
on the origins, form, and details of functional movement, movement from life .
It is a practice of movement research. The work refines ones ability to use the
physical senses and relate equally with inner space and outer space. It calls
for<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and cultivates a questioning
and reexamining of one's perceptions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">I am an improvising
performer and my reference point is to develop a technique (a way or method) to
composing dances. The work offers one possible view point for making dance
performance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">The material is drawn
directly from my own movement research, which has it's roots in seminal work I
began in the '70's with the early developments of both Anatomical Release
Technique and Contact Improvisation, as well as the work of Steve Paxton, and
the work of Lisa Nelson, plus many wonderful long term collaboration with
artists whose work inspired and informed me..”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Daniel Lepkoff<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">MAKING AND SEEING DANCE:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">This workshop is open to all
but is geared towards professional artists: choreographers, improvising performers,
dancers, and actors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Led by: Daniel Lepkoff<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Nov.
15 – 18, 2011<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>12 – 6 pm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">We will divide our 6 hours
of studio time into two work sessions with a break in between:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">1. Technique - (Moving the
Environment) – We build a technical foundation through<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>study and practice of functional
movement. We look at movement as a two way exchange of force and information
with our environment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">The forces that we feel
within our body, (compression or stretch) do not know the difference between
what is us and what is our environment. We extend our energy into the
environment; the environment answers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">We move it and it moves us.
This duality offers an extended dimension to our presence as a dancer and
performer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Activating our physical
senses we engage with:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">+ gravity, force & our
internal architecture<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">+ vision and space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">+ time and thythm. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">2. Composing (Stillness and
Movement): Placing our own movement propositions into a shared space, we set up
a kind of physical conversation on the subject of time, space, and imagination.
The conversation is based inside of a simple structure that uses an alternation
between stillness and movement. Through observation and action, beginnings and
endings, answer and answer back, repetition and translation, we exchange our
viewpoints on what we see when we watch movement and what we understand as
dance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">For more detailed
information on Daniel's work go to: <a href="http://www.daniellepkoff.com">www.daniellepkoff.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">BIOGRAPHY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Starting in the early '70's
DANIEL LEPKOFF was at the center of the development of Release Technique with
Mary Fulkerson and Contact Improvisation with Steve Paxton. Throughout the
'70's and '80's he traveled extensively; actively teaching, performing and
exposing these new ideas worldwide. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">He is one of the founders of
Movement Research in NYC.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Daniel's work looks at all
movement as a finely tuned physical dialogue with the environment and explores
the form and composition of this interaction as a language for making dances.
He has developed techniques based on this approach that form a dance practice
and foundation for bringing this material onto the stage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Over the years he has had
long term collaborations with many other artists and performers including: Lisa
Nelson, Steve Paxton; Paul Langland, Saira Blanche Theater in Moscow (Oleg
Soulimenko and Andrej Andrianov), Lux Flux in Vienna (Inge Kandlsdorfer,
Annette Pffeferkorn and Jack Hauser), experimental musician Dora Attila, and
Japanese dancer, Sakura Shimada, among others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">In 2002 he was the artistic
director and co-producer (together with Mira Kovarova) of "Physical
Dialogues" a seminal dance festival in Bratislava focusing on alternative
systems for researching movement. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">He has published numerous
articles articulating concepts that are central to his own work, these writing
appear in CQ, The MR Performance Journal and Contredanse Publications in
Bruxelles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">This last year he toured to
Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Brazil, and Argentina. His work was recently shown
in Warsaw, Poland at the Dance Improvisation Festival Sic! 2010/ Festiwal
Improwizacji Tanca Sic! 2010 combining improvising dance performers with
experiemental musicians.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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participants in our special sleeping cocoons. The cost is 10 EUR a night per
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Uferstraße 6, HH, Aufgang
links, 1. OG <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">13357 Berlin – Wedding (near
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