From patrick at patrickcrowley.net Sun Apr 15 21:33:26 2007 From: patrick at patrickcrowley.net (Patrick Crowley) Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:33:26 -0400 Subject: [CI-Announce] Let/Go CI Workshop & MOAB Jam 2007 May 20-28th Message-ID: <77A9A690-E647-4F38-B0DE-11537CC8E6D3@patrickcrowley.net> Dear Dancing Friends Near & Far............ The 2007 MOAB JAM is going to be wonderful. YOU are invited to participate in an extraordinary dance adventure this May. May 20-24, 2007 ~ Let/Go CI Workshop with Chris Aiken & Angie Hauser May 24-28, 2007~ River Trip & Moab Jam Deepen into your dancing body and creative mind during the workshop...float down the Colorado River for a day with other dancing pals...relish in a spacious and lively jam environment. Moab is an amazing place: red rock canyons with sensuous arcs of flowing stone, magical rivers, and a clear blue sky. The natural beauty supports poetic dancing, friendships, and restorative time for the soul. We dance in great studios at the Moab Arts and Recreation Center, and most participants camp together at a lovely camping area near the small town of Moab. Visit www.moabjam.com for a complete description of the events, all the logistics, pictures/videos from past events, sliding scale fees, and online registration. If you have any questions, contact Gretchen Spiro -- dance at moabjam.com, or call Gretchen at (303) 545-9956. Below is an overview of what we have planned this year, or just head to the website! Dancing smiles, Todd Paulsmeyer and Gretchen Spiro Moab Jam 2007 organizers CI Workshop May 20-24 with Chris Aiken & Angie Hauser LET/GO: A playful and focused 5-day CI Workshop for experienced CI dancers. We will lay the foundation for physical and emotional breakthroughs to support fearlessness and aliveness in dancing. We will learn technical skills, somatic techniques, and principles of awareness and discuss CI history, teaching methods, sexuality, socio- political contexts, and artistic potential. Receive individual coaching and co-create group investigation of specific aspects of the work. Come with questions, energy and commitment to serious training and playful, imaginative dancing. www.moabjam.com has bios, workshop schedule, and longer description. This workshop is a unique opportunity to be inspired by master teachers of Contact Improvisation. 11th Annual Moab JAM May 24-28 ....with a River Trip May 25 A CI Jam is a time to allow your dancing body and dancing mind to experiment, play, and deepen your practice. This year the jam will include a Friday trip down the Colorado River. Splash splash! Teacher/hosts for this jam are: Patrick Crowley (MA), Steve Homsher (CO), Aaron Jessup (CA), and Gretchen Spiro (CO). They will guide mixers, skills labs, and lead warm-ups. Each teacher will be available for private coaching sessions, as well helping you enter and joyfully navigate a jam. Their passion for CI will ignite your creativity. (All guided activities are OPTIONAL? there will always be space for open jamming.) There will also be studio space for participant-led labs and activities (boogie music jam, didgeridoo, authentic movement, theater games, etc.) Informal performance Saturday evening. Dancers of all experience levels are WELCOME, including complete beginners. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/ci-announce/attachments/20070415/3b0847b1/attachment.htm From leslieszucker at gmail.com Wed Apr 25 22:24:14 2007 From: leslieszucker at gmail.com (Leslie Zucker) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:24:14 -0400 Subject: [CI-Announce] Looking for improv performers - 2007 Improv Festival in Washington DC Message-ID: <8fe38cc60704251324s3386a9f2x8a565d7c8566d2ee@mail.gmail.com> *Looking for Dancers, Musicians, Actors, Poets and more! * The organizers of the *DC 13th Annual Improvisation Festival* invite proposals from performers to participate in this year's festival to be held September 27-30, 2007. The DC Improvisation Festival has been held annually in Washington for the past twelve years, bringing dance, acting, music and poetry to unexpected places, showcasing improvisation as a real art form. This year's festival will be based largely on site-specific performances held in public places all over Washington, DC. The site chosen for this year is downtown on G street between 7th and 12th Streets, though this may expand to include other streets nearby. This site includes the Metro Center metro station, the main DC public library, Flashpoint studio and gallery, and the National Portrait Gallery and American Art museum, among other sites. There may also be one or two "stage" type sites--indoors or outdoors?yet to be determined where performances will occur regularly. All performances will be free. Festival organizers will help however possible by providing publicity and a context for the performance, as well as assisting with procuring permits for public spaces. If you choose to participate, we urge you to develop work in which the site itself is an integral part of the performance and ideally changes how observers experience that place in the future. While the work must include improvisation, some amount of set material and rehearsals are encouraged in order to showcase the highest quality performance art possible. If you are interested, please respond with a short description of your envisaged performance by sending us a Word document with the following information: 1. Name of the artist creating the work, a short bio (4-6 lines only, please), email address and best phone number to reach you. 2. Number of performers involved 3. Your preferred performance site 4. A short description of the envisaged performance, including an explanation of how the work will genuinely incorporate the site (maximum 500 words) 5. Necessary conditions for the performance (i.e., daytime) and date/time restrictions, if applicable *Deadline for applications is May 21, 2007.* We will be holding a meeting for all those interested in performing in the festival in early June and encourage you to attend, even if your exact performance plans have not yet been finalized. Send all applications to Leslie Zucker, Performance Coordinator: leslieszucker at gmail.com and write "Improv Fest Performer Proposal" in the subject line. For more info: Leslie Zucker, Performance Coordinator (202) 425 7637 leslieszucker at gmail.com P.S. The web-site is: http://www.improvfestival.com but please be patient, it is currently being updated! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/ci-announce/attachments/20070425/eaad04c5/attachment.htm