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CI SYMPOSIUM 2012, JUNE 14-17 4 Days of Intensives, Jams, and Cultivation of Mentorship and Depth Practices in Contact Improvisation 10am-8:30pm THU & FRI, 10am-1am SAT & SUN $210 for 4 Days, $65 Single Day $10 Dinner Discussions (7pm nightly), $5 Night Jams (8:30pm-1am SAT & SUN) LOCATION: Sawtooth Building, 2525 Eighth Street at Dwight Way, Berkeley, CA REGISTER: http://cisymposium2012.eventbrite.com INTENSIVE TEACHERS (please scroll to bottom for full descriptions and bios): THU, June 14, Fundamentals to Build the Advanced Dancer: Ali Woolwich beginner level/beginner's mind advanced FRI, June 15, CI and BodyMind Centering (BMC): Diana Lara and Liz Boubion beginner-to-intermediate level SAT, June 16, Methods for Honing Partner Rapport: Ralf Jaroschinski intermediate-to-advanced level SUN, June 17, ALL DAY JAMMING (some structured, some open), Teacher Coaching Sessions available throughout. SCHEDULE OUTLINE: 10am-1pm: 1-Day Intensives (see above for teachers) AM Session 1-2pm: LUNCH 2-4pm: Day Jam & Coaching Sessions. On Sat June 16: FREE CLASS with new CI Teacher Training Graduates. 4-4:30pm: Break 4:30pm-7pm: 1-Day Intensives PM Session (AM & PM not sold separately as they are cumulative) 7-8:30pm: Dinner Discussion (Day Participants welcome to attend Discussion without purchasing dinner, night jammers too.) 8:30pm-1am: SAT & SUN ONLY, Night Jams JUNE 14 8:30pm support Thursday Jam at 7th Heaven Yoga JUNE 15 8:30pm share CI at Dance Journey at Sawtooth COACHING SESSIONS are like a private lesson with a teacher, but within the context of the jam. Have a 30 minute dance with a teacher to get general feedback, work out a specific challenge, or just have a "jam-chaperone" if you're newer to Jams to assist you in learning/navigating Jam etiquette. COMING FROM FAR AWAY? We have a limited number of slots of NO-COST 4-NIGHT HOUSING. Email us at the address below, slots are first-come first-served to those coming from farthest away and will go FAST. WORK EXCHANGE (WEX) is available, email us your interest at the address below. Each hour you contribute=$10 off. QUESTIONS: 415-335-6384, info@humilityswim.org FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/groups/humilityswim INTENSIVE DESCRIPTIONS AND BIOS SAT, JUNE 16, Methods for Honing Partner Rapport, Ralf Jaroschinski intermediate-to-advanced level All of us have at some point have made the observation that, when improvising with certain partners our dance flows effortlessly, while with certain others it just doesn't, no matter how hard we try or how skilled we/they are or become... Thinking we cannot possibly help it, we usually just resign ourselves to this phenomenon filing it under "no chemistry" or "kismet." During the course of this Intensive, however, we will not take it for granted that we have to give up right away in these situations. Acknowledging that the rapport and feedback you get and give are in constant flux - them being influenced by our own and our partners' daily, sometimes momentarily changing physical, emotional and mental states, personal preferences, socialization(s), assumptions, ideas and many more factors - how could chemistry or destiny possibly be a given, an unmalleable fact? To somatize this search for rapport, we will raise our awareness for our body, feelings and mind and our partners' more authentic kinetic expressions/ movements. We'll work on a few partnering skills and enjoy participating as fully as possible in the kinesthetic dialogue with our partner(s). Then, we will direct our focus to some of the factors that affect the ways we make and perceive contact, and play with those specifically by altering our take on them slightly: by bending common definitions drastically, by letting go of presumptions of what is perhaps not so obvious to us. And who knows? We might end up feeling chemistries being even more palpable than before, or we might stumble upon new possibilities and choice, feel empowered and dare to more freely give and take more rapport than before in our improvisations, which therefore might feel both less predictable and more satisfying. Ralf Jaroschinski, born in Germany and raised in Brazil, was trained in classical, modern and contemporary dance techniques in Germany and New York City. He has worked as a freelance dancer, teacher and choreographer for over 20 years mainly in Europe and the Americas. He has taught Contact Improvisation for 16 years and also performs it in pieces created specificly with this technique, e.g, Sci-fi Poetry (2009) and Never Felt This Way Before (2010) with Andrew Wass. He will be teaching weekly for JULY 2012 at Tuesdays SF CI Series co-produced by Humilityswim and CounterPULSE. FRI, JUNE 15, CI and BodyMind Centering (BMC): Diana Lara and Liz Boubion beginner-to-intermediate level This intensive will explore how our primitive reflexes: simple patterns of movement that originate in the central nervous system and that are integrated in the first year of life support our sense of gravity, and the connection with the earth and our partner. Through individual movement exploration and dances with partners, we will play with the primitive reflexes and the awareness of the relation of the head and body with respect to the vertical, and how these things support our readiness to go in and out of the floor, move in and out of contact, and move through space in the planes of motion. Diana Lara is a teacher, choreographer and dancer from Honduras. She graduated from the choreography program of the Center for Research and Choreography at the Mexican Institute of Fine Arts and from the Somatic Research and Participatory Arts program at Moving On Center in Oakland. In 2011, she graduated from the Embodied Developmental Movement and Yoga program offered by the School of Body Mind Centering. Diana teaches dance based on somatic principles for women recuperating from drug abuse and domestic violence at Purple Moon Dance Project, and yoga for elders at Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center. Since 1995, she has danced and choreographed for contemporary dance groups in Mexico and Honduras, participating in festivals in Mexico and Central America. She currently works as an independent artist developing projects based in the exploration of somatic elements and improvisation with performers in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Mexico. Liz Boubion, MFA, is a certified Halprin Life-Art Practitioner, a contemporary dance choreographer, vocal improviser, ritual leader, and Contact Improvisation teacher. She holds a BA in Dance from CSU Long Beach, MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from California Institute of Integral Studies and is an associate teacher of the Tamalpa Institute co-founded by Anna Halprin and Daria Halprin. Liz has been performing and practicing Dance as a healing art for 20 years and has been facilitating groups and individuals of all ages for over a decade. She brings a broad base of experience in interdisciplinary performance art, somatic therapies, contact improvisation, Vipassana meditation, diversity training, integrative dance and motherhood to her classes. She has taught Contemporary Dance, Contact Improvisation, circle singing and the Halprin Life-Art Process locally and abroad including at California Institute of Integral Studies, Shawl Anderson, American College Dance Festival, Cal State East Bay, Marin School for the Arts, Jon Sims Cultural Art Center, Senior Access in San Rafael, the Purple Moon Dance Projects outreach program for women, and with Afia Walking Tree, M.Ed. at the Regenerative Design Institute and Green Valley Village. Her latest work, Piñata is a community-based piece reclaiming re- indigenizing the ritual of the Piñata, poignantly framing the ending of the Aztec Calendar in 2012 to be explored during her residency at THEOFFCENTER. THU, JUNE 14, Fundamentals to Build the Advanced Dancer: Ali Woolwich beginner level/beginner's mind advanced There are rote patterns of CI dancing, and then there is movement investigation and research. Developing a process for putting our bodies both through their paces and into discovery is key to dancing longevity. A mix of doing what you know, adding new vocabulary, and going into open-ended questions yields an outline for the contemporary dancer's spark. This intensive will traverse some underpinnings of CI technique and injury prevention skills as well as open questions, to assist students in going past comfort zones to an outline for developing their own well-rounded dance practice. We will seek out what works in questioning and teaching ourselves to deepen our dance practice. Ali Woolwich has been working in CI for 22 years, and has taught CI since 1996. Ali has produced workshops, live performance and media through Humilityswim in the SF Bay Area, NYC, Seattle, and New Mexico since 1999. Ali teaches dance/performance in university, studio professional and recreational venues, having taught professional dancers, children, gay teens, queer women and transmen, integrated classes of disabled and non-disabled dancers, and seniors. Ali is a founding staff A/V Tech at CounterPULSE, and is a Union member Theatrical Electrician with IATSE Local 16, both in San Francisco. Ali's teaching is influenced by 20 years of training in post-modern dance/theater, Release Techniques (Joe Goode Performance Group, Lower Left, Umo Ensemble, Kathleen Hermesdorf and Joan Skinner), yoga and massage practice. Currently, Ali is investigating queer tango as a source for partnering innovation, and is teaching as a Guest Artist at Stanford University. ______________________________________________________________________ SF CI SERIES co-produced by HumilitySwim and CounterPULSE EVERY Tuesday since 1993 CLASS: 6:30-8:30pm, Beginning-Intermediate Level JAM: 8:30-11:30pm $15 Single Class, $5 Single Jam, $18 for both. Passes: $15 4-Week Jam, $55 4-Week Class, $65 4-Week Class & Jam No one turned away for lack of funds -->WOOD WEEK, marley free, once a month, check Facebook link for each month's date for Wood Week. NOTE: HDM is overhauling its website. For 2012 updates, go to our Facebook page for SF CI Series and updates on all our other programs at: http://www.facebook.com/groups/humilityswim March Classes with Diana Lara 3/6, 3/13, 3/20, 3/27, 2012. Ready to Move: Exploring our Primitive Reflexes MARCH CLASS DESCRIPTION: In this class we will explore how our primitive reflexes--simple patterns of movement that originate in the central nervous system and that are integrated in the first year of life--support our sense of gravity, and the connection with the earth and our partner. Through individual movement exploration and dance in partners, we will play with the primitive reflexes and the awareness of the relation of the head and body with respect to the vertical, and how they support our readiness to go in and out of the floor, move in and out of contact, and move through space in the planes of motion. TEACHER BIO: Diana Lara is a teacher, choreographer and dancer from Honduras. She graduated from the choreography program of the Center for Research and Choreography at the Mexican Institute of Fine Arts and from the Somatic Research and Participatory Arts program at Moving On Center in Oakland. In 2011, she graduated from the Embodied Developmental Movement and Yoga program offered by the School of Body Mind Centering. Diana teaches dance based on somatic principles for women recuperating from drug abuse and domestic violence at Purple Moon Dance Project, and yoga for elders at Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center. Since 1995, she has danced and choreographed for contemporary dance groups in Mexico and Honduras, participating in festivals in Mexico and Central America. She currently works as an independent artist developing projects based in the exploration of somatic elements and improvisation with performers in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Mexico. SF CI SERIES 2012 TEACHERS: Feb-Ralf Jaroschinski (Germany/Brazil) March-Diana Lara (US/Honduras) April-Zack Bernstein (SF) May-Rossana Alves (US/Brazil) June-CI Symposium Teachers (US) July/Aug-IP Sept-Daniel Bear Davis(Oakland) Oct-Miriam Wolodarski (SF) Nov-Tara Brandel (Ireland) Dec-Ali Woolwich(SF) SF CI Series takes place EVERY TUESDAY year-round at CounterPULSE. SF CI Series Class is sequential, but drop-ins are encouraged. The best learning experience comes from trying out the styles of at least 3 of our monthly teachers. CI deepens your flexibility, kinesthetic awareness, and choices for contemporary partnering. Explore the discipline and play of this dance form with both class study and jam practice. SF CI Series Jam is a no-music (quiet) jam. We recommend taking class before attending your first jam. Questions about how to participate in Jam? Ask Humilityswim staff at the Registration Table, were happy to help get you started. Want to volunteer? Use the Volunteer Link at left, or feel free to email or call us with questions, Humilityswim Dance Media office hours are Tuesday-Friday, noon-5pm. 415-335-6384 info (at) humilityswim (dot) org PAST EVENTS Feb 2012 Rapport 1-Day Intensive with Ralf Jaroschinski, Saturday February 25 11am-5pm $90 Registration: Click on this link to pay... http://contactimprovisationfeb25.eventbrite.com Payment Plan: Email us your circumstances, we'll work with you. Location: Studio Valencia 455A Valencia Street btwn 15th & 16th, San Francisco Work Exchange (WEX): Positions are filled, but waitlist still open. Email us to get on WEX Waitlist. Title: Rapport Description: All of us have at some point made the observation that, when improvising with certain partners our dance flows effortlessly, while with certain others it just doesn't, no matter how hard we try or how skilled we/they are or become... Thinking we cannot possibly help it, we usually just resign ourselves to this phenomenon filing it under "no chemistry" or "kismet." During the course of this Intensive, however, we will not take it for granted that we have to give up right away in these situations. Acknowledging that the rapport and feedback you get and give are in constant flux - them being influenced by our own and our partners' daily, sometimes momentarily changing physical, emotional and mental states, personal preferences, socialization(s), assumptions, ideas and many more factors - how could chemistry or destiny possibly be a given, an unmalleable fact? To somatize this search for rapport, we will raise our awareness for our body, feelings and mind and our partners' more authentic kinetic expressions/ movements. We'll work on a few partnering skills and enjoy participating as fully as possible in the kinesthetic dialogue with our partner(s). Then, we will direct our focus to some of the factors that affect the ways we make and perceive contact, and play with those specifically by altering our take on them slightly, by bending common definitions drastically, by letting go of presumptions of what is perhaps not so obvious to us. And who knows, we might end up feeling chemistries being even more palpable than before, or we might stumble upon new possibilities and choice, feel empowered and dare take and give more freely more rapport than before in our improvisations, which therefore might feel both less predictable and more satisfying. *Basic & Intermediate Contact Improvisation skills are required to attend this workshop. Feb 25 Teacher, Ralf Jaroschinski, born in Germany and raised in Brazil, was trained in classical, modern and contemporary dance techniques in Germany and New York City. He has worked as a freelance dancer, teacher and choreographer for over 20 years mainly in Europe and the Americas. He has taught Contact Improvisation for 16 years and also performs it in pieces created specificly with this technique, e.g, Sci-fi Poetry (2009) and Never Felt This Way Before (2010) with Andrew Wass. He is currently teaching weekly for February 2012 at the SF Tuesday CI Series co-produced by HumilitySwim and CounterPULSE. NOTE: Studio Valencia does have a full kitchen in which to prepare lunch, please bring something to share for our potluck lunch in the studio from 1:30-2:30pm. Disability Access: The studio is ample but there are some stairs. Please call/email in advance to arrange entry assistance. VIDEO of Ralf's Teaching Samples of his teaching as part of HumilitySwim's San Francisco CI Series at CounterPULSE. VIDEO from SF CI New Year's Jam Our 2012 New Year's Eve and New Year's Day Jams 2012 were luscious, from the class and soundscape New Year's Night to the Daytime coffee, kids and vegan pancakes, and amazing pillow lounge discussions. We hope you join us next time. Here's video from last year's Evening Jam:
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