Contact Improvisors, be sure to register by tomorrow -- October
30 -- for the early-bird discount!
Contact Improvisation Workshop with
internationally-renowned teachers
Eckhard Mueller & Daniela Schwartz
SETTLING INTO THE CONSTANT ACT OF CHANGE
a workshop for experienced Contact Improvisors
November 6-8, 2009
Friday 6-9pm :: Saturday & Sunday Noon-5pm
University of Washington Dance Program, Meany Hall Studio 267
Sliding scale $160-180 if paid in full by October 30, 2009. After
10/30/09, $185-205 if space is available.
Info/registration:
http://www.danceartgroup.org/seattle-dance-classes.html
::
Engaging us at a body/mind level, this workshop invites us to embrace
the unexpected with comfort and acceptance in order to inhabit our
body in the present moment, allowing the movement flow to emerge from
the dance as we let it take us into the three-dimensionality of space.
We will develop the relationship to the ground revealing the strength
and possibilities of our structure as we increase a feeling of
lightness and freedom and train our ability to modulate the tone of
our body as a response to the momentary needs of the dance. For
dancers with at least three years' CI experience.
::
Eckhard Mueller fell in love with Contact Improvisation in 1988. He
has collaborated with many improvisers in research and performance
groups to develop his understanding of "instant composition" as an
art form. He has been teaching CI since 1994 to theatres, dance
companies, schools and dance centers worldwide. As a dancer he has
worked for choreographers Mark Tompkins, David Zambrano and others. He
is co-founder of the dance theatre company Dégadézo in Strasbourg,
France, using improvisation to create set pieces. Eckhard has been
active in building "contact communities" in Freiburg and
Strasbourg, and supporting others all over the world. He is co-founder
of the contactfestival freiburg, a major CI event. In 2006 he
developed SKIN, an interdisciplinary and interactive performance
project occurring in Germany, Argentina, France, Uruguay and
Switzerland, in collaboration with Daniela Schwartz.
Daniela Schwartz (Argentina/France) has been a dancer, performer and
teacher of Contact Improvisation and Instant Composition since 1998.
She graduated in Fine Arts from Ecole Supérieure des Arts
Décoratifs de Strasbourg, and has taught with Eckhard Müller to
diverse companies, festivals and institutions in South America and
beyond. She has created several works as a member of the dance theater
Cie Dégadézo, and has taught at Theater Pôle Sud, Ecole
Municipale de Danse, Theatre National, and CIRA in Strasbourg. Years
of fine art studies, video creation, installations, performances and
the artistic aspects of the body inform her physical practice and
intellectual research.
:: :: ::
Happening now! Weekly classes in dance improvisation...
Dance Art Group / Movement Arts Research
Thursdays, 6:30-8:30pm :: Velocity Dance Center
DAG/MAR features research into improvisation, performance, creative
process and composition, contact improvisation, somatic education, New
Dance techniques, and other dance realms with a different local
teacher/topic each month. Louis Gervais teaches through October 29;
Degenerate Art Ensemble's Haruko Nishimura is coming up in November.
Click here for more info.
:: :: ::
And save the dates for a very special workshop for experienced dance
makers...
Bebe Miller / Finding Physicality: Technique & Creative
Practice
December 7-11, 2009 :: Velocity Dance Center
DAG is thrilled to present this workshop with multiple Bessie Award
winner and Guggenheim Fellow Bebe Miller. Registration opens soon;
click here for more info.
:: :: ::
Dance Art Group (DAG) fosters and promotes the study, practice, and
appreciation of improvisational dance in Seattle. DAG produces the
annual Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation (SFDI) and other events
that encourage and support innovative research and education in dance.
DAG is supported by 4Culture, the Mayor's Office of Arts and Cultural
Affairs, and generous individual donors. Click here to support DAG
with your tax-deductible donation.
Contact Improvisors, be
sure to register by tomorrow -- October 30 -- for the early-bird
discount!
Contact Improvisation Workshop
with
internationally-renowned teachers
Eckhard Mueller
& Daniela Schwartz
SETTLING INTO
THE CONSTANT ACT OF CHANGE
a workshop for experienced Contact Improvisors
November 6-8, 2009
Friday 6-9pm :: Saturday &
Sunday Noon-5pm
::
Engaging us at a body/mind
level, this workshop invites us to embrace the unexpected with comfort
and acceptance in order to inhabit our body in the present moment,
allowing the movement flow to emerge from the dance as we let it take
us into the three-dimensionality of space. We will develop the
relationship to the ground revealing the strength and possibilities of
our structure as we increase a feeling of lightness and freedom and
train our ability to modulate the tone of our body as a response to
the momentary needs of the dance. For dancers with at least three
years' CI experience.
::
Eckhard Mueller fell in love with Contact
Improvisation in 1988. He has collaborated with many improvisers
in research and performance groups to develop his understanding of
"instant composition" as an art form. He has been teaching CI since
1994 to theatres, dance companies, schools and dance centers
worldwide. As a dancer he has worked for choreographers Mark Tompkins,
David Zambrano and others. He is co-founder of the dance theatre
company Dégadézo in Strasbourg, France, using improvisation to
create set pieces. Eckhard has been active in building "contact
communities" in Freiburg and Strasbourg, and supporting others all
over the world. He is co-founder of the contactfestival freiburg,
a major CI event. In 2006 he developed SKIN, an interdisciplinary
and interactive performance project occurring in Germany,
Argentina, France, Uruguay and Switzerland, in collaboration with
Daniela Schwartz.
Daniela Schwartz (Argentina/France) has been a dancer, performer and
teacher of Contact Improvisation and Instant Composition since
1998. She graduated in Fine Arts from Ecole Supérieure des Arts
Décoratifs de Strasbourg, and has taught with Eckhard Müller
to diverse companies, festivals and institutions in South America
and beyond. She has created several works as a member of the
dance theater Cie Dégadézo, and has taught at Theater Pôle Sud,
Ecole Municipale de Danse, Theatre National, and CIRA in Strasbourg.
Years of fine art studies, video creation, installations, performances
and the artistic aspects of the body inform her physical practice and
intellectual research.

:: :: ::
Happening now! Weekly
classes in dance improvisation...
Dance Art Group
/ Movement Arts Research
Thursdays, 6:30-8:30pm ::
Velocity Dance Center
DAG/MAR features research
into improvisation, performance, creative process and composition,
contact improvisation, somatic education, New Dance techniques, and
other dance realms with a different local teacher/topic each month.
Louis Gervais teaches through October 29; Degenerate Art Ensemble's
Haruko Nishimura is coming up in November. Click here for more
info.
:: :: ::
And save the dates for a
very special workshop for experienced dance makers...
Bebe Miller /
Finding Physicality: Technique & Creative
Practice
December 7-11, 2009 ::
Velocity Dance Center
DAG is thrilled to
present this workshop with multiple Bessie Award winner and Guggenheim
Fellow Bebe Miller. Registration opens soon; click here for more
info.
:: :: ::
Dance Art Group
(DAG) fosters and promotes the study, practice, and appreciation of
improvisational dance in Seattle. DAG produces the annual Seattle
Festival of Dance Improvisation (SFDI) and other events that encourage
and support innovative research and education in dance. DAG is
supported by 4Culture, the Mayor's Office of Arts and Cultural
Affairs, and generous individual donors. Click
here to support DAG with your tax-deductible
donation.
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