Nancy Stark Smith January Workshop Long Dance 2018

1 Spot left for JW/LD and 2 spots left for JW ONLY!! For detailed informormation and application please visit: http://nancystarksmith.com/januaryworkshop-longdance-2018/ Dear dancers, movers and CI lovers, After teaching an intensive workshop two years ago, Nancy expressed a desire for having more time to develop the work with the same group. This sentiment was also felt by many of the participants. In our experience, after finishing the 3-week January Workshop 2016, there was a strong stimulation and desire to develop things further, and to keep working long days in a focused manner. But we experienced a lack of container (everyday practical life) and a group with the same vocabulary with which to work. So the seed was planted to develop “The Long Dance,” a two month residential intensive combining Nancy’s work and self-guided research. Through this project we hope to develop material that can nourish and grow our personal practice (artistic, somatic, or any personal aproach to movement) and support the continuous process of redefining and shaping what CI and improvisational practice is for us. THE CONCEPT Phase I: January Intensive January 7–26, 2018 Earthdance, western Massachusetts, MA, USA www.earthdance.net accommodation and food: provided by Earthdance Nancy will be teaching full days for three weeks, except on weekends, with Mike Vargas and other guests. In this phase we will refresh a lot of the material from Nancy’s intensives and go deeper into it. This will not be an ordinary January Intensive as we will be a group of people who have already been exposed to the practices and perspectives of Nancy and Mike’s work—i.e., people who have participated in other intensive workshops with them (anywhere in the world). In additional, this January Workshop will lay the foundations for the continuing research. It will be the beginning stage of the larger picture. Phase II: Self directed research and harvest January 30–February 21, 2018 Dragon’s Egg Studio, Ledyard, Connecticut www.dragonseggstudio.org We will live together and cook for ourselves in Dragon's Egg studio and a rental property near the studio. We will be located in Mystic, CT, which is less than 3 hours by train to New York City. Nancy will come for 4 or 5 days to work with us. There will be time as a group to integrate and digest the work done with Nancy and others in the previous weeks. One of our main objectives for this phase is to cooperatively create a supportive structure that will enable us to continue a focused practice to develop the material further and make it our own. How does the material apply to our present concerns, personal research, creativity, and communities? Time for personal projects, in groups or solo. Also creating space to connect CI with other practices that are important to you. Creating a deep playground to support each other’s experiments. Having jams, performance, and sharing nights. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This 2018 Long Dance intensive is open for people who have already done an intensive with Nancy or are planning to do one before January 2018. Looking forward to hearing and reading from you. Tatiana Musi (Mexico) and Jo Bruhn (Germany) In collaboration with Nancy Stark Smith and Patrick Crowley (January Workshop coordinator) PS Feel free to share this event. PPS Don't feel confused by the dates in the headline. FB does not allow events longer than two weeks.