[CI-Announce] NITA LITTLE: Workshop ARTiculating Presence: THE GEOMETRY OF ATTENTION, May 31-June 4, 2010, Schwelle 7, Berlin/Germany

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ARTiculating Presence: The Geometry of Attention
5 day intensive workshop with NITA LITTLE

WHEN:
Monday, May 29th to Friday, June 4th, 2010
Workshop daily from12 am - 6 pm

WEB: http://www.schwelle7.de/Nita%20Little.html

WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany


ARTiculating Presence: THE GEOMETRY OF ATTENTION

Creative acts of the embodied mind are the means by which dancers non- 
verbally interrogate borders, enter other bodies, and define the  
dimensions of internal and external space. Working with the mind of  
the dance and the dance of the mind, this highly physical workshop  
will take us to the edge of our boundary definitions as it engages and  
trains attentional skills, informs creative knowing and encourages  
bold acts of physical and mental extension. Building movement  
vocabularies that encompass the physicality of mind, this workshop  
trains creative action in ensemble dance improvisation and Contact  
Improvisation. Strongly geared toward interpersonal interactions  
within an ecological understanding of space, it will ask that dancers  
identify imagination within their physical awareness. Here, we will  
learn to act with the kind of creative support that clarifies our  
purpose and our presence, bringing the world and the dance to life. We  
will reach to find the materials of interpersonal non-verbal  
communication as we explore the agency of presence, the speed of  
awareness, unconscious cognition, and the conditions of environmental  
imagination. This workshop bridges full physicality with changing  
states of awareness. We will move within a spectral array of movement  
possibilities as we balance the softening of physical release with the  
clarity of directed action. The purpose of this workshop is to inform  
your dance research by challenging binary ideologies as we expose the  
mindbody to new potentialities.

Structured to train technical as well as creative skills, this  
workshop will build toward an improvisational performance. Each day  
will be spent in theoretical discussion and physical/mental training  
as well as composition and practice. In this work we will investigate  
the resonant webs of awareness derived from movement scores that  
direct and modulate attention as the bases for compositional structures.


NITA LITTLE
Nita Little choreographs, performs, teaches and writes about  
improvisational dance and theories of embodiment in action. She  
participated with Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith and others, in the  
explorations that became Contact Improvisation in 1972 and has been  
significant in its emergence. Her work on the embodied mind and the  
“meaning” of attention dates back to the early 80s when she initiated  
a curriculum, The Mind in Motion. This work explores the range of  
experiential states of the embodied mind and reveals principles that  
define Contact Improvisation as well as ensemble dancing. She  
collaborated in numerous performing companies introducing Contact  
Improvisation throughout the United States and then initiated a number  
of performance groups. Her performance practice is a mix of both  
formal and improvisational choreography that utilizes scores.

Nita has received funding and support through the National Endowment  
for the Arts, the California Arts Council, and the NEA/Dance USA  
National College Choreography Initiative. Her San Francisco based  
ensemble company, Divisadero Dance Research investigates the resonant  
webs of awareness derived from movement scores that direct and  
modulate attention as the bases for compositional structures.

Over the years Nita has been both faculty and guest artist at numerous  
colleges and universities including New York University, California  
Institute for the Arts, Texas Christian University, Temple University,  
Tufts University, Scripps College and UC Santa Barbara.

Nita teaches and performs regularly at national and international  
dance festivals including ImPulsTanz, Vienna, The Side Step Festival,  
Helsinki, Kontakt Budapest International Improvisation Festival,  
ContactFestival Freiburg, Germany, the Zip Festival, Italy, the  
Seattle Festival of Alternative Dance and Improvisation and the West  
Coast Contact Improvisation Festival, Berkeley California. Nita has  
recently become a PhD candidate as she is completing her doctorate in  
Performance Studies at The University of California, Davis.

MORE: http://www.nitalittle.com/

FEE: 150 Euro
REGISTER: per email to xs4jan at gmx.de

SLEEPING:
We can host up workshop participants basic opportunities to stay  
overnight. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person. More options: http://www.schwelle7.de/GAESTE.html

VENUE:
Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6, backyard, 2. floor
13357 Berlin - Wedding / Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 173 - 6118404
http://www.schwelle7.de
Email: info at felixruckert.de

Traffic link: U8 Pankstraße, U9 Osloer Straße, U9 Nauener Platz, SB  
Gesundbrunnen, SB Humboldthain, Bus M27 Brunnenplatz
http://maps.google.de/maps?daddr=13357+Berlin,+Uferstr+6



  
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