SAN FRANCISCO SUMMER CONTACT INTENSIVE 2008
JULY 12-26
2 weeks of workshop and performance by Body Research and MACHiNENOiSY

WORKSHOPS
July 12-13 Core Explorations of Contact
(open level weekend workshop)

a look at contact's core physical explorations... physical listening, off-balance and weight sharing, dynamic lifts that use architecture and flow of motion, subtle pursuit of sensorial details, and athletic availability for intentional collision and its unpredictable aftermath... Working from an active relaxed body, we will focus on the states of skin/flesh/bone to develop articulate physical awareness and connect with another body.

July 14-26 Performance, Focus, The Psyche and Contact
(an intermediate/advanced 2 week CI intensive)
This intensive brings together the theatrical specificity of MACHiNENOiSY with the psychological investigations of Body Research to explore Contact Improvisation as a practice in physical poetics and as a performance tool. Physical specificity and clarity of focus will be central themes. Daily technical training helps support contact work that has a felt sense of significance, whether it be kinaesthetic or emotional.
Contact improvisation is a dance of continuity, a flow from one surprising moment to the next, met with awareness and a developed sense of interpersonal trust. Each dance becomes a unique experience of weight, force, lightness, support and touch.
We branch out from explorations of physics into states-based work, exercises from somatic psychotherapy, physical theatre, and participatory performance.
Emphasis will be placed on 'intention' and 'attention' while dancing to heighten awareness of the shift from simply practicing the form to the concept of performance. 'improvisational style where curiosity and high flying physicality meet. Adventurous. Tender. Functional. Performative.
Includes final showing of student work on July 26.
To register for either or both workshops:
www.bodyresearch.org/summercontactintensive/logistics.htm

 

 

THE TEACHERS

Daelik
Daelik has been practicing the form of Contact Improvisation for 17 years.  He was a company member of EDAM for 6 years where he taught classes ranging from open community level to professional level.  In Vancouver, Daelik has taught classes to students of Main Dance, Ballet BC Mentor Program, SFU Dance Program and Roundhouse Community Dancers, as well as workshops through his own company, MACHiNENOiSY.  Daelik has taught classes across Canada and internationally, including classes to professional dance companies such as Diversions Dance (Wales), Macedonian State Dance Company (Greece), and Tanzkompanie Oldenburg (Germany).  Between 2000 and 2005 Daelik was a sessional instructor at Die Etage, a professional dance training program, Berlin.

 

Delia
Delia has been practicing contact improvisation for 15 years. She has been a company menber of EDAM dance, Vancouver's contact dance based company, since 1997. She has been teaching contact at EDAM for 6 years to professional dancers and novices alike. She has taught in  Austria and the United States for people of mixed levels, ages and languages. She has taught at SFU,UBC, Andrew Macillroy's Summer Camp for Actors, Ballet BC Mentor Program, Round House Community Dancers and led a week long contact intensive with Karl Frost in Port Townsend, Washington. She continues to teach with Daelik through MACHiNENOiSY, offering workshops from beginner to advanced dancers.