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Poetry of Motion
a weekend workshop with Kirstie Simson
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Calling all improv dancers:
Join us in Boston, Saturday September 27 to Sunday September 28, 2008 for
a special workshop with teacher and improvisor Kirstie Simson.
Workshop Description:
Kirstie will give classes in dance-improvisation, drawing from her knowledge
of contact improvisation, dance techniques, Aikido and her extensive experience
of improvisation in performance.
The focus will be on exploring uninhibitedly the huge potential of the body’s
response to the primal urge to move, inspired by deep energies released through human
interaction, physical challenge and through the excitement of discovering new
territory, new sensations and a daring to go beyond inherent ideas of limitation.
The classes will be built on very simple physical principles allowing students
to explore their experience of moving and to understand their own bodies more
profoundly, which is often experienced as joyful and liberating.
Kirstie will be focusing on various aspects and techniques for freeing up the body --
allowing it to move with greater ease and grace. She has spent many years
researching ways of moving which generate full and fearless dancing, and she
enjoys the challenges of intense physicality.
The classes offer students a way to extend and deepen their experience of moving,
to practice the skills of dancing Contact Improvisation and Spacial Improvisations.
About the teacher:
Kirstie has been a continuous explosion in the contemporary dance scene,
bringing audiences into contact with the vitality of pure creation in moment after
moment of virtuoso improvisation. Called "a force of nature" by the New York Times,
she is an award-winning dancer and teacher who has "immeasurably enriched and expanded
the boundaries of New Dance" according to Time Out Magazine, London. Simson’s eternal
subject is freedom, as she dares to go beyond the boundaries of form and structure to
create movement out of the rhythm of life itself. Kirstie has just taken a full time
job as a teacher of Improvisation and Contact Improvisation at the University of
Illinois, Urbana Champaign.
Schedule:
Friday evening: 7:30 - 10 p.m.
Saturday/Sunday: 10-5:30 p.m. each day.
Cost:
We use a sliding scale for workshops. Please pay what you can
honorably afford, according to these guidelines:
Student/unemployed: $95
Regular rate (working, but with challenges): $135
Professional rate (contributing to your retirement... support the arts!): $175
There will be a lunch break during each day; you can bring your own meals
or visit one of many local restaurants.
To register, send checks (payable to Contact Improvisation Boston) to:
Maxine Gautier PO Box 301773 Boston, MA 02130
Questions? Contact Dey Summer deysummer@yahoo.com 339-368-0163
Need a place to stay?
Contact Maxine: joyfuldanseur@yahoo.com
Location:
Cambridge Masonic Association
1950 Mass. Ave.
Cambridge, MA
(Near the Porter Square T.)
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