[CI-Announce] Workshop ADRIAN RUSSI: Contact Improvisation in Performance, Nov.28 – Dec.2, 2011, Schwelle7, Berlin/Germany

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Contact Improvisation in Performance
integrating movement technique, improvisation and skills for performance

5 day intensive workshop – with ADRIAN RUSSI

WHEN: November 28 – December 2, 2011, 12am-6pm
WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany
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CONTACT IMPROVISATION  IN PERFORMANCE
integrating movement technique, improvisation and skills for performance

In this workshop we will explore intensively how to transform our  
regular CI-practice towards a performative movement art - in order to  
create instant composition in all its diversity, complexity and  
freshness.
The following questions will lead us through the week: What are the  
tools to stay connected with my own dance while being deeply involved  
in the physicality of a CI-duet?  //  How to achieve presence and  
authenticity to feed my dance and how do I keep this sense in front of  
an audience?  //  How can I connect the inner and outer space - what  
in fact does this mean?  //  What are the inherent compositional  
aspects of CI?  //  How to integrate compositional principles with the  
freedom of improvisation?

The first class of the day will focus 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  
(and constant) use of timing and space - which in fact are also  
fundamentals for performing CI.

In the second class we will go beyond CI-technique and improvisation  
skills to see what changes fundamentally when one is exposed to an  
audience. It’s a lot about staying honest with yourself, dealing with  
the energy of the public and handling surprising moments in a creative  
way. Trusting your instincts and your intuition will be just as  
important as learning about compositional aspects and using CI- 
technique to give a clear base for performance.

For those who feel themselves 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. It's 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, December 2nd, 2011, 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  Adrian Russi is a one of the leading CI- 
teachers in Switzerland and travels all over Europe to teach and  
perform Contact and Free Improvisation. From 1992 he is deeply  
involved with CI and has dedicated 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 developed 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 freelancer to a wide range of people and is  
also regularly invited to teach in schools. In his teaching he focuses  
on the technical aspects of CI (ease, precision and strength), 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 while 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 their 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 in our special sleeping cocoons.  
The cost is 10 EUR a night per person, 7.- if you bring your own sheets.
More: http://www.schwelle7.de/GAESTE.html

----------- LOCATION --------

Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6, backyard, left site, 2. floor
13357 Berlin – Wedding (Nähe 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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