29th September - 3rd October
Hi Everyone
Only four weeks to go until this great workshop with Andrew Harwood from Canada.
Andrew is one of the key figures in the development of Contact Improvisation and a really wonderful and internationally respected teacher.
This will be a rare opportunity to work with him intensively here in the UK.
Please find attached details about the workshop, how to pay, directions and a list of cheap accommodation in the area.
Please note the change of venue from Ralli Hall in Hove to the Brighton Ki Society Dojo (so a nice soft floor to work on) - all details attached.
Don't miss it!
Best wishes
Charlie Morrissey
Movement 12
Andrew Harwood
Being Ready
10am - 5pm
£120
at Brighton Ki Society Dojo
An intermediate/advaced workshop in Contact Improvisation
What does it mean to be ready to dance at any time, with anyone, anywhere?
There are no set formulas, or specific manners to achieving this state of readiness.
There is, however, an attitude and a state of body/mind that can be cultivated, which can help bring us to a place of total alertness.
Being completely attentive and always prepared on all levels will enable us to go beyond thinking our way through the dance, and help us to be attuned to what is actually taking place.
This full presence also allows us to be free of the mental chatter, planning ahead, and judgement, which so often override the body’s ability to make appropriate split-second choices.
In this way, the improvisations can be entirely physical, playful, heartfelt, surprising and enjoyable.
Explored themes will include:
Tumbling, flying, use of variable speeds, use of direct action and initiation, resistance, disappearance, subtle and surprising ways of moving weight, flowing through unfamiliar circumstances, extending our personal range of movement, and integrating our imagination and our heart.
Because of the challenging nature of this workshop, this intensive is for those with a solid grasp of Contact fundamentals .
Andrew Harwood
Andrew de Lotbotiniere Harwood is the artistic director of AH HA Productions - a company
focusing on improvisation as a performing art.
Andrew is recognised as an exceptional teacher, performer and creaor in the field of instantaneous choreography & Contact Improvisation since 1975.
Harwood studied taught & performed with Steve Paxton,Nancy Stark-Smith & Nita Little, the founders of Contact Improvisation.
His background also includes gymnastics, yoga, modern dance, release technique, somatic
studies, compositional improvisation & Aikido.
His work has been presented in numerous international festivals since 1980 including:
Impulstanz, La Bienale,Festival Montpelier, F.I.N.D, Festival des Antipodes, IF/New York,
Bates Dance Festival & others as well as teaching & performing at most of the international contact festivals in Europe.
He has danced with the companies of Fulcrum, Jo Lechay, Marie Chouinard,The Echo Case & Jean-Pierre Perreault & has collaborated in performance with many reknowned dance artists including Lisa Nelson, Kirstie Simson, Peter Bingham, Chris Aiken, Ray Cheung & Benoit Lachambre, amongst many others.
He was awarded the Canada Council’s Jacquelin-Lemieux dance award in 2000.
For more information and to bo
ok for this workshop, please email
Charlie Morrissey at: movementtwelve@...
or call 07786061200
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