About this Event

Workshop with Scott Wells in two parts & extra performance Jam open to the dance community!!! ******************************************* Pick and choose your combination or book all of it **************************************** Scores composition and the poetics of presence 31st May 2024 Friday 11:00 am – 06:00 pm (with a lunch break) cost: CHF140.00 Studio Movity, Florastr. 42, 8610 Uster, Switzerland can be booked as a one-day-workshop Content: playful and focused approach to scores. Includes: movement sourcing, tuning scores, ensemble states, authentic movement, instant composition and improvisation. For those interested in performing and those interested in not performing (for example: discovering our selves as improvisors, connecting with others through movement, deepening our movement practice. We start with connecting to our bodies and then take it into group explorations. Getting lost. Composition as mediation. The material will range from compositional practice to exploring the intangibles (curiosity, vulnerability, commitment, presence). We will work with the spirit of exploration—not jumping to judgement /evaluation— and will learn as much by watching each other as by being watched. While the aim is to practice composition and explore the intangibles we will also undercut the hype of “performing” with the practice of witnessing. Sourcing–connecting with your body, impulses + spontaneity Ensemble states–tuning exercises, composition and non-composition, Performance Jam–open space with intention and group focus, but less rigid than a formal performance. Scores–the way in, Aesthetics–how we watch **************************** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2EZu49hFi0 Dive into Flying 1.&2. June 2024 01. June Sat : 10:00am – 4:30pm with break 02.June Sun : 10:30am – 5:00pm with break Cost : CHF260.00 Dive into Flying & evening Jam : CHF280.00 Dive into Flying (Diving is different than falling. Jumping ≠ flying. Nudging ≠ bumping.) Lose your head to fly contact improvisation: Flight patterns, Fluid Acrobatics and Pure Contact We will work for clear, satisfying contact improvisation in which pleasure is the first teacher. We aim for the spectacular and the practical. We will practice flying, catching, landing, fluid acrobatics, deft maneuvers. We visit acrobatic and acroyoga styles and tweak them and find the flow and freedom of contact improvisation. We will practice integrating the flying and acrobatics into the contact flow. That is: aerial interactions that increase the contact. Jumping ≠ Flying because jumping is is a muscular action, whereas flying is a joint nervous system based and is affected greatly by emotions and attitude. We connect the flying to somatic. We’ll do favorite contact exercises and current curiosities. created or learned over decades of investigation and indulgence **************************************** Performance Jam guided by Scott Wells, open to the dance community Saturday : 06:00 – 09:00 pm cost: CHF30.00 ************************************************************ whole weekend as one package: Cost CHF425.00 Info: [email protected]

Dance Styles

Contact Improvisation (100%)

Pricing

Performance jam (1st June):CHF 30.00
One-day workshop (31st May):CHF 140.00
Two-day workshop (1st & 2nd June):CHF 260.00
Two-day workshop + evening jam:CHF 280.00
Whole weekend package:CHF 425.00

Organizer

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Dorothee Daester

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Scott Wells