[CI-Announce] Workshop ADRIAN RUSSI: Contact Improvisation & Instant Composition, October 11-15, Schwelle7, Berlin/Germany

[J.B.]

Contact Improvisation & Instant Composition:
integrating movement technique, improvisation and skills for  
performance –
(or: stories coming from our hands and feet and the pelvis too)

5 day intensive workshop – with ADRIAN RUSSI

WHEN: October 11-15, 2010, 12am-6pm
WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany


CONTACT IMPROVISATION & INSTANT COMPOSITION

In this workshop we will explore intensively the relation between  
movement technique and performance, how CI-skills and knowledge about  
instant composition can support and enrich each other. This year there  
will be a focus on the use of our hands and feet and therefore also on  
the connection of center and periphery.

In the morning classes we will work 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  
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 and  
connecting the inner with the outer space. 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. The clever use of hands, feet and  
pelvis as intimate, expressive and skillful body parts will enable us  
to meet each other not only on a physical level but also more  
personally and to go deeper towards manipulation and sensitive touch.

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 15 at 8:30 pm


ADRIAN RUSSI:

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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.

For more information go to www.adrianrussi.com

FEE: 150 Euro
REGISTER: per email to xs4jan (at) gmx.de
UPDATES: http://www.schwelle7.de/Adrian%20Russi.html

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
http://www.schwelle7.de
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=286059761953

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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