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Camp CONTACT at Burning Man!

2008-07-15T15:17:14Z

Registration for Camp CONTACT at Burning Man 2008 is now open!

Contact Camp has been a fixture on the playa for the past three years, and we're bringing it back in style for 2008. We've got some new infrastructure, a distributed leadership team, and a new on-line registration system. We plan to better coordinate work party participation and work shift participation prior to the event so that we're not spending valuable time on the playa figuring it all out.

Camp CONTACT will host 80-100 Contact Improvisators for the ten days spanning Saturday, August 23rd to Monday, Sept 1st. We'll start off by building a kitchen, a common area and the dance spaces. We'll also have shade structures to keep your tent cool, with the possibility of other amenities. We come to the playa to offer the gift of Contact Improvisation. Mornings, we'll be able to jam in Burning Man's Center Camp; afternoons, we can teach or take beginners and advanced classes. Each evening we will share in community meals and then glow in all that Black Rock City has to offer at night, including some of our own jams.

If you're into Contact, and up for the adventure of a lifetime, check us out! If you've camped with us before, we welcome you back.

More details, commitment requirements, and on-line registration are available on our website at http://campcontact.org/burningcontact

Questions? Email me at burningcontact@gmail.com

Yours in Contact,

--Darrell

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Nita Little \\ first call

2008-01-04T13:22:51Z

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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AM group in santa cruz Fall oct thru dec.

2007-10-28T20:59:59Z

Hey all another round happening in the cruz, come drop in

thursdays... 11am-1pm

Vets Hall 846 Front St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Call 831-419-3071 for directions or for more information...

no experience necessary....

Tibisay

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Simone Forti "Logomotion Writing Workshop" \ project in residence

2007-10-14T00:31:23Z

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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Authentic Movement retreat near Vienna- english version

2007-10-09T17:42:00Z

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breathe
arrive

and let yourself
be moved

in the warmth
of the colors

like leaves in the wind

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AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT

a moving path

to MINDFULNESS and COMPASSION

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a weekend workshop
with Ilka Szilagyi and Armin Morandell
at the organic farm "Haarberghof"

october 19 - 21, 2007

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The intention for this weekend is to create a safe space, a space to meet yourself and others with appreciation and awareness.
It will take place at the quiet and friendly "Haarberghof", an organic farm in the south of Vienna, close to the Hungarian border.
Authentic Movement, as self-responsible experience will be the core of our structure.
Around it we will find other forms of meditation, qigong or dance with music, according to the need of the moment.
Please bring your own music you love, CD-s and instruments.

The price for the whole workshop including accommodation and vegetarian meals can be chosen from a sliding scale between € 149,- and € 299,- according personal financial possibilities.
A discount in form of work-exchange is possible.

Begin: Friday, oct 19, 7 pm with dinner
End: Sunday, oct 21, 4 pm

Authentic Movement is a mindful practice form in which individuals may discover a movement pathway that offers a bridge between the conscious and the unconscious. Authentic Movement explores the relationship between a mover and a witness, between being seen and seeing. With eyes closed, the mover listens to his/her impulse, inner sensations, images, the flow of thoughts or emotions. Gradually the invisible becomes visible, the inaudible becomes audible, and explicit form is given to the content of direct experience.
The witness brings a receptive quality of clear intention to the mover and accepts the mover without analysis or direction. The witness is mindful of the inner world of his/her own sensations and meaning, while s/he supports the mover’s experience with his/her presence and awareness. The mover and witness together can achieve a level of perception of self and other that evokes deep respect and empathy.
Clear communication and visual expression (writing, painting, installation...) can be part of the articulation and process of the experience. Authentic Movement can be used as a mind-body consciousness practice, movement therapy modality, sourcing work for performance arts and developing greater stage presence as well.

Ilka Szilagyi practices Authentic Movement since 1999. Her teachers were: Gyula Berger(H), Lysa Castro(US) and Bill McCully(US). She completed the Authentic Movement Intensive Training with Bill McCully in 2004-2005. Ilka teaches classes and gives private sessions for individuals and groups regularly. Beside Authentic Movement she teaches Contact Improvisation internationally. She also works as a Somatic Movement Therapist and as Developmental Movement Therapist. Ilka’s many interests have a center theme: the connection and awareness of the body and mind. In her classes and therapeutic sessions she focuses on bringing the sensations of the body and emerging emotions to consciousness. She guides the seekers in exploration of their inner world with mindful presence, compassion and tender confidence.

Armin Morandell lives in South Tyrol(Italy) and Vienna. After a completed law study he participated at an Authentic Movement workshop in 1998, where he discovered a fascinating new world and started to join a 15-month New Dance Intensive Training, followed by 3 years of Sensitive Gestalt Massage Training, 9 months at "Earthdance", a dance- and retreat center in Massachusetts (US), many other workshops in dance and movement and outdoor work with cows, apple trees and wine. Spirituality and meditation were and are important elements on his path.
Ilka Szilagyi is Armin’s main teacher for Authentic Movement and in this workshop he will be assisting her and translate from english into german.

Registration and info: ilkafanni@hotmail.com
0036-209-188-778
and/or
armin.morandell@gmx.net
0043-699-8124-3874

More information about the "Haarberghof" in the southern "Burgenland":
www.bestofweb.at/haarberghof

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...
so within the darkness will be the light
and within the stillness the dancing

(after Walt Whitman)

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Axolotl -- a blindfolded participatory performance event, July 26 - August 10

2007-07-17T15:09:51Z

this is not exactly authentic movement, but a blindfolded participatory performance event in San Francisco and Santa Cruz
July 26 to August 10

Axolotl
the audience is blindfolded for 2 hours and invited to interact and explore with each other and a group of actors, dancers, and musicians exploring the nature of meaning.

The show has received much critical praise and been described by one theater critic as one of the most rewarding theater experiences he has had...

goto www.bodyresearch.org/proxax for details

Also premiering a new work, Proximity, another participatory work investigating social distance, connection and disconnection... watch from a distance or look closer and risk being involved...

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AM with Bill McCully in SF

2007-07-14T23:30:01Z

Hi
I'm teaching Authentic Movement as part of The Moving On Center's Aug.
Intensive- the Socially Conscious Body. Aug 19 -31 is the workshop. It is
a great combination of Process Work, Liberation Singing, Theatre of the
Oppressed and Authentic Movement. Lane Arye teaches the process work part -
he is a very skilled and inspiring teacher. I learned a lot from him about
group facilitation. And Carol Swann is just an amazing voice teacher and
leader. I think this workshop introduces some really current and cutting
edge info concerning the role of leadership and facilitation in social
activism.

To see more-visit www. Movingoncenter.org under the workshops page.
Please feel free to call 510 848-2613 or email.

Thanks-hope to see you there.
Take care,
Bill Mccully

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training... lack of training

2007-07-12T20:59:27Z

hi everyone,

I'm an expressive arts therapist living and working in the Toronto area. through my training as an EXA and in other various workshops, I've been exposed to a decent amount of Authentic Movement and I *love* it -- such powerful and simple work. I've noticed that the institute is on extended sabbatical, perhaps since the founder died?

here's my question -- I am going to be offering some expressive arts workshops in the area where I live, north of Toronto. I would love to incorporate what I know of Authentic Movement into these workshops, but am aware that there can be politics around offering a form that one is not certified in. I've got a long history of dance, movement, therapy and counselling, so I feel I could hold space for participants pretty well, but it's true that I'm not an expert nor certified in the form, and that unfortunately there is no real way to become so at this point. have other people incorporated this wonderful practice into workshops and been successful? any thoughts on this?

thanks for your time!

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Authentic Movement In Santa Cruz

2007-01-25T22:25:25Z

Ongoing begining Jan. 29th 2007

10:30 -12:30 Monday mornings at the Vets hall on Front St.

http://www.vetshall.org/directions.htm

Call 831 419=3071 for more info of email tibi_says@yahoo.com

Witness you there !!

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practice group in sf

2007-01-19T00:38:17Z

Hi friends,

I will be out of town on january 20th so there is no practice on this saturday.

Also, next week the 27th will be tha last saturday practice. Since the time doesn't seem to work out for people to come, I will try to find some other time.

So hopefully see you on the 27th for a yummy authentic movement practice!

address: 1805 Divisadero st. SF CA 94115

cheers

Ilka

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retreat in the Santa Cruz mountains in december- hurry! sign up!

2006-12-02T00:03:57Z

Calling the Infinite Home
A Weekend Authentic Movement Retreat
Friday evening, Dec. 15 - Sunday, Dec. 17
Camp Double Bear
$215, includes all meals and lodging

We will start at 7p on Friday and finish at 4 on Sunday. You can arrive any time after 4 on Friday. And
the cost includes all your meals, including dinner on friday and sleeping
accommodations.

The focus of our time and work together:

The empty space. The unknown. Infinite potential.
This retreat will focus on the development of Authentic Movement as a
spiritual practice, particularly its strength as a mystical practice. As we
commit over and over to entering the unknown, by closing our eyes and
surrendering to our moment to moment impulse, we see more clearly who we
are. As witnesses we come to see that ³inner ³ and ³outer²
are not the whole truth, that this separation is perhaps our creation and
therefore a partial truth. Eventually, through practice the question
arises, am I that empty space?
We will sit, move, dance and sing together with this question.
Come and deepen your practice.
Some questions we might answer: Is being empty space a good thing? In a
world full of stuff, how am I empty? How does this relate to what I am
doing each day; how can it make my life better?

Yoga, and chanting will be offered each morning to
support our exploration.

Thanks,
Please let me know if you are interested or have any questions.

Bill McCully

billsbuzz@earthlink.net

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