THE SOMATICS OF PLACE: Eco Somatic Dance Practice with Cathie Caraker and Rosemary Hannon

Sunday Nov 16 | 11am–4:30pm | Point Reyes Morning CI jam at the Dance Palace, Point Reyes Station Afternoon session at nearby Point Reyes National Seashore Join us at Point Reyes National Seashore for the third in a series of daylong eco-somatic movement retreats. We’ll spend the day moving both indoors and outdoors—beginning in the dance studio and then extending into the wild beauty of the park—exploring embodiment practices and movement improvisation in relationship with the natural world. For this last session in the series, we'll join the wonderful West Marin Contact Improvisation Jam in the morning. Rosemary Hannon will lead us in a warmup that moves into jamming from 11-1:30 at the Dance Palace. After lunch, we’ll move to a nearby site in the national park, where our practice expands into dialogue with the land. In somatic movement, we explore the felt body through our inner and outer senses—locating ourselves in gravity, through touch, in proprioception, and more. In eco-somatic practice, we extend this inquiry: How do we orient in relation to the natural world? To the four directions, to the plants and creatures around us, to the deep history of the land and the people who lived here for thousands of years before us? Through movement, attention, and deep listening, we open ourselves to a more embodied and nourishing relationship with place. We invite you to join us in this day of practice, reflection, and renewal in the living landscape of Point Reyes. Space is limited, early registration is advised. Sliding scale: $20 - $50, pay what you can. (Please note: this donation only covers the afternoon session: donations for the jam are separate.) Venmo @KinesisMovementArts REGISTRATION FORM: https://forms.gle/ajRiv666YhnzZXEYA MORE INFO: www.cathiecaraker.com/offerings or email Cathie: [email protected] ROSEMARY HANNON is a dancer, choreographer and performer. She has performed with Vitali Kononov, Nita Little, Scott Wells, Nancy Stark Smith, Cathie Caraker, Miriam Wolodarski, Alma Esperanza Cunningham, Christine Bonansea, and Erika Tsimbrovsky, among others. Her movement research is inspired by Contact Improvisation (CI) practice. She has taught CI since 2004 when she assisted Vitali Kononov, teaching at the American Dance Festival. She has taught CI at festivals including: The West Coast Contact Improvisation Jam, The Sierra Contact Festival, and The Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation. She has also spent the last 20 years teaching dance and working with arts education organizations. She holds an MA in Education from University of San Francisco, an MFA in Dramatic Arts from UC Davis, and is currently working on a PhD in Performance Studies at UC Davis. She has enjoyed residencies in the Bay Area at DanceGround Keriac, SafeHouse for the Arts and Studio 210. Her 2014 piece, ‘Gallus Gallus Domesticus,’ was nominated for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award. In 2017 with her collaborator, Miriam Wolodarski, she participated in a TMU funded residency exchange with Lamella House of Queer Arts in Krakow, Poland. She is currently researching scores outdoors in the wetlands. CATHIE CARAKER (MFA, RSME) is a longtime dance artist, researcher and somatic movement educator. Her teaching work integrates her deep background in post-modern dance practices and somatics. She was fortunate to work extensively with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, founder of Body-Mind Centering®, with Nancy Stark Smith and Steve Paxton, founders of Contact Improvisation, and many other brilliant "dancestors", and has been profoundly influenced by their research. She was on the faculty of the renowned School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam for 10 years. She has also shared her work at the New York Improvisation Festival, Movement Research, Omega Institute, Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation, wcciJAM, Moving On Center, Contact Festival Freiburg, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Barcelona Contact Festival, Contredanse Brussels, de Beweging Antwerp, and numerous US colleges. She has co-organized CI events including wcciJAM and the European CI Teaching Exchange (ECITE). Cathie is a Body-Mind Centering® teacher, a Registered Somatic Movement Educator and an instructor of the Pilates and Gyrotonic methods. Her writings on Body-Mind Centering® as a somatic approach to dance education have been published by Nouvelles de Danse. More at www.cathiecaraker.com