As of July3, there are 5 spots available for this workshop.
Contact Improv Intensive, 5 day week, with Delia Brett and Yves Candau, July 14-20, 2013.
$395 includes tuition, all meals, camping and transportation on Lasqueti. Arrive Sunday afternoon for orientation and first jam. Class begins Monday morning. Departure is Saturday morning. To register go to Contact Us on the right side of the screen and send us a message. In your email say which intensive you are registering for.
To register go to Contact Us on the right side of the screen and send us a message. In your email say which intensive you are registering for.
Yves Candau
Yves’s teaching has been nourished by a number of past and present practices: Aikido, Vipassana meditation, and most importantly Steve Paxton‘s Material for the Spine and the Alexander Technique.
As dancers we are privileged to experiences that are both holistic and multi-layered. One could say that our dances take place simultaneously in the mind, in the body and in the world. We will use these complementary and interconnected points of view to explore and articulate the reality of our living moving beings in Contact Improvisation.
Internally we will develop our awareness, clarity of intention, and refine our use of the foundations of movement in the body: such as the structural support provided by the skeletal system, the connectivity of the fascia, or the flow of muscular tone that creates movement. Externally we will explore and strengthen specific movement patterns, such as the helixes manifested in walking, that can be expanded to take us in and out of the floor, and through space. We will aim to expand our perception and physical possibilities towards a spherical appreciation of space, where movement can take place in any direction.
These points of view will integrate as we practice working both internally and externally, through overlapping cycles of attention, intention and action, creating a rich place from which to meet one another. There is for me a deepening of experience to be gained here, which supports my exhilaration of exploring movement and the joy of dancing with a partner, as a conscious as well as physical being.
Links: Material for the Spine, Alexander Technique
Bio
Yves Candau has a background in science (MEng in applied mathematics and MSc in cognitive sciences). He was doing a PhD in cognitive sciences when he discovered dance. Gradually his interest shifted from the abstract to a more embodied research, which he has been passionately pursuing ever since. He trained with several teachers in Paris, went to Pina Bausch’s Folkwang Hochshule in Essen Germany, and deepened his practice of Contact Improvisation and Improvisation studying in Europe and North America, in particular with Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson and Daniel Lepkoff.
Yves has been teaching Contact Improvisation since 2001, giving classes and workshops in France, Italy, Germany, Canada and the USA. As an interpreter he has had the pleasure to work with a number of choreographers in Toronto: Rebecca Todd, Eryn Dace Trudell, Malgorzata Nowacka, Newton Moraes, Holly Small, Kathleen Rea, and most frequently Peter Chin, for whom he has had the pleasure to dance over a span of 10 years and six different pieces.
For his own performance work Yves is particularly interested in solo improvisation, a minimalist form which he has been exploring for several years. In September 2012 he was invited by Steve Paxton to perform a solo piece at Saint Mark’s church in New York. This was part of an event Steve organized for Danspace Project’s Judson Now series. Yves is also an overtone singer and a teacher of the Alexander Technique.
In Delia’s Class:
Contact dance is many things: an awareness practice, a physical training, a social dance, and for many, it’s a lifestyle. To me, contact dance is a post – modern performance practice. It is the bread and butter of my artistic nourishment. Contact improvisation is a dance of paradoxical continuity, a flow from one surprising moment to the next. Met with awareness and a developed sense of interpersonal trust, each dance becomes a unique experience of singular significance.
I am is interested in shedding the weight of habit and hesitancy in dance, creating a body engaged and ready, alight with our attention. My classes are both playful and technical. By focusing each class on specific movement challenges we can begin to increase our perceptive capacity and allow the imaginative world of dance to emerge.
Bio
Delia Brett is a professional dance artist and choreographer. She is co-artistic director of MACHiNENOiSY Dance Society. Her contact practice is informed by synchronous studies of martial arts, yoga, voice and performance. Her teachers are too numerous to list here, though her primary teacher has been the dance itself. Delia draws on over 20 years of experience of a near daily practice of contact dance. She has been a company member of EDAM Dance; Vancouver’s contact dance based company, since 1997 and has been practicing under the guidance of EDAM choreographer and master contact teacher, Peter Bingham since she was 14 years old. Delia has been teaching contact dance and improvisation across Canada, throughout the United States and Europe since 2001. She was a guest teacher at 2008 Sierra Contact festival and at SFDI ’09 and is currently teaching at Modus Operandi, Vancouver’s professional dance training program. Delia is also a yoga teacher and an actress.
To register go to ‘Contact Us’ on the right side of the screen and ‘send us a message’. Please specify which event you are registering for.
