Graphic Interventions – 29.11-1.12.2024, Warsaw, Poland
Movement fuels thoughts. Thoughts give rise to words. Words influence movement. The cycle continues. Using paper, pens, and following simple scores, we will create simple line drawing, de/re/construct words to open up more possibilities for improvising with/in contact.
Each session will begin with physical solo practices, drawing on Material for the Spine, faux somatics, and a collated set of floor work I call the 90’s. The solo practices will be filtered through conceptual triads, to get us out of our bodies and into our heads. These triads will lead us into improvising in/with contact.
Moving towards the paper and pen, we will create different graphical representations of the triads to highlight and move through our physical/mental limitations. The permutational generation of acronyms is another avenue of exploration to find more improvising with/in contact.
Participants should have a firm understanding of CI fundamentals. Be open to watching and being watched; reflecting, sweating, and thinking.
Thresh Holding Times – 28.12.2024-1.1.2025, Skanderborg, Denmark
A five day immersion into CI, Body-Mind Centering® and Silence
Taking our practice into the New Year
A mini-CI-festival created around silence
The idea to Thresh-holding Times evolved out of a wish to create a frame of silence and focus around the practice of CI, taking a smaller group of around 50 dancers on a journey where we deepen our practice together, as a group.
Therefore, we don´t offer many workshops with many different teachers to choose from, but instead the same two teachers are offering an Intensive each, building on to each other and over several days, so the whole group of dancers are taking the same journey, deepening a shared language around specific themes, with time to finding and exploring their own questions and curiosities each.
We will integrate whitnessing and Contemplative Dance Practice, and on New Years Eve, we will take it into complete silence (no talking), moving-transitioning into the New Year from a Place of Silence.
Teachers:
Ka Rustler
Andrew Wass
Nicky Wisser
organic vegetarian and vegan food with focus on simpel, seasonal, tasty and nourishing
location:
Audonicon in Skanderborg, with inspiring shapes and colours offers ideal surroundings for diving deep into silence and into our practice
For more information and registration:
https://bodyspacetime.webnode.dk
———-PAST WORKSHOPS———-
Re:Wiring the Ensemble
July 13, 2024
11:15-16:45
Studio 2
Kunstquartier Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2
10997 Berlin
The workshop will start with Re:Wire to settle into ourselves, finding all the nooks and crannies of possibility. With great intentionality we will oscillate between low and high levels of ambition. Riding the waves of movement, we will observe these movements as we create them, allowing them to unfold as the moment desires. Transitioning outwards we will explore and experiment with the balance between solo desire and ensemble ambition; between solo ambition and ensemble desire.
Some guiding questions
How can the ensemble support the solo dance, providing structures to extend what an individual can do?
How can the solo inspire and animate the ensemble and vice versa?
How can the solo be an ensemble?
How can the ensemble be a single unit?
This workshop is for people interested in improvising, composing in the moment, real-time composition, instant choreography, etc. There will be floorwork, possibly contact with other people, and observation of each other’s dancing.
55€-70€
register by emailing Andrew Wass: wasscubed@gmail.com
you will receive bank details to wire money to save your spot.
Doors open at 11. We begin promptly at 11:15.
The Ground Game
a technical somatic approach to CI – May 4th and 5th
The aim of this workshop is to provide tools/pathways/concepts to increase specificity and potential in low verticality CI. Beginning with Steve Paxton’s Material for the Spine and developmental movement, we will look at technical pathways for the solo body. Expanding our attention outwards to partnering pathways, we will investigate how the solo body patterns enrich the duet work. Shifting gears, we will approach the solo and the duet from a somatic perspective, sourcing material from Body Mind Centering® to expand our solo awareness and challenge our habits. Using the BMC tools we will look in detail at the anatomy of the foot and then use it as our primary focus in both solo and partner dancing. Some of the basic developmental patterns might also appear in order to add another layer of understanding to our use of lower limbs.
This workshop is intended for people who have some familiarity with CI and are looking to increase technical solo awareness and low-level dynamic weight sharing possibilities.
Facilitated by Andrzej Woźniak and Andrew Wass
May 4th 2024
15:00 – 19:30
May 5th 2024
15:00 – 18:45
Wallstraße 32
10179 Berlin
Marameo Members: 96€, early bird 84€ (until April 20th)
Non-Members: 120€, early bird 105€ (until April 20th)
S.P.A. Practices
Somatic Performance Awareness Practices – facilitated by Andrew Wass and Kelly Dalrymple-Wass
doing watching – watching doing
dancing performing – performing dancing
self as other – other as self
sensing composition – composing sensation
still repeating – repeating still
Wednesdays 12:45 – 14:30
February 14, 21, 28 and March 6, 13
K77 – Kastanienallee 77 10435 Berlin
5 sessions – 60-80€
With Andrew Wass & Caterina Mocciola
23rd Feb – 25th Feb 2024 in Uster, CH
Workshop Description
We will practice a range of dynamic events, un/known pathways. Some klein and fine, others more robust and effortful. These partner pathways will serve as points of departure for improvising in contact. We will investigate the ride-ness and lift-ness of each dynamic event and the improvisatory potential within either facet.
Several questions will guide our research. How can we use what
we know to create something we don’t know? Can confusion provide fertile ground for understanding and extending the improvisation? How can we balance momentary ambitions with expansive curiosity?
Starting with scored solo improvisations, we will transition to technical solo skills. After practicing known pathways, we will layer in the solo skills, improvising our way into, out of, and during the dynamic events.
This workshop is intended for people with a good amount of CI experience. Please be comfortable with inversions, falling into your back space, level change, taking and giving full weight.
Warning: Muscle exertion and occasional bruising might occur
Logistics:
23. Feb Friday 3:00 pm Registration
3:15 pm Arriving/ Jam
break
6:00 pm – 8:30pm Class
24. Feb Sat 10:00 am – 5:30 pm
class and lunch break
25. Feb Sun 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
class and lunch break
Cost: CHF 350.00 – 270.00
any questions?
contact@dancedot.org
Intended for people familiar with CI, this workshop will look at some of the movement patterns of Steve Paxton’s Material for the Spine. Combining hands on partner work with solo exploration, we will examine the waves, spirals, and crescents vertically and horizontally. By approaching the material slowly and with attention to detail, this workshop will provide clarity of what the spine is doing when dancing. The clearer our intention is with our spines, the greater range for improvising we have when dancing.
Sunday, March 10th, 2024
15:00-18:30
members: 25€
non-member: 35€
more info about Material for the Spine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CntWmA1YTw