{"id":133,"date":"2012-12-22T22:35:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T22:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/?page_id=133"},"modified":"2024-11-11T20:21:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T20:21:51","slug":"late-fall","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/workshops\/late-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Weekend Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em><strong>annually 2003 &#8211; 2019<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">Thanksgiving<\/span> weekend&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\"><em>Contact Improv&nbsp;<\/em><\/span>Intensive<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/workshops\/late-fall\/tg-17-facebook-event-copy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2013\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/tg-17-facebook-event-copy-300x113.jpg\" alt=\"tg 17 facebook event copy\" width=\"400\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/tg-17-facebook-event-copy-300x113.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/tg-17-facebook-event-copy-768x289.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/tg-17-facebook-event-copy.jpg 784w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>with <span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\"><strong>Karl Frost<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Berkeley, California<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">An annual tradition since 2003, Karl Frost&#8217;s most improvised workshop CI of the year, where Karl gives himself wide ranging permission for new explorations, new exercise combinations, non-linearity, and following process and curiosity arising in the moment! Karl pulls from current explorations and his 37 years of CI teaching experience. A workshop for those who already have an introduction to CI and a passion for movement and body-based exploration.&nbsp;<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/workshops\/winter-ci-intensive\/barc05\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-280\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-280 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/barc05.jpg\" alt=\"barc05\" width=\"309\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/barc05.jpg 385w, http:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/barc05-273x300.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">2024 is the &#8220;restart&#8221; of the series after it was interrupted in 2020 by Covid, as so many things were.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Contact Improvisation is a 50 year old artsport exploring the unique physical possibilities of bodies moving through contact: part \u201cnon-martial\u201d martial art, part physical meditation and collaborative bodywork practice, part human roller-coaster.<\/p>\n<p>The workshop will be heavily improvised. Over the days, we meander through an organic mix of technique and poetic exploration of the physical encounter with other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The technical work cultivates efficiency, kinesthetic pleasure, and physical safety in contact as well as fluid speed and power. A recurring theme is the ability to calmly sense with more somatic detail in more \u201cframes per second\u201d\u2026 to sense and to be able to act creatively and functionally on what is sensed.<\/p>\n<p>Art and felt meaning in the dance are the subjects of physical poetics.<\/p>\n<p>While our path will be discovered as we go, you can expect\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A&nbsp;balance of study and abandon, tight investigations and open questions<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/workshops\/thanksgiving-weekend\/barcfilm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-275\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-275 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/barcfilm.jpg\" alt=\"barcfilm\" width=\"186\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/barcfilm.jpg 720w, http:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/barcfilm-94x300.jpg 94w, http:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/barcfilm-321x1024.jpg 321w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Explorations of release technique and the<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/contact-improvisation\/body-research-approach-to-ci\/the-passive-sequencing-work\/\">&nbsp;\u201cpassive sequencing\u201d<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;work<\/li>\n<li>Contact vocabulary: novel lifts and mechanical details<\/li>\n<li>Questioning \u2018meaning\u2019 and poetry of the body<\/li>\n<li>States of awareness and experiments in mind\/body relationship<\/li>\n<li>The possibility of intentionality and composition juxtaposed with the<br \/>\nimpossibility of control of meaning and motion.<\/li>\n<li>The dance both as a physical process and as the poetic interplay of two experiencing beings.<\/li>\n<li>The interplay of open discovery and compositional intention as experiment and deliberate provocation to novel experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A particular curiosity for Karl in 2024 has been CI explored through the metaphor of physical conversation and poetry, where we invest in the development of our ability to physically listen and respond and adapt within the context of mutual physical listening and an aesthetics of sensation and process.<\/p>\n<p>Body work, Mind work, pleasure, intellect, art, and a fair bit of sweat.<\/p>\n<p>See below for Karl&#8217;s bio.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Course pre-requisites<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-720 alignright\" style=\"color: #0000ee;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/km1-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"My beautiful picture\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/km1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/km1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">This workshop assumes that all have already had some intro to classic, physics-based contact improvisation and are ready to jump fully into CI exploration. For those who are more beginners, you may find it useful to read a bit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/contact-improvisation\/\">here <\/a>about&nbsp; fundamentals of classic, physics-based CI, to sense of the workshop is a good fit. Material will be presented in such a way as to be both useful for athletically available beginners and for more advanced dancers looking to find more dynamic and easeful dancing through re-evaluation of the foundations.&nbsp; My feeling over more than 3 decades of teaching is that the more advanced work that many strive for really is found in diving more deeply into the simple fundamentals and allowing complexity to organically emerge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\"><input name=\"cmd\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"_s-xclick\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/workshops\/winter-ci-intensive\/barc01\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-281\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-281 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/barc01.jpg\" alt=\"barc01\" width=\"308\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/barc01.jpg 308w, http:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/barc01-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/><\/a>Karl Frost<\/strong> has been teaching and performing contact and related work in body-based creative process for the over 35 years. He is known internationally for his dynamic and articulate movement style, his rigor in physical research and teaching, and for the edge-pushing nature of his work in both practice and performance. His work, influenced by studies in contemporary release technique, Alexander technique, and martial arts, has been showcased across the states, Canada, Europe, South America, and Israel. His performances, via Body Research Physical Theater, take the body and emotionally and physically felt experience as their reference points, often in highly audience interactive frameworks.<\/p>\n<p>Karl holds a PhD in Ecology (emphasis in Human Ecology and Cultural Evolution Theory), and MFA in Dramatic Arts, and a BA in Physics. He is currently working as a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig, Germany), Department of Human Behavior, Ecology, and Culture, where he works on visual anthropology (photography and video) and theoretical studies in cultural evolution.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<\/form>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\"><\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>annually 2003 &#8211; 2019 Thanksgiving weekend&nbsp;Contact Improv&nbsp;Intensive with Karl Frost Berkeley, California An annual tradition since 2003, Karl Frost&#8217;s most improvised workshop CI of the year, where Karl gives himself wide ranging permission for new explorations, new exercise combinations, non-linearity, and following process and curiosity arising in the moment! Karl pulls from current explorations and <a href='https:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/workshops\/late-fall\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":127,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4717,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/133\/revisions\/4717"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyresearch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}