Dear All,

Thank you for waiting on information and apologies for the delay.

We have been working hard to be able to offer you the best of CI in Edinburgh with international flavour, inspiration, quality teaching and lots of dancing.

Of course part of this package is the wonderful Edinburgh Fringe and International Festival that is buzzing in the streets and in every possible place and time in the city – best international physical theatre and dance groups are in town! + comedy, music, theatre and more.

We are happy to welcome anyone from the CI community around the world to come and enjoy the workshops, jam and the opportunity to perform in this wonderful setting (all details are below).

With love and happy dancing,

Merav, Agata, Monica, Karen

Dates: 16-18 August 2007 + [Mid-day to Mid-night Duet – 19^th August – details below]

Place: St. Mary’s Cathedral

61 York Place

Edinburgh

EH1 3JD

Thursday 16 August, 6pm - 9 pm : with Merav Israel (Scotland)

Friday 17 August + Saturday 18 August, 10am – 5pm: with Nien Mari Chatz (France)

Friday 17 August, 6pm - 8pm: with live music with Dave Murray, Paul Keene, and Sebastian Meller

Sunday 19 August, noon to midnight @ Totalkunst Gallery, Forest Café, Bristo Pl. Edinburgh

A 12 hour performance of continuous contact Improvisation duet.

Performers pass the dance between them so that the duet never stops. Observed mainly from the street through glass big window – It plays on performance boundaries of time and space and between the physical and metaphorical aspects of being inside and outside.

The festival would be the 3^rd time we perform this successful score for continuous dance performance.

And this year it will be extended 24 hour event with Aaron Mccolskey and guests artists running an Art Jam in Totalkunst Gallery for 12 hours on Saturday 18^th. Their art, painted on the walls, will be part of the setting for the 12-hours dance performance.

The group of dance performers would come primarily from participants in the festival. However, this performance does require prior experience in improvised performance and good contact skills. Any festival participants, who would like to perform, and feel ready, should contact Merav to discuss.

We require full payment for the festival in advance. Booking in advance is essential (places are limited – on first-come-first-served basis).

LaNua

3f1/ 54 Easter Road

Edinburgh EH7 5RQ

We will provide receipts on first day of festival (if you require one earlier, please let us know)

Festival fees - £90 (£80) [includes all workshops, jam and performance]

Jam on Friday 17^th is an open session, you do not need to participate in the full festival to attend - £5 (at the door)

If you would like to attend the festival but have specific problem, please contact Merav - see contacts below.

Trains, plains, busses: please make your own travel arrangements. We are happy to assist with information and with linking between travellers.

We are aware that during the Edinburgh fringe it is very difficult to find accommodation in the city. So we would like to offer a scheme where local CI folks can offer accommodation to international ones. We suggest that who ever can offer accommodation and who ever needs accommodation contact us and we will do our best to link between you. We also suggest that people make their own financial arrangements between them. (something between £0-£7 per night?). This is Edinburgh in August… anything will do, sofas, floors… etc.

The workshops we offer are inspired by themes explored in the Midday to Midnight Duet, and, of course, from an ongoing inspiration derived from contact improvisation and our curiosity about the world of movement and improvisation:

Awakening - sensing - connecting- the moving body - the particular and the collective.

Assembling - our perception and body awareness- propreoception- inspiration.

Transitions -

We will explore different transitions that we go through in dancing with and without partners. As if we broaden our experience in time of transition, we observe and play with the options that are available to us.

In this way we are preparing ourselves to move and live in the in-betweens, as well as in the outside/inside moments.

Taking on from the idea inherited in Mid-day to Mid-night Duet of inside and outside, passing of time and passing the dance – we will have the opportunity to tap in different ways into creative explorations and expensive dance.

INSIDE – OUT, OUTSIDE – IN

Visual perception and CI , Vision & Imagination:

The eyes can become a camera in movement.

Space and body can be moved differently by an enlarged consciousness of vision.

Exploring the sensory experience of active and receptive ways to see, opens up new ways for the dancer to relate to space and to a partner in contact.

Playing with choice of how using our eyes will open our imaginary vision and inspire associative processes of visual imagination, thus becoming a source for creating storyline in improvisational dancing.

NIEN MARI CHATZ

NMCH, born in Germany,

has completed her dance studies at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in Amsterdam, during which time she studied Contact Improvisation with the pionneers of these forms: Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith, Kirstie Simpson and many others.

From 1986 - 96 NMCH has been faculty of the SNDO, since 1997 she lives in France.

Her work as choreographer and teacher is strongly inspired by experimental Bodywork : (Release Technique, Body Mind Centering, Alexander Technique).

"As a dancer and teacher I am interested in creating experimental situations in which the body is allowed to feel good and confident. I trust in learning by experimentation and play as a deeply creative process, that silence and patience are powerful states of being alive. I see that effortlessness and a clear focus allow for both, non-violent communication and animalistic power in dancing, and that such practice can free up new, more subtle, authentic and diversified possibilities for creative interaction. I am interested in the integration of dancing and living, and in healing through creating."

CONTACT: Nien Mari Chatz, 46 Rue de Metz, 31000 Toulouse/France

+33 (0) 6 33 22 05 67

MERAV ISRAEL

had been teaching, performing and creating since 1997 after finishing her studies in movement and movement notation in Jerusalem. Since then had continued to be inspired by many renowned teachers in Israel and Europe.

Since 2001 living in Edinburgh, teaching and facilitating Contact improvisation, improvisation and movement. Creating her own work and in collaboration with theatre and film.

Main interests are in the moving body, observations into our ways of perceiving and facilitating movement, and the ways in which we make sense of our physicality and dancing body.

Her classes are informed by Feldekraise technique and other somatic movement methods.

Her interest and training include eastern philosophy, dance and culture – in particular South Indian Classical Dance.

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