[CI-Announce] Contact Improvisation Workshop: Reminder!

[Cathy Paine]

What:   A CONTACT IMPROVISATION skills workshop taught by Cathy Paine.

When:  Sunday, October 5th from 3:00pm to 5:00pm

Where: In Hampden, at the Experimental Movement Concepts Studio, 3618 Falls
Road, Baltimore, MD 21211

Cost:    $5

 

 

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

 

Contact Improvisation is primarily a duet form of movement improvisation,
based on shared physical contact, and can be introspective, fluid,
spectacular, awkward, personal, hilarious, and/or profoundly moving (in
every way!) CI was first developed by American contemporary dancers Steve
Paxton and Nancy Stark Smith, and is currently practiced, taught and
performed throughout the world.

            In this workshop we will be learning and exploring some specific
skills of weight sharing, skeletal support, balance and counter-balance,
rolling, falling and flying. (Yes, flying!) A greater proficiency will open
the door to physical safety and greater risk-taking. Come with your
openness, sensitivity, love of moving and sense of humor - we will be moving
into the unknown!

 

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

 

Cathy Paine is a dancer, teacher, choreographer and performance improviser,
as well as a certified FeldenkraisR practitioner specializing in working
with creative and performing artists. She is founder/director of Movement
Incorporated, and has been featured in recent articles in Dance Magazine,
Lifetimes, Feldenkrais Journal, and Contact Quarterly. 

Since 1974 Cathy has performed and taught throughout the United States and
in Germany, England and Hong Kong, at venues including The Kennedy Center's
Terrace Theater, The Hong Kong Arts Centre (HK) and Knighton Fields Centre
(U.K.) She has been on the dance faculty at Kenyon College, University of
Montana, The American University, U.C.L.A., Towson University and UMBC, and
has received grants and awards from The National Society of Arts & Letters,
The D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities, The Virginia Commission for
the Arts, The Maryland State Arts Council, and The Yorkshire Arts Council of
Great Britain. 

>From 1990-95 Cathy produced the New Dance Improvisation Festival in D.C., VA
and MD, which has since been used as a model for dance improvisation
festivals in Richmond, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and Carrboro, NC. She
has taught and performed with internationally known contact improvisers
including Nancy Stark Smith, Chris Aiken, K.J. Holmes, Andrew Harwood, Ray
Chung and Kirstie Simson. For more information email
cathypaine at mindspring.com.    

 

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