UK Workshops, Intensives, Festivals, Jams, Workshops
Up Up in a way Harberton Parish Hall
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Up, Up in a Way! A 3-workshop series exploring lightness & flight in Contact Improvisation (Sat. 29th Feb., Sat. 14th & Sun. 29th March near Totnes) led by Asher Levin with Klara Łucznik
A focus on the dynamic interplay between partners, techniques of flying and landing, lifting and supporting with ease and pleasure, fluidly incorporating air-time into our CI dance and CI principles such as deep listening and following through… With Intuitive Bodywork & time for jamming! Everyone welcome. Join 1, 2 or (best) all 3 sessions! Dates: Sat. 29th Feb., Sat. 14th & Sun. 29th March; 10.30 am to 5 pm (with 1 hour for lunch) Harberton Parish Hall, TQ9 7SD (underfloor heating & sprung floor!), 1 mile from Totnes. Lifts & accommodation offered Pay as you feel willing and able: 1 day: £30-£60, 2 days: £50-£100, all 3 days: £70-£140 For more information and to book, contact Asher Levin: writetoAsherLevin@yahoo.co.uk, 0799 9934369 |
Finding Support workshop will be rescheduled contact the organisers for more details
Finding Support - Finding Presence
A weekend of Body-Mind Centering® Somatic Movement Classes
7 teachers 7 classes
Each class will build on our theme of ‘Finding Support - Finding Presence’ with explorations on the origins of movement from inside the womb to those early years where we meet gravity and the space around us. How can these developmental movement patterns inform the way we communicate and move as we grow older? 'By seeking to know ourselves, we transform ourselves; in the act of observing, we change the outcome.’ Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
You do not need to have previous experience in BMC® to join the workshops, all abilities welcome.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2418991781540674/ - 14th to 15th of March
Fees: Whole weekend £120/ (£60 concession), 1 day £70/ (£35 concession), 1/2 day: morning or afternoon £40/ (£20 concession)
Venue: Syracusae, 134 Liverpool Road, Islington, London N1
Bookings: To book your place please contact Andromeda Graziano: atgraziano@aol.com
A weekend of Body-Mind Centering® Somatic Movement Classes
7 teachers 7 classes
Each class will build on our theme of ‘Finding Support - Finding Presence’ with explorations on the origins of movement from inside the womb to those early years where we meet gravity and the space around us. How can these developmental movement patterns inform the way we communicate and move as we grow older? 'By seeking to know ourselves, we transform ourselves; in the act of observing, we change the outcome.’ Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
You do not need to have previous experience in BMC® to join the workshops, all abilities welcome.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2418991781540674/ - 14th to 15th of March
Fees: Whole weekend £120/ (£60 concession), 1 day £70/ (£35 concession), 1/2 day: morning or afternoon £40/ (£20 concession)
Venue: Syracusae, 134 Liverpool Road, Islington, London N1
Bookings: To book your place please contact Andromeda Graziano: atgraziano@aol.com
Equinox Underscore- cancelled... see event link for more
https://www.facebook.com/events/234073117729857/
Equinox Underscore
London
Wednesday 18 March 2020
Half Moon Crescent Community Centre
183 Wynford Rd, London N1 9TZ
Sliding scale £10-15
6:30 Talkthrough (for newcomers)
7:00 Assembly (previous pow-wow)
8:45 Final Resolution
9:15 Reflection/Harvest
The Underscore is a long-form dance improvisation structure developed by Nancy Stark Smith. It has been evolving since 1990 and is practiced all over the globe.
The Underscore is a vehicle for incorporating Contact Improvisation into a broader arena of improvisational dance practice; for developing greater ease dancing in spherical space—alone and with others; and for integrating kinesthetic and compositional concerns while improvising. It allows for a full spectrum of energetic and physical expressions, embodying a range of forms and changing states. Its practice is familiar yet unpredictable.
The practice progresses through a broad range of dynamic states, including long periods of very small, private, and quiet internal activity and other times of higher energy and interactive dancing.
Email Colleen movementmovement@zoho.com
Equinox Underscore
London
Wednesday 18 March 2020
Half Moon Crescent Community Centre
183 Wynford Rd, London N1 9TZ
Sliding scale £10-15
6:30 Talkthrough (for newcomers)
7:00 Assembly (previous pow-wow)
8:45 Final Resolution
9:15 Reflection/Harvest
The Underscore is a long-form dance improvisation structure developed by Nancy Stark Smith. It has been evolving since 1990 and is practiced all over the globe.
The Underscore is a vehicle for incorporating Contact Improvisation into a broader arena of improvisational dance practice; for developing greater ease dancing in spherical space—alone and with others; and for integrating kinesthetic and compositional concerns while improvising. It allows for a full spectrum of energetic and physical expressions, embodying a range of forms and changing states. Its practice is familiar yet unpredictable.
The practice progresses through a broad range of dynamic states, including long periods of very small, private, and quiet internal activity and other times of higher energy and interactive dancing.
Email Colleen movementmovement@zoho.com
workshop with w/Mirva Mäkinen
this workshop is postponed. check with organisers for new dates.
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.
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.
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
