[CI-Announce] Workshop ADRIAN RUSSI: CI and instant composition, October, 5-9, Schwelle7, Berlin/Germany

[J.B.]

Workshop ADRIAN RUSSI: CI and instant composition
Intensive five-day workshop: integrating movement technique,  
improvisation and skills for performance

WHEN: October, 5-9, 12:00-18:00
WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany

In this workshop we will explore intensively the relation between  
movement technique in CI and performance - how CI and skills for  
instant composition can support each other and which are the possible  
traps to be avoided while dancing for an audience.

The morning classes will be focused 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 - what in fact are also  
fundamentals for performing CI.

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,  
connecting the inner with the outer space and communicating with our  
partners also on distance. 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.

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.

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!

PERFORMANCES

The workshop will therfore culminate in an evening of Performance/ 
showing on Friday, October, 9 at 8:30 pm

Adrain Russi will also perform with Jörg Hassmann, Mirva Mäkinen and  
music by Marko Hefele, Violin + Barnaby O'Rorke Tree, Cello:
Trio Performance on Tuesday, October , 6 at 8:30 pm

Bio ADRIAN RUSSI:

Adrian Russi is a CI-teacher, performer and body therapist, who has  
been involved in Contact Improvisation since 1992.
After he studied 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.

He is based in Switzerland where he offers his work as a free lancer  
to a wide range of people. He is regularly invited to international  
festivals and to teach workshops all over Europe. In his teaching he  
focuses on the technical aspects of CI (ease, precision and strength)  
as well as on matters of perception (sensation, connection of inner  
and outer space, of bottom and top) and 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.

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. For more information go to www.adrianrussi.com

WEBSITE: http://www.schwelle7.de/Adrian%20Russi.html
REGISTRATION: xs4jan (at) gmx.de
PRICE: 200 EUR

SLEEPING:
We can host up workshop participants in our special sleeping cocoons.  
The cost is 10 EUR a night per person.

----------- LOCATION --------

Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6 HH 1. OG
13357 Berlin/Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 30-4736 3500
http://www.schwelle7.de
Email: info (at) felixruckert.de

TRAFFIC LINK: UB Nauener Platz, Pankstr, Osloer Str, SB Gesundbrunnen