Luscious and ballistic – KEY AND TRIGGER
Workshop about performance, improvisation, composition, discourse,
audience and physical techniques

Workshop with Kathleen Hermesdorf/Physical & Albert Mathias/Audio
(MOTIONLAB/San Francisco)

DATE: Monday June 1th TO Friday June 5th, 2009
Termin: Mo-Fr, 1.-5.06.2009

TIME: every day 12:00 am - 5:00 pm
Zeit: täglich 12-17 Uhr

More: http://www.schwelle7.de/Kathleen.html

DESCRIPTION:

LUSCIOUS - a key to access the undulating systems, sinews, curiosity,
intelligence and instincts of the body and mind, to activate the
voluptuous diva/animal deep inside and to articulate the sticky
relationship to gravity.

BALLISTIC - a trigger to break through and shake things up; a trigger
to activate speed, energy, spectacle, big movement, bold ideas and
loud voices.

Practice
A movement intensive, driven by perpetual, visceral live music,
investigating technique and improvisation, solo and partner(s) &
practice, process and performance. Training in breath and energy
modalities, hands on instigation, somatic improvisation and motion
techniques, including methods of falling, inversion and flight,
contextualized in three-dimensional phrases.

Process & Performance
Solo, duet and group work incorporates the training and utilizes
improvised scores and set and created materials in the process. Each
day ends with performance and feedback to recognize and cultivate the
dialogues of key (source) and trigger (target), luscious (internal
experience) and ballistic (external expression).


La Alternativa – Kathleen Hermesdorf & Albert Mathias

La ALTERNATIVA (formerly MOTIONLAB), directed by dancer Kathleen
Hermesdorf and musician Albert Mathias since 1998, is a vessel/vehicle
for training, performance, creation and production. The mission to
create and instigate work of deeply integrated sound and motion
entwines with a commitment to collaborating among mediums and
connecting with artists - locally, nationally and internationally - to
bridge art forms and communities. The company has received substantial
support in San Francisco and recently finished a 5-year Artist
Residency at ODC Theater.

La ALTERNATIVA has toured the US, Europe and Mexico and is a co-
founder of the Alternative Conservatory. Hermesdorf and Mathias both
hail from Chicago, Illinois and have been making work in the West
since 1991 - meeting in 1994 in the multi-disciplinary performance
group, Contraband, led by Sara Shelton Mann. They have been on the
faculty of ODC School since 1996. More at www.la-alternativa.us


LOCATION/Ort: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany
REGISTRATION: info (at) felixruckert.de
PRICE: 200 EUR

SLEEPING:
We can host up workshop participants in our special sleeping cocoons.
The cost is 10 € a night per person.


--------- Performance June 3th / 3. Juni --------------

STRANGE ATTRACTORS - Performance by La Alternativa

Geometrically, an attractor can be a point, a curve, a manifold, or
even a complicated set with a fractal structure known as a strange
attractor.

La Alternativa will perform „STRANGE ATTRACTORS“ at Schwelle 7 on
Wednesday June 3th at 8:30 pm / 3.6.2009 um 20:30

With:
Kathleen Hermesdorf/Physical & Albert Mathias/Audio (MOTIONLAB/San
Francisco), Laurent Lavolé /Audio & Yoann Tréllu/Video (Berlin)

More at http://www.schwelle7.de/Kathleen.html
More at http://www.la-alternativa.us

ADMISSION / Eintritt: 13 € (red. 9 €)


----------- LOCATION / Ort --------

Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6 HH 1. OG
13357 Berlin/Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 30-4736 3500
http://www.schwelle7.de
Email: info (at) felixruckert.de

TRAFFIC LINK / Verkehrsverbindung: UB Nauener Platz, Pankstr, Osloer
Str, SB Gesundbrunnen

Let me invite you all from the different countries to PRAGUE, Czech Republic for
a WEEKEND JAM SESSION OF CONTACT IMPROVISATION. The jam starts on Friday, JUNE
12, 2009, at 7:00 p.m. and goes on till the afternoon on Sunday, JUNE 14, 2009.

Druna - the highland for dance and meditation - gives a great view of the
Prague roofs, and it is where the jam session is taking place.


I hope this message will reach you in time for you to do all the planning, buy
your train, bus or airplane tickets, and to arrive to PRAGUE for the weekend. It
is easy to get here. The dance hall is in the center of Prague, very close to
all the means of transport. You are welcome to stay longer than the weekend. You
can sleep at Druna, but if you preferred to stay elsewhere, please let me know,
and together we can find a suitable accommodation for you.


The fee for the jam session and sleeping at Druna is EUR 71.00.

Please, let all your contact improvisation friends know about the jam session
spread to all your contact improvisation friends.

We are expecting you and looking forwards to you all.

Zi

ALL THE DETAILS CAN BE FOUND IN THE ATTACHMENT or at www.druna.cz/en
http://www.druna.cz/prague-international-jam-of-contact-improvisation


Zita
ziita@...
http://www.druna.cz
+420 723 253 757

Clases de danza contemporánea

Conciencia corporal-experimentación-técnica

Prof. Lucia Perez

Martes 13.00hs

Viernes 19.00hs

En av. Boedo 842 nº9

17/03 clase abierta!

Preguntas y confirmacion al 4982-5050 o por mail..

David Zambrano
Improvisation on Stage, A Dance Workshop

Workshop: April 20 - 24, 2009, daily 11 - 16  / 20.-24. April 2009,
täglich 11 - 16 Uhr
Performance: Friday April 24, 2009, 19:00 / Freitag, 24. April 2009,
19 Uhr: Solo-Performance David Zambrano & performance of the workshops
students

5 days 200 Euro (s7-Mitglieder 170 €) other reductions in exchange for
work.

Learning to use one’s life experience, being able to consciously and
continuously shape one’s energy integrating the body and mind, time
and space through the practice of dance improvisation, students learn
to create instant pieces of dance onstage in front of an audience.

The workshop begins with students improvising solos, duets, and small
groups utilizing the class as an audience. Zambrano pushes the
students to realize that there is always something more inside and
that performing is spontaneous. The students are urged to break down
old habits to search for new possibilities. Change is vital to this
training as the student is asked to constantly change their vocabulary
into something new. How do you use your power? How do you redefine
what you know, turn it on and off to explore something new? The
student become more flexible as they learn to communicate within their
bodies, the bodies of fellow performers, and the environment in which
they are working. Zambrano asks his students to accept everything one
can imagine, especially the impossible, and to learn to call upon them
when creating an improvisation.

„My workshops are very physical. Whoever wants to take it, she/he must
know that we are moving our thoughts all day.“ D.Z.

More: http://www.schwelle7.de/DavidZambrano.html

David Zambrano’s Short Biography
For over 20 years, David Zambrano has been a monumental figure in the
international dance community, and his passion for cultural exchange
continues to influence his work. Living and making work in Amsterdam
and teaching/performing internationally, Zambrano is an ambassador and
liaison across many borders, bringing together artists from all over
the planet for his projects.
An inspiring teacher, thrilling performer, and innovative
choreographer, Zambrano has contributed generously to the field of
dance in ways that have influenced many and impacted the dance world
from several angles. His development of the “Flying Low” and “Passing
Through” techniques are among his recent innovations that have helped
to lead improvisational dance into an exciting future. Many of his
projects have continuously influenced Zambrano’s pedagogic methods,
keeping them fresh and interesting for the students from around the
globe.

More: www.davidzambrano.org

Registrations: info@...
Place: Schwelle 7, Uferstraße 6, HH 1. OG, 13357 Berlin -Wedding
http://www.schwelle7.de

German version below
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HANCOCK AND KELLY LIVE!
" i feel your weight and my... "

Workshop and Performance project
I feel your weight and my...
March, 16 - 22 , 2009

In a space between binaries… between body and mind… between self and
other…
between holding on and letting go… I am unable to watch and unwilling
to look away… between inside and out… between then and now… between
sucking in and breathing out… I bare witness…

…I am slave to your rhythms


Content

The purpose of structure is delay
Eventually, the weight falls,
strain is released.
Years, decades, centuries later
the event occurs.
  >From ‘Structures’ by Anna Rae Jonas

The collaborative practice of hancock & kelly is built on a long-term
engagement
with the body as a shifting set of cultural and material
circumstances.  The body
is considered as a site on which a fluid and unstable set of power
relations are set
into play.

Building on a series of exercises developed by hancock & kelly, and
drawing
on those of other practitioners, this workshop is designed to test the
physical,
conceptual, and emotional limits of the body.  Participants are
encouraged to
experience the breaking points of their own physicality while tracing
the edges
of their colleagues’ own collapse.

The workshop focuses on sensory engagements at the point of failure,
with
our own body’s and those of our others.  Specific attention is paid to
the logging
of that experience, and to the role of the body as witness and
eventual testament.
How is the body, and its performance, framed by the witness and their
testimony?  How does language and testimony serve to locate and orient
the
body?  How are our bodies oriented, and where do those trajectories
take us?

This seven-day workshop will culminate in a public performance
inspired by the
process.

Notes for participants

•    participants are welcome from diverse backgrounds: dancers,
       performers, visual artists, and anyone with an interest in the
body
       and a desire to perform it at its capacity

•    participants should be aware of the physically demanding nature
       of the workshop and of the potentially explicit and intimate
nature
       of some of the exercises

•    the workshop will be conducted in English


Schedule

Mon Mar 16    14:00 – 18:00
Tue Mar 17    14:00 – 18:00
Wed Mar 18    14:00 – 18:00
Thu Mar 19    14:00 – 18:00
Fri Mar 20    14:00 – 18:00
Sat Mar 21    14:00 – 18:00
Sun Mar 22    17:00 – 23:00        Public performance    20:00 – 22:00

Fees: 150 Euros / s7 Members 120 Euros
other reductions in exchange for work!

Registrations: info@...

Place: Schwelle 7, Uferstraße 6, HH 1. OG, 13357 Berlin -Wedding
http://www.schwelle7.de

BIOGRAPHIES:
Since 2001, Hancock and Kelly have collaborated on a body of
challenging works that question the possibilities for exchange and
dialogue between the artists, and the artists and their audiences.
The resulting performances are a series of visceral,
intimate, and queer events, both moving and spectacular. Known for
their beautiful and brutal explorations of the corporeal body, Richard
Hancock and Traci Kelly have presented works of critical and popular
acclaim to audiences across the UK, Europe, Central America, and
Australia. In 2003, Hancock and Kelly began exploring a shared
fascination with the politics
and poetics of contamination; sharing saliva, milk and breath. In
2005, they began cultivating a viral series of Lone Duets, a series of
six solo performances, each made in response to the other’s work.  In
2006, Traci Kelly was permanently
tattooed with the wallpaper pattern from Richard Hancock’s childhood
home.  In 2007, Richard Hancock was buried alive beneath the weight of
their audiences’ memories and 175kg of coal. In 2008 they made their
first appearance at schwelle7, facilitating a week-long exchange with
seven other artists, culminating in a 8 hour durational performance.
Their work has been featured in publications by Angel Row Gallery,
Dance Theatre Journal, Western European Stages, Realtime Media, and
their 2004 collaboration with photographer Manuel Vason forms part of
‘Encounters’, a major recent publication by Arnolfini.  Their work has
also featured in the popular press, such as The Metro, The Guardian
Unlimited, and So London. Richard Hancock recently relocated from San
Francisco (US) to Berlin.  Traci Kelly lives and  works in Nottingham
(UK).

More at www.hancockandkellylive.com


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HANCOCK AND KELLY LIVE!
" i feel your weight and my... "

workshop and performance project
I feel your weight and my...
16 - 22  MÄRZ 2009

In einem Raum zwischen binären Anordnungen...zwischen Körper und
Verstand...
zwischen dem Selbst und dem Anderen...zwischen Festhalten und
Loslassen...
Ich bin unfähig zu Betrachten und unwillig Wegzuschauen...zwischen
Innen und Aussen...
zwischen Einst und Jetzt...zwischen Einsaugen und Ausatmen...

...Ich bin Sklave deiner Rhythmen

Inhalt

Die Absicht von Struktur ist Verzögerung.
Eventuell fällt das Gewicht.
Die Belastung löst sich.
Jahre, Dekaden, Jahrhunderte später,
folgt das Ereignis.
Aus ‘Structures’ von Anna Rae Jonas

Die kollaborative Praxis  von H&K baut auf ein Langzeit - Engagement
mit dem Körper,
der als bewegliches Ergebnis kultureller und materieller Umstände
gesehen wird.
Der Körper gilt als Ort an dem ein fluides, instabiles System von
Machtverhältnissen
zum Klingen gebracht wird.

Aufbauend auf einer Reihe von Übungen, die zum Teil von H&K, zum Teil
von anderen
Praktikern entwickelt wurden, geht es im workshop um das Erforschen
physischer,
konzeptueller und emotionaler Körpergrenzen. Die Teilnehmer/Innen
werden ermutigt
sich diesen Sollbruchstellen ihrer eigenen Physikalität anzunähern
sowie den Zeichen des
Kollapses ihrer Kollegen nachzuspüren.

Der Workshop fokussiert of sensorisches Engagement am Punkt des
Versagens des
eigenen Körper und des Körpers anderer. Spezielle Aufmerksamkeit gilt
der Protokollierung
dieser Erfahrung und der Rolle des Körpers als Zeuge und mögliches
Zeugnis.
Wieweit wird der Körper und seine Leistung durch den Beobachter und
dessen
Wahrnehmung festgelegt? Wieweit nutzen wir Sprache und Zeugnis um den
Körper zu
lokalisieren und zu orientieren? Wie ist unser Körper orientiert und
wohin bringt uns
diese Ausrichtung?

Der siebentägige Workshop endet mit einer öffentlichen Performance am
Sonntagabend.


Informationen für potentielle Teilnehmer/innen

•    Teilnehmer/innen mit unterschiedlichem Hintergrund sind willkommen:
         Tänzer, Schauspieler, Performer, bildende Künstler und alle mit
         Interesse am Körper und intensiver Körperpraxis.
•    Die Teilnehmer/innen sollten sich der möglicherweise expliziten
         und intimen Natur einiger Übungen bewusst sein.
.•    Der Workshop findet in Englisch statt..


Zeitplan

Mo, 16. März     14:00 – 18:00
Di, 17.  März     14:00 – 18:00
Mi, 18.  März     14:00 – 18:00
Do, 19.  März    14:00 – 18:00
Fri,  20. März    14:00 – 18:00
Sa, 21. März    14:00 – 18:00
So, 22. März    17:00 – 23:00
Öffentliche Performance:    20:00 – 22:00


Kosten: 150 Eur / S7-Mitglieder 100 Eur
(Ermäßigungen gegen Arbeit möglich!)

Anmeldung: info@...

Ort: Schwelle 7, Uferstraße 6, HH 1. OG, 13357 Berlin -Wedding
http://www.schwelle7.de

BIOGRAFIEN
Richard Hancock zog kürzlich von San Francisco (USA) nach Berlin,
Traci Kelly lebt in Nottingham (UK). Seit 2001 inszenieren sie
gemeinsam anspruchsvolle Performances. Ihre Arbeit geht in den Bauch,
ist intim, queer, bewegend und spektakulär. Seit 2003 erforschen sie
eine gemeinsame Faszination für eine Politik und Poesie der
Ansteckung: Spucke, Milch, Atem und Viren. 2005 begannen sie eine
virale Serie, die Lone Duets, zu kultivieren: eine Reihe von sechs
fortlaufenden Soloarbeiten, die jeweils aufeinander antworten. 2006
liess sich Kelly mit dem Muster der Tapete aus Richard‘s Kinderzimmer
tätowieren. 2007 liess sich Richard unter den Aufzeichnungen und
Erinnerungen des Publikums und 175 kg Kohle lebendig begraben. Im März
2008, in einer ersten Zusammenarbeit mit schwelle7 und sieben weiteren
Künstlern schufen sie die 8-stündige Long-Duration Performance“ I
thought you‘d never come...“
Ihre teils brutalen Erforschungen und Inszenierungen des Körpers
stiessen sowohl auf Anerkennung als auch auf Ablehnung von Presse und
und Publikum in Großbritannien, Europa, Mittelamerika und Australien.

Mehr unter  http://www.hancockandkellylive.com

Contact Improvisación en Tierra Sagrada!
Explorando 'Contact Improv' y 'Danza para Espacios Alternativos'
Lago Atitlan, Guatemala,  Febrero 22 - 28, 2009
3er Anual - con Mark Moti Zemelman (EUA)
Asistente - Camille Renarhd (Francia)
Coordinador auxiliar - Bette Van Lunteren (Guatemala/Holanda)

Por el 3er año bailaremos en la tierra Maya sagrada del Lago Atitlan, Guatemala.  Exploraremos Improvisación de Contacto e investigación en espacios alternativos sobre las orillas del lago Atitlan en Hotel Islaverde (www.islaverdeatitlan.com) y en otros estudios.

  

    
 
     

Mark Moti Zemelman, MFA (EUA) comenzó su práctica de Improvisación de Contacto hace veinte años. Por los últimos doce años ha enseñado y bailado por los Estados Unidos, México, Canadá, Guatemala, Europa y Israel. Sus recientes compromisos laborales han sido en Earthdance (Estados Unidos), DanceBase (Edimburgo), Circuit-Est (Montreal), Zodiak Festival (Helsinki), Villa Sumaya (Guatemala) y Festival Internacional de Contemporánea Lila Lopez (San Luiz Potosi). Él es actualmente profesor de la danza en C.I.C.O. (Centro de
Investigación Coreografica) en el Instituto Naciónal de Bellas Artes en México.  Moti es maestro y miembro del consejo de Earthdance Retreat Center en Massachusetts. Entre sus respetados maestros están: Nancy Stark Smith, Andrew Harwood, Alito Alessi, Ruth Zaporah, Danny Lepkoff, Martin Keogh y Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Fue miembro original de Wire Monkey Dance Company (Saliq Francis Savage y Jen Polins, directores), y baila con los Silver Swimmers, una compañía con sede internacional.  Tambien Moti toca música electrónica-vocal en muchos contact jams y presentaciones. En el 2006 salió su disco debut "Doorwaves". Otras prácticas incluyen yoga, Teatro de Acción, caminata en zancos, danza moderna y ser payaso. Diseña y modera el nuevo sitio internacional de Improvisación de Contacto -  www.contactimprov.com.

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La Improvisación de Contacto es un homenaje a cada momento. Hay una dulce rendición que sucede cuando nuestros cuerpos se mantienen con fe hacia lo que está sucediendo ahora… y ahora… y ahora! En este curso aprenderemos a reconocer y diferenciar los sutiles impulsos en nuestras decisiones y las decisiones de nuestros compañeros. Comenzamos descifrando las claves que damos y recibimos, mismas que nos indican cuando liderar y cuando seguir, cuando subir y cuando bajar, donde tocar, cómo cargar, cuando bajar la velocidad y cuando mantenernos inmóviles. Aprender a mantener la integridad con cada decisión, nunca forzar, nunca apresurar.

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Registro en línea en:
www.contactimprov.com
  o e-mail: moti@...

Bienvenidos!

fotos © Mark Moti Zemelman y Camille Renahrd