From elskeseidel at hotmail.com Sun Sep 4 06:25:46 2016 From: elskeseidel at hotmail.com (Elske Seidel) Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2016 12:25:46 +0200 Subject: [CI-Announce] Widening the Space - Spirals & Spherical Space - Contact Improvisation with Elske Seidel BERLIN | 5 Nov 2016 In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: Widening the Space - Spirals & Spherical Space Contact Improvisation Workshops with Elske Seidel Berlin | 5 Nov 2016 Both workshops will be about recognizing spirals in our movement, how they support us, how they can widen the space in our dancing - freeing us into three-dimensionality and open possibility. Spirals as a core prinicipal and phenomena of nature, are essential for our bodies in organization and movement. As we observe nature we see the abundance of round shapes and the various manifestations of spirals. As we see water moving with gravity we learn. In these workshops we will support each other through hands-on work to connect to the water inside, finding our liquid quality, learning from feeling. We will sense our bones floating inside our bodies, soften our joints, allowing them to sink. Through imagination and perception we will learn about responsiveness and connectivity within our body. We will listen to the weight of the water moving us, shifting through us. As we dance I am interested in opening and exploring spherical space. Based on a center-to-center connection with our partner we can enjoy sharing continuous falling, allowing us to read direction as an invitation to spiral into flight. For people with a solid base in Contact Improvisation. 5 November 2016 Sat 10:30-6 pm (including 1.5h lunch break) Price: ? 58/ 48 (until Oct 9) Mime Centrum Berlin ? Studio 2 Kunstquartier Bethanien Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin ? Kreuzberg All Info & Registration: www.elskedance.de + elskeseidel at hotmail.com Elske Seidel, based in Berlin, is a passionate CI dancer & teacher, deeply committed to CI and its community internationally. She has been teaching dance full time and wholeheartedly for over two decades, CI since 2004. In her teaching she believes in opening spaces where dance in all its vital magic and play can emerge and simply happen. Her work draws from nature as a teacher and values doing little - slowly - so the experience of the participants can expand into the space she holds. She has taught CI in Europe, Canada, the U.S., Argentina, Israel, Russia and Japan. She is the artistic director of the Annual Contact Festival Fuerteventura/ E, Contact Saturday Berlin, as well as co-creating the Berlin Weekend Jam, 23h Jam Berlin, North Sea CI Camp/ GER, Dance Your Questions: CI Research Week for Experienced Contact Dancers, ECITE - European Contact Improvisation Teachers Exchange (Ponderosa/ GER), CI Training Program and CI Workshop Series BASICS in Berlin & Hamburg/ GER. www.elskedance.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We will go deep, sensing the layers under the skin, beginning to understand touch and communication in CI. As we discover how to move together sharing one common center of weight we will enter the fascination of play. 26+27 November 2016 Sat 12-6 pm, So 10:30-4:30 pm (including 1.5h lunch break) Price: 90 ? (with bank transfer until 29.10.), later 110 ? Phynix Tanzt ? Berlin Kreuzberg Hasenheide 54 | S?dsternh?fe | 2-3 backyard - 3rd floor U7 S?dstern Registration & Info: elskeseidel at hotmail.com www.elskedance.de Elske Seidel based in Berlin, is a passionate CI dancer & teacher, deeply committed to CI and its community internationally. She has been teaching dance fulltime and wholeheartedly for over two decades, CI since 2004. In her teaching she believes in opening spaces where dance in all its vital magic and play can emerge and simply happen. Her work draws from nature as a teacher and values doing little - slowly - so the experience of the participants can expand into the space she holds. She is the artistic director of the Annual Contact Festival Fuerteventura/ Spain, Contact Saturday Berlin, as well as co-creating the Berlin Weekend Jam, 23h Jam Berlin, North Sea CI Camp/ Germany, Dance Your Questions: CI Research Week for Experienced Contact Dancers, CI Training Program Hamburg/ Germany and CI Workshop Series BASICS in Berlin & Hamburg/ Germany. www.elskedance.de photo @ Katelyn Stiles flyer design: mapp . graphics -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Herbst Basis Lang VS WEB1.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 106931 bytes Desc: not available URL: From elskeseidel at hotmail.com Sun Sep 11 08:35:15 2016 From: elskeseidel at hotmail.com (Elske Seidel) Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 14:35:15 +0200 Subject: [CI-Announce] 9th Fuerteventura Contact Improvisation Festival 4.-10.3.2017 / Contact Camp 26.2.-14.3.2017 / Pre Festival Workshop 2.+3.3.2017 In-Reply-To: References: , <57D1B0D0.9030802@dancecontact.de>, , , , Message-ID: 9th Fuerteventura Contact Improvisation Festival 4.-10.3.2017 *Contact Camp* 26.2.-14.3.2017 Pre Festival Workshop 2.+3.3.2017 This festival celebrates our CI community. In the middle of European winter, we will share dance and quality time together in a warm and sunny climate! It is about Dancing Bodies & Dancing Places: Arriving in body-time, listening, sensing space, the emptiness and vastness inside and outside. Allowing yourself to sink into the volcano, learn from the island of Fuerteventura itself, meeting place, expanding the mind, and opening the body. In the precision of the studio inside, - and outside with wind, sand, stone and water, the very experience itself - we will listen. We will study the forces of gravity in the focus of the studio as well as taking the exploration into different elements and onto different surfaces. Each re-informing the body and nourishing our dance and our souls. There will be Contact Improvisation workshops, focused & open jamming, site specific dancing (sand dunes, volcanoes, beaches, lagoons, ocean waves), and lots & lots of spaciousness to just be. Our vision is to create a sense of play within the group, inviting involvement and creativity. Supporting each of us to follow our interests, ideas, needs and curiosities. Teachers 2017: Alyssa Lynes (ES/USA), Bastien Auber (FR), Elske Seidel (GER), Daniel Werner (GER), Gabi Neumann (GER), Nadja Schwarzenbach (GER), Roland Mokshia Frenzel (ES/GER), Jo Bruhn (GER), Kabiro Eva Scheller (GER) Price: 420-360 ? (depending on your income/financial resources, self-assessment) for one week of festival, including all workshops, jams, food and housing (festival hostel or own tent). We have a lower special price for local people. *Contact Camp* before and after the festival (9-10 ?/ night) with individual or/ and community cooking. Join us whenever you can! Transportation: For cheap flights and our car sharing system please check our website! This year flights seem to be quite cheap! Pre Festival Workshop: 2.+3.3.2017 with Elske Seidel, Daniel Werner & Gabi Neumann 'Contact Improvisation Training: Tools & Toys for all levels - Systematic, Somatic, Playful' Watch our video from the festival 2015: https://youtu.be/jqj3Gk670DU Fotos from 2016: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010510183572&sk=photos&collection_token=100010510183572%3A2305272732%3A69&set=a.257917814568556.1073741829.100010510183572&type=3 Also join us on facebook: Event 2017: https://www.facebook.com/events/745590532258842/ ID: http://www.facebook.com/cifestival.fuerteventura?ref=tn_tnmn Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/466269080060781/ REGISTRATION & MORE INFORMATION: www.canarian.contactfestival.info Information about flights: Cheap flights to Fuerteventura are with Easyjet from Basel and the UK from 45 ?. Ryanair has flights from 55 ? from the following locations: Bremen, Barcelona El Prat, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Br?ssel Charleroi, Cork, Dublin, D?sseldorf-Weeze, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Franfurt-Hahn, Glasgow-Prestwick, Leeds Bradford, Liverpool, London Luton, London Stansted, Madrid, Mailand Bergamo, Pisa. Also you can check here: http://www.momondo.de, http://www.skyscanner.com, lastminute.com, or http://www.etn.nl/lcostair.htm Other low cost airlines: www.condor.com, Tuifly, Airberlin, Germanwings and Transavia. If you find good flight offers in other countries, please let us know, so we can pass it on! If you want to informed about flight offers, please send an email to contact at contactfestival.info with the subject "flights fuerteventura". With love, joy & delight! Elske, Daniel and Gabi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Hope to hear from and dance with you soon, Nancy (& Patrick, January Workshop coordinator) JANUARY WORKSHOP 2017 a 3-week training with NANCY STARK SMITH plus Mike Vargas and other guests January 8 (arrive afternoon) - January 27, 2017 Earthdance, western Massachusetts, USA Contact Improvisation Solo Training ? Changing States Improvisation Scores ? The Underscore Composition ? Performance A 3-week residential workshop focused on contact improvisation and other related work: physical training, improvisation and composition scores, jamming, watching, discussion, feedback, labs, contemplative practice, and performance studies. In solo, duet, trio, and group work; in and out of contact; in silence and with live music; we'll move toward greater clarity and depth in our dancing and watching. Please come prepared for intensive practice (and a bit of fun!). Intermediate level in CI required. Fill out online application form outlining your background and skill level in contact improvisation, dance, and improvisation, and your reasons for wanting to attend. All registrations must be approved by Nancy. The workshop will meet Monday?Friday, 10 am to 5:30/6 pm in studios at Earthdance, in Plainfield, MA, (a beautiful dance retreat center located 35 minutes west of Northampton, MA, in the Berkshire Mountains), and in town at an Aikido dojo. There will be some evening and weekend activities. For details & application form: www.nancystarksmith.com Early Registration & Discount Deadline: September 15, 2016 Limited Space. Apply as early as possible for most favorable consideration. Contact: Patrick Crowley, workshop coordinator,januaryworkshop at nancystarksmith.com , (617) 320-9792 or Nancy, contactq at aol.com , (413) 586-8243 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From elskeseidel at hotmail.com Tue Sep 20 03:49:31 2016 From: elskeseidel at hotmail.com (Elske Seidel) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 09:49:31 +0200 Subject: [CI-Announce] Last call! CI Training Program in Hamburg/Germany Sept/Nov 16- March 17 with Elske Seidel and Daniel Werner In-Reply-To: References: , <5712A50E.1020609@dancecontact.de>, , , , Message-ID: CI Training Program 2016/17 Hamburg (Germany) Elske Seidel and Daniel Werner In our CI Training Program we wish to take the intensive experience of a workshop into a longer process, opening a field of continuous learning, relating and dancing with each other in an on-going group. We want to offer a space to develop our moving body, deepen our understanding and personal journey into this dance through a longer period of time. This CI Training Program creates the opportunity to study Contact Improvisation systematically and continuously with a group of people we come to trust. It offers precise technique, somatic movement research (learning from within) and support for the individual learning process. In the technical part of our investigation, we will work in smaller groups in order to offer ?tools? and material for people with different levels of experience. We seek to create space for individual interests and needs. In our work it is important to us to maintain the balance between a technical exploration as a development of a mutual language and the freedom of speaking this language ? dancing ? communicating, improvising, playing freely in dance. We are interested in how awareness, trust and feeling within the group will change, develop and grow ? how is our communication, our interaction and our actual way of being together influenced by our dance practice and our time together? This year we are excited to offer an ?open continuation? which will build on the experience and material of the previous CI Training Program in Hamburg. We want to create the opportunity to learn and play with a group of people sharing a common knowledge of CI. At the same time we would like to invite people who are interested in this kind of learning environment. We would like to offer inspiration and new material for dancers with more experience as well as opening an easy and welcoming entry for those who come in freshly. All participants will receive a certificate including the content of the training program. WE 1: (Introduction Weekend): September 30-October 2, 2016/ Elske & Daniel (single booking possible) WE 2: November 11-13, 2016/ Elske (still possible to join) WE 3: December 16-18, 2016/ Daniel WE 4: January 27-29, 2017 (Laboratory: Participants will research on their own. Bringing their personally relevant topics and questions to the dance.) WE 5: Intensive: March 24-26, 2017/ Elske & Daniel (incl Aquatic Contact) >>In special cases it is possible to miss one module. >>This year we will have an additional Aquatic Contact session (Nov or Dec weekend), on Saturday afternoon with the option to stay longer to enjoy the thermal bath and sauna! Times: Fri 7-9:30 pm, Sat 11-6 pm, Sun 11-5 pm (Sat+Sun incl. 1.5 h lunch break) March Intensive: Fr 11-5 pm possibly longer Aquatic Contact (in hot pool/ approx. ? 12-14 for entry), Sat 11-6 pm, Sun 11-5 pm (incl. 1.5 h lunch break) Price: ? 660-560 (till Aug 1, 2016), later ? 710-610 Introduction weekend only ? 140-110 (till Aug 1, 2016), later ? 160-130 Sleeping in the studio for ? 7/night possible! Place: TRIADE ? Zentrum f?r Tanz und Performance Bernstorffstrasse 117 (1st story), Hamburg St Pauli Info & Registration: Daniel Werner daniel.werner at dancecontact.de www.dancecontact.de www.elskedance.de Daniel and Elske share many years of friendship, uncountable jams and dances. Their mutual fascination for Contact Improvisation provides the center in both their lives. In 2003 they co-founded the ContAct Dance Company, investigating CI as a source for performance work, with a special interest in site-specific art. Both work as independent artists, somatic movement researchers and dancers; both have extensive experience in teaching CI internationally, as well as organizing and facilitating large CI events. They are co-organizers of both the Contact Festival Fuerteventura, since 2009, and the North Sea CI Camp. www.canarian.contactfestival.info In cooperating for the Training Program in Hamburg they wish to combine their creative energy and interests, support and inspire each other and every single one coming. Daniel Werner studied Dance, Contact Improvisation, Body-Mind Centering and other Somatic Methods and Practises with various teachers, and works internationally in this field since ?97 as a dancer, teacher and director. He graduated in contemporary dance at the North Karelia College in Finland. Furthermore he is a teacher for Qigong and Tai Chi in the line of Master Mantak Chia. Also he is involved in the following projects: www.dancecontact.de, www.contact-meets-contemporary.de, www.bodymindpresence.de, www.in-touch.es,www.easterimprofestival.info, www.canarian.contactfestival.info Elske Seidel, based in Berlin, is a passionate CI dancer & teacher, deeply committed to CI and its community internationally. She has been teaching dance full time and wholeheartedly for over two decades, contact since 2004. In her teaching she is interested in ?opening spaces where dance in all its magic and play can happen?. She likes to create CI events which bring the studio focus outside into nature and into the experience. She enjoys gathering community merging life and dance together. She has taught CI in Europe, Canada, the U.S., Argentina, Israel, Russia and Japan. Some of her projects are: Dance Your Question: CI Research Week / Arlequi (Spain), Contact Saturdays Berlin/ Tanzfabrik Berlin, 23h Jam Berlin, Berlin Weekend Jam, Contact Festival Fuerteventura (Spain) and North Sea CI Camp (Ger), Contact in Nature/ La Palma (Spain). www.elskedance.de www.canarian.contactfestival.info __,_._,___ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ATT00002 Type: image/jpeg Size: 24825 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ATT00004 Type: image/jpeg Size: 30084 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ATT00006 Type: image/jpeg Size: 11638 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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REGISTRATION: For registration details and workshop questions please contact me by e-mail at xs4jan at gmx.de EVENT WEBSITE: http://contact-improvisation.net/2016/07/09/animal-instinct-matan-levkowich-nov-25-27-2016/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/events/1103691559688310/ ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: https://vimeo.com/103231069 ANIMAL INSTINCT is an ongoing movement research. The core of this practice is to gain freedom in motion. By moving away from any ideology, style, form or aesthetic, we can reexamine our physical abilities with fresh eyes. The work refers to information from various movement disciplines (biomechanics, martial arts, somatic practices, contemporary dance & contact improvisation) and offers a wide spectrum of tools to study our body, to understand movement and communicate physically. ANIMAL INSTINCT offers natural movement patterns to create rich duets based on improvisation. This workshop will help developing the bodily-kinesthetic intelligence to provide dancers with the agility and coordination to complete the movements successfully. We will work on partnering exercises to expand our personal movement vocabulary and our ability to physically communicate in a duet. TOPICS we will explore/study: - Body preparation (warm-up/cool-down) - Physical Adaptation - Flexibility and movement fluidity - Undulation and spiral patterns - Muscle tonus - Hands as feet and feet as hands - Reflexive awareness - Structural limitations & manipulation - Freedom in expression We will work in various constellations (solo, duet or group work), studying the never-ending possibilities that occur in dynamic improvisations. We will re-inhabit our dancing body and emerge ourselves into the flow of movement. The ANIMAL INSTINCT is a frame in which one can explore his own body in relation to a partner/partners. The starting point for this exploration is the pleasure that comes from bodily communication. We will learn the effect of the physical forces that are around us and how they can be utilized into our partner body and to ourselves. We will learn how to fall, roll, jump, fly and manipulate. We will examine touch qualities and explore our imagination and curiosity. ANIMAL INSTINCT can be divided into three layers: body preparation, body communication, body migration. Each layer is an independent universe that can exist on its own but is designed to support, develop & complete the other layers. Together they represent what I define as movement liberation. By diving into the world of movement, we can start perceiving ourselves as movement ambassadors, as a reference point to ?body inhabitants?. It grows into a responsibility, a missionary quest, to bring back our natural heritage to be in movement, to become motion. BODY PREPARATION The foundation layer. The work consists a variety of movement tasks/exercises to understand the body as an individual entity. By working with the solo body, we can differentiate, dissect and map the body properties, limitations and potentials. The work aims to establish tools for self-discipline and self exploration of the body. BODY COMMUNICATION In this layer the exploration focus is on the universe of physical communication with another person. When working with a partner, we can transform the motivation for movement to a reaction based practice. We are not alone anymore. We are being affected by external forces/intentions and we can clarify our desires and motivations. This layer helps to experience evolution through dependency on another being. BODY MIGRATION The last layer introduces group constellations. The exponential increase of the ever-changing variables, confronts the individual to adapt and change constantly, evolving into a state where the speed of our thoughts is equalised with our body reactions. In this frame, one can examine himself/herself through a wider lens. We are social beings and we need to develop skills to exist within a group. When combined together to a body of work, we can take our heads 'out of the water? and merge into a wider context: We are living in a demobilized society where movement is being perceived as luxury/hobby and the body is being appreciated merely on its aesthetic properties. By diving into the world of movement, we can start perceiving ourselves as movement ambassadors, as a reference point to 'body inhabitants?. It grows into a responsibility, a missionary quest, to bring back our natural heritage to be in movement, to become motion. SCHEDULE: Friday, 25.11.: 6pm - 9pm Saturday, 26.11.: 11am - 6pm (1h break) Sunday, 27.11.: 11am - 6pm (1h break) LEVEL: The workshop is open for beginners and advanced movers. LANGUAGE: Language is english Translation into german is possible MATAN'S VIDEOS: https://www.youtube.com/user/justobehappy https://vimeo.com/matanlevkowich BIO MATAN LEVKOWICH: Matan is a dancer, choreographer and movement teacher inspired by social phenomena and human behaviour. His approach to movement is based on the study of the body's intuition. The study of intuition enables to navigate through instability and develops trust in the body?s capacities. His choreographic works explore narratives of body/relations. His main interest lays in utilizing coincidence into stable, communicative scenarios. Matan started his physical education in Rene Cassin high school for sport. Until the age 18 he was trained to be a basketball player. His first encounter with dance was 2007-2009 in The Group in Jaffa ? School for Contemporary Dance, 2009-2010 he studies at The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, 2010-2013 he continued his studies at Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD). He danced in works of David Zambrano (?4+1?), Martin Nachbar (On Foot), Alessandro Sciarroni (Untitled (2) - you don?t know how lucky you are), Marco Torrice (Centipedes), and others. https://vimeo.com/88329062 His choreographic works have been presented in various dance festivals, cultural events, art galleries and museums. His first choreographic work "Point of contact" was presented in Israel at 2010 as part of the "New dance project" ? a platform for emerging choreographers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhM4vSLXg9o A new work of Matan is ?Magnesium? (2014 and 2015) in which he developed a breathtaking tribute to the origins of CI, Steve Paxton's performance ?Magnesium? that also ?combined inner-focused movement and athleticism including wrestling and falling, jumping and rolling?. https://vimeo.com/102102684 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e1CZqqy3Fg As a teacher, Matan?s focus lays in contact improvisation and movement research. He started giving regular classes in Israel in 2008. Since then, he had the chance to teach in different circumstances and to different audiences; from professional dancers to amateurs and teenagers, in open workshops, festivals and closed intimate groups. Currently he is based in Austria and he keeps on presenting his work in festivals in Europe. As well he works as a guest teacher and creator at SOZO dance academy. More information: http://www.matanlevkowich.com/works 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 PHOTO CREDIT: Yair Meuhas