The Poetry of Motion 
Improvisation and Partnering Skills with Kirstie Simson and Christian Burns    
plus early morning yoga with Julia Baldock.

Abercych, South West Wales
31st May to 7th June

more info below
to book contact Stirling: 01239 841488

Location: Abercych village hall, in the wooded Cych valley, 15 minutes drive from the beaches of Cardigan Bay.
Accommodation in self-catering cottages on an organic farm (<http://www.clynfyw.co.uk> <http://www.clynfyw.co.uk> ) where early morning yoga will take place in a smaller studio. 10-15 minutes walk from here, through woodland, to the village & hall.

Cost: 
Residential: Part-waged/unwaged £300 ; Full waged/funded place £350
Non-residential: Part-waged/unwaged £225; Full waged/funded place £275


Content:
A weeklong workshop with three renowned teachers, for those with previous dance improvisation experience.

Kirstie and Christian will give classes in dance-improvisation, drawing from their knowledge of contact improvisation, dance techniques, the Japanesemartial art form of Aikido and their extensive experience of improvisation in performance. Their focus will be on exploring uninhibitedly the huge potential of the body's response to the primal urge to move, inspired by deep energies released through human interaction, physical challenge and through the excitement of discovering new territory, new sensations and a daring to go beyond inherent ideas of limitation. The classes will be built on very simple physical principles allowing students to explore their experience of moving and to understand their own bodies more profoundly, which is often experienced as joyful and liberating. 
Christian and Kirstie will be focusing on various aspects and techniques for freeing up the body - allowing it to move with greater ease and grace. They have both spent many years researching ways of moving, which generate full and fearless dancing, and both enjoy the challenges of intense physicality. They will be sharing their discoveries with students. The classes offer dancers a way in which they can extend and deepen their experience of moving. 

Kirstie has been a continuous explosion in the contemporary dance scene, bringing audiences into contact with the vitality of pure creation in moment after moment of virtuoso improvisation. Called "a force of nature" by the New York Times, she is an award-winning dancer and teacher who has "immeasurably enriched and expanded the boundaries of New Dance" according to Time Out Magazine, London. Simson's eternal subject is freedom, as she dares to go beyond the boundaries of form and structure to create movement out of the rhythm of life itself. 

Christian has performed, taught and choreographed as an independent artist for various dance companies, schools and art centers around the United States, Europe and Asia. His choreographic and dance-video work has received several awards, grants, artist fellowships and artists-in-residencies and he is the co-founder of The Foundry, an interdisciplinary dance company based in San Francisco. Christian was recently a guest artist with The Forsythe Company for the creation of Equivalence, which premiered in Dresden Germany.. Christian currently resides in Holyoke Massachusetts where he and his collaborators are renovating the nineteenth century Parsons Hall, into a live work and a dance residency facility. (<http://www.christianburns.org> <http://www.christianburns.org>  )

Julia is based in Somerset and teaches a form of Yoga which has, in part, been evolved through Italian teacher Vanda Scaravelli. Julia describes it as "classical yoga with roots - working with the out breath".