Two courses offered for two levels:
FROM ZERO TO FLYING
Monday and Tuesday
Beginner-intermediate level and for all!
FLYING ≠ JUMPING AND PERFORMANCE RESEARCH & Evening Performances
(Details HERE)
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
Intermediate-advanced level
REGISTRATION SCOTT WELLS HERE
This event is followed by the 35th EDITION OF THE JAM INTERNATIONAL OF MONTREAL November 18 and 19, 2017. Details HERE
DETAILS :
Informations: masterclass@contactimpro.org to Stephanie
SCHEDULE AND COST:
Workshop 1
FROM ZERO TO FLYING
Beginner-intermediate level and for all!
Monday and Tuesday 7 pm to 10 pm
Studio:
Conservatoire de musique et d’art dramatique
4750, Henri-Julien street, 1175-STUDIO C
Cost:
$60 EARLY-BIRD until Sunday, October 22
$70 after October 23
Workshop 2
Option A
FLYING ≠ JUMPING & PERFORMANCE RESEARCH
Intermediate-advanced level
Wednesday, Thursday 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm and Friday 9:30 to 4:30 pm
(one-hour dinner break and two hours for supper)
with an evening presentation (7 pm to 8 pm) of all participants followed by a JAM for all !
Studio:
White Wall Studio, 4532 avenue Laval (small alley at the corner of Mont-Royal Street)
Cost:
$120 EARLY-BIRD Until Sunday, October 22
$140 after October 23
Option B
FLYING ≠ JUMPING
Intermediate-advanced level
Wednesday, Thursday 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm and Friday 9:30 to 12:30 pm
Studio:
White Wall Studio, 4532 avenue Laval (small alley at the corner of Mont-Royal St.)
Cost:
$90 EARLY-BIRD Until Sunday, October 22
$105 after October 23
OPTION TO THE CLASSE:
$35/class
Description of the workshop.
- Photo : Tanja Striezel
Stage 1
From Zero to Flying
Starting with contact and body awareness. Then learn some techniques and traject towards a space that supports freedom of flight and expression. That is: we start at zero to redefine what is contact—to ourselves, others, reality, gravity. I will see what the group is up for. We’ll be doing my favorite contact exercises and current curiosities. Created or learned over the decades investigation and indulgence. Pleasure à Technique; Somatics à Acrobatics
Stage 2
Flying ≠ Jumping
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 will practice flying, catching, landing, fluid acrobatics, deft maneuvers. For the acrobatics in particular everyone will work at their own level and will learn best by building group safety and trust—I think everyone will do something they never expected.
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.
Optional but highly recommended to play together !!
The work will culminate in an evening presentation.
Performance Research - Ensemble States Improvisation
Sourcing - connecting with your body and spontaneity using authentic movement, the art of forgetting….
Ensemble states - tuning exercises, composition and non-composition.
Performance Jam - open space with intention and group focus, but less tight than a formal performance.
Scores -the way in, Aesthetics—how we watch.
https://vimeo.com/109335346
- Photo : Malcolm Manning
Here a little video to discover his teaching in 2016: Youtube
In 1981 Scott Wells discovered the pleasure of contact improvisation shortly after becoming obsessed with the struggles of modern dance. He stuck with both and currently directs a company in San Francisco and tours annually to Europe. Wells has created works for skateboarders, for boxers and choreographed West Side Story for Sonoma State University.
In 2010 and 2005 Scott received the Izzie (San Francisco’s most prestigious dance award) for Outstanding Choreography and was selected by Dance Magazine as “one of the 25 To Watch”. Scott has toured to Europe for the last 20 years teaching and performing in festivals in Moscow, Barcelona, Budapest, Berlin, Vienna, Zagreb to name a few. Wells has been practicing Alexander Technique for twenty five years and BMC for fifteen.
Scott’s style of contact is athletic and emphasizes freedom of movement, flying, fluid acrobatics (easy to advanced), safety, precision, pleasure and technique. What students often like best in Scott’s classes is the variance between the meditative, listening, slow and sensual dancing and the fun, playful, very physical dancing. And students appreciate how the scary or advanced moves are safe, relaxed and made possible