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Zipfest OrvietoContactfestival is a CI36 Satellite Event, JOIN US!

Rossella — Sun, 18 May 2008 18:40:27 GMT

June 21–29\2008
Orvieto \ Italy
www.contactfestival.it

Registration is still up ... last call for entries!!

Celebrating the Summer Solstice, Zip opens to the Orient ...
Contact, Jams, Tai Chi Chuan, Meditation, Free Climbing and Satellite Events.

The annual Contact Improvisation festival in Italy, Zipfest, is a Satellite Event of CI36, and invites you to join for the Celebration of Contact Improvisation and for the Summer Solstice.

The festival opens its ninth edition with a weekend of International Summer Solstice Jam, starting Saturday June 21st through Sunday June 22nd, in a White Night Jam-contact day ... A 25 Hours of Movement Art and Contact ...

The festival will go on until June 29th: sixteen guest artists from various countries will animate the city from early morning to late at night, taking turns in a dense calendar of jams, performances and concerts, intensive workshops, encounters and laboratories centered around the theme of Contact Improvisation, improvisation dance and the performing arts.

INFO AND CONTACT
PHONE: +39 0763341479
EMAIL: info@contactfestival.it
WEBSITE: www.contactfestival.it

Zipfest is a lively kermis with internationally famous guest artists invited to the Umbrian residence from various countries to collaborate in the creative production of events, promoting the identification of a trans-cultural art. The festival is an event of art and culture speaking the language of today, questioning itself on the processes or artistic interaction, creating contacts and occasions for cooperation among the guest artists, who bare their experience, affinities and cultural and generational differences in Orvieto, to create the festival together.

International scene 2008
Nita Little (www.nitalittle. com), American pioneer of Contact Improvisation, an internationally acclaimed artist, invited to Italy for the first time in April in the residenza dinamica of Palazzo Caravajal, for the project Restless Peace, and once more present in June as part of the Zipfest guest artists. Keith Hennessy, a Canadian performer with countless awards, for the first time in Italy, will present an interesting workshop in which improvisation dance, performance and shamanism will be put in relation to each other. Giorgio Convertito, an eclectic Italian dancer who has been living in Helsinki for six years, and is today an artist on the Finnish scene, Jacky Miredin the virtuoso French performer previously invited to Zipfest07 and the young Italian choreographer Sara Simeoni, currently dancing with Carolyn Carlson. The artistic director of the festival, Rossella Fiumi, takes part with her installation titled I'm All Ears, a forum on the theme of listening and communication in contemporary creativity.Jens Biedermann, a Swiss acrobatic dancer and accordion player, Adalisa Menghini, Italian choreographer who has been living in Berlin for years, Alessia Scala a young Neapolitan dancer, Isabelle Uski, Contact improviser from Grenoble, Gionatan Surrenti Italian dancer, improvisor and pedagogue, previously invited to several Zipfest editions, Yanaël Plumet French performer and traveler currently living in Istanbul, the musician and performer Michele Rabbia virtuoso percussionist invited to the preceding editions of the festival and particularly beloved by the Zip public, Marko Timlin Finnish sound artist proposing new modes in the field of electronic sound, composing and improvising on solar panels and Barnaby O'Rorke Tree, a versatile Scotch performer, improviser-cellist, composer and vocalist.

21-22 June White Night Jam-Contact day
Inauguration- meeting point Residenza dinamica of Palazzo Caravajal, headquarters of the international Summer Solstice Jam, at 9 p.m. on 21 June, throughout the sleepless summer night up to 10 p.m. on 22 June, in the studios-houses- ateliers of artists-cultural- associations- creative- persons-columnis ts-others who work-look for a Contemporary idiom in Orvieto.

24-28 June Performances, concerts, forum
One of the most eagerly awaited events in Zipfest calendar, the improvisation performances: instant compositions, proposed then and here by the guest artists, in a type of performance called Real Time Composition.

Heart-felt curves
It is a great honor to present and pay homage to Luigi Mario, known also as Engaku Taino, a Zen master who has been living in the hinterland of Orvieto for many years. He is a fascinating figure with proficiencies and preparation of alpine skiing and rock climbing, as well as a Tai Chi Chuan guru, but above all a person to meet and know to practice meditation. Luigi Mario has been invited to the festival for two reasons: the first is to lead, aided by assistants, a free climbing session on the rocks of Ferentillo, a splendid zone in Umbria-Valnerina, on June 23rd. It is a unique occasion for those who practice Contact as well as others, because it gives one a chance to find out what it's like trying one's hand at a height of 30 meters, using one's strength, resistance, balance, gravity, weight, feeling of the void, and any number of other emotions to explore. The second reason is purely contemplative: three meetings of Tai Chi Chuan and meditation.

Festival residence and organizing
Caravajal15 residenza dinamica \ Compagnia ALEF
Via Malabranca 15 Orvieto, Italy
tel +39 0763341479
fax +39 0763340669
info@contactfestival.it

Project and artistic direction
Rossella Fiumi
rossella@contactfestival.it

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when is it?

amarra — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:00:19 GMT

Hey all,
isn't there a weekly workshop at synapsis? When is it? Thanks

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Humboldt Juggling Festival needs volunteers!!!!! , March 14-16

Banannie — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:03:37 GMT

Hello Everybody! If you like juggling, and if you like living in Humboldt, come support your community and friendly local jugglers by donating a few hours of your time at our info table at the 8th Annual Humboldt juggling and Unicycle Festival this weekend. We need folks to help us sell raffle and public show tickets and shirts, as well as help during the public show. In exchange for at least 3 donated hours, you will get a FREE TICKET to the public Juggling Show, to be held at 7pm on Saturday Night. We also need volunteers in the 'construction zone', a learning area within the festival. We will need Volunteers from 2pm-12am Friday, and from 9am-12am Saturday & Sunday. Please Help us out, Its gonna be a rockin good time with lots of crazy great juggling!!!
If interested, contact me, Annie, @ squirrellbomb@hotmail.com.
Hope to see you all there!
Thanks!

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Nita Little \\ first call

Rossella — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:17:31 GMT

Caravajal15 residenza dinamica
International Projects 2008

Orvieto \ Italy
April 25–May 2 / 2008

Nita Little
Restless Peace
A mind in motion and Contact Improvisation experience
Residential project for experienced movers

The American performer Nita Little will be the special guest of our association, first time in Italy as guest artist, for giving the project “Restless Peace”. The intensive workshop with Nita Little is in the calendar of our Residential Projects 2008, and will be from April 25 to May 2, 2008 in the beautiful Etruscan city of Orvieto, in middle Italy.

After the end of the workshop, on May 3rd and 4th, the association will plan also two days with the International Springfest Jam.

The intensive workshop and the Jam will be held both at the headquarters of the cultural Association Caravajal15 residenza dinamica, in the prestigious sixteenth century rooms of the Palazzo Caravajal-Simoncelli, in Orvieto.

Application for registration in the project with Nita Little is open from January 7th. For information and more details write to: info@contactfestival.it, or telephone to +39 0763.341479.

Nita Little
Restless Peace
The urge to move, to go where we have never been, is the soul of our practice in this workshop.
Developing a "home base", a place of personal and creative safety is as important as the journey; how wonderful to be free when you have a home! We learn, how like nomads, we may carry our home with us, even as we track paths in and out of unfamiliar territory.
We focus on developing the mental, emotional, and physical skills that enable dancers to travel creatively. Utilizing a full dance vocabulary, we integrate gestured movement improvisation with contact improvisation and build the skills to consciously weave these two forms.

We investigate “states” of mind / “states” of body as a means to develop and direct creative work in our improvisations. Developing the ability to describe and craft subtle levels of action and experience, we boost our physical potential while increasing our readability. Moving in solo, duet and group forms, we gain compositional tools for structural orientation; like torches, they light the way.

This workshop is developed for experienced movers who wish to pass beyond the threshold of old patterns. The restless human drive that takes us out of comfort, urges us to meet the unfamiliar, to move into, through and with the unknown, is a dance artist’s call. Here, we harness that drive and discover how, moving at the speed of our restless calling, we can find peace.

This class culminates in a creative work for performance at the workshop and at Zipfest08.

Things we will do:
Go deep into the physical philosophy behind contact improvisation.
Learn underlying CI principles that manifest as pathways of action.
Build the tools for safe physical and creative relationships
Discover different spatial orientations: vertical/hierarchical and horizontal/diffuse.
Learn about our temporal orientation and develop tools that modulate time.
Develop the skills to be able to move freely between states of mind.
Deepen our agreements to open to life, to the dance.
Honor peace.

about Nita Little
www.nitalittle.com
Nita Little has been developing, choreographing, performing and teaching improvisational dance for the past thirty-six years, notably Contact Improvisation, which she helped evolve from its inception with Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith and others.
She collaborated in numerous performing companies introducing Contact Improvisation throughout the United States. She is a master teacher with former students all over the world, who are themselves now master dancers and teachers: Gretchen Spiro, Andrew Harwood, Frey Faust, Scott Wells, Julie Oak, Peter Bingham to name just a few. Through CI she discovered her abiding interest in the evolution of consciousness and the mind body relationship. Since 1981 she has been developing an evolving curriculum called The Mind in Motion, which explores the range of experiential states along the mind-body continuum and reveals principles that define Contact Improvisation as well as other movement forms. This work is informed by her investigation of the mind through work such as hypnotherapy and NeuroLinguistic Programming.

As a performing artist her current work is a mix of both formal and improvisational choreography and scores. While anchored in process, it frequently explores character, story, and concept.

Nita received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in choreography and was on the California Arts Council Touring Program.
The latter award was to her solo dance company, NITA LITTLE DANCE THEATRE, which she began in 1984, continued through 1990, and reinstated as a pickup company in 2000. In 2002 Nita created Playing God, an hour-long dance opera that received funding through the Dance USA /National Endowment for the Arts.

Over the years Nita has been both faculty and guest artist at numerous colleges and universities including New York University, California Institute for the Arts, Texas Christian University, Temple University, Tufts University, Scripps College and UC Santa Barbara.

Nita teaches and performs yearly at national and international dance festivals including ImPulsTanz, Vienna, The Side Step Festival, Helsinki, Kontakt Budapest International Improvisation Festival, the International Contact Festival Freiburg, Germany,the Seattle Festival of Alternative Dance and Improvisation and the West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival, Berkeley California.
She also teaches locally and nationally throughout the year. She lives with her son in Santa Cruz Mountains in California.

As she has pioneered a path in the understanding of the mind/body/spirit relationship, Nita's mission, conscious evolution, has been the backbone of her passion and her practice. Her goal is to see, feel and reveal grace in all its forms and as it exists in the actions of the mind and the body.

Info and reservation
Caravajal15 residenza dinamica
Via Malabranca 15
05018 Orvieto (TR) - Italy
tel +39 0763.341479
fax +39 0763.340669
info@contactfestival.it
www.contactfestival.it

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Winter Solstice Jam \ last call

Rossella — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 20:38:26 GMT

Caravajal15 residenza dinamica
Orvieto - Italy
presents
Four Seasons Jams

International Winter Solstice Jam
21\22\23 December 2007

Palazzo Caravajal-Simoncelli
Orvieto - Italy
info@contactfestival.it

Last days for the registration in the Jam!!
With Christmas just around the corner…we’re dancing Contact !

Second encounter with Four Seasons Jams, a project of art and culture that continues to call attention to the city of Orvieto in Italy, with regards to Contact Improvisation, the Performing Art and dance of Improvisation.

The next appointment is the International Winter Solstice Jam on the 21, 22 and 23 of December, to greet the arrival of winter, and to celebrate Christmas time and a week from the end of the year, dancing Contact together.
Second Jam in a series of four, every three months, at every change of season.

The jam will be held at the headquarters of the cultural Association Caravajal15 residenza dinamica, in the prestigious sixteenth century rooms of the Palazzo Caravajal-Simoncelli.

The dance studio in our dynamic residence is welcoming and serene; in addition to dancing together, time and space are dedicated to personal requirements, to being together, to visiting the splendid Etruscan city of Orvieto.

We’ll dance together and we’ll warm ourselves in front of the fire in the fireplace in the frescoed Room of the Four Seasons, during the three days of the jam.

It is open to all, with three days of improvisation dance in the residence, including hospitality, reception and meals.

The fee is 100 euros, which includes also hospitality, reception and meals.

For information write to: info@contactfestival.it, or telephone to +39 0763.341479.

Info and reservation
Caravajal15 residenza dinamica
Via Malabranca 15 Orvieto (TR) Italy
tel +39 0763341479
fax +39 0763340669
mobile +39 3391017492
info@contactfestival.it
www.contactfestival.it

Lodging in the residence
We can host up to 20\24 people, comfortably.
We are organized with mattresses that the participants can use, scattered here and there in the 150 square meters of the studio.
You have to bring your own sleeping bag and a blanket, or sheets\pillow and blanket, as you prefer.
There’s a room in residence equipped for preparing breakfast and meals, in addition to dressing rooms and showers.
One person will cook for us during the three days of the jam.
Lunch will be light (fruit, rice, vegetables and/or cheese, cookies, honey, tea, coffee, etc.).
Evenings a dinner will be offered.

Artistic project and organization
Caravajal15 residenza dinamica

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Simone Forti "Logomotion Writing Workshop" \ project in residence

Rossella — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:30:58 GMT

Caravajal15 residenza dinamica
Orvieto \ Italy
International Projects 2008

Hello!
We are happy to announce that Simone Forti will be again the guest artist of our residence, for giving her intensive residential workshop “Logomotion Writing Workshop”.
The intensive workshop with Simone Forti is in the ambit of our international projects 2008, and will be from March 8 to 15 2008 in the beautiful Etruscan city of Orvieto, in mid Italy.
The workshop is limited to 16 participants.
The intensive workshop will be held at the headquarters of the cultural Association Caravajal15 residenza dinamica, in the prestigious sixteenth century rooms of the Palazzo Caravajal-Simoncelli.
The fee is 400 euros, which includes also hospitality, reception and meals.
Application for registration is open from October 15th.
For information write to: info@contactfestival.it, or telephone to +39 0763.341479.
Info and texts below.

Simone Forti \ Logomotion Writing Workshop
Intensive residential workshop
8-15 March 2008
maximum 16 participants
7-day workshop, plus one day pause
fee 400 euros (including meals and lodging)
pre-registration: 150 euros

Logomotion Writing Workshop
Sometimes our words don't have access to what we know in our bones.
In this workshop we will be improvising moving and speaking, and we will be writing.
While our writing will stimulate our imagination and support our improvisations, our improvisations will enrich our writing with a kinesthetic timing to phrasing and windows on sudden thoughts and memories.
Our activities will include studio sessions of improvisational moving and speaking, spontaneous writing, walks in town, with partners, for conversations about matters large and small, and private times to write and to craft our writings and to read them to each other.
We will borrow from the writing practice of Natalie Goldberg as found in her books “Writing Down the Bones” and “Wild Mind”, discovering the associations that gather spontaneously around a chosen point of departure.
As our movement work will include many activities in partners and in groups, some of our writing will include more than one voice, focusing on the relationships between the thoughts of different people.
A goal will be to write with wild mind and intention, and with awareness of world.

Jennifer Dunning writes in her 1991 New York Times review: “Simone Forti presented her first dance program in 1960 and has since then had a steadily increasing influence on post-modernist choreographers interested in exploring ‘natural’ or non-formalist movement and dance”.

Info and reservation
Caravajal15 residenza dinamica
Via Malabranca 15
05018 Orvieto (TR) - Italy
tel +39 0763341479
fax +39 0763340669
info@contactfestival.it
www.contactfestival.it

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KINETIC GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP

Harmony — Fri, 25 May 2007 19:23:57 GMT

Tomorrow on the Arcata Plaza, come down and have some fun with us. 9am - noon.

Harmony

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Can I Please Get An Update on Arcata Dance Jams and Contact Jams at Yoga Center - Thanks.

Sharla — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:49:35 GMT

Hi All.

I used to attend Dance Jams on a regular basis back on the East Coast. Hosted an Austin, Dallas jam and led dance/meditation/movement workshops in Houston and Martha's Vineyard. I would often be found at either dance and/or a contact jam most nights of the week. However with relocation and age came a slow down. At any rate, I'd love to get back into dance again just wasn't sure if/when they still happen here in Arcata as I hadn't noticed any postings in some time.

I also understand that there is a Dance Camp here in Northern California in the Summer, any info on same is also greatly appreicated.

Thanks for any and all info.

Bright Blessings,
Sharla

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Zipfestival's video 2005 on line

Rossella — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:10:40 GMT

Dear Friends
As they say, better late than never!
We have published a few video extracts from Zipfestival 2005 on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/
We shall shortly send you the websites (URL) so you can see and download the video extracts.
Or you can easily find it on the festival website’s page
http://www.contactfestival.it/2007/ITA_2006/zip_video.html
In the meanwhile we are working on the 2006 video and in June 2007 (19-24) we remind you the next festival is just around the corner!
Have fun watching and let us know what you think!
Till then
Zipfest

http://www.contactfestival.it/2007/ITA_2006/zip_video.html

OR check one by one on these links:

Documentario Zip 2005 – track 1
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roqpVM-nKRA

Documentario Zip 2005 – track 2
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05ADwTz58GY

Documentario Zip 2005 – track 3
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EoUY1KECUU

Documentario Zip 2005 – track 4
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FFfvZe9Qkw

Performance Real Time track 1
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T3NWzqGmG4

Performance Real Time track 2
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHlJotx0U0E

Performance Real Time track 3
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QepglIvIEM

Performance Last Minute track 1
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS2TI6x83gk

Performance Last Minute track 2
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5PVVHJh_ao

Performance Solo in Motion
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uGTf0oA8go

Duo Piano concerto Bollani-Salis
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SefO-o4d29k

Trio concerto Salis-Rabbia-Bellatalla
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch9i-Q1Bfz8

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Zipfest07 \ 19-24 June 2007 , Orvieto in Italy \ registration open

Rossella — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:21:24 GMT

Zipfest07
International Improvisation festival live performing arts
www.contactfestival.it

What:
one week with international guest artists and intensive workshops on Contact Improvisation and Improvisation, laboratories around the themes of physicality, jams, performances and concerts.

When:
June 19 - 24 / 2007

Where:
Orvieto – Italy

Whit:
K.J. Holmes, Oleg Soulimenko, Charlie Morrissey, Patricia Kuypers, Rossella Fiumi, Keith Biesack,
Jacky Miredin, Adrian Russi, Bettina Helmrich, Laura Moro, Ruby Worth,
Manuela Bondavalli, Barbara Lucarini and the guest group for music concert Officina Zoè

Cost:
Zipfest all included registration 250 Euros

Contact/registration:
more info details write to info@contactfestival.it or visit www.contactfestival.it

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Rumblepeg Dance Intensive Performance this Sat/Sun Arcata/Eureka!

Andy — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:09:21 GMT

Arcata/Eureka/Nevada City/Santa Cruz/San Francisco

Rumblepeg Dance Theater's winter performance intensive (out of Eureka
California) presents Mongrel: The History of Awkwardness and the Survival
of Grace, an evening of original performance work. Conceived and created
collaboratively by a group of 15 international dancers and performers.
This work has been influencedy by the teachings of Elanne Kresser
(formerly Jez Parus), Erika Chong-Shuch, Jandy Bergmann, Jess Curtis, Karl
Frost and Shinichi Iova-Koga. This show contains nudity.

Here is a calendar of show information:

Saturday, February 24th -- @ Dancenter, Arcata, 8pm - $10
824 L St., Old Creamery Building
For reservations, call Tanya Stotsky at 707-407-7566

Sunday, February 25th -- @ Runeberg Hall (Ruenberg?) in Eureka, 7pm - $10
Corner of Wabash & Union
For reservations, call Tanya Stotsky at 707-407-7566

Wednesday February 28th -- @ Center for the Arts, Grass Valley, 8pm - $10
314 W. Main St.
For reservations, call Calder McCutchan 530-599-8188

Friday March 2nd -- @ The 418 Project, Santa Cruz, 8pm - $12
418 Front St.
For reservations, call Tanya Stotsky at 707-407-7566

Saturday March 3rd -- @ Mama Calizo's Voice Factory, 8pm - $12
1519 Mission St. between 11th & Van Ness
For reservations, call Tanya Stotsky at 707-407-7566

This is a link to the print-resolution versions of our posters.
www.yousendit.com/download/...V3g1VEE9PQ

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www.savebayhill.org Help Demonstrate Local Costal Protections

Bender — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:15:49 GMT

The 550 acre Calvi Ranch @1001 Bay Hill Rd. (Bodega Bay, Sonoma County,CA), home to burner bredren, susainable farming, and endangered species, protected steelhead trout, and in the coastal zone is being threatened by the might of corporate giant the Dutra Goup of San Rafael. Dutra is ignoring pleas from local citizens and enviro/conservation groups,
planning to attempt to alter the Local Coastal Plan, under which "Mining and mining-related activities such as goetechnical investigations are not allowed." Visit www.savebayhill.org for info and how you can participate.(Dates will be posted on website soon)Camp now
Peace, Bender from B-Bay

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contact jams!!

Rebeca — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 05:53:49 GMT

(pasted from Tanya, thank you :)

Yes.
Arcata Contact Jam is back to every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month.
Open DJed Dance Jam every 1st, 3rd and 5th Thursdays of the month.
8:00pm - late. At the Yoga Center on the Arcata Plaza.
see you there!

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Simone Forti in Italy!! Zipfestival October 14-29/06 - Orvieto/Italy International Improvisation festival live performing arts

Rossella — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:07:33 GMT

Zip 2006 project

Orvieto Italy
October 14-29 \ 2006 – Seventh edition
International improvisation festival live performing arts
www.contactfestival.it

Our website www.contactfestival.it has all the information on our Zip project 2006 calendar. Please visit it.
Zip is a lively kermes on improvisation performances of dance and live music, with international guest artists and a rich program of concerts, performances and jams, intensive workshops and master class on Contact Improvisation and Improvisation, as well as laboratories organized around the themes of physicality.

Guest Artists 2006
Simone Forti (USA ), Scott Smith (USA), Mans Erlandson (Sweden), Rossella Fiumi (Italy), Rick Nodine (USA\UK), Robert Anderson (UK), Gaby Koch (Germany), Piero Leccese (Italy), Susanne Martin (Germany), Franco Zita (Italy), and musicians Roberto Bellatalla (Italy) and Michele Rabbia (Italy).

We are particularly proud to communicate the presence at the festival of the great Italian/American Artist Simone Forti, a pioneer in the genesis of the performing arts and improvisation dance. Forti has received various grants, including six NEA fellowships, a “Bessie” New York Dance and Performance award for sustained achievement, and a Dance Resource Center of Los Angeles Lester Horton Award for lifetime achievement.
In 2005 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
She is an adjunct professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA, and continues to teach and perform worldwide.

Presently enrollment in the festival program and residential intensive workshops are under way.

We communicate that for the entire month of August the festival offices will be closed for vacation and we will be unable to answer your mail or phone calls, nor verifying money orders and credit transfers sent during the summer break.
The office will reopen on September 4th.
Answers to any mail sent in August will be sent the first days in September.
Hurry to get in your requests for participation.
Zip team and Caravajal15 residenza dinamica

Info and reservations
Caravajal15 residenza dinamica
Via Malabranca 15, 05018 Orvieto (TR) - Italy
tel +39 0763341479 (if answering machine, please leave a message with your name and phone number so that we can contact you)
fax +39 0763340669
mobile +39 3396675800
info@contactfestival.it
monica@contactfestival.it
www.contactfestival.it

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CI class 5-7, thursday July 6 at Synapsis

karlfrost — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:26:52 GMT

hi all

I am passing through Arcata again with my weety, Isabelle and hope you can come out for a contact improv class and to dance with us on Thursday July 6 at Synapsis in Eureka

4-5 warm-up/open jam
5-7 workshop

Hope to see you there! Please pass the word!

regards
karl

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dance jam summertime dates

tanya — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 17:17:09 GMT

hey all.

contact jams this summer (June-July) will be every second thursday of the month.
open dance jams will be every fourth thursday of the month.
yoga center on the plaza, 8:30-11:00

so....contact jam tomorrow night!!

no dance jam 1st, 3rd, 5th thursdays for the summer.

hope you're enjoying the sun (as in, hope you're getting inland!!)
love and smooches,
tanya

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Extended deadline for Early Registration- West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival

rachel — Fri, 19 May 2006 20:26:58 GMT

The Early Registration deadline has been extended to June 1!

The 18th annual West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival will take
place this summer from June 29 to July 4 at 8th Street Studios in
Berkeley (2525 8th St.). It is a 5-day festival wherein more than 30
of the West Coast's finest improvisation teachers will offer Contact
Improvisation classes, intensives, performances, discussions and
teaching labs at 8th Street Studios in Berkeley.

This year the festival highlights 4 intensives including a
mixed-abilities workshop that is specifically for dancers with and
without disabilities, 2 nights of student performance opportunities,
and a curated gala performance. In addition, festival participants get
free rehearsal space and time. For registration information and
teacher/class/performance schedule please check out www.wccif.com or
email questions to info@wccif.com.

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West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival 2006

rachel — Sat, 06 May 2006 22:07:52 GMT

The 18th annual West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival will take place this summer from June 29 to July 4 at 8th Street Studios in Berkeley (2525 8th St.). It is a 5-day festival wherein more than 30 of the West Coast's finest improvisation teachers will offer Contact Improvisation classes, intensives, performances, discussions and teaching labs at 8th Street Studios in Berkeley.
This year the festival highlights 4 intensives including a mixed-abilities workshop that is specifically for dancers with and without disabilities, 2 nights of student performance opportunities, and a curated gala performance. In addition, festival participants get free rehearsal space and time. For registration information please email info@wccif.com or check out www.wccif.com

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MOnday April 24, "Contact" class/lab in Eureka

karlfrost — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 21:07:39 GMT

hi all

so I am up in Arcata taking a Butoh workshop with Diego Pinon for the weekend… for those of you who came for contact class last night, thanks for coming… I had a great time and am glad you liked that material, working with the Small Dance… it is really core material that I personally always find a great deal of satisfaction going back to… material that is important to understand to really get the roots of contact.

I’m going to teach another class before I head back down south…

Monday night, 7:30 until we feel done,
at Synapsis (the warehouse in Eureka).
$10-$15

I think it is going to be a very engaging class! I plan on extracting some of the feel and spirit of what I have experienced with Butoh (via Harupin Ha and Diego) and similar works. I hope you can come for this experiment in process! Some of it will be familiar material that I was working with about 14 years ago and some of it will be new material… working with body awareness, personal edges, evocative imagery, commitment to metaphor and symbolism and exploration states based in a full emotional range of the ugliness of beauty and the beauty of ugliness!

Other as mirror. Other as ritual archetype

We’ll explore states and phenomena from Butoh and Contact without getting wrapped up in names or whether or not it is either.

Open level class, some exposure to contact and/or Butoh helpful. 'mainly need an interest in and willingness to work with staying physically present while going to physical/emotional edges and extremes with self and other.

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heloooooo.....anybody out there???

tanya — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:37:39 GMT

....just wondering if any of y'all are reading this thing?.....

(except you rebecca, i know that you do)

there'll be a contact jam this thursday being as it's the 2nd thursday of the month at the yoga center on the plaza beginning at 8:00 in the evening. contact jam 2nd and 4th thursdays. hope to see you there!!

con mucho amor,
tanya

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Contact jam thurday night

tanya — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:43:13 GMT

that pretty much says it -

hope to see you at the contact jam at the yoga center on thursday starts at 8:00 - spread the word to non-tribe folk...

love, love, love and dance

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contact improv camp at burning man

tanya — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:41:17 GMT

for those who haven't yet heard and this is exciting!! last year contact camp at burning man happened for the first time. many contact dancers from all over the world came together to camp, dance, play, live, create and be wild at burning man. and it's happening again this year - yahoooo!! much is already in progress as far as organizing for camp and planning for events and happenings at burning man. if you are interested, please do get in the loop! you can join burningcontact tribe to get involved in conversations about camp or write to burningcontact@gmail.com if you think want be a part of contact camp.
'til we dance again,
tanya

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Kudos to Scott and Ilka :)

Rebeca — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 06:01:55 GMT

Fantastic weekend! Thank you all so much for being part of it, I can still feel the juiceyness...

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