London Contact Improvisation
Contact improvisation classes and jams are held on Saturdays at the Moving East Centre for Martial Arts, Dance and Complimentary Medicine in Stoke Newington. All levels of experience are welcome and booking is not required. To attend the class please arrive at 11.15 in order to start at 11.30. The class is followed by a three-hour jam which can be attended independently of the class.
Lalitaraja will teach the class on Saturdays 17, 24, 31 March:
Mindful attention to the spaces between things that happen; used to warm-up, to move, to explore, to awaken the possibilities in each moment. We play, we dance, we use skills and strategies, we make connections...we do contact.
Lalitaraja (aka Jo Chandler) spent his early career working in major ballet companies. Subsequently he has danced for Michael Clark, Adventures in Motion Pictures, David Massingham Dance, Laurie Booth,Yolande Snaith Theatredance, Rick Nodine and Fin Walker. He is the director of Oracle Dance Co and choreographs and performs both improvised and set work. Lalitaraja has been teaching contact improvisation and improvisation for many years. Lalitaraja is his Buddhist name, given when he joined the Western Buddhist Order. He teaches meditation and Buddhism in London.
David Leahy will play double bass at the jam:
Resident in the UK since 1998, David has become a prominent double bass player on the free and improvised music scene. Added to this he has not only maintained his connections with other musical styles such as jazz, folk and world music, but has allowed these differing influences to mix and fuse together. David now also encompasses his lifelong passion and interest in bringing movement into his music, and has performed as a dancer/musician both in England and France. Some of the artists and groups that he is currently involved with include; the London Improvisers Orchestra, a number of smaller groups containing members of the orchestra, Akafree (Spanish/English free jazz ensemble), Dha (Indian/European Improvisation ensemble), Claire Filmon (Improviser/dancer, Paris.) Deirdre Starr (Irish vocalist/pianist and with Angeline Conaghan (vocalist) and Ben Brewer (guitar) playing original folk based material. He has also conducted groups and performed as a guest and soloist in a number of ensembles both in this country and in Europe. David has over the last 6 years been featured on 10 recordings with a number of these and other groups and has just released a solo cd entitled ‘finger painting’.
contact improvisation classes and jams every Saturday
class: 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
jam: 1:30 - 4:30 pm
class £6; jam £4.00; both £8
(kneepads available for price of £10)
Teachers for the 2006 - 2007 season:
17, 24, 31 March Lalitaraja
7 April no class (Easter)
14, 21, 28 April Charlie Morrisey
5, 12, 19 May Thomas Kampe
26 May Angus Balbernie
2, 9, 16 June Kathy Crick
23, 30 June Jovair Longo
7, 14 July Adriana Pegorer
Venue:
Moving East Centre
St Matthias Church Hall
Wordsworth Road
London
N16 8DD
(access is by stairs only we regret)
train to: Dalston Kingsland on North London line
buses to: Newington Green (73 from Victoria/Euston/King's Cross, 141, 341, 236)
or Stoke Newington Rd (67, 149, 242, 243)
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To be added to our mailing list or for more information:
Tel: +44 (0)7792 377 343 Robert Anderson
Email: robert@...
Web: http://contactimprovisation.co.uk/London
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