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Comune di Orvieto
Assessorato ai Beni e alle Attività Culturali
Assessorato al Turismo
Caravajal 15 residenza dinamica
Orvieto | Italy
Zip.festival
October 2006
International improvisation festival live performing arts
www.contactfestival.it
Welcome to contact dancers and movers from all over the world!!
Zip 2006 – Seventh edition
A lively international kermes on improvisation performances of dance and live music, with a rich calendar of concerts, performances and jams, Contact Improvisation and Improvisation workshops.
This is a brief announcement with an outline of the Zip 2006 project and the special guests who are truly outstanding this year!!
Those who are interested in our Zip project, can in the meanwhile look over the list of performers/masters invited and write us for information and reservations.
Our site www.contactfestival.it will be up-dated by June.
The parameters of costs and hospitality logistics have not yet been established, but they are being worked on.
The detailed calendar of Zip (hours, lodging logistics, costs, and description of all the workshops, study labs and performances, is still in the process of being defined).
The project this years is planned in three phases :
BeforeZip
14-19 October
intensive workshop “Logomotion” with Simone Forti
(6 hours a day, reserved to a max of 20 advanced level / expert participants)
final performance of Simone Forti’s group to be given during the Zip performance evenings.
(enrollment ends on July 15)
Zip festival
19-22 October
workshop, jam, study lab, performance, concerts
International guests:
Simone Forti (USA)
Scott Smith (USA)
Mans Erlandson (Sweden)
Robert Anderson (England)
Rick Nodine (USA)
Susanne Martin (Germany)
Gaby Koch (Germany)
Piero Leccese (Italy)
Rossella Fiumi (Italy)
Franco Zita (Italy)
and the musicians
Roberto Bellatalla (double-bass)
Michele Rabbia (percussion)
AfterZip
24-29 October
intensive workshop with Scott Smith
SIMONE FORTI
SPECIAL GUEST ZIP 2006
We are particularly proud to communicate the presence at the festival of the great Italy/American Artist Simone Forti, a pioneer and real milestone in the story of improvisation performance!!
The artist will give an intensive workshop with the title “Logomotion” 6 hours a day, before the beginning of the festival, from October 14 to 19.
The workshop is reserved to a max of 20 advanced level / expert participants in Improvisation.
Requests will be subject to selection.
At the end of the workshop Simone Forti will present a final performance of the group as part of the festival program, during the Zip performance evenings.
Simone Forti will also dance her solo in the festival and will give a lecture demonstration , of exceptional interest, on her intense career through the world artistic scene.
Definitely not to be missed !!
The project is being carried out under the guidance of the independent artist Rossella Fiumi, in her artistic residence in Orvieto Caravajal15 residenza dinamica, and supported by the City of Orvieto.
An unusual program with respect to the traditional canons of live performances, the festival represents an original rendezvous for an audience that loves to move in the ambience of improvisation listening and collaborating directly in the genesis of the events.
www.contactfestival.it - info@...
+39 0763 34 14 79
Simone Forti was born in Florence Italy in 1935 and emigrated to the U.S. with her family in 1939. She came of age as a young dancer in the 1950s and 60s, and developed out of two main influences. The first was improvisation, which she studied with Anna Halprin and which has remained her basic mode. The other was her experience with the legendary Judson Church Dance Theater that revolutionized modern dance in New York at a historical moment of dialogue between visual artists, musicians, poets and dancers. From her early minimalist dance/constructions through her animal studies, news animations and land portraits, Forti has created idioms for exploring natural forms and behaviors. Jennifer Dunning writes in her 1991 New York Times review: “Simone Forti presented her first dance program in 1960 and has since then had a steadily increasing influence on post-modernist choreographers interested in exploring ‘natural’ or nonformalist movement and dance”. Over the past twenty years Forti has been combining movement and language in her improvisations, in a form she calls Logomotion.
Simone Forti has performed and taught throughout the US, Canada and Europe as well as in Japan, Korea, Australia and Venezuela. Her appearances have included The Stdelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Saibu Theater in Tokyo, the Fondation Cartier in Paris, Galleria L’Attico and Castello di Rivoli in Italy, and the Fundacao Serralves in Portugal. In the US she has appeared at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Getty Museum, The Pasadena Museum of Art, Highways Performance Space in Los Angeles, Theater Artaud in San Francisco, and Links Hall in Chicago, and in New York, at Judson Church, St. Mark’s Church, The Kitchen Center for Video, Music, Dance & Performance, Summergarden at the Museum of Modern Art and Dance Theater Workshop. She has participated in Nam June Paik’s Video Opera at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, the Donaueschinger Festival in Germany and the Sougetsu Museum in Tokyo. Two of her early pieces were featured in the Baryshnikov Productions PASTFORWARD project, a White Oak tour of works by the Judson choreographers, and she joined the tour as guest performer at their Columbia College, Chicago venue and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Forti’s book Handbook in Motion: an account of an ongoing personal discourse and its manifestations in dance was published in 1974 by the Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design as part of their Source Materials of the Contemporary Arts series. It was republished in French translation by the Belgian dance magazine, Nouvelles de Danse in 2000. Her book, Oh, Tongue, a collection of experimental writings with a postscript by poet Jackson Mac Low, was published in 2003 by Beyond Baroque Books. An article of hers is featured in Taken by Surprise, A Dance Improvisation Reader, published in 2003 by the Wesleyan University Press.
Forti has received various grants, including six NEA fellowships, a “Bessie” New York Dance and Performance award for sustained achievement and a Dance Resource Center of Los Angeles Lester Horton Award for lifetime achievement. In 2005 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is an adjunct professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA, and continues to teach and perform worldwide.
Logomotion workshop description:
Working with wild mind and intention
In our daily lives, we spontaneously weave together body language and spoken words to help us understand and communicate. Logomotion cultivates this synergetic process, and can serve both as a tool for exploring ones thoughts and feelings, and as a medium for performance. The class will include a warm-up practice to awaken our kinetic juices, and timed writings to put us in touch with our wild thoughts and observations. We will focus on improvisation, including movement explorations and exercises for perceptual and compositional awareness. And for developing a natural and intuitive flow between our moving and our speaking, with depth, surprise and delight.
Forti’s general approach to the workshop process comes from Anna Halprin’s early dance improvisation work of the 1950s and her influence from the Bauhaus School of Design with its emphasis on education through exploration. Forti’s warm up practice includes influences from Anna Halprin’s experiential anatomy work with Margaret H’Doubler, from Yang style Tai Chi Chuan which she studied with Marshall Ho’o, and from Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen’s developmental movement. The warm up will often lead us to inspired dancing that transcends its point of departure.
The writing practice comes from Natalie Goldberg as found in her books “Writing Down the Bones” and “Wild Mind”. It will consist of writing sessions of about seven minutes, exploring the associations that gather spontaneously around a chosen point of departure.
Sometimes our words don’t have access to what we know in our bones. The heart of the workshop is developing ease between moving and speaking. Forti embarked on this work two decades ago out of a sense of urgency to find a personal, more visceral understanding of the images of the world brought to us by the news media. But this practice can lend itself to any area of subject matter, or range poetically through varied images, memories and speculations. By speaking and moving at once, spontaneously following our impulses and responding to the resulting dynamics and images, we integrate various aspects of our knowing and give expression to a fuller spectrum of our world. Witnessing each other’s improvisations, hearing each other’s writings, talking together about what we saw and did will help us digest our experiences and have lasting access to our learning. It will be Simone’s responsibility to ease us into this process which is much more natural and fun than it sounds on paper, and we will be propelled into a lot of inspired improvising, individually and together.
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