[CI-Announce] Earthdance Spring & Summer 2011 programs

[ken manheimer]

earthdance is a unique, dance-focused workshop and retreat center in western
massachusetts that has contact improv at its core.

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Subject: EGISTER NOW! Spring & Summer 2011 @ EARTHDANCE
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*EARTHDANCE*

*SPRING/SUMMER PROGRAMS 2011
www.earthdance.net<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=jlvp8ocab&et=1104469330086&s=1852&e=001wBaRRxuZWYMwv-KxDX1hOtj7x-Ec9yntPI_MrRYAFhgFMT2TBzpd_X01lGlQBz65hoD7Phnj2y_DFH6NhIAAgv3jfYNsa0WTyiork_RlIAJdduKLrVU5yw==>
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*April 8 - 10 Nanm Dance and Rhythm Workshop, an Afro-Haitian Journey with
Julio Jean and Johnny
Scovel<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=jlvp8ocab&et=1104469330086&s=1852&e=001wBaRRxuZWYM414pNNE2M0Sl8OYMc4CAsH7Ft4KDQ4Ek541jFVjIwrYXIvlJ4ZYSUPmQHNPhkI7Yaae_0Op2972jk8stUI6Fra0r64UcUEN1DxNDMPJ5DrmkbwD3_ar-pXZgDrBxm4x00NrBIbhu15Q==>
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"Nanm" is the word for *soul *in Haitian Kreyol. This weekend workshop
invites participants on a soulful journey to explore the dances, songs, and
rhythms that are associated particular Haitian deities and traditional
rituals. Separate dance - always with live drumming - and drum classes will
provide the opportunity to delve intensively into both aspects of the form.
For beginners to the world of the African Diaspora dances or for experienced
students, this workshop is a unique opportunity to immerse yourself and
deepen your understanding of this most mystic of art forms.


*May 6 - 8 Earthdance Community Meeting & Work
Weekend<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=jlvp8ocab&et=1104469330086&s=1852&e=001wBaRRxuZWYMHMh0t7-fYuxHNC8rVVQE8JxqyxTPwjI1OMPcjGb1XRblLpZHdU3Hu2mOKZRCREo4BihlMz34boVXAAJ5i2aiEoNefMs6ufS0eUUUYwKBlJBjIAs5YSXBwjgV5bFD53lRNVthASPQ4aw==>
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This is a time when we gather at Earthdance in order to:

   - Work on the land, clean up the grounds, work in the garden, continue
   renovations, and prepare for Summer!
   - Talk about Earthdance , plan for the organization's future, discuss who
   we are and where we are going.
   - Dance, of course, and play music, and improvise.
   - Tell stories, share amongst the generations that have cherished this
   special place.
   - Celebrate the amazing journey of this organization and community!!

 If you are a part of Earthdance or want to be, then please consider joining
us for this important discussion.


photo: Michael Weintrob
*May18 - 22 Community Building and Dance Making with Onye Ozuzu (assisted by
Gabriel Todd).<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=jlvp8ocab&et=1104469330086&s=1852&e=001wBaRRxuZWYO4HWXe7QHLwc8ck_Yh1JGlKIBbB8vWPBuDqRMGBtiRttXhd_f4LacM1PV_yknaHu5e4LDwHNsGafdqr5jB7zUceE-yvS7n8WF9xj2zsq6J6u-XRnGnjzlfzMXuc1kzRJCb4jXs0ZjLKk-un9hh3KUh>
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This workshop will explore the circle as a structure for performed
improvisation.  The circle as it functions in human, social engagements will
emerge as a foundational and fluid tool for the crafting of layered,
powerful individual and communal performance.  We will work with
contemporary dance movement, singing, writing, story-telling and drawing in
an integrated process toward a group performance of improvised
sophistication.

*Onye Ozuzu* is a performing artist, choreographer, educator and researcher.
Her body of work fuses modern dance, West African dance, Japanese and
Chinese martial arts, yoga, improvisational performance, literature and
cultural studies. Gabriel Todd will be joining the Technology of the Circle
Workshop as a collaborator bringing expertise in ensemble and community
building through voice, body percussion, and polyrhythmic music making.

*May 19 - 22 Contact Improvisation: The Fundamentals with Moti Zemelman,
Lani Nahele, Dey Summer, & Neige
Christenson<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=jlvp8ocab&et=1104469330086&s=1852&e=001wBaRRxuZWYPCnIsbgKiyGw4PjLFcbXR__YW9uolpzF4eLKBgWdssHnm0L56kuoX8q4D1ZcddoQAuSQteIU7Qrdw7rZOwNBgzFKMVIfnEhzQq_cuF0RQqWXUIJqrakmYHJCVSVhnbnZw=>
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Join four long-term CI enthusiasts offering a variety of perspectives on the
fundamental elements of contact improvisation. Open to beginners and those
who wish to support their ongoing dance-practice, it will be a rich tactile
and interpersonal experience: three full days to awaken instincts, open the
improvisational mind, and explore the physical/cultural/political/ &
relational elements of the form. We will guide you through a variety of
doorways into this rich territory, with time for discussions, body-work,
group scores, and plenty of play.  *Changing the way we interact with each
other and the earth... two bodies at a time!*



*June 5 - 10 Uniquely Oblique with Kelly Keenan & Kira
Kirsch<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=jlvp8ocab&et=1104469330086&s=1852&e=001wBaRRxuZWYPCnIsbgKiyGw4PjLFcbXR__YW9uolpzF4eLKBgWdssHnm0L56kuoX8q4D1ZcddoQAuSQteIU7Qrdw7rZOwNBgzFKMVIfnEhzQq_cuF0RQqWXUIJqrakmYHJCVSVhnbnZw=>
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The Axis Syllabus is training method that aims to intensify proprioceptive
feedback (awareness) for detailed somatic sensation in movement. We suggest
that the individual, intelligent structures that make up the body can be
considered a community and that to work with our body is not by commanding
it to move but to constantly negotiate and navigate it's individuality,
constraints and complexity.



*June 24 - 27 C.I. Ground
Research<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=jlvp8ocab&et=1104469330086&s=1852&e=001wBaRRxuZWYOnX7xYzqs4pygNGvJifcGsXWODsp5AobZtkgDR2sQs1KDwYv-MvOUsKAiFUataHua_sGyBm5ajwaHkbM5L6YbuNfLErFKL5eWFdj_-R-eYlTNntAnhJt5sIJFxuXUGhusFSPeR_zx3rpwo7R1cE7MS>
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Join: Gretchen Spiro, Steve Homsher, Miva Makinen, Blake Nellis, Dustin
Haug, Tamin Tozke, Aaron "Brando" Brandes , and several others for a very
special weekend of Contact Improvisation..



CI Ground Research is the next evolution of an exciting research project in
Contact Improvisation at Earthdance. Come join in this wonderful opportunity
to delve deeply into the practice of Contact Improvisation.  CI Ground
Research promises to include a wonderful collection of classes, labs,
structures, and lectures that have been born from the collaborative efforts
of the participating teachers.



*June 28 - July 4 July 4th Jam |
COMMUNITY<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=jlvp8ocab&et=1104469330086&s=1852&e=001wBaRRxuZWYOgEsAXUpUA2TA5R0kLssTtyotVtlC_nuA79aByYlHfsn4oAVpvvIWvh7gr_hFRKfRU8zj-vWa-zONRP6fIBk16_aqH7_49rL3JU4cFxlXk5uFi6LVuGOezGh_NR98kaGwXNaaDa0dYog==>
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A special 5-day Contact Improvisation gathering when we welcome many of our
longtime community members and their families to come and dance, as well as
welcoming those new to our community. Enjoy Earthdance at its fullest:
plenty of jamming, classes, camping, fresh foods from our garden, walks in
the woods, rejuvenating swims, and clean Berkshire mountain air. A
structured children's program is provided! *Facilitators: Gretchen Spiro &
Steve Homsher.

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*August 4 - 7 Western Massachusetts Moving Arts
Festival<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=jlvp8ocab&et=1104469330086&s=1852&e=001wBaRRxuZWYNzIJ2yBeBeAHVZf-Kki2DIo5ZLMP9Ycl4qpUP43hMxmL8Y4Gdif0z7I6Fkz2h7pWcqJx7lwHBjd_IXrdXjVVwVhEX8BH3AU9sSAoQwIGoujMe29X9f42g->
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This festival has something to offer everyone: the chance to study a variety
of improvisational dance and theater forms intensively, with local and
national teachers. If you've never been to Earthdance before, WMMAF is a
great introduction. Morning intensives are an opportunity for deep study,
while the afternoon schedule offers a multiplicity of classes to explore, or
time to take hikes, saunas or enjoy the Earthdance grounds. Evening events
include a performance by festival faculty and a jam with live music. *

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*August 19 - 26 Opening to the Unknown with Andrew de L. Harwood and Chris
Aiken<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=jlvp8ocab&et=1104469330086&s=1852&e=001wBaRRxuZWYNSlI7Bb_6_uUC6d7fceHpqOEigzACp4fw6pu3o3IOgEeZQZJZOTKtx-2JEGpl1Xl43eUz9KyA4DNb3dJuN6yfpQ_yK6amNeWoUzBeDj2_SdYcvhBQkqZY3eWln4GDmJ42-6M4SpgfsnA==>
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In this workshop students will have the opportunity to immerse in the
practice of dance improvisation.  Our approach is to create an environment
for students to look at the relationship between perception, the poetic
imagination, dance and performance. Our belief is that perceptual learning
is key and that Earthdance provides an ideal environment for this type of
practice. Each day we will seek to invigorate ourselves with movement and
sensory practices that attune and expand our bodies and minds, composing
gesture, image, pathways, fields, frames, musicality and meaning.  Our work
is interdisciplinary at its core, drawing upon philosophy, architecture,
design, somatics, aesthetics, ecology and a wide variety of dance
techniques.




*September 8 - 11 WEAVE
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*WEAVE *will be a unique 3-day experience, an exploration through various
practices and perspectives, with content ranging from the inner landscape to
the outer landscape, and all places in between. The intention is to bridge
the worlds of somatic awareness and exploration, bodywork & holistic
wellness, and permaculture & wilderness skill-in both dialogue & practice.
In diverse morning and afternoon sessions, participants will be encouraged
to explore the overlapping fundamental principles of various emergent
disciplines and simultaneously have an inspiring, skill-building,
life-enhancing weekend!



photo: Liz Malby
*September 15 - 18 Moving Memory with Paloma
McGregor<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=jlvp8ocab&et=1104469330086&s=1852&e=001wBaRRxuZWYPBNnSROtZzSQ4oYDNz_5i2wd07c82n_K289Ij5_6Dv_XzUHMaebHoz-7ScblhnFM2WF_zekrRM4dcV3QDLsfKHYLmLGiQ1rxA0wI0kqAw93EqyyXqMnxfG0m0ebjZSZgsUNEHdthMwAA==>
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Moving Memory investigates the crossroads of movement and text. Participants
will learn tools for creating and developing a personal movement vocabulary
along with exercises for crafting evocative writing.  Techniques include
Bartenieff Fundamentals, Liz Lerman's Toolbox and Paloma's Rooted/Reaching
movement approach and more.  This workshop is designed for performers,
directors, writers, multi-disciplinary and self-generating artists. No
formal dance/writing training is necessary, just a willingness to explore,
create and have fun.



*Paloma McGregor *teaches around the country, specializing in workshops that
explore and deepen the connections between writing and dance. A
journalist-turned-choreographer, she uses the intersection of text and
movement to unearth personal voice, build community and animate vision.



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*EARTHDANCE *is an artist-run workshop, residency, and retreat center
located in the Berkshire hills of Western Massachusetts.  We provide a
dynamic mix of dance, somatic, and interdisciplinary arts training, with a
focus on sustainable living, social justice, and community.  Earthdance has
been spearheading innovative arts programming, and maintaining a beautiful
facility for rental groups in the Pioneer Valley for over two decades.  Our
diverse, year-round programs include: dance workshops; yoga retreats;
interdisciplinary, ecological and somatic art festivals & residencies;
Contact Improvisation jams; local class series; a year-round Artist
Residency program; and our New Performance Series. Our facilities include
two large and sunny studios with maple floors, meeting space, meditation and
massage rooms, 100 acres of woods, streams, trails and a wood-fired sauna.



 Earthdance | 252 Prospect Street | Plainfield | MA | 01070
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