A Contact Improv Summer

Monday nights @ The Parlor continue to rise to new heights.

Come on out this Monday (July 27th) for class with me, Adams Berzins. We've dug deep into the world of awareness and momentum the last few months and I want to up the ante and see us work with inversions and lift to see where our new awareness takes us. Even if you are new to contact, don't be afraid, we want to have you find your lift and height. Just feeling a split second of surrender to weight can be the building block to high flying or inverting. You don't have to be a hulk to give lift and you don't need to be a veteran contacter to be lifted and feel comfortable with a little, or a lot of, loft. All levels are always welcome.

After a well attended, exciting and truly successful class last week, the talented Greg Holt will be teaching his very own series through out the month of August. TIME CHANGE - starting @ 7:30 pm - TIME CHANGE. 

GREGORY HOLT is a freelance dancer moving heartily around Philly.  He is a core member of the collaborative Green Chair Dance Group, and also dances with several local choreographers. He has made dance films with fellow dancer An Kaler, which have been shown in numerous international queer and dance film festivals. With a strong interest in improvisation and shared authorship, he has performed with many provisional, virtual, and experiemental groups. He teaches seminars in dance composition at the Institute for Dance Art in Linz, Austria.

Come on out and breathe your energy into this ever growing community. 

The classes/jams are every Monday night @ the parlor (1170 S Broad st)  

Class start @ 7pm - please arrive the opening circle

Open jamming begins after 8:30pm

$12-$15 sliding scale

5 classes for $50

$5 just to jam 

Be well. 

Thank you. Paldies.

Adams

Also in improv news:

Seeking 15-20 Improv Dancers! 
Transverse Orientation: A piece about celestial navigation and the orbit of moths around a light bulb. A meditation on nature, knowledge, and solitude, revealed through improvisational dance. There will be one five hour rehearsal followed by two performances (September).  Dancers will be asked to view some videos of moth movement patterns before rehearsal and some dancers may be asked to deliver short, scripted monologues during the performance. Please contactrzfeldman@gmail.com if interested. 

Fwd: Dwell with Chris Aiken & Angie Hauser

Thank you. Paldies. 

Adams

Begin forwarded message:

From: Angie Hauser <angiehauser3@earthlink.net>
Date: July 15, 2009 8:50:52 AM EDT
To: Adams Berzins <phillycontactadams@me.com>
Subject: Fwd: Dwell with Chris Aiken & Angie Hauser

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DWELL
Performance and Improvisation Intensive
with Chris Aiken and Angie Hauser

August 9 (Sunday evening) – August 13 (Thursday afternoon)

http://earthdance.net/programs/dwell09.htm

This workshop focuses on the dynamic exploration of dance improvisation and performance, centered around the process of transforming space into place, and creating worlds for our imaginations to dwell. We approach this by engaging in an eclectic collection of activities, including movement and sensory training, contact improvisation, improvisation scores, building, designing and observing. Bring your curiosity, imagination and appetite for serious play. Photo byWilliam Federking.Register by July 10^th and Receive $35 off!!

 

 

Chris Aiken is a leading international teacher and performer of dance improvisation and contact improvisation.  Over the past two and a half decades his work has evolved through ongoing investigations of performance, composition, movement technique and design.  His work has been significantly influenced through the somatic practice of the Alexander Technique, ideokinesis, yoga and Rolfing.  Chris has performed and collaborated with many renowned dance artists including Steve Paxton, Kirstie Simson, Nancy Stark Smith, Peter Bingham, Andrew Harwood, Patrick Scully and Angie Hauser.  He is a Guggenheim Fellow and an assistant professor at Ursinus College.  Chris is currently touring a new work entitled "Dwell" co-created with Angie Hauser. 

Angie Hauser is a dance-maker, performer and teacher. Her work is grounded in improvisation and performance and reflects the influences of contact improvisation, ballet, butoh and contemporary dance techniques.  Angie is a member of Bebe Miller Company. In 2006 she received a BESSIE Award for her collaboration with Miller. She has also danced with the companies of Elizabeth Streb, Liz Lerman and Poppo Shiriashi and performed with many gifted artists including Kirstie Simpson, Andrew Harwood, Kathleen Hermesdorf, K.J. Holmes and Darrell Jones.  Her creative work also includes her ongoing collaboration with Chris Aiken resulting in performances and workshops in the U.S. and in Europe, including their project, Dwell , co-commissioned by the National Performance Network. She has taught improvisation and dance throughout the U.S. and in Switzerland, Germany, Canada and Scotland.  

Together, their ongoing collaboration includes Dwell , co-commissioned by the National Performance Network.

 

 

Location: Earthdance, Plainfield, MA USA. Earthdance is a dance retreat center in the Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts featuring two beautiful dance studios, farmhouse, comfortable dorm accomodations, vegetarian cuisine, wood-stove sauna, spring-fed swimming quarry, and 100 acres of magnificent hills.

 

 

Tuition/Room/Board All Inclusive:

 

Student Rate: Economically challenged students and the unemployed: $370

Regular Rate: Employed but struggling (teacher, librarian, lots of kids, etc.): $400

Professional Rate: Actually contributing to your retirement plan (support the arts!): $430

Contributor Rate: Contributing additional funds, so that we may offer scholarships and discounts: $480

 

Register by July 10^th and Receive $35 off!!   Information at http://earthdance.net/programs/dwell09.htm

 

 

 

7/6/09