Fall Jam and Workshop
with Moti Zemelman and Kristin Horrigan
Friday, Oct 12 - Sunday, Oct 14, 2012
UPDATE: There is room in Moti's Mixed Level class, but Kristin's Intermediate/Advanced class is full.
You can walk-in at the Masons Hall. At-the-door pricing for the full event and à-la-carte registrations (Moti's class only). Schedule is below.
Pre-registration is closed (You can pre-register for the Whole Event at a discounted price and pay by Credit Card or check now. You must visit our Registration page in order to enter your information.)
A Contact Improv Jam & Workshop for
© B.B. Ames 2011
Dancers at All Experience Levels
⇒Plenty of Time for Jamming
⇒ Plus a focus on Instruction
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Morning Jams
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Choice of Afternoon Workshops/lab with Moti or Kristin
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Friday Night - Welcome Jam
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Saturday Night - Live Music and Dance Jam with Stan Strickland
(This part of the event is Open-to-the-Public; bring your friends.)
Note: You can attend the Whole Event or Bits & Pieces, but...
the Early-Registration discount applies ONLY to the Whole Event
SCHEDULE (subject to slight improvisational changes...):
Friday night, 7-10pm Registration and Welcome Jam
Saturday, 10-10:30am Registration and Personal Warm-up
(Light Breakfast available)
10:30am-2:30 p.m. Opening Circle, Group Warm-up, Jamming
1-2:30 pm (Lunch available)
2:30--5:30 pm Mixed-level workshop with Moti Zemelman
(Moti's workshop is appropriate for beginners)
Intermediate/advanced workshop
with Kristin Horrigan
6-8pm Dinner at local restaurants
8-10:30pm Music & Dance Improv Jam, with
Stan Strickland
At the Masonic Hall -- Open to the public
Sunday, 10:00am-2:00 pm More Open Jamming (Light Breakfast available)
12:30-2:00 Lunch available
2:00-4:00 Advanced lab with Kristin Horrigan (space limited)
2:00-4:30pm Mixed level workshop with Moti Zemelman
4:30-5:00pm Harvest and closing circle
COSTS:
ON-LINE
Pre-registration. Prices with Discount*.
Note: Discount applies ONLY if you register for the Whole Event.
Whole Event
$70 - Full-time Student Rate - (also for those unemployed)
$85 - Regular rate - Employed, but perhaps struggling
$100 - Professional rate - Contributing to your retirement
$125 - Sponsor rate - SUPPORTING THE ARTS!
*Must register and pay by October 10
AT THE DOOR
Whole Event
$85 - Student Rate - Unemployed or Severe Economic issues
$100 - Regular rate - Employed, but perhaps struggling
$115 - Professional rate - Contributing to your retirement
$140 - Sponsor rate - SUPPORTING THE ARTS!
À la Carte - Bits & Pieces ("At the Door", only, space permitting)
Either Single Day (not including Saturday evening) $45
Individual Afternoon Workshop $35, either day
Individual Morning Jam, $15, either day
Saturday Evening Music & Dance Improv Jam only, $10-15 sliding scale
Friday Night Jam only. $8-12, sliding scale
UPDATE: There is room in Moti's Mixed Level class, but
Kristin's Intermediate/Advanced class is full.
You can walk-in at the Masons Hall. At-the-door pricing for the full event and à-la-carte registrations (Moti's class only).
On Sunday, Moti's workshop in the Mason's hall will be open to everyone; the advanced lab with Kristin is a space-limited event and no walk-in registration will be accepted.
REGISTRATION:
Please register early; it really does help us plan.
*Cut off for Pre-Registration is October 10th.
You can pay by Credit Card through PayPal or by check, but
You must visit the Registration page in order to enter your information.
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS:
Please note that Moti's workshops will be appropriate for dancers with all levels of experience, including beginners. Kristin's workshop on Saturday is designated intermediate/advanced, and her Sunday lab is designed for advanced dancers. Please choose honestly and appropriately, to ensure a satisfying experience for everyone.
FALLING AND FLYING with Moti Zemelman
a two-part all-levels workshop (take either or both sessions)
Saturday afternoon - COVERING GROUND
© Sanford LewisFalling can be fun! What goes up must come down, and you have to go down to go back up again. Learn how to root, roll, and dig into the Cliffs, Plateaus, and boulders of our bodies to find that negotiation with gravity that we call flying. Find new pathways to the ground. Learn about your soft landing gear. Find ways to be light even as you anchor yourself to the Earth's gravitational pull. Come fall down and cover some new ground.
Sunday afternoon - GROWING WINGS
© Jun Akiyama
A study in the art of flying, we'll explore lifts, weight-sharing and the dynamics of flight. Learn to develop more comfort with heights, being upsidedown, and using momentum through the air. We will practice listening to the subtle invitations that our partners offer us to go UP and find new pathways towards the sky!
Saturday Afternoon Class with Kristin Horrigan
for Intermediate/Advanced contact improvisers
© Chris Golden What happens when we shift our bodies into a particular state of being and then engage our CI skills in dancing? What new movement, new dynamics, new connections might we discover? This class takes a shared understanding of the basics of CI as our baseline. We will then use state change as a doorway to exploring areas of possibility within our dancing.
Sunday Afternoon Lab with Kristin Horrigan
for advanced contact improvisors ... limited space; sign ups at the event!
© Andrew Semegram After a full weekend, we will take some time to dig into the questions that are alive in our dancing. Using a combination of moving, writing, and talking, we will surface and explore our curiosities, frustrations, delights, and rough edges. Bring ideas that have bubbled up over the course of the weekend or use the lab process to uncover interests that you can carry forth into future dancing.
Teacher Bios:
© Robb HillMoti Zemelman, MFA, began practicing Contact Improv 24 years ago. Over the past 17 years he has taught and performed across USA, Canada, Guatemala, Mexico, Europe and Israel. In 2008-09 he taught at the Instituto Naciónal de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Moti has been both a teacher and a board member at Earthdance Retreat Center in Plainfield, MA. He was an original member of Wire Monkey Dance Co., (Holyoke, MA). As a musician Moti plays vocal-electronic music for Contact Jams and in 2007 released his debut CD, Doorwaves. He also designs and moderates the international Contact Improv resource website www.contactimprov.com. In addition Moti is a professional photographer. His latest project "The Dancer's Tarot" is a photographic tarot deck, using dancers as models to embody the traditional Tarot archetypes.
© Tanya Rubens Kristin Horrigan is an improviser, choreographer, performer and teacher based in southern Vermont. She holds an M.F.A. in choreography from Ohio State University and she has taught and performed contact improvisation for more than 10 years at festivals and universities across the U.S., as well as, in Germany, Japan, and Argentina. She also runs the dance program at Marlboro College in Marlboro, VT and directs the intergenerational performance group Dance Generators in Northampton, MA. At present, Kristin is interested in how we cultivate curiosity and in how we may use curiosity to bridge perception and action, opening ourselves to vibrant and surprising dancing.
used by permission Stan Strickland is a singer, saxophonist, flutist, actor Stan Strickland has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Scandinavia, the Caribbean, New Zealand and the former Soviet Union. In addition to numerous radio and television appearances, Stan has performed in many clubs and concert halls, including Jordan and Symphony Halls in Boston, Carnegie Recital Hall and Town Hall in New York, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C, and many of us know him from local appearances at the Monday night improv jam in Central Square.
OUT-OF-TOWNERS:
You are Welcome!! Come one, come all!!
We can help you with housing here in the homes of local dancers.
Please pre-register and indicate you need housing; we'll work it out for you.
LOCATIONS:
For the morning jams, evening jams, and Moti's afternoon workshops:
Cambridge Masonic Hall, 1950 Mass. Ave, Cambridge, MA (Porter Square)
Park on far side of the lot behind Elephant Walk Restaurant, 2067 Mass Ave (across the street, north 3 blocks)
Here's a link to a map showing the venue and where to park: http://maps.google.com/
Details for Kristin's Saturday workshop location coming soon... (walk or take the T from the Masonic Hall.)
FOR MORE INFO:
HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!