UK Workshops, Intensives, Festivals, Jams, Workshops
Dancing in the Darkeness Jam 4 December 2019, London
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Celebrate the darkest days of 2019 with movement
Candle-lit Silent Dance Score. Written instructions will be in the space Arrive from 6:45 7pm begin* 8:30 bell to find and end. 8:45 closing circle (spoken or non verbal- your choice) 9pm end *its possible to join in up until 7:30 when the front door will be locked Drawing materials, tea and cushions/blankets will be available in the space. Bring your own journal or blanket or inspiring reading. Where: Half Moon Crescent Community Hall 183 Wynford Road London N1 9TZ Cost 10 pounds Facilitated by Colleen Bartley email: movementmovement@zoho.com |
Rewilding CI workshop with Nita Little 28 December 2019
In this coming year, I believe one of the most important things I can do is to commit myself to generating fresh intelligence in the relationships I enter in my dances, in my environments and in all the meetings I have with the human and non-human world. By intelligence I mean truthful, somatic, articulate, caring, and engendering of vitality and well-being. Communication is not just about listening, but about speaking through our bodies with more than simply the intention to be heard. It is an ability to be in communion with the one who can (or cannot) hear. By reWilding my culturally defined notions of physical selfhood, I open myself to touch the world as a more response-able being. In this brief workshop, we will realign our physical presence with our intentions to be this larger being who can serve the world in this, its time of need.
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Please join me in the dance of Contact Improvisation. This meeting will include skills work on physical and attentional levels. Expect to dance full out with your whole being.
Open to all. Everyone is invited. Date: Saturday 28 December Time: 2pm-7pm Cost £60/£50 conc (includes tea and nibbles) Place: Ringcross Hall 60 Lough Rd London N7 8RH Email: movementmovement@zoho.com to register and hold your place with £20 deposit |
About Nita:
Nita Little, performer, choreographer, teacher, scholar and writer, has been delving into the significance of improvisational dance actions the entirety of her professional career, which began with the emergence and development of Contact Improvisation (CI). Her work with Steve Paxton was research generative of CI including touring with him, developing teaching methodologies, performance practices and conceptual understanding of the form. Little received her PhD in Performance Studies in 2014 from the University of California, Davis. The breadth of her understanding bridges the field of dance improvisation to the expansion of human knowledge – investigations include physical/mental states in the physics of motion, relational and creative action, and the articulation of presence through ensemble improvisation and Contact Improvisation. She is the founder of The Institute for the Study of Somatic Communication, based in Seattle but functioning through dance improvisational research ensembles located around the globe. This action is in partnership with a diversity of theorists from fields including cognitive therapy, anthropology, psychology, biology, philosophy, and performance studies. |
1 March 2020 Workshop with Alicia Grayson
Developmental Movement, Skills and Artistic Choices - with Alicia Grayson (USA)
We will use developmental movement patterns and sequences to support our training in our physical skills as well as in our artistic/improvisational choices in contact improvisation.
Included in our investigations will be the 5 fundamental actions: yield, push, reach, grasp and pull and 4 developmental movement patterns: naval radiation, homologous, homolateral and contralateral.
These actions and patterns will be a base from which we develop more awareness and integration in our physical body. In addition we will use these actions and patterns to expand our artistic choices in solos, duet and ensemble work.
We will experience how the co-creativeity of contact improvisation is exponentially amplified when each individual is deeply anchored in their own embodiment.
Alicia Grayson has been passionately involved with dancing, teaching and performing Contact Improvisation for the past 30 years. She has taught CI as an adjunct faculty at George Washington University, University of Denver, Naropa University and Shenandoah University. She teaches CI, yoga and pilates classes in Boulder, CO and regularly travels nationally and internationally to teach. Her long time practices of authentic movement, yoga and pilates and her love of nature are important influences on her dancing and teaching. She is a certified Hakomi therapist, certified perinatal somatic attachment therapist and certified Feminine Power transformational coach and facilitator. She delights in exploring and discovering new depths to contact improvisation and related disciplines and is particularly interested in the intersection of physics and expression and the mind/body relationship. She is dedicated to supporting her fellow humans to be the most amazing embodied beings that we are!
www.aliciagrayson.com
Location: The Place, 16 Flaxman Terrace, London WC1H 9AT - Studio 1.
Time: Sunday, 1st March 2020
9:30am-12 & 1:30-5pm
Costs: £50 (£45 concession)
Level: CI experience required
To book or for more information, please email ci_workshops@yahoo.com
We will use developmental movement patterns and sequences to support our training in our physical skills as well as in our artistic/improvisational choices in contact improvisation.
Included in our investigations will be the 5 fundamental actions: yield, push, reach, grasp and pull and 4 developmental movement patterns: naval radiation, homologous, homolateral and contralateral.
These actions and patterns will be a base from which we develop more awareness and integration in our physical body. In addition we will use these actions and patterns to expand our artistic choices in solos, duet and ensemble work.
We will experience how the co-creativeity of contact improvisation is exponentially amplified when each individual is deeply anchored in their own embodiment.
Alicia Grayson has been passionately involved with dancing, teaching and performing Contact Improvisation for the past 30 years. She has taught CI as an adjunct faculty at George Washington University, University of Denver, Naropa University and Shenandoah University. She teaches CI, yoga and pilates classes in Boulder, CO and regularly travels nationally and internationally to teach. Her long time practices of authentic movement, yoga and pilates and her love of nature are important influences on her dancing and teaching. She is a certified Hakomi therapist, certified perinatal somatic attachment therapist and certified Feminine Power transformational coach and facilitator. She delights in exploring and discovering new depths to contact improvisation and related disciplines and is particularly interested in the intersection of physics and expression and the mind/body relationship. She is dedicated to supporting her fellow humans to be the most amazing embodied beings that we are!
www.aliciagrayson.com
Location: The Place, 16 Flaxman Terrace, London WC1H 9AT - Studio 1.
Time: Sunday, 1st March 2020
9:30am-12 & 1:30-5pm
Costs: £50 (£45 concession)
Level: CI experience required
To book or for more information, please email ci_workshops@yahoo.com
18 April 2020 workshop with w/Mirva Mäkinen
Movable support and flying technique in CI - with Mirva Mäkinen (FIN)
Contact improvisation is based on the communication between two moving bodies that are in physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their movement; gravity, momentum, inertia. The body, in order to feel these sensations, learns to release excess muscular tension and abandon a certain quality of willfulness to experience the natural flow of movement. This class will include rolling, falling, being upside down, following a physical point of contact, supporting and giving weight to a partner. We will aim towards movable support and gentle flying technique.
Mirva Mäkinen graduated as a Doctor of Dance from University of Arts in Helsinki in 2018. Her doctoral research is about Somaesthetics of Contact Improvisation. She graduated (MA) from the Dance Department from the University of Arts, Finland in 2000, before that she did masters of Physical Education from University of Jyväskylä.
From 2000 onwards she has been a dance teacher, choreographer and lecturer for dance at the Kallio Upper Secondary School of Performing Arts. She has been teaching in several international dance and contact improvisation festivals. Mirva has been working with with many different dance companies and choreographers, here few of them: Dance company Karttunen Kollektiv (choreographer Jyrki Karttunen), New Circus Company Circo Aereo, choreographer Joona Halonen, Echo Echo dance company (Ireland), collaboration with Frey Faust and collaboration with Joerg Hassmann. At the moment she is working with Finnish choreographer Valtteri Raekallio.
In dance I am interested in the feeling of flow and soft movement. I love to investigate movement, its rhythm and different ways of inhabiting the body. A feeling of dancing is created by being able to switch the body from total relaxation to extreme intensity and tension. I call this the body’s ability to breathe and create movement.
www.mirvamakinen.com
Location: The Place, 16 Flaxman Terrace, London WC1H 9AT - Studio 1.
Time: 18-19th April 2020
10:30am-5pm
Costs: £90 (£80 concession)
Level: open level, some CI experience required
To book or for more information, please email ci_workshops@yahoo.com
Contact improvisation is based on the communication between two moving bodies that are in physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their movement; gravity, momentum, inertia. The body, in order to feel these sensations, learns to release excess muscular tension and abandon a certain quality of willfulness to experience the natural flow of movement. This class will include rolling, falling, being upside down, following a physical point of contact, supporting and giving weight to a partner. We will aim towards movable support and gentle flying technique.
Mirva Mäkinen graduated as a Doctor of Dance from University of Arts in Helsinki in 2018. Her doctoral research is about Somaesthetics of Contact Improvisation. She graduated (MA) from the Dance Department from the University of Arts, Finland in 2000, before that she did masters of Physical Education from University of Jyväskylä.
From 2000 onwards she has been a dance teacher, choreographer and lecturer for dance at the Kallio Upper Secondary School of Performing Arts. She has been teaching in several international dance and contact improvisation festivals. Mirva has been working with with many different dance companies and choreographers, here few of them: Dance company Karttunen Kollektiv (choreographer Jyrki Karttunen), New Circus Company Circo Aereo, choreographer Joona Halonen, Echo Echo dance company (Ireland), collaboration with Frey Faust and collaboration with Joerg Hassmann. At the moment she is working with Finnish choreographer Valtteri Raekallio.
In dance I am interested in the feeling of flow and soft movement. I love to investigate movement, its rhythm and different ways of inhabiting the body. A feeling of dancing is created by being able to switch the body from total relaxation to extreme intensity and tension. I call this the body’s ability to breathe and create movement.
www.mirvamakinen.com
Location: The Place, 16 Flaxman Terrace, London WC1H 9AT - Studio 1.
Time: 18-19th April 2020
10:30am-5pm
Costs: £90 (£80 concession)
Level: open level, some CI experience required
To book or for more information, please email ci_workshops@yahoo.com
