Come for 5 days of study and evening jams, arriving Sunday, July12 for dinner and live music. First class is Monday 13th, 10am. 2 classes per day of 2 hours each. Jams and sauna every evening. Final class is on Friday17th. Intensive ends after breakfast on Saturday morning in time to go to the farmers market before getting on the 11am ferry.
Emily Bowman will teach this 5 day workshop. She will be presenting the BASICS of Contact Improvisation. BASICS indicates fundamental skills or states of embodiment necessary for the study and practice of CI. This workshop is suitable and recommended for beginners although will be appropriate for all levels as the BASICS form the foundation of our practice. From our three minds and bodies of experience, we are coming together to synthesize and share what we have found to be the essential aspects and teachings of our practices. This includes sharing weight, rolling point of contact, “Material for the Spine” crescent and spiral rolls, stable basing, safely falling and getting back up from the floor, finding structural support, sharing weight, “listening”, states, The Stand, puzzles, finding center, basic mechanics of lifting, trios, history of CI, The Underscore, Authentic Movement, and jamming skills.
In addition there will be morning Vinyasa Yoga classes from 7-8am. Morning dance class is 2 hours from 10-noon. Lunch break is 3 hours long. Afternoon class is 3-5pm. There will also be a short evening class that leads to a jam. The fianal jam on Friday the 17th will accompanied by live music.
For new practitioners, this workshop is a crash course in Contact Improvisation. We encourage inspired, exciting and safe “crashes”.
Emily Bowman is an emerging dance artist based in Perth, passionate about moving, making and performing dance. She is interested in improvisational forms in practice and performance, in particular contact improvisation (CI). She recently graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Dance) at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) where she has performed works by choreographers such as; Leigh Warren, Xioa Xiong, Raweyn Hill, Melanie Lane, Charlie Hodges and Serena Chalker. Emily has trained with Amelia McQueen, Natalie Abbott, Jo Pollitt, Paea Leach, Rachel Ogle, Rhiannon Newton, Alice Cummins. Emily has trained in CI in the U.S and across Australia with Nancy Stark Smith, Joerg Hassmann, Daniel Mang, Jacob Lehrer and Joseph Lehrer.
Laurel Snyder is an independent Dance Artist, Educator and occasional Musician based in Brooklyn, NY. She received the majority of her physical training at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and various dance festivals throughout the USA and Europe. As a performer, Laurel is privileged to currently collaborate with Tatyana Tenenbaum, Tere O’Connor and Kendra Portier’s BAND/Portier. Laurel’s choreography has been shared at spaces such as the Tank, H.T. Chen’s Newsteps series, Triskelion Arts, White Wave, Greenspace, Center for Performance Research (CPR), Chez Bushwick, the FRESH Festival (San Francisco, CA), Deltebre Dansa (Spain) and Ponderosa (Germany). In January of 2014 Laurel designed an Open Creative Movement Workshop entitled, “Who is this Body?”. Organizations such as CLASSCLASSCLASS (NYC), the ADF Studios (Durham, NC) the Dance Exchange (Washington, DC), Colby College (Waterville, Maine) and Henrico Performing Arts High School (Richmond, VA) have invited Laurel to teach “Who is this Body?” and she looks forward to more opportunities to bring this workshop to communities Nationally and abroad.
$425 includes all meals, tuition, camping/dormitory, rides from and to the ferry on Lasqueti. Go to the right side of this screen to ‘Contact Us’ and send an email with July12 in the subject line.
