Last year at the west coast festival I discovered an amazing teacher.? Nita Little, a contemporary of Steve Paxton and Nancy Stark Smith.
I have enjoyed studying with both Steve and Nancy and what they teach is quite different in style and content.
Nita's work is different again.
As a contact teacher myself I found that the work not only affirmed and deepened my own exploration in the form but opened up fresh new avenues along which I could travel. I decided there and then that I wanted more of this and it is my wish to share this experience with the rest of the contact community here in Europe.
The building of a new, larger studio here at movingartsbase gave me an excellent opportunity to realize this wish.
If you have not already booked for this workshop I strongly recommend that you do not miss this chance to share my experience.
The other superlative workshops and classes in the summer school which do stand in their own right are designed also to complement Contact Improvisation. Take a look below and on the website (http://www.movingartsbase.co.uk) for more information.
See you on the floor. ??
John Koratjitis
Director
movingartsbase
Nita Little Contact Improvisation
8th-12th August Surfing the Waves of Grace:
The Principles of Contact Improvisation
15th-19th August Framing the Boundless: Crafting Experience
Both courses will run from 12.00-6.00pm
Cost: £150 for one course - £280 for both courses
Nita Little has been performing, choreographing and teaching improvisational dance for the past 30 years. The emphasis of Nita’s work is the partnering form of Contact Improvisation, which she helped to evolve with among others Steve Paxton and Nancy Stark Smith and collaborated with them in numerous performing companies introducing Contact Improvisation throughout the USA.
Nita will teach two workshops; Surfing the Waves of Grace: The Principles of Contact Improvisation will explore the underlying principles of CI, looking at action and the relationship of moving bodies. This is an opportunity to learn CI skills through integration of its principles and is developed for people who wish to go deeper into its foundations. This is appropriate and encouraged for dancers of all skill levels.
Framing the Boundless: Crafting Experience will look to enhance the dancer’s creative strength, spatial freedom and authenticity. We will look at the experience of the mind within the body, explore this ‘meeting ground’. How the mind and its boundless nature can enrich the dance with depth and breadth. Suitable for intermediate to advanced contact improvisation dancers.
For a more in-depth description of Nita’s workshops, log on to the movingartsbase website www.movingartsbase.co.uk
Other courses on the mab summer school programme
Florence Peake Skinner Releasing Technique
8th-12th August 9.30-11.30am
Cost: £50 for the five sessions £12 as a drop in class
Florence Peake has worked extensively with a wide and varied range of choreographers, filmmakers and performance artists including Gaby Agis, Jane Turner, Gary Stevens and Miranda Pennel, and has been creating her own work since 1998, which amongst other places has been performed at Laban, 291 Gallery, Union Chapel and Here Theatre, New York. She is a certified teacher of Skinner Releasing Technique, and has taught dance, performance and improvisation extensively, most recently at the Circus Space in London and Laban. Florence will teach classes one to five of the first fifteen classes of Skinner Releasing Technique.
Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT) is the pioneering approach to dancing that facilitates a deep kinesthetic experience of movement. It is based on the simple principle that when our bodies are releasing tension and habitual holding patterns something new can emerge. By engaging the imagination and involving the whole self, natural alignment and freedom of movement can be rediscovered. Guided poetic imagery is interwoven with music and sound that taps into the imagination, triggering spontaneous improvised movement. Thus, technical growth and creative process are integrated.
The Releasing process reveals the natural grace in every human being - reflecting a key philosophy of the work that we are all born dancers. SRT is for all those with an interest in exploring their creativity through moving.
Scott Clark Feldenkrais Method ®
13-14th August 10.00am-1.00pm
Cost - £50 for the two day workshop
Scott Clark has been working with movement for 25 years. He was a founding member of Siobhan Davies Dance Company, teaching the company for its first six years. Scott began to incorporate the Feldenkrais Method ® into dance training and teaching functional anatomy after completing the four year London Feldenkrais training. Scott is a member of the Feldenkrais Guild UK and teaches regular classes and Feldenkrais professional training programmes in the UK, Europe and USA.
Scott will teach a workshop based on moving and touch. For those who work with movement and health practitioners the two-day workshop will explore ways that touch can enrich and guide the movement. What determines the quality of our touch? How can we access that directly? How do we feel differently touched, depending on the attitude of the toucher?
The Feldenkrais Method ® is a way of learning about movement, posture and breathing in order to develop our full human potential. Through the Feldenkrais Method ® movement patterns and connections are explored and we can learn to increase the ease and range of our movement, improve flexibility and coordination, and awaken our innate capacity for comfort and grace. It is ultimately a way of learning about ourselves and how we can meet new challenges.
Sharna Travers-Smith Body-Mind Centering ®
20th-21st August 10.00am- 4.00pm Body Systems/Body Rhythms
Cost - £140 for the two day workshop
Sharna Travers-Smith has an MA in Dance, is a LIMS Certified Laban Movement Analyst, and is a founding member of the School for Body-Mind Centering®. She is a Certified Teacher and Practitioner of BMC® now living in the UK and currently teaching at Laban Centre and University of Chichester. She has taught an integrated approach to dance improvisation and Body-Mind Centering® in the States and Europe for the past twenty-five years.
Sharna will teach a workshop which will explore mind states and movement qualities of the bones and organs using principles and practices of Body-Mind Centering ®. The skeletal and organ systems offer complementary structural and energetic supports for the body. The skeletal scaffolding is the container for the organic contents of the body. Embodying the qualities of the bones allows us to act on the environment and move through space with effortless support and spatial clarity. Organ embodiment gives us a sense of ourselves and gives our movement vitality and volume. Together these systems create a balance of form and expression and our movement.
Body-Mind Centering®, pioneered by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, is an experiential approach to exploring the body-mind relationship through movement. Drawing from Western anatomical and physiological concepts, and Eastern philosophy and movement disciplines, it bridges the movement arts and sciences.
http://www.bodymindcentering.com/
Framing the Boundless: Crafting Experience is suitable for intermediate to advanced Contact Improvisation dancers. All other workshops and classes are suitable for those with varying experience of movement.
For travel information, a map and information on other classes and workshops at mab log onto www.movingartsbase.co.uk <http://www.movingartsbase.co.uk/>
This workshop is being curated by Marie Davies and hosted at movingartsbase.
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