From xs4jan at gmx.de Tue Mar 8 01:09:10 2016 From: xs4jan at gmx.de (J.B.) Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 07:09:10 +0100 Subject: [CI-Announce] MARTIN KEOGH: The Contact Body, workshop in Berlin, May 20-22, 2016 Message-ID: <33FF5DE3-D2B6-4B6B-9DB1-33AE4CB4A684@gmx.de> Upcoming workshops ? Open to register: .... MARTIN KEOGH: The Contact Body, May 20-22, 2016 (DETAILS BELOW) ... SABINE SONNENSCHEIN: Contact Improvisation & Tantra, May 26-29, 2016 .. KATIE DUCK: Improvisation, June 3-5, 2016 . JESS CURTIS: Per/forming Contact Improvisation, June 10-12, 2016 Details: http://www.contact-improvisation.net Social: https://www.facebook.com/contact.improvisation.net THE CONTACT BODY Intensive Workshop in Contact Improvisation with MARTIN KEOGH May, 20-22, 2016 @ Tanzfabrik Berlin COST: Early bird 180?, thereafter 200? REGISTRATION: For registration details and workshop questions please contact me by e-mail at xs4jan at gmx.de EVENT WEBSITE: http://contact-improvisation.net/2015/11/11/the-contact-body-ws-by-martin-keogh-may-20-22-2016/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/events/478439592342080 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: ? Deepen your investigation and understanding of Contact Improvisation ? In this three-day workshop we will cultivate our individual CONTACT BODY. You are invited to enter leisurely somatic research, dancing and discovery. With hands on work, games, the skills and thrills of the form, and the unique physicality of the CONTACT BODY we will savor and rock the boundaries between states of allowing and mindful intention. We will focus on the pelvic bowl to become more intimately rooted in our dance and being. What does the CONTACT BODY look and feel like? Some qualities: * Pliant strength * Supple and resilient * Organized and released * Limbs that move autonomously from one another * Ability to see and move into the backspace * A visceral understanding of the spiral * Breath that is felt from the ground to the marrow * An enhanced capacity for sensation and pleasure * ... (your unique qualities ...) Contact Improvisation requires a courageous willingness ? but never so much as when we dance in the absence of will ? those moments when we drop the reigns and, nowhere bound, allow our animal to carry us. We will explore: * Moving from a base of sensation * Dancing with a shared central axis * Seeking ease in going off balance * Finding the spontaneous acrobatics of the form * Spending more time in nuance, disorientation, and extended follow-through * A greater capacity for sensation, risk, and pleasure ?My greatest sense of accomplishment comes from seeing students increase their capacity for sensation and risk?seeing them dance less with their ?ideal? and more with their partner?and the profound gratification of introducing contact improvisation to those who then realize they have found the dance form they were seeking all their lives. I attempt to teach and model that the beauty and reach of our questions, in the end, determine the beauty and reach of our lives.? Workshop is for those with a strong grasp of Contact fundamentals and recommended for experienced CI dancers. LINKS: Labbing with Martin Keogh?s Principles http://community.contactquarterly.com/newsletter/view/labbingwithkeogh VIDEOS: https://vimeo.com/40556983 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltq6y06E8ew Martin?s Video channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ__Du-P7opZZDzTFqvgOBg BIO Martin Keogh: Martin Keogh has taught and performed contact improvisation on six continents over three decades. For his contribution to the development of the form he is a Fulbright Senior Specialist and listed in Who's Who in the World. Martin spent time traveling to monasteries in Japan and Korea and was the director of the Empty Gate Zen Center in Berkeley before discovering the world of dance. He is the author of four books including the acclaimed: Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World. More info at: http://www.martinkeogh.com/ SCHEDULE: May 20-22, 2016 - 20th Friday, 5-8:30pm - 21th Saturday 11am-6pm (with a 1-hour lunch break) (7pm the public jam starts in Tanzfabrik) - 22nd Sunday 11am-6pm (with a 1-hour lunch break) LOCATION: Tanzfabrik Berlin M?ckernstr.68, 10965 Berlin (Kreuzberg) Studio No. tba http://www.tanzfabrik-berlin.de/en/studios TRAFFIC LINKS: U6 & 7 Yorckstrasse / Mehringdamm S1 & 2 Yorckstrasse Bus M19 Katzbachstrasse https://www.google.de/maps?daddr=10965+Berlin%2C+M?ckernstr.+68 From xs4jan at gmx.de Sat Mar 19 13:17:37 2016 From: xs4jan at gmx.de (J.B.) Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 18:17:37 +0100 Subject: [CI-Announce] LAST CALL Workshop MARTIN KEOGH in Berlin & Invitation SABINE SONNENSCHEIN: CI & Tantra Message-ID: <98D46FE3-9EC0-4612-A5A8-1455430D4B9A@gmx.de> LAST CALL - REGISTER ASAP: .... MARTIN KEOGH: The Contact Body, May 20-22, 2016 http://contact-improvisation.net/2015/11/11/the-contact-body-ws-by-martin-keogh-may-20-22-2016/ Upcoming workshops ? Open to register: ... SABINE SONNENSCHEIN: Contact Improvisation & Tantra, May 26-29, 2016 (...DETAILS BELOW) .. KATIE DUCK: Improvisation, June 3-5, 2016 Details: http://www.contact-improvisation.net Social: https://www.facebook.com/contact.improvisation.net +++ Deutsche Version unten +++ Contact Improvisation based on Tantra Workshop with Sabine Sonnenschein Assistance: Christian Neher May 26-29, 2016 Haus Lebenskunst, Berlin English Event Website: http://contact-improvisation.net/2015/11/26/contact-improvisation-ws-by-sabine-sonnenschein-may-26-29-2016/ SCHEDULE 26th Thursday, 6-10pm 27th Friday, 10am-10pm (with a 2-hour lunch break) 28th Saturday, 10am-10pm (with a 2-hour lunch break) 29th Sunday, 10am-5pm (with a 1-hour lunch break) DESCRIPTION Through tantric approach und techniques, Contact Improvisation (CI) becomes a tantric practice, a sensual and holistic dance experience. In this workshop we practise CI not just under the lens of physical and anatomical phenomena: you dance as a unit of body, soul, spirit and mind. Sabine Sonnenschein combines sadhana and practices from Kundalini Tantra Yoga (from Swami Satyananda Saraswati), Kashmiri Tantrism and CI: We will experience classical basics of CI techniques (dealing and playing with gravity, effect and use of weight) in a new way because of tantric approaches towards the world, such as sparsa (touching und being touched), spanda (vibration of the consciousness and the world), bhakti (devoted love) and samavesa (to immerse as well as to absorb). In a slow and very consequent way we will get aware of the chakras (energetic centres in the body) by breathing exercises, sadhana from Kundalini Tantra Yoga (from Swami Satyananda Saraswati); the exercises support the flow in the chakras. This class enables you to listen to yourself, to your innerness. You sense your breath, the inner movement, the inner flow and inner subtle energies. You get aware of your emotions and possibly emerging thoughts. In case regularising or self-restricting thoughts emerge, you let them pass by and sense the moment and the self-awareness of your body (proprioception, interoception, visceroception). In breathing you are finally able to let energy circulate in your body, to absorb as well as emit energy. In this workshop you experience your space and how much space you need. You become aware of your personal boundaries, learn to preserve them and communicate them towards others, as well as expand them consciously, if you want to. You practise respect towards yourself, self-responsibility and empathy for others: You experience, which quality of touch reachs you and which not. You feel which quality of touch supports you and which not. How do you enter the space and the energetic field of your partner? How do you get in contact with the cells and the nature of your partner? How do you and your partner find your dance together in listening to each other? A deep encounter between you two becomes possible, if you don?t want anything from your partner, nor your partner from you. A deep encounter becomes possible, when you don't just use your partner to just feel yourself and when your ego does not instrumentalise him/her, but instead, becomes silent and both of you experience each other and also the space, maybe even the universe. How do you touch the space as your lover? How do you - in dancing - become one with the en-souled space, the world or the universe? Expanding into the space you may experience samadhi. Love energy and sexual energy are not excluded, but used for the dance in an aware way. They nourish your dance. One evening is dedicated to a massage. You will be practising in a mixed gender group. Level: This workshop is open for everybody, who is interested. But experience in meditation is needed. Please bring a fruit of your choice on the first day, with which you would like to introduce yourself to the rest of the group! This class is given in English and German This workshop you can participate alone of course, but you can also participate with your partner. Couples may agree on what exercises they want to do together and what not. There will be exercises that can definitely deepen the couple's relationship. LINKS Sabine's Website: http://www.tantrischekoerperarbeit.at Interview (in german) http://mymonk.de/tantra-interview-mit-sabine-sonnenschein/ VIDEO Introduction in CI & Tantra (in german): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwhP6X5zkd4 BIO Sabine Sonnenschein (* 1970 /AT) Sabine Sonnenschein is sexologist (sexualtherapeutic method Sexocorporel), she teaches tantra and contact improvisation. She is freelance choreographer and performer since 1992. Her artistic work ? 39 performance pieces - has been shown in Europe and NYC. She lives and teaches a fusion of a tantric perspective on the world and dance as a practice of life. She has been involved with sensitizing the body and contact improvisation (CI) since 1990. Impressive CI teachers for her were Nita Little, Andrew Harwood, Daniel Lepkoff, Mark Tompkins and Inge Kaindlstorfer. She has training in tantric full body massage (AnandaWave/Cologne) and also lomi lomi nui (with Margareta Kappl). She was introduced to yin yang massage by Andro, has studied pelvic massage by K. Ruby and has been introduced to Kashmiri tantrism and Kashmiri yoga of touch by Daniel Odier. Deepening in "Vijnana Bhairava Tantra" with Dr. Bettina B?umer. In Vienna she has practiced tantric body work, womb dialogue and tantric coaching with focus on sexuality since 2006. She gives workshops focusing on the fusion of Tantra and Contact Improvisation since 2010. Teacher at ImpulsTanz Festival in Vienna, Schwelle 7 in Berlin and Studio Keller in Paris. Sabine Sonnenschein works together with the musician G?nter Touschek (AT) since 2010. She also works together with Benno Enderlein (D), Manuela Blanchard (CH), Cleo Laigret (FR) and Malcolm Manning (GB). BIO Christian Neher: Christian Neher (*1969) Looking back on a long and successful career as tournament dancer, he's been getting into contact improvisation, studying it extensively all over the world and began teaching this form in 2011. Engaged in tantra since 2009 (Art of Being, Skydancing, Daniel Odier, among others) . He's teaching social dances & contact, studying gestalt therapy, and writing. He's working with Sabine Sonnenschein since 2011. COST: Early bird single 320? - as pair 560? (money transfer until April 15, 2016), thereafter single 380? - as pair 660? ACCOMODATION: We can accomodate workshop participants directly in the studio for the duration of the workshop (TH>FR>SA>SU - not WE>TH, not SU>MO). The studio has a kitchen, as well as showers/bathrooms. Sleeping in the studio: 15 EUR per night/person. Please book your place to sleep when registering to the workshop. REGISTRATION: For registration details and workshop questions please contact me by e-mail at xs4jan at gmx.de LOCATION: Haus Lebenskunst (studio of the former "Institut f?r Lebenskunst" Mehringdamm 34 (2. backyard, staircase 4, 6. floor) 10961 Berlin TRAFFIC LINKS Subway Station Lines U6 + U7: Mehringdamm (exit Yorkstra?e) https://www.google.de/maps?daddr=10961+Berlin,+Mehringdamm+34 PHOTO CREDIT: Robert Peres +++ Deutsche Version +++ Contact Improvisation als tantrische Praxis mit Sabine Sonnenschein (Assistenz: Christian Neher) 26.-29. Mai 2016, Haus Lebenskunst, Berlin GEB?HR: Fr?hbucherrabatt einzeln 320? - als Paar 560? (Kontoeingang bis 15. April 2016) danach einzeln 380? - als Paar 660? REGISTRIERUNG: F?r Registrierungsdetails und Fragen zum Workshop sende bitte eine Email an xs4jan at gmx.de EVENT WEBSITE: http://contact-improvisation.net/2015/11/26/ci-tantra-sabine-sonnenschein-mai-26-29-2016/ Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1518980338401490 WORKSHOP-BESCHREIBUNG ?If you're dancing physics, you're dancing contact. If you're dancing chemistry, you' re doing something else.? Steve Paxton (1987) In diesem Workshop werden wir die Grenzen der Contact Improvisation (CI) durch tantrische Prinzipien und Techniken erweitern. Tantrische Praxis erm?glicht sinnliche und ganzheitliche Tanzerlebnisse... T?nze, erf?llt von gro?er Achtsamkeit und Pr?senz. Unser Interesse in diesem Workshop ist, CI nicht nur mit Blick auf physische und physikalische Ph?nomene zu praktizieren: Du tanzt als Einheit von K?rper, Seele, Spirit und Geist. Sabine Sonnenschein verbindet in diesem Workshop ?Sadhana? (Praktiken aus dem Kundalini Tantra Yoga nach Swami Satyananda Saraswati wie Meditation, Pranayama), die Philosophie des kaschmirischen Tantrismus und Tanztechniken der CI. Klassische Schwerpunkte der CI ? wie Umgang/Spiel mit der Schwerkraft oder Wirkung und Einsatz von Gewicht ? lassen sich durch folgende tantrische Prinzipien neu erfahren: - sparsa (ber?hren und ber?hrt werden) - spanda (Vibration des Bewusstseins und der Welt) - bhakti (hingebungsvolle Liebe) - samavesa (durchdringen, aufnehmen). In einem konsequenten, langsamen Aufbau ?ber die vier Tage hinweg machen wir uns mit Atem?bungen, Sadhana aus dem Kundalini Tantra Yoga (nach Swami Satyananda Saraswati), die sieben Chakren (Energiezentren im K?rper) bewusst und bringen sie zum Flie?en: Ausgehend von ?ffnenden, energetisierenden Atem-/K?rper?bungen sowie der Erfahrung unterschiedlicher Ber?hrungsqualit?ten sp?ren wir uns selbst und einander, tanzen wir miteinander. Wir verfeinern unsere Wahrnehmung, wir sensibilisieren alle unsere Sinne f?r ein Spiel miteinander. Im Tanz der CI die subtilen inneren Energien (Emotionen, die sich ausdr?cken wollen) und m?gliche auftauchende Gedanken zu gewahren ? und CI nicht nur mit Blick auf die physischen und anatomischen Ph?nomene zu praktizieren ? ist unser Interesse an diesem Wochenende. Hier besteht die M?glichkeit, deinem Wesen, deiner Innerlichkeit zuzuh?ren. Du nimmst den Atem, die innere Bewegung, das ?Str?mungsempfinden? in dir wahr. Dieses Zuh?ren schafft das Vertrauen, um einen Tanz von innen heraus entstehen zu lassen. Das hei?t konkret: Techniken werden erlernt, um Prana (= Lebensenergie) im K?rper wahrzunehmen. Viele westliche Menschen erfahren Prana nur in Form von sexueller Energie. Es wird erlernt, Prana bewusst zu lenken sowie Austausch mit einem/r PartnerIn auf sehr subtiler Ebene stattfinden zu lassen. Sexuelle Energie wird f?r den Tanz und/oder eine spirituelle Erfahrung genutzt. In diesem Workshop erf?hrst du deinen Raum und wie viel Raum du brauchst. Es wird m?glich, dir deine pers?nlichen Grenzen bewusst zu machen, sie anderen gegen?ber zu wahren und zu kommunizieren sowie sie bewusst zu erweitern, wenn du m?chtest. Du ?bst achtsamen Umgang mit dir selbst, Selbstverantwortung im Tanz sowie Empathie mit anderen: Du erkennst, welche Form von Ber?hrung dein Wesen anspricht und dieses unterst?tzt und welche nicht. Wie tauchst du in den Raum deines/r Tanzpartner_in ein? Wie gehst du in Kontakt mit den Zellen und dem Wesen deines/r Tanzpartners/in? Wie findet ihr im auf einander H?ren euren gemeinsamen Tanz? Tiefe Begegnung zwischen euch im Tanz wird m?glich, wenn du nichts von dem/der Partner_in willst und er/sie nichts von dir. Tiefe Begegnung zwischen euch wird m?glich, wenn du ihn/sie nicht verwendest, um dich zu sp?ren, und wenn dein Ego ihn/sie nicht instrumentalisiert, sondern schweigt, und ihr einander, aber auch den Raum und vielleicht das Universum wahrnehmt. Wie ber?hrst du den/die Liebhaber_in Raum, wie verbindest du dich im Tanz mit dem beseelten Raum, der Welt oder dem Universum? Die Ausdehnung in den Raum erm?glicht die spirituelle Erfahrung des Samadhi des Raums. Das Seminar verst?rkt deine Achtsamkeit und Liebesf?higkeit. Die Liebesenergie und die sexuelle Energie als wichtige Bestandteile deines Seins n?hren deinen Tanz und flie?en in ihn ein. Sie werden nicht ausgeklammert, sondern sehr bewusst f?r den Tanz genutzt. WORKSHOP-DETAILS: Eine Abendsession wird einer Massage gewidmet sein. Level: Anf?ngerInnen und Fortgeschrittene Erfahrung mit Meditation wird vorausgesetzt. Der Workshop richtet sich an Contact Improvisation-Erfahrene und ?Unerfahrene sowie Tantra-Erfahrene und ?Unerfahrene. Es wird in einer geschlechtlich gemischten Gruppe gearbeitet. An diesem Workshop kannst du nat?rlich allein teilnehmen. Du kannst aber auch mit deiner/m/n PartnerInnen daran teilnehmen. Paare m?gen sich darauf einigen, welche ?bungen sie gemeinsam machen wollen und welche nicht. Es werden ?bungen vermittelt, die die Paarbeziehung definitiv vertiefen k?nnen. Unterrichtssprache: Englisch und Deutsch WORKSHOPZEITEN Donnerstag, 26.5. 18-22 h (mit einer Pause) Freitag, 27.5. 10-22 h (mit 2 Pausen) Samstag, 28.5. 10-22 h (mit 2 Pausen) Sonntag 29.5. 10-17 h (mit einer Pause) LINKS Sabines Website: http://www.tantrischekoerperarbeit.at Interview mit Sabine: http://mymonk.de/tantra-interview-mit-sabine-sonnenschein/ Literatur: http://www.tantra-integral.de/ VIDEO Einf?hrung in CI und Tantra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwhP6X5zkd4 BIO Sabine Sonnenschein: Sabine Sonnenschein (*1970) ist klin. Sexologin (Methode Sexocorporel), Tantra-Lehrerin (seit 2010), Contact Improvisation-Lehrerin (seit 2010), Choreografin, Performerin (seit 1992). Sie lebt und unterrichtet eine Verbindung von kaschmirischer tantrischer Weltsicht und Tanz als Lebenshaltung. Sie hat zeitgen?ssischen Tanz studiert. Ihre - bisher 39 - k?nstlerischen Arbeiten wurden in Europa und New York City gezeigt. Schwerpunkte in ihrer Tanzausbildung in New York City und Wien waren: Release Techniques, Contemporary Dance, Contact Improvisation (CI), Developmental Movement und Ballett bei Zvi Gotheiner. Sie praktiziert CI seit 1990; inspirierende CI-LehrerInnen waren f?r sie: Nita Little, Andrew Harwood, Inge Kaindlstorfer, Mark Tompkins, Daniel Lepkoff. Sie ist in tantrischer Ganzk?rpermassage (AnandaWave, Michaela Riedl/K?ln) ausgebildet. Auseinandersetzung mit der Beckenbodenmassage bei K. Ruby und der Yin-Yang-Massage bei Andro. Einf?hrung in non-dualen kaschmirischen Tantrismus und kaschmirisches Yoga der Ber?hrung bei Daniel Odier. Vertiefung in "Vijnana Bhairava Tantra" mit Dr. Bettina B?umer (Varanasi). In Wien gibt sie tantrische K?rperarbeit, Scho?raumdialoge und Sexualcoaching. Sie gibt international Seminare, die sich mit der Verbindung von Tantra und Contact Improvisation besch?ftigen, vor allem in Wien, Freiburg, Paris, Bretagne, Berlin. Zusammenarbeit mit G?nter Touschek, Benno Enderlein, Manuela Blanchard, Cleo Laigret und Malcolm Manning. BIO Christian Neher Christian Neher (*1969) hat Physik studiert, ist Yogalehrer, und Gestalttherapeut in Ausbildung. Urspr?nglich aus dem Kampfsport kommend (1. Dan Judo), verschrieb er sich mehr als eine Dekade dem Turniertanz in Standard- und Lateinamerikanischen T?nzen, die er bis heute auch unterrichtet. In den letzten Jahren wendet er sich intensiv freieren Tanzformen zu, wobei sein neuer Schwerpunkt bei der Contact Improvisation liegt, die er bei internationalen Lehrern auf zahlreichen Workshops im In-und Ausland studiert und lehrt. Auseinandersetzung mit Tantra seit 2009 (Art of Being, Secret of Tantra, Skydancing, Daniel Odier, Elisabeth Bott, Sabine Sonnenschein). Zusammenarbeit mit Sabine Sonnenschein seit 2011. ?BERNACHTUNG: F?r Teilnehmer des Workshops besteht die M?glichkeit f?r die Dauer des Workshops (DO>FR>SA>SO - nicht MI>DO, nicht SO>MO) direkt im Studio zu ?bernachten. Im Studio gibt es einfache Matrazen, eine K?che und Duschen/Badezimmer. Schlafplatz im Studio mit Kochm?glichkeit: 15 EUR pro Person pro Nacht. Bitte bei Anmeldung zum Workshop Schlafplatz reservieren. Veranstaltungsort: Haus Lebenskunst (Raum des ehemaligen "Institut f?r Lebenskunst" Mehringdamm 34 (2. Hinterhof, Aufgang 4, 5. Stock) 10961 Berlin ANFAHRT: U-Bahnhof U6 & U7: Mehringdamm (Ausgang Yorkstra?e) https://www.google.de/maps?daddr=10961+Berlin,+Mehringdamm+34 BILDRECHT: Robert Peres From no-reply at artsoasisitaly.in.ua Mon Mar 21 18:01:00 2016 From: no-reply at artsoasisitaly.in.ua (ArtsOasis 2016) Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 01:01:00 +0300 Subject: [CI-Announce] Grants for professional performers Message-ID: <8071bfb96a9fed060f01909d6ce5d35c@localhost.localdomain> Dear Friends, Please feel free to share this information with your colleagues: ? Partial grants announced: for professional dancers, choreographers, actors of dance, physical theatre, drama, musical theatre, contemporary circus artists, movement directors, physical theatre directors and multidisciplinary artists. ? The grant covers room and 3 meals per day during international performing arts residency in Tuscany, Italy. ? Arts Oasis dates: May 25 - June 1, 2016 ? Arts Oasis is the annual program is based at the territory of the 12th century Monastery,the famous place of seclusion of Dante Alighieri. The program is inviting performing arts practitioners from all over the world, passionate and inspired by movement, dance, physical theater, interested in contemporary methods of performance practice and seeking new professional contacts and collaboration. ? For grant conditions & application guidelines, please visit: https://twitter.com/iugte_art ? =============================================== ? To manage your mailings please email to managelist at inbox.ru -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From xs4jan at gmx.de Tue Mar 29 07:49:40 2016 From: xs4jan at gmx.de (J.B.) Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 13:49:40 +0200 Subject: [CI-Announce] KATIE DUCK: IMPROVISATION - Workshop in Performance Research and improvisational compositions - June 3-5, 2016 in Berlin Message-ID: KATIE DUCK: IMPROVISATION - Workshop in Performance Research and improvisational compositions DATE: June 3-5, 2016 VENUE: Tanzfabrik Kreuzberg, Berlin COST: Earlybird 100?, thereafter 120? REGISTRATION: For registration details and workshop questions please contact me by e-mail at xs4jan at gmx.de EVENT WEBSITE: http://contact-improvisation.net/2015/10/02/improvisation-workshop-by-katie-duck-june-3-5-2016/ SOCIAL: https://www.facebook.com/events/663553780414838/ WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: Katie Duck has been investigating theater, dance and music with live performance for over 30 years. In her workshop, she takes a microscopic view on the role improvisation plays in a live performance combining her background in the performing arts with her curiosity for advances in brain studies, music and movement research. WHO COULD ATTEND? Katie can accept students from all performance art backgrounds and professional levels. Her only concern is that anyone who studies in her workshop have a deep interest in the work and is willing to experiment and take risks with the material she offers. WHAT YOU LEARN? Improvisational performance breaks the framework of preset choreography and challenges the artist to be the creator/composer/choreographer and the performer at the same time; to be the doer and the observer simultaneously. It is about learning ?The Eye': of the space, of the watcher and essentially the eye of work being created. The workshop is oriented towards building skills of performance presence, timing, tracking and conviction of choice/action. It focuses on developing skills to interpret dynamic space and creating one?s own performance frame. While Katie aims to explore novel and rigorous approaches to body work. The main focus lies in reaching a state of surprising oneself. The workshop will be structured into body work, activity-based sessions, performances and a jam. Her warm-up and exercises emphasis how the eyes and the ears work in coordination 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. Katie guides the dancers and performers through physical exercises that highlight how the eyes and ears affect movement choices and developmental brain studies about ?how we learned to walk?. She extends the workshop toward improvisation sessions by setting a fictional front in the studio space and then declaring this as a platform to choose pause, flow or exit. This platform highlights how the limit of these three choices can already provide the frame for a composition to take place, and that misunderstanding, coincidence, live time, interactivity, messiness, emotions, intuition and inspiration are basic materials in a creative process. These raw materials are integrated with the combined fact that everyone in the workshop group can make a choice. WORKSHOP SETTING: Choice is introduced to the workshop group as a compositional reality but also as a means for individuals to elect to participate in the performative or as a viewer and yet remain involved in the process. The aim is to gather the workshop group to recognize that in a creative composition process, time is passing at different perceived speeds and that space is shifting in several dimensions at once. This awareness creates a presence in the space and a compositional alertness. 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. The improvisation sessions are given a delegated time frame with an option for the workshop group to shift, drop or lift the space at will. This shifting, dropping and lifting of the performance space places each individual in a position where they need to be to be fully awake or they will recognisably loose the thread of the creative compositional activity in play. HOW KATIE TEACHS? Katie has been teaching since she began to perform professionally in the mid 70?s. She is dedicated to how process and research play a major role in how one can continue to be artistic in how they approach their life and their work. 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. 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. Her enthusiasm for a young artists to be able to continue their practice, in a very different atmosphere than when she began her work, is evident in how she has continued to up grade her life style with new technologies, continued to do research in the sciences, the performance arts and music. She has created several projects with an aim to support a young artists rather than her own career. She continues to take risks with her own career in the support of young artists giving them the possibility to experiment within their own practice. 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. In the way she communicates with students, one is aware of how she understands that the professional field of the arts has altered drastically in comparison to when she began her practice in the mid 70?s. As part of her teaching, she encourages young artists to devise strategies that allow for them to sustain the production of their work with creativity and research involved and yet survive. RESEARCH MATERIAL: Katie has had the possibility to create material for her workshops out of a wide range of practice in the performance arts. She has never formulated her teaching material into a frozen body of knowledge. She does not believe that the accumulation of knowledge is how one becomes a teacher. She believes that It is out of her practice and the practice she witnesses with a student that all knowledge becomes clarified in the lessons she leading. http://katieduck.com/about-katie-duck/text/research-material/ QUOTES KATIE DUCK: ?The combination of moving, seeing, hearing, feeling and deliberately volunteering to expose myself in front of an audience alters my perception of time, space and emotions. What I do for a living is an induced neuron madness? ?I am not interested in the moment even though it does feel good. I am interested in movement and the fact that time is passing. It is a kind of hippie hype to encourage someone to be in the moment.? ?A fully awake body is rarely pedestrian. The body awake needs to be discovered and demands a discipline beyond everyday tasks. And yet when I see movement that does not respect the beauty of the body as pedestrian I become uncomfortable. How the body works and how I see a body is not so different an activity in how I feel. To not respect the body as an already perfect place of motion is like watching a dog trying to learn ballet.? VIDEOS: Cage make a movie (Solo Katie / Music Mix Katie Duck) https://vimeo.com/140120365 Duck and Snaith (girls at work) (Yolanda Snaith and Katie Duck / music mix Katie Duck) https://vimeo.com/140186320 Recent improvisation (OT301 Amsterdam / live musicians) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqgPUVvf-S8 Katie Duck & Alfredo Genovesi at SDSU - closing talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0zeo5s1BzA OTHER LINKS: DR Sharon Smith essay about working with Katie Duck http://www.sharonsmith.org/5-its-not-what-you-do-its-the-way-that-you-do-it.php Home from Home by the Blue Stocking Social Club, by Vincent Cacalano http://www.contactquarterly.com/cq/unbound/view/home-from-home-by-the-blue-stocking-social-club#$ BIO KATIE DUCK: Katie Duck has been a professional performer and maker since the early 1970?s. She has been a influential figure in the improvisational performance scene internationally, inspiring generations of performers, musicians and performance makers. She set up the acclaimed Gruppo in Italy in 1979 and toured Europe with a host of productions. She was head of choreography at Dartington College of arts (senior lecturer) in the late 1980?s. She joined the staff at Amsterdam Hogeschool voor de kunsten in 1991 teaching movement research, improvisation, composition and technique and founded the improvisational dance and music company Magpie in the 1990?s with whom she toured internationally. She has collaborated with renowned dance and improvisation music artists form all over the world. Katie?s career has included independent teaching, university teaching, set choreography?s, structured improvisations, music and dance real time performances and live streaming international performances. Her collaborations have been with musicians, visual artists, lighting designers, dancers, actors and comedians. She has initiated education courses and workshops, festivals and monthly performance series in her three bases Italy, England and Holland. She has led dance companies, dance/music companies, advises young artists and has written text for her performances as well as critical articles. Katie has a determination to continue her research in theatre, music, dance, text and performance. Alongside her vocational studies, her research has led her toward social studies, cultural studies and brain studies. She believes that her research must not be validated by way of academic speak alone but rather on her insistence to hear, see and take part in the practice. More at Katies Website: http://katieduck.com/about-katie-duck/bio/ SCHEDULE: June 3-5, 2016 Friday: 4-8 pm Saturday: 11am-3pm Sunday: 11-3pm LOCATION: Tanzfabrik Berlin M?ckernstr.68, 10965 Berlin (Kreuzberg) Studio No.4 http://www.tanzfabrik-berlin.de/en/studios TRAFFIC LINKS: U6 & 7 Yorckstrasse / Mehringdamm S1 & 2 Yorckstrasse Bus M19 Katzbachstrasse https://www.google.de/maps?daddr=10965+Berlin,+M%C3%B6ckernstr.+68