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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Contact Improvisation in
Performance <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>
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<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: November 28 – December
2, 2011, 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>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">SHARE: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=139374042827148">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=139374042827148</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">CONTACT IMPROVISATION<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>IN PERFORMANCE<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>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">In this workshop we will
explore intensively how to transform our regular CI-practice towards a
performative movement art - in order to create instant composition in all its
diversity, complexity and freshness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">The following questions will
lead us through the week: What are the tools to stay connected with my own
dance while being deeply involved in the physicality of a CI-duet?
// How to achieve presence and authenticity to feed my dance and
how do I keep this sense in front of an audience? // How can I
connect the inner and outer space - what in fact does this mean? //
What are the inherent compositional aspects of CI? // How to
integrate compositional principles with the freedom of improvisation?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">The first class of the day
will focus 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 (and
constant) use of timing and space - which 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 second class we will
go beyond CI-technique and improvisation skills to see what changes
fundamentally when one is exposed to an audience. It’s a lot about staying
honest with yourself, dealing with the energy of the public and handling
surprising moments in a creative way. Trusting your instincts and your
intuition will be just as important as learning about compositional aspects and
using CI-technique to give a clear base for performance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">For those who feel
themselves 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.
It's 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, December 2nd, 2011,
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 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Adrian Russi is a one of the leading
CI-teachers in Switzerland and travels all over Europe to teach and perform
Contact and Free Improvisation. From 1992 he is deeply involved with CI and has
dedicated 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
developed 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
freelancer to a wide range of people and is also regularly invited to teach in
schools. In his teaching he focuses on the technical aspects of CI (ease,
precision and strength), 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 while 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 their
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>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">For more information go to <span style="mso-field-code:"HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.adrianrussi\.com\/\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022""><a href="http://www.adrianrussi.com">www.adrianrussi.com</a></span><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 in our special sleeping cocoons. The cost is 10 EUR a night per
person, 7.- if you bring your own sheets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">More: <a href="http://www.schwelle7.de/GAESTE.html">http://www.schwelle7.de/GAESTE.html</a><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, backyard, left
site, 2. floor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">13357 Berlin – Wedding (Nähe
Uferstudios)<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>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Schwelle 7 – Cie. Felix
Ruckert Berlin e.V.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Artistic & Managing
Director: Felix Ruckert<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">TRAFIC LINK: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">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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