This event precedes the Annual Jam which will take place on October 21 and 22. (See details)
In this workshop dancers will investigate how foundational principles of contact improvisation, including the dynamics of touch, moving support, yielding and reaching towards, collaborative improvisation, and perceptual tuning, can support inspired dancing.
Through guided practice we will develop our capacities for movement,creativity and heightened awareness. Our practice will center around communal and individual respect for ourselves and one another.
Programm and cost:
Programm and cost:
All experience levels:
$40 Tuesday, October 17 (6 p.m. to 9 p.m.)
$40 Wednesday, October 18 (6 p.m. to 9 p.m.)
Intermediate-Advanced experience level:
$50 Thursday, October 19 (6 p.m. to 9 p.m.)
$150 Thursday October 19 and Friday October 20 (Thrusday 6 to 9pm & Friday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.)
$200 Everything (from Tuesday October 17 to Friday October 20)
Registration on the weezevent website: (See details)3 places remaining on Tuesday and 3 places on WednesdayThursday and Friday: FullAny questions: stageintensif@contactimpro.org
Biographies
Biographies
Chris Aiken is an internationally recognized performer and teacher of dance improvisation performance and contact improvisation. He has performed and collaborated with many renowned dance artists including Steve Paxton, Kirstie Simson, Nancy Stark Smith, Peter Bingham, Andrew Harwood, Ray Chung and Angie Hauser.
His work has evolved through ongoing investigations of poetics, design, and performance. It is also grounded by years of research in the science of movement, perception and learning. Hi teaching and dancing has been influenced by extensive work with the Alexander Technique, Gyrotonic/Gyrokinesis and myofascial bodywork. Chris has received numerous awards for his artistic work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as commissions from the Walker Art Center, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Dance Theater Workshop, and the National Performance Network. He received his MFA from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and is a Professor at Smith College in the Department of Dance.
Angie Hauser is a choreographer, performer and teacher. In addition to her duet work with Chris Aiken, Hauser is a long-time member of the Bebe Miller Company, receiving a BESSIE Award for her creative work with the company. Her work is featured in the online score “TWO” as part of MotionBank a Forsythe Company project and in the 2015 eBook “Dance Fort.”
Credit: Derik Fowles
Other choreographic projects include collaborations with gifted dance artists including Jennifer Nugent, K.J. Holmes, Darrell Jones, Kathleen Hermesdorf, and musicians Mike Vargas, Jesse Manno, and Tigger Benford. She is a sought after teacher in the realms of improvisation, performance and dance technique regularly teaching on the faculty of major festivals and intensives including Bates Dance Festival, American Dance Festival, SaltFest, Florida Dance Festival, Earthdance, Transformation Danse (Montreal), and La Escuela Profesional de Danza (Mazatlán). She received her MFA from Ohio State University and is currently a Professor at Smith College in the Department of Dance.
Andrew de Lotbinière Harwood
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Stephanie Gaudreau
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Credit: Amandine Rovetta