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Contact Improvisation at Moving East
Weekly Contact Improvisation - Classes and Jams
every Saturday
London Contact Improvisation is offering weekly classes and jams every Saturday. They will be open to all levels of experience, especially those new to the
form, and booking is not required. A 2-hour class will be followed by a 3-hour jam.
Classes will be taught by experienced and up-and-coming contact teachers from
throughout the UK. Many teachers will teach three consecutive weeks
allowing them to develop class material.
Times
class: 11.30am - 1.30pm
jam: 1.30 - 4.30pm |
Costs
class: £ 6
jam: £ 4
both: £ 8 |
Teachers for the 2007 - 2008 season:
2008
- 15, 29 March, 5 April Lalitaraja
- 12, 19, 26 April Thomas Kampe
- 3, 10, 17 May Robert Anderson
- 24 May Adriana Pegorer
- 31 May, 7, 14 June Kathy Crick
- 21 June Angus Balbernie
- 28 June teacher tbc
- 5, 12 July John Koratjitis
Venue (including directions): at Moving
East (access is by stairs only)
For more information: call Robert Anderson on 07980 906 128 or
robert@contactimprovisation.co.uk or see
www.contactimprovisation.co.uk/London/menu.html (including teacher bios)
Sponsored by Awards for All and Moving East
An intermediate-advanced course with Andrew
Harwood in London
BEING READY an intermediate-advanced course in Contact Improvisation with
Andrew Harwood in London
15 – 19 October 2007
What does it mean to be ready to dance at any time, with anyone, anywhere ?
There are no set formulas, but there is an attitude and a state of mind and body
that can be cultivated toward this objective. Being completely attentive and
always prepared on all levels, will enable us to go beyond thinking our way
through the dance, and help us be attuned to what is actually taking place. This
total presence allows us to be freed of the mental chatter, planning ahead, and
judgement, which so often override the body’s ability to make appropriate
split-second choices. In this way the improvisations can be entirely physical,
playful, heartfelt, surprising and enjoyable. Explored themes will include:
tumbling, flying, use of variable speeds, use of direct action and initiation,
resistance, disappearance, subtle ways of moving weight, flowing through
unfamiliar circumstances, extending our personal range of movement, and
integrating our imagination and our heart.
Because of the advanced nature of this workshop, this intensive is for those
with a solid grasp of Contact fundamentals and with at least two ongoing years
of regular C.I. practice.
Venue:
Moving East Centre for Dance, Martial Arts and Complementary Medicine
St Matthias Church Hall, Wordsworth Road, Stoke Newington, London, N16 8DD
Times: 11.00 – 18.00
Cost:
£170 full-time salary, £160 part-time/freelance, £150 unwaged
Further information: robert@contactimprovisation.co.uk 07814 790 757
Andrew de Lotbinière Harwood is the artistic director of AH HA Productions a
project oriented company focusing on improvisation as a performing art. Andrew
is recognized as an exceptional international teacher, performer and creator in
the field of instantaneous choreography and contact improvisation since 1975.
His work has been presented in numerous international festivals since 1980 (Impuls
Tanz, La Biennale, Festival Montpellier, F.I.N.D., Festival des Antipodes, IF/
New York, Bates Dance Festival, etc). He has danced with the companies of
Fulcrum, Jo Lechay, Marie Chouinard, and Jean-Pierre Perreault, and has
collaborated with many renowned dance artists including Steve Paxton, Nancy
Stark Smith, Lisa Nelson, Kirstie Simson, Peter Bingham, Chris Aiken, Ray Chung
and Benoit Lachambre among many others. His background includes athletics,
gymnastics, yoga, modern dance, Release Technique, improvisation and Aikido. He
was awarded the Canada Council’s Jacqueline Lemieux dance award in 2000.
Photo credit: Daniel Farkas Harwood
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