Restless Peace: Contact & Ensemble Improvisation

Restless Peace - a weekend performance project for CI dancers who would like to work in creative ensembles with Nita Little and Tim O'Donnel. Saturday May 3 & Sunday May 4 10am-5pm (plus Sunday informal performance) Intermediate/Advanced Workshop *some Contact Improvisation background required LIMITED ENROLLMENT (16 spots only) - REGISTER NOW! $175- financially challenged $200- low-income $225- regular rate EARLY REGISTRATION DISCOUNT: $15 off BY APRIL 20 NOTE: Tho' not our first choice (we want you there for the FULL two days), we are accepting some (very limited) one day only registrations: $100 TO REGISTER: To register pay through Paypal, use [email protected] or Send check (contact Vitali Kononov [email protected] for further details] ======================================== UPDATE: If you REGISTER FOR BOTH Restless Pease workshop and Framing the Dance: Contact & Composition (https://www.facebook.com/events/453712544762476/), you will receive a $25 discount on EACH ONE! WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: We will learn attention practices for ensemble dancing that opens into the deep states of CI. - Dances made by ensembles as changing forms and dynamics - Study and track response-ability in order to amplify our connections toward states of communion. - Break patterns, make patterns, deepen our dancing in dialogue with one another, our environments, and the dance. - Research and enhance our listening skills, informing skills - Learn different modalities of the self that dances. - Develop clear cuing skills - Learn some basic materials around articulating presence - End with a final performance! Nita Little develops, choreographs, performs, and teaches improvisational dance. She participated in the explorations that became Contact Improvisation in 1972 and has been significant in its evolution and development. She teaches in California and tours to Dance and CI festivals and dance centers worldwide. Mind in Motion, a dance curriculum she initiated in the 80’s, engages embodied inquiry and trains dance improvisation through the mind/body continuum. Nita is currently completing her PhD in Performance Studies at UC Davis. Tim O'Donnell has been studying performing and teaching Contact Improvisation since his first CI festival in 1995. His teaching ranges from the gentle and subtle to the acrobatic and fluidly athletic. He holds an MFA in Dance from ASU and has performed and shown his work through out the west coast, New York and Europe. He has taught at the West Coast Contact Improv Festival, the Moab Workshop, Arizona State University, and Prescott College and as a guest at the American Dance Festival. Tim lives and dances in New York City and is a GyrotonicR Trainer and body worker. He is excited to share his insights and love for Contact dance. Photo credits: copyright Andrei Samartzev. Dancers: Brenton Cheng and Nita Little.