The class on Friday November 16 with Nancy Stark Smith is full. The
waiting list is also full.
Please don’t send requests for registration, as unfortunately we can
accept no more applications.
If you are registered in the class, you will have received
confirmation from Catherine Lessard. We cannot exceed the proscriebed
number of particpants.
Friday November 16 6:30 pm to 10 pm
Location:
- Community Centre Cote-des-neiges,
- 5347 ch de la Cotes-des-neiges.
- Beside cote des neiges Metro!
Cost: $40
Information and registration: (514) 961-3771
To register please send a deposit of $20 payable to
- Association de Contact Improvisation
- 873, rue Leonard, Ste-Therese, Qc, J7E 2N8
Informations : (450) 939-3007 or email to Catherine
This class is before the annual jam.
INVISIBLE UNDERSCORE
A guided journey through a progression of "changing states" of
body and mind from solo sensitizing to gravity and support, through
group circulation, contact improvisation engagements, then opening
into whole room jamming with compositional awareness. The "Underscore”
a structure for improvised dancing that Nancy has been developing
since 1990 ”will invisibly guide us from rest to active dancing and
back to rest and reflection".
NANCY STARK SMITH first trained as an athlete and gymnastic,
leading her to study and perform modern and postmodern dance in the
early 1970s, greatly influenced by the Judson Dance Theater
breakthroughs of the 1960s in NYC.
| She danced in the first performances of contact improvisation with Steve Paxton and others in 1972 and has since been central to its development as dancer, teacher, performer, writer/publisher, and organizer. She has traveled extensively throughout the world teaching and performing contact and other improvised dance work with Steve Paxton and many other favorite dance partners and performance makers, including Julyen Hamilton, Andrew Harwood, Karen Nelson, and musician Mike Vargas. In 1975 she cofounded Contact Quarterly, an international dance and improvisation journal which she continues to coedit, produce, and publish. Her writings appear in the book, Taken by Surprise: A Dance Improvisation Reader. She lives in the U.S. in western Massachusetts. |
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Photo of Nancy Stark Smith by Roger Kose