[CI-Announce] KATIE DUCK: „IMPROVISATION“, Intensive Workshop, Schwelle 7 Berlin, April 12-16, 2010

Tue Feb 16 11:55:24 CET 2010

PLEASE forward to friends, collegues and peer groups, Thanks Jan

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Katie Duck: „IMPROVISATION“
5 day Intensive Workshop with Katie Duck

WHEN:
Workshop: Monday - Friday, April 12 - 16, 2010, 12 am - 6pm
Performance: Saturday, April 17, 8:30 pm
WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany

(this workshop announcement with links: http://www.schwelle7.de/Katie%20Duck.html
about Katie Duck: http://www.katieduck.com )

Katie Duck has been teaching workshops internationally since the mid  
70’s alongside her professional career as a performer and  
choreographer. She integrates her current research making each  
workshop completely unique. She draws from her experiences in live  
performances, music  collaborations, as a director and choreographer.  
She has lead two companies over the past 30 year; Groupo based in  
Italy - Magpie Music Dance Company based in the Netherlands.

Over the past 10 years her workshops have been titled “Improvisation”  
in order to emphasis her views on theater as a live art form  
reflective of how she executes her own professional performances. Her  
research is placed in practice with lectures containing her recent  
interest in brain studies and film. (see research materials below -  
see duck projects).

Katie’s workshops are aimed toward all dancers, performers and  
musicians. She does not aim to provide a technique or style for how  
one conducts them-self in a live performance. Her work is relevant for  
any performance situation without discrimination for levels or  
performance platforms. She does ask that anyone who chooses to study  
with her have an intense interest in the work and is willing to  
experiment and take risks with the material she offers.

Her warm-up and exercises emphasis how the eyes and the ears work in  
co ordination with movement, sound and exposure to gathered crowds  
altering our perception of time, space, feelings and emotions.  
Improvisation sessions revolve around the terms pause, flow, exit,  
choice and presence with discussions articulating play, memory and  
intuition.

Her aim is to provide a situation where artists can practice together  
and grow in confidence toward public performances with an objective to  
clarify that improvisation not the antitheses of choreography or  
composition but rather the way choreography and composition can be  
executed. She promotes to her students that the mental connection to  
the practice of improvisation can be accessed weather they are doing  
set or open framed performance pieces and that the definitions of what  
improvisation within art practices mean today need to be reflective to  
advances in brain-studies and technology.

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On  Saturday, April17 at 8:30 pm, Katie Duck will show the solo  
performance
PORTRAITS alongside with a piece developed with the participants of  
the workshop during the week.
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Katie Duck
Born in Oxnard California (1951), Katie Duck is a dancer,  
choreographer and teacher. She began performing in plays and musicals  
as a teenager, attended the University of Utah as a modern dance major  
and then joined the Salt Lake City Mime Troupe touring in the United  
States and Europe. (1973-6).

She left the United States in 1976 to live in Amsterdam, Holland and  
toured throughout Europe as a performer in solo productions, in  
productions with Carlos Traffic, Jango Edwards (friends roadshow) and  
in improvisations with Amsterdam music artists Ernst Reijseger  
(cello), Tristan Honsinger (cello), Sean Bergen (sax) and Michael  
Moore (sax).  She changed her name to Katie Duck while touring her  
first solo in Europe “duck play” in 1976.

In 1979, she moved to Italy where she formed the company GROUPO. She  
toured through out Europe with her one-hour productions Rutles, The  
Orange Man, Brown eye Green eye and Mind the gap and participated in  
free lance improvisation collaborations with Julyen Hamilton, Kristie  
Simpson and Steve Paxton among others. In 1986 she accepted a senior  
lecturer position at Dartington College of Arts teaching for the  
theater department as head of the choreography course. In 1991 she  
accepted a part time post at the AHK Hooge school voor de kunsten  
dance departments in Amsterdam teaching movement research,  
improvisation, composition and technique.

Throughout her career she has worked with music artists who share her  
passion for live time performance and the integration of music, text  
and dance within compositions for performance. She has performed in  
duet and in ensembles with music artists Han Bennik, Andy Moore (the  
EX) and many others. Katie created the Company Magpie Music Dance  
Company in 1995-2005 in Amsterdam to reflect her work with  
improvisations musicians. Magpie toured in Europe, the USA, Asia and  
Scandinavia and received national funding from 2002-2006 for tours  
within the Netherlands from the Nederland fonds voor the podimkunsten.  
In 2006 she evolved Magpie into an umbrella organization, Magpie  
Umbrella.

Katie has initiated numerous dance and music improvisation on-going  
events in her three bases Holland, Italy and England. In her current  
base Amsterdam. Her initiatives include a yearly Improvisation  
festival at the Frascati Theater (1994-9), a monthly improvisation  
series at the Fijnhout Theater (1992-3), the Muiderpoort Theater  
(1994-9), The Melkweg Theater (2000-2001) and OT301 Cultural center  
(2002-2006).

By 1988 she discovered the internet evolution and created an  
international focus group for email announcements, a youtube presence  
with her home videos and continues to encourage artists to build their  
internet presence as part of their creative work.

She has been organizing workshops in Amsterdam since 1995 at the  
studio seven in Amsterdam first under the title PIA and now under the  
title Magpie Umbrella. She presently runs an improvisation summer  
course and workshop series in Amsterdam and is the tutor and stage  
coordinator for the SNDO choreography department and improvisation  
teacher for the Modern Dance department at the AHK Hooge School voor  
de kunsten. She continues to direct, perform (Duck Projects) and  
conduct her workshops touring yearly in Asia, the USA, England,  
Scandinavia and Europe.

Katie Duck: For Reviews    ////     Writing     /////        Archive  
2008-9        ////         Extended Biography, please go to http://www.schwelle7.de/Katie%20Duck.html

Fee: 200 EUR
registration: xs4jan [at] gmx [ dot] de

SLEEPING: We can host up workshop participants in our special sleeping  
cocoons in the studio. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person.
More... http://www.schwelle7.de/GAESTE.html

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Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6 HH 1. OG
13357 Berlin/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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