avec Nancy Stark Smith (danse) - jam contact improvisation Genève

Nancy Stark Smith (USA)
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Photo © Alfiya Rakhmanova
Stage de Danse Contact Improvisation
du 25 au 30 juin 2015
avec Nancy Stark Smith (danse)
and Mike Vargas (musique)
Contact and Improvisation
in Detail and Perspective
A workshop investigating the practice of
contact improvisation (CI) and its relationship to
a broader field of improvisation, composition,
and live music. We will deepen and refine our
dancing in CI while expanding our awareness to
include compositional details and conscious,
varied relationships between what we hear and
how we move.
The workshop will focus on physical training in CI,
detailed listening practice, discussion, and other
improvisation structures, including Nancy’s
Underscore – a long score for jamming/composition/contact. Solo, in contact, in groups, with
and without live music, we’ll study physical and
energetic changes of state, natural (and
deliberate)
composition,
presence,
and
relationship.
In these ways, we’ll develop our ability to focus
and enjoy our dancing, listening, and
improvising at various levels of details and
magnification.
For people with intermediate/advanced
level experience in contact improvisation.
first trained as
an athlete and gymnast, leading her to study
and perform modern and postmodern dance.
She danced in the first performances of
contact improvisation in 1972 with Steve Paxton
and others and has since been central to its
development as dancer, teacher, performer,
writer/publisher, and organizer. She has
travelled extensively throughout the world
teaching and performing contact and other
improvised dance work with Paxton and many
other
favorite
dance
partners
and
performance makers, including Ray Chung,
Julyen Hamilton, Peter Bingham, Andrew
Harwood, Karen Nelson, and musician Mike
Vargas. She co-founded Contact Quaterly, an
international dance journal, in 1975 which she
continues to co-edit and produce. Her work is
featured in several books and films, and she has
been developing the Underscore, a long-form
dance improvisation structure, since 1990. Her
first book, Caught Falling : The Confluence of
Contact Improvisation, Nancy Stark Smith, and
Other Moving Ideas, came out in 2008. She lives
in western Massachusetts.
www.nancystarksmith.com
Mike Vargas (USA)
began studying music
in 1959. He started specializing in music for
dance in 1978. He works as a freelance
composer across the USA and internationally
performing,
teaching,
recording,
and
improvising. For the past 15 years, he has been
working around the world with Nancy Stark
Smith. He teaches on the faculty of the Smith
College dance department. He has released 9
CDs of his music.
www.mikevargas.net
Lieu et horaires
Maison des arts du Grütli, Studio de l'ADC, 2ème ét.
16 rue du Général-Dufour, Genève
Jeudi à samedi : 10h00-17h30 (1h ½ de pause)
Samedi soir: repas commun/discussions
Dimanche : 3 heures l’après-midi
Lundi à mardi : 10h00-17h30 (1h ½ de pause)
Stage de 6 heures par jour.
Tarifs : 600.- Frs.
Inscription définitive fin février 2015 avec paiement
des arrhes (2/3 du prix).
PostFinance compte n. 10-703002-2
IBAN CH82 0900 0000 1070 3002 2
Association de danse contact improvisation Genève
Informations et inscriptions
Paola Gianoli
+41 79 781 77 41 / [email protected]
Compte postal :
Association de
danse
Contact
Improvisation