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Winter Festival 2013 CANCELLED!!

Due to an impending blizzard, we are reluctantly cancelling the event.  Sorry!

On-line pre-registration is open ⇒ See "Cost and Registration" section, below.

© Albert Cook 2011 A Contact Improv Jam and  Workshop for Dancers at All Experience Levels

  ⇒Jamming all weekend

  ⇒ Plus afternoon classes

  • Friday Night - Welcome Jam
  • Choice of Saturday Afternoon Workshops with Patrick or Brando (or continue jamming on through!)

  • Saturday Night - Live Music and Dance Jam with John Hughes and Benoit Guillemette  
    (This part of the event is Open-to-the-Public; bring your friends.)

  • Sunday Afternoon - Advanced lab with Brando (small additional charge)


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-1:30 p.m.   Opening Circle, Group Warm-up, Jamming

                12:30-1:30 pm          Lunch available

                Afternoon Classes at the Mason's Hall (A choice of one class only)

                           1:30-4:00 pm  Mixed-level workshop with Patrick Crowley
                                                 (Patrick's workshop is appropriate for beginners)
                                or                         

                           4:00-6:30       Intermediate/advanced workshop
                                                     with Aaron Brando

               During classes  2:00 - 6:00

                           Open jamming all afternoon (in another location)

               6:00-8:30pm            Dinner at local restaurants

               8:30-11:00pm          Music & Dance Improv Jam, with
                                                 John Hughes and Benoît Guillemette

                                           At the Masonic Hall -- Open to the public

Sunday

               10:00am-4:30  pm  Open Jamming all day at the Mason's hall

                                                (Light Breakfast and Lunch will be served)

                2:00-4:00            Advanced Lab with Brando
                                          (in a nearby location - space limited)

                4:30-5:00pm             Harvest and closing circle  


COST AND REGISTRATION

PRE-REGISTRATION DISCOUNT PRICING

Note: Discount applies ONLY if you register for the Whole Event in advance.

Full Festival, including one Saturday afternoon class

$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 February 6

Full Festival, jamming only

$45 - Full-time Student Rate - (also for those unemployed)
$60 - Regular rate - Employed, but perhaps struggling
$75 - Professional rate - Contributing to your retirement
$100 - Sponsor rate - SUPPORTING THE ARTS!
          *Must register and pay by February 6

Note about the Sunday Advanced Lab:  Participants in this Lab will sign-up at the event. There is a $10, additional Lab Fee for this bit, pay at Festival.  Space is limited.


AT THE DOOR PRICING

Full Festival, including one Saturday afternoon class

$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!

Full Festival, jamming only

$60 - Student Rate - Unemployed or Severe Economic issues
$75 - Regular rate - Employed, but perhaps struggling
$90 - Professional rate - Contributing to your retirement
$115 - Sponsor rate - SUPPORTING THE ARTS!

À la Carte - Bits & Pieces ("At the Door" only, space permitting)

Friday Night Jam only, $8-12, sliding scale
Saturday, with one class : $45 (does not include the evening jam)
Saturday, jamming only: $35 (does not include the evening jam)$
Saturday evening Dance and Music Improv Jam only, $10-15 sliding scale
Sunday jamming: $35
Sunday lab with Brando: $10

REGISTRATION:

Please register early; it really does help us plan.  
*Cut off for Pre-Registration is February 6.

NOTE: On-line pre-registration is available for the Full Event only.  À la carte registration for bits-and-pieces of the event happen at the door.

QUESTIONS RE. REGISTERING: Email Paul registrations@contactimprovboston.com


SATURDAY WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS:

Please note that Patrick's workshop will be appropriate for dancers with all levels of experience, including beginners. Brando's workshop on Saturday is designated intermediate/advanced, and his Sunday lab is designed for advanced dancers.  Please choose honestly and appropriately, to ensure a satisfying experience for everyone. 

Momentum with Patrick Crowley

...a mixed-level, beginner-friendly

            workshop

Welcome to the Contact Laboratory of Momentum!  Starting with the subtle momentum, we will explore letting go and finding new muscular and neurological pathways.  The state of bouyancy will underlie our research. I will offer methods of perception that will help create ease and clarity in full-bodied dancing.  Our goal is to rejoin the physical forces so we can abandon ourselves to its intelligence.  Flying is a natural outcome.  We will challenge ourselves and discover mystery.

The Sweetness of Suspension with Brando 

for Intermediate/Advanced contact improvisers

Brando says, "I am most fascinated with how Contact Improv can be a form that both nourishes the body and invigorates the spirit. My ongoing focus is to find the sweet points of efficiency - a harmonious place between release in my muscle tone and integrity of my structure.  My approach to dance focuses on somatically educating the body through a deep felt sense of the anatomy.  This mapping helps us gain an understanding of how to optimize our body for movement;  thereby moving through space:  walking, dancing, leaping or falling with far more ease, efficiency, and elegance."

 

Sunday Afternoon Lab for advanced contact improvisors with Brando
       ... limited space; sign ups at the event (small additional charge)

This offering is for those who have a foundation of skills in CI and an invested and consistent practice in the form. Labbing is a structure for CI practitioners who want to experiment with ideas/questions and challenge their dancing with a group of their peers. I will introduce a lab on a specific type of feedback. In this structure there will be time for participants to improvise and include their own approaches to working with the material.

Teacher Bios:

Patrick Crowley discovered contemporary dance and Contact Improvisation 29 years ago and has been dancing, teaching, and performing since.  He was certified in bodywork by Sensei Toshiko Phipps and teaches and does sessions in somatics and yoga. Currently he teaches & performs with the Zany Angels Dance Theatre Company.  He enjoys bumbling into creative moments with his wife, Rythea, and baby, Torielle in western Mass.

 

 

Brando received his Masters Degree in Education from Smith College and is a teaching artist/performer at Enchanted Circle Theater. Brando has been researching and teaching movement practices for over 10 years and has taught and performed CI throughout the United States, Europe, Israel, and Guatemala.

For the past seven years Brando has been actively engaged in the programming at Earthdance: Dance Retreat Center. Most recently Brando has taught in Spain, Ontario, Colorado, and has been invited to host the Moab Jam in Utah. He also has taught master classes at Springfield College and Smith College. Brando is currently training in Structural Integration with Tom Myers’ school, Kinesis Movement Integration.



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 Saturday 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 Saturday afternoon jamming location coming soon... (walk or take the T from the Masonic Hall.)

Sunday's lab location is a one-minute walk from the Mason's hall.

 

 

Regarding Product Sales:  If you have items of interest to contact improv dancers (generally clothing) that you would like to sell at the Winter Festival, please contact the organizers in advance.  We have limited space available for vendors, and may not be able to say yes to everyone, so it is important you let us know ahead of time.
 

For more info, or to ask a question:

General questions: Email Max at contact@contactimprovboston.com

Registration issues: Email Paul at registrations@contactimprovboston.com

 HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!