May be of interest - lots of workshops and study labs and jams all
night. All in the mediaeval centre of Orvieto!

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From: "ZIP.Orvietofestival" <info@...>
Date: 25 February 2005 04:28:33 GMT-08:00
To: "ZIP.Orvietofestival" <info@...>
Subject: News Anteprima ZIP.Orvietofestival June 2005

Comune di Orvieto
Assessorato ai Beni e alle Attività Culturali
Assessorato alle Politiche per il Turismo, Comunicazione Pubblica e
Decentramento
Caravajal15 residenza dinamica

In collaboration with Regione dell’Umbria

Z.Of 2005

ZIP.Orvietofestival 2005
Orvieto - Italy
International improvisation festival
live performing arts
sixth edition

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 June 2005

31 May welcoming and registration
Festival 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5  June 2005

News Anteprima Festival 2005
Dear contact people, dancers, movers and fans of Contact Improvisation,
we are preparing the next edition of  ZIP.Orvietofestival 2005,
international festival for improvisation and live performing arts, to
be held this year in Orvieto (Italy) in a new summer version, from May
31st to June 5th.

More specific plans are still under way and will appear on our
www.contactfestival.it site by March 15th, with all the details
regarding the artistic program, the intensive workshops descriptions,
jams and performances calendar, study labs descriptions, participation
fees, lodgings, how to register, logistics and calendar of events.

In the meanwhile we are pleased to give you preview information about
the artists, performers and musicians who will be special guests in
this sixth edition of ZIP.Orvietofestival 2005.
If you are interested please contact us, writing to
 info@..., or to rossella@..., or to
monica@..., to sign up early.



Artistic team
ZIP.Orvietofestival 2005


Guest performers | teachers

Ray Chung  
(USA)

Andrew Harwood
(Canada)


Guest performers | teachers

Marcia Plevin  (USA)
Rick Nodine (USA)
Khosro Adibi (Holland)
Jovair Longo (Brazil)
Rossella Fiumi (Italy)
Nikolai Schetnev (Russia)
Alessandra Palma di Cesnola (Italy)
Simonetta Alessandri (Italy)
Gionatan Surrenti  (Italy)
Javier Cura  (Argentina)
Lutz Gregor  (Germany)  
Laura Porter Blackburn   (USA)
Gabriella Maiorino  (Italy)
Michele Marchesani (Italy)

 

Guest Musicians

 

Stefano Bollani  
Piano-player  
(Italy)

Antonello Salis  
Piano-player and Accordion
(Italy)



Guest Musicians
Michele Rabbia  \ Percussions (Italy)
Roberto Bellatalla  \ Contrabass (Italy)


Five intensive Workshops
1 | 2 | 3 | 4  | 5 June, several timing in different City’s studios
Five intensives days , four \ five hours per day, it depends which
workshop

Ray Chung - Contact Improvisation : Integrating Movement Methods

Andrew de Lotbiniére Harwood - The decisive moment in Contact

Khosro Adibi - Performing Contact Improvisation

Rossella Fiumi - Scores & tools for Improvising in Contact

Lutz Gregor - Physical cinema - Dance for the camera


Study Lab  - special project residenza dinamica ZIPfestival 2005 - max.
20 participants
1 | 2 | 3 | 4   June
Four days, three hours per day
Marcia Plevin - Authentic Movement


Nine Study Labs
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5  June  several timing in different City’s studios
Two days each lab, two\three hours each per day, it depends which lab

Rick Nodine & Jovair Longo, Alessandra Palma di Cesnola, Javier Cura,
Gionatan Surrenti, Laura Porter Blackburn, Simonetta Alessandri,
Nikolai Schetnev, Gabriella Maiorino, Michele Marchesani


Z.Of 2005

ZIP.Orvietofestival 2005, international improvisation festival - live
performing arts, sixth edition: artistic and cultural project on
Contact Improvisation and its topics, in the historic palaces of
Orvieto, in Italy.

Five days of improvisational dance and music, with guest artists from
eight countries invited to collaborate in the creative production of
events, and to promote elaboration and cooperation for a trans-cultural
art.

Main theme of the Festival is the staging of improvisation
performances, mediated by the experiences and practices of Contact
Improvisation. This form of dance was first conceived in the United
States in the early seventies by the artist Steve Paxton, and  explores
the expressive possibilities of the body outside the predefined
codified schema of a classical conception of movement.   

A cast with an international flavor makes up the sixth edition of
ZIP.Orvietofestival 2005.

Twenty guest artists will enliven the splendid Etruscan town with
their presence over a period of five days, from early morning until
late at night, in an exciting program of live dance and music, and a
busy schedule of four alternating intensive workshops on Contact
Improvisation, one intensive on Physical Cinema (Dance for the Camera),
ten laboratories organized around the themes of Contact Improvisation
and physicality, as well as performances, jams and concerts.

This program is decidedly outside the traditional canons of live
performance, and the ZIP.Orvietofestival offers  an audience that likes
to move within the sphere of improvisation an opportunity  to listen
and participate in the genesis of events.

Z.Of examines the processes of artistic interaction, creating contacts
and opportunities for cooperation between guest artists as they reveal
and share cultural and generational experiences, similarities and
differences, so that, together, they make the festival in Orvieto
happen.

 
The aim of the festival is to integrate generations, ethnicities,
physicalities and tastes.
ZIP.Orvietofestival creates an environment where a sensitive spectator
can breathe new life into the events.
It examines the physical and emotional orientation of a small
community in motion.

Although the guest artists come from different backgrounds, they
participate in questioning the codes of the performing arts in an
attempt to coin a feasible and varied vocabulary for the process of
communication.
This trans-cultural pole of men and women will open with the staging
of Real Time Compositions by guest artists and close with Jams that
bring the community in contact.

Z.Of is more than just a space inhabited by professionals in the field,
who come together in this place of possibility; it is a container for
creative horizons rooted in an original opportunity for a community to
get together in a safe environment outside the conventional commercial
circuits of the performing arts.


Contacts:

Caravajal15 residenza dinamica
Via Malabranca 15
05018 Orvieto (TR) - ITALY
Tel + 39 0763 341479  
Fax + 39 0763 340669

info@...
www.contactfestival.it



Artistic direction and organizing
Rossella Fiumi
rossella@...
 
Project assistant
Monica Serra
+ 39 339 6675800
monica@...


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