[CI-Announce] DANIEL LEPKOFF: MAKING AND SEEING DANCE - Improvisation Workshop, November 15-18, 2011, Schwelle7, Berlin/Germany

[J.B.]

MAKING AND SEEING DANCE
4 day intensive Improvisation Workshop with Daniel Lepkoff
WHEN: Tuesday – Friday, November, 15-18, 2011, 12 am – 6 pm
WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany
LINK: http://www.schwelle7.de/Daniel%20Lepkoff.html
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OVERVIEW OF THE WORK
“My work is strongly focused on the origins, form, and details of  
functional movement, movement from life . It is a practice of movement  
research. The work refines ones ability to use the physical senses and  
relate equally with inner space and outer space. It calls for  and  
cultivates a questioning and reexamining of one's perceptions.

I am an improvising performer and my reference point is to develop a  
technique (a way or method) to composing dances. The work offers one  
possible view point for making dance performance.

The material is drawn directly from my own movement research, which  
has it's roots in seminal work I began in the '70's with the early  
developments of both Anatomical Release Technique and Contact  
Improvisation, as well as the work of Steve Paxton, and the work of  
Lisa Nelson, plus many wonderful long term collaboration with artists  
whose work inspired and informed me..”

Daniel Lepkoff


MAKING AND SEEING DANCE:

This workshop is open to all but is geared towards professional  
artists: choreographers, improvising performers, dancers, and actors.

Led by: Daniel Lepkoff                       Nov. 15 – 18, 2011   12 –  
6 pm
We will divide our 6 hours of studio time into two work sessions with  
a break in between:
1. Technique - (Moving the Environment) – We build a technical  
foundation through  study and practice of functional movement. We look  
at movement as a two way exchange of force and information with our  
environment.

The forces that we feel within our body, (compression or stretch) do  
not know the difference between what is us and what is our  
environment. We extend our energy into the environment; the  
environment answers.

We move it and it moves us. This duality offers an extended dimension  
to our presence as a dancer and performer.

Activating our physical senses we engage with:
+ gravity, force & our internal architecture
+ vision and space
+ time and thythm.

2. Composing (Stillness and Movement): Placing our own movement  
propositions into a shared space, we set up a kind of physical  
conversation on the subject of time, space, and imagination. The  
conversation is based inside of a simple structure that uses an  
alternation between stillness and movement. Through observation and  
action, beginnings and endings, answer and answer back, repetition and  
translation, we exchange our viewpoints on what we see when we watch  
movement and what we understand as dance.
For more detailed information on Daniel's work go to: www.daniellepkoff.com


BIOGRAPHY

Starting in the early '70's DANIEL LEPKOFF was at the center of the  
development of Release Technique with Mary Fulkerson and Contact  
Improvisation with Steve Paxton. Throughout the '70's and '80's he  
traveled extensively; actively teaching, performing and exposing these  
new ideas worldwide.

He is one of the founders of Movement Research in NYC.

Daniel's work looks at all movement as a finely tuned physical  
dialogue with the environment and explores the form and composition of  
this interaction as a language for making dances. He has developed  
techniques based on this approach that form a dance practice and  
foundation for bringing this material onto the stage.

Over the years he has had long term collaborations with many other  
artists and performers including: Lisa Nelson, Steve Paxton; Paul  
Langland, Saira Blanche Theater in Moscow (Oleg Soulimenko and Andrej  
Andrianov), Lux Flux in Vienna (Inge Kandlsdorfer, Annette Pffeferkorn  
and Jack Hauser), experimental musician Dora Attila, and Japanese  
dancer, Sakura Shimada, among others.

In 2002 he was the artistic director and co-producer (together with  
Mira Kovarova) of "Physical Dialogues" a seminal dance festival in  
Bratislava focusing on alternative systems for researching movement.

He has published numerous articles articulating concepts that are  
central to his own work, these writing appear in CQ, The MR  
Performance Journal and Contredanse Publications in Bruxelles.

This last year he toured to Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Brazil, and  
Argentina. His work was recently shown in Warsaw, Poland at the Dance  
Improvisation Festival Sic! 2010/ Festiwal Improwizacji Tanca Sic!  
2010 combining improvising dance performers with experiemental  
musicians.


UPDATES: http://www.schwelle7.de/Daniel%20Lepkoff.html
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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, Aufgang links, 1. OG
13357 Berlin – Wedding (near Uferstudios)
http://www.schwelle7.de
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=286059761953

Schwelle 7 – Cie. Felix Ruckert Berlin e.V.
Artistic & Managing Director: Felix Ruckert

Trafic 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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