CI Intensive training Freiburg

Iwona Olszowska „Polish Is legendarny teacher” One of the most recognised BMC teachers. Teaching in few university’s in Poland. Having performing, dancing, and teaching skills gathered through 40 years of experience. 4 weekend workshops with 4 amazing teachers with many years of experience. The focus is dance, movement, bmc and a somatic approach - all that in the frame of contact improvisation. WHEN: Mirva Makinen 16-18 February- PASTworkshop Iwona Olszowska 15 -17 March Pawel Konior 3-5 May Yaniv Mintzner 30 May -2 June Katja Mustonen 28-30 June WHERE: T.I.P Lörracherstraße 45 Freiburg -GERMANY FOR WHO: We want to invite and give a place for intermediate and advanced CI practitioners to nourish and expand their knowledge. If you want to have a fixed partner to practice with, invite your friend and come together so you can get more inside and develop some new tools for your dance. PRICES: 1. Single workshop ticket 170€ 2. Early bird price for single workshop 150€ 3. 4 workshops for 520€ (so 130€ each workshop) 4. Early bird price for 4 workshops 460€ (115€ each) Time schedule: Friday: Optional - depends on the arrival of the teacher. Class: 18.00 - 20.00 Jam Saturday/Sunday: class:10.00-13.00 Lunch break: 13.00-14.30 Class: 14.30 - 17.00 Jam: 17.00-18.00 Early bird price until 29 February Info&registration: [email protected] IWONA OLSZOWSKA(PL) 15-17 March Iwona Olszowska is a dancer, improviser, contact mover, choreographer, and dance teacher. She is a certified Somatic Movement Educator in Body Mind Centering (BMC*R). She has extensive experience teaching at institutions such as Hurtownia Ruchu and the Music Academy in Lodz, where she teaches choreography and somatic practices. Iwona's teaching focuses on developing improvisation through exploring the body's systems, senses, intuition, imagery. Iwona in her work uses contemporary dance, bodywork and body awarness based on Body Mind Centering, Laban Analysis, Bartenieff Body Fundamentals, Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais Method, skinner release and different improvisation skills and Ci. She has performed and taught workshops in numerous countries including Estonia, Moldavia, Russia, Ukraine, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Italy, Portugal, Czech Republic, and the USA. For more information about Iwona Olszowska, you can visit the following websites: - http://PolandDances.pl/ - www.taniecpolska.pl - www.hurtowniaruchu.pl - www.bodylab.eu - www.teatrbarakah.com ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: “ELASTICITY, REBOUND and CONNECTION - FASCIA INTEGRATION” The workshop will start from Body Mind Centering BMC *R approach toward CI. We will go from information trough somatisation of body and mind toward embodiment potential. We will explore trough anatomy of fascia and its aspects. Silky state for elasticity, sliding trough leyers of fascia /superfiscial, bones skin, muscle, visceral, from inner to outer, ground and partner, using potential of neverended possibilities of slow movement. Cangooru state for rebound, including fascia going trough ligaments with potential for condense and expand movement trough whole tensegrity structure. Seeing how it affects contact language with bigger dynamic. We will fallow transmission trough fascia to deeper connectivity and adaptation allowing for integration of all body systems. We will experience touch trough fascia leyers to find way trough adaptative touch to maintain contact while moving, taking weight, shaping, spiraling... PAWEL KONIOR (PL/DE) 4-5 May Performer, mover and teacher. After graduating Academy of Physical Education and Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, Paweł has been working in the fields of performing arts in Holland, Belgium, Poland as a dancer and performer for several years. Tomasz Wygoda, Pedro Goucha, Einat Tuchman, More Shani, T.R.A.S.H company, Ugo Dehaes, Andrzej Marczewski, Gosia Haduch, Rita Vilhena, Iwona Olszowska is only few that he worked with. His sport background had a big impact on his way of moving and teaching where improvisation is intertwined with technique and fun. Paweł has a specific and organic way of working, with a lot of playfulness, spontaneity, creating environment for people to learn and adapt to constantly changing situations, which allows them to nourish their true potential. His work is influenced by fighting monkey practise, martial arts and contact improvisation. „We are never in balance…searching for harmony and balance is a constant process.“ ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: “Creative games for better communication.” This workshop is a creative and engaging experience that focuses on movement coordination, cooperation, and roughhousing games. Participants will have the opportunity to explore their physicality and express themselves through various movement exercises and improvisational games. We will use practice ball tennis balls , stick and judo belts to find new pathways and strategies to play and react. The workshop is designed to enhance participants' ability to improvise in a constant changing enviromant, develop their coordination skills, and adaptation. Through playful and energetic tasks participants will learn to communicate non-verbally, respond spontaneously, and adapt to different movement challenges. Pawel Konior is an experienced improvisation facilitator, creates a safe and supportive environment where participants can explore their physical boundaries and push their limits. Pawel often uses different objects like sticks, balls or judo belts for better communication during his workshops. The workshop encourages participants to embrace their creativity, take risks, and enjoy their physical expression. Get ready to let loose, connect with others, and discover new ways of moving and creative playing. YANIV MINTZNER(Israel) 1-2 June Dancing and teaching CI since 2005, yaniv has worked as faculty for the Haifa university theatre Department and the Jerusalem dance academy, in the past decade. Yaniv teaches regularly in Israel and Europe, and has worked with both amateurs and professional dance companies. Yaniv is also a trained musician focusing on live composition, and a senior practitioner and teacher of ILM (Ilan lev method), in Israel and Europe. His research and teaching interest has been for many years, the connection between imagination and sensation in learning skills, and nature plays a deep role in his vocabulary, both as an image and a physical tool box. Living in Kill, Israel, with partner and 3 children ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: “The graceful chaos. Archetypes of moving water and air” Water- moving anywhere, any moment, with anything that comes. What comes up when you think of water? Along the years, I find myself drawn to water again and again. I think of them, play with them, imagine them, dream them if I’m lucky. Im not a water expert. Im interested to be in an active state, that is wrapped with water in many levels- Sensation- to feel water, their forces and qualities, their behavior. Imagination- to penetrate potentials of water, through active imagination. Being- to become, for a moment, this wholeness- infinite yet earthly and clear. This triangle- sensation imagination being , is for me a primary doorway into the dance- movement, skill, dialogue. The way it involves CI is not always clear, I hope it can give you answers to what you are looking for within this framework. I believe it does. My experience has shown me an immense transformation, in understanding the body, the partnership of body-movement- world. It sustains me when dancing and when not. It brings me back to myself time and again, Will we gain water qualities? What kind of knowledge will appear in us? How will our technique develop? Our dance? I hope for us to be soaked in water for some time. To sense what would we do if we were water- What solutions, skills, pathways would surface? What sensations our bodies would have? What thoughts, perceptions and world view would rise? Some work principles for this workshop: - Synchronisation, through deep listening - Timing, surprises and change - Responsiveness, agreeing to go anywhere together - Dynamics, being able to change gradually or immediately, to explore extremes Movement materials we will explore: - Waves, circles and wheels - Spirales - Swirls - Falls- explosion (out) and implosion (in) - Range, volume and frequency - Body states- tension and activity levels, calmness and dynamic regulation. - CI technique- shifting and moving weight around, leaning and moving together *This workshop will be accompanied with video and written material. *the work is relevant to all background and experience levels in CI or movement KATJA MUSTONEN (FIN) 29-30 June Katha is a Finnish dancer, choreographer and teacher. She graduated as a dancer 2004, and holds MA degree in "Contemporary Dance Education"(MACoDE, HfMDK,Frankfurt 2010). Since 2008, she’s been teaching Contemporary Dance, Improvisation and Contact Improvisation internationally in institutions, festivals and other venues for dance. Artistically, she keeps being interested about the states of presence and body’s ability to transform, embody, and transmit images into knowledge, emotions, language and atmospheres. Merging photography, video, sound and text together with objects continues fascinating her creating the larger body of her artistic work. Currently she works as a dancer in Dance Theater Minimi. ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: “MOMENT TO MOMENTUM” In this workshop we focus on the weight of our bodies while studying mass as it grounds, releases, suspends and flies. We make familiar how to effortlessly organize ourselves in changing circumstances and align to gravity as we move together. We train our reflexes to land safely and discover detailed pathways to gain ease when moving along different levels. We explore how scaling our physical tone can mobilize our alignment and generate dynamic momentum while giving us a sense of flight.