Nevada City June CI Intensive

 

horizontal stripSaturday June 11- Friday June 17, 2016

  • a 7 day Intensive in Contact Improvisation with Karl Frost
  • at the historic North Columbia Schoolhouse, Nevada City, California
  • camping on a gorgeous piece of land on the North San Juan Ridge, a short drive from both the studio and the South Fork Yuba River

bhfilmThis 7 day workshop is an opportunity to deepen into the technical and experiential explorations of contact improvisation. We will spend roughly equal time working on classic contact improvisation techniques and movement vocabulary, the Passive Sequencing work, and the physical poetics of contact improvisation.

Classic Contact Improvisation techniques will include work on physical listening and following, use of alignment, weight sharing, lift vocabulary, safe and fluid movement together in and out of the floor, use and channeling of momentum, off-balance and inversion.

The Passive Sequencing work: an approach to movement and contact improvisation informed by Alexander technique, Klein release technique, soft martial arts, and the somatic theories of Peter Levine, the passive sequencing work has been developed by Frost over the last 25 years as a technique for observing unconscious reactivity (both in one’s own body and triggered in another body by one’s own actions), so that we can open up our awareness in these moments to have finer awareness of ourselves in our environment  and be able to move more intelligently with soft power, efficiency, and pleasurable fluidity and so we can cultivate the same in those with whom we interact.  Gentle self study reveals unconscious patterns of movement and response to allow an opening up of possibility and a more nuanced awareness of body and motion.

Physical Poetics: balancing out the more technical work will be experiential explorations: sensory, psychological, and (para)theatrical. IN these explorations and practices, we look for senses of art-making in our explorations.  Drawing material from the interactive performance work  and somatic psychology investigations of Body Research, we explore The Felt Experience, Artistry and Craft, Sensation, the Play of Felt Meaning, a Collaboratively Generated Physical Poem, Existing in Time Space and the Body, Stillness and Motion, Emotion, Ritual, Intention/Specificity balanced with an Openness to the Unexpected, the Pleasure of the Kinesthetic Experience given space for Reflection, States of Awareness, Collaborative Composition.

We’ll work about 6 hours a day and have space around that for exploring the beauty of the S Fork Yuba River and the North San Juan Ridge, as well as participating in local dance and art events.

Also, an informal post-workshop camping trip into the headwaters of the S Fork Yuba River is a possibility for those workshop participants so inclined. ‘hiking and dancing amongst alpine lakes, granite expanses and forests in the Grouse Ridge area of  Tahoe National Forest in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Logistics

Schedule: 11am-5pm Saturday-Friday (subject to adjustment), plus …

  • an expanded evening of the regular weekly Monday night CI Jam in town at the Miner’s Foundry
  • regular weekly Tuesday night Ecstatic Dance, also at the Miner’s Foundry
  • Thursday night open CI Jam at the N Columbia Schoolhouse

Prerequisites and space limitations

It will be expected that all participants will at the least have previous exposure to contact improvisation, and have some classic basics available, like physical listening, following contact, giving and receiving weight and weight sharing, moving into and out of the floor in connection with a partner, and a few basic lifts.  For some this might come with a single weekend workshop or a few classes and for others it might take longer to have acquired.  While there will likely be more advanced dancers in the workshop, it is not expected necessarily that everyone already have mastered dynamic off-balance and flight (…though all will be much closer to such by the end of the workshop). If you have questions, feel free to write… info@bodyresearch.org

Workshop will be limited to 18 participants.  register early to guarantee a spot (and to pay less).

Fees

registration by Regular

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pay by May 7

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pay by May 20

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pay by May 27

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 $430 – $600 $340-$600 $370 – $600 $400-$600 $460-$600

Camping fees are, in addition, $49 for the week and include shower facilities, bathrooms, kitchen (for storing and cooking food), and wifi

Registration

to register pay the fees to Karl Frost, either in person or via paypal, using the paypal button below.

Further information, write to info@bodyresearch.org

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