5 WEEKS, 5 DIFFERENT TEACHERS
Contact Improvisation Class
Commencing on the 6th of August, 5 Contact Teachers will take turns into leading the Wednesday class in Newtown.
The variety of knowledge and styles that will be available to Sydney dancers over these 5 weeks, makes this event no less interesting than a mini contact festival!
Schedule
06 August: Joseph North
13 August: Kimberley McIntyre
20 August: Catherine Magill
27 August: John Addis
03 September: Gavin Clarke
The cost of the Class and Jam is $15 and it is open to anybody that wants to learn Contact Improvisation, with or without previous experience.
It runs from 6 pm (please be there on time) until 7:20 pm and then continues as Open CI Jam*.
Please bring comfortable clothing for moving, without buckles or zippers.
Address: 5 Eliza St, Newtown.
*To participate of the CI Jam, you need to have at least one class of CI experience.
Dance Improvisation with Kimberley McIntyre
Dancers, Movers and Crazy City Dwellers,
The next block of classes takes us up to the end of August
Saturday's
10am till 12:15.
Redfern Community Centre, (Big dance room upstairs)
Hugo Street. (2 min walk from Redfern station)
About the class:
The beginning of class is led by verbal offers and images to get our bodies warm and interested in exploring new movements.
This is a very juicy time for our solo dancing, to wake up and move into creative movement and to enliven the whole body.
The class moves into partner or trio scores of playful enquiry developing sensitivity, whilst taking and giving inspiration from each other. Satisfying duets and trio's often morph into group Improvisations of deeply satisfying compostions and timings that we take time towitnessand enjoy.
The class creates a space where you can get the dance you need whilst connecting with others in responsive improvisation scores.
Drop in if it sounds good to you. Its about crafting your dancing to make spontaneous choreography,
to feel great for the rest of the day, (and make Art, Darling) every week!
The Heart of the Matter
Mindful Embodiment
with Alice Cummins
Cellular holding embraces strengthens and recuperates the heart.
The heart has its own profound intelligence. Over this weekend we will spend time contemplating, sounding and moving from the heart. Beginning with an understanding of the heart and the circulatory system’s physiological structure and function as the organ and system that maintains the life of every other organ and through it’s continuous pulse creates a base for our understanding of rhythms in everyday life.
Finding a still point to rest in, to reflect and pause, to sense the filling and emptying that is a constant yet paradoxical element of our existence. Energizing the heart through breath. Exploring in movement the relationship between our heart and the expression of our arms and hands, the brain and heart and the heart’s relationship to space.
In making time to be with our hearts it is my desire to listen, recognise and perhaps find a way of articulating, that which is troubling us as individuals and as a community. To give ‘voice’ to the unspeakable and form to the unknown whilst recognising the mystery that always surrounds deep investigation of matter and spirit. The heart sits at the centre of all this, beating patiently and constantly …
Through conscious embodiment we can find support for our lives and create stability within an environment of discovery. This work offers powerful ways of renewing ourselves through a creative process that is supportive and perceptive of individual needs. The study of Body-Mind Centering® will be of interest to anyone seeking a deeper understanding of their existence and the profound and lasting effect of engaging with embodied knowledge. We will integrate the material through Authentic Movement, writing, drawing and shared discussion.
The heart as a well-spring for the support of the body.
Dates: 2nd – 4th August 2008
Time: Sat 1–6; Sun & Mon 10–4
Venue: Black Lotus Studios 2A Gladstone St (cnr Wilford St) Enmore
Cost: $350 *Earlybird $280 by 16th July
* Please wear loose comfortable clothing and bring a blanket for lying on the floor.
FURTHER ENQUIRIES and BOOKING FORM: 0419 227800 / info@footfall.com.au
Alice Cummins is a dance artist, Body-Mind Centering® (BMC) Practitioner and movement educator & therapist (ISMETA). Alice teaches her independent workshops throughout Australia and is currently completing her Masters at Victoria University. Since 1990 Alice has been developing her individual approach to teaching alongside her practice as an artist. Her work occurs in an environment of refined awareness and her teaching arises from a deeply felt and embodied place. Alice’s approach is accessible to people from diverse backgrounds. She welcomes the richness and contribution of this in the learning and sharing of knowledge. Alice’s approach creates an environment of learning that is supportive and inspirational whilst also being rigorous.
Body-Mind Centering® (www.bmcassoc.org) is a study of the experienced body in contrast to the objectified body. It is a transformative approach that incorporates movement re-education, touch and experiential anatomy. Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen began this inspirational research in New York in the 1970’s. Alice studied Body-Mind Centering® with Bonnie in the United States in 1995-98.
This work has opened me and my creativity in ways that I thought had become dormant, inaccessible. It's great to be part of a creative vocabulary again that holds so much value for me. Veronica B, Sydney
I was surprised at the breadth of what BMC has to offer and how it engages one’s intelligence on so many levels. Pi-Wei, Sydney
It was awesome to be able to use my experiences from the work I have done with you to find support as a Drama Therapist. Anne S, Perth.
Contact Improvisation: Sho Shin: Beginners Mind
A four week series: dancing alone and together
4 Thursday nights
7th Aug to 28th Aug
6:30 to 8:30pm (space open from 6.15pm)
Eliza Street
Newtown
Series $70 /conc $60
option to drop in $20/conc $17
This series of classes will work on solo development of our dancing bodies, and how we prepare ourselves for contact.
We will play with our weight and discover ways to slow down our giving of weight by half by half by half.
We will explore some of the classic CI principles and exercises in depth to expand our dancing options in solo and contact dancing.
We will let our heads go and find our cats paws. We will push the floor away with ease.
We will find our head and tail connection, and roll every-which way. And we will spiral from top to toe.
We will fall and fly effortlessly, giving rise to the pleasure of weightless moments in motion.
We will dive into our partners, and they wont mind, because we will do it with grace.
We will do so many things in just four weeks....we will dance together & alone in soft combat.
Kimberley McIntyre has been enquiring into the form of Contact Improvisation for over 12 years. She brings released based dance training and Aikido martial arts to the mix. Her love affair with Spontaneous Choreography, as a practice and performance mode, keep Improvisation at the forefront of her explorations. Choosing not to set pathways in the body, but rather to open possibilities.
This series of classes needs a minimum number to go ahead, so please let Kimberley know if your planning to attend. And please call or write or talk to her at the jam with any queries or concerns about the series.
It is open to anybody at any level of experience of CI or other movement practices. It will be a physical class, but you can take it at your own pace. An interest in CI is essential as is a sense of humour.
e.queenkangaroo@hotmail.com
ph. 02 9357 1233
m. 0402 059 564
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