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Bristol Contact Improvisation National Jam 2018
Workshops led by Alistair Edmunds, Rosalind Holgate Smith and Lisa May Thomas
Underscore led by Agnieszka Grenckowska
Early morning warm-ups with Itta Howie
Jam facilitation by Jocasta Crofts, Sam Bloomfield and K'lo Harris
Large wooden floored dance studio plus second dance space available on Saturday
14 hours jamming including the Underscore
8 hours of classes
2 hours of morning warm up classes
2 hours open space for labbing/discussion/exploration etc.
Easy access to places to eat and drink
Easy access by public transport from the rest of Bristol
Early bird before 5th September £65
After 5th September £70
We are hoping to provide non-Bristol dancers with accommodation with members of the Bristol CI community. When buying your ticket, please complete the questionnaire to help us match dancers with suitable hosts.
Come and dance!
Fluid Freedom - Alistair Edmunds and Rosalind Holgate Smith
Inspired by a sense of fluids we will explore falling, flying and floating, dancing in duets and solos and investigating experiences of freedom.
We would like to facilitate dancers to dive deeper into the embodiment of the fluid system, drawing on our own research and knowledge of BMC and unpicking how this system supports us in CI. We are also interested to explore what it means to experience freedom on physical terms, in contact improvisation and how we consider our embodied experience beyond the dance studio.
We will use body work, movement scores, partner exercises, movement, visualisation and touch, to facilitate an experience of self-discovery within the body and in the dance.
Alistair Edmunds
Ali is based in Bristol where he regularly teaches CI and somatic movement sessions. He has been dancing CI for over 10 years. He has trained in Body-Mind Centering and is currently a student of Craniosacral Therapy. Ali is also inspired by qi gong, martial arts and climbing.
www.somaticmovement.co.uk
Rosalind Holgate-Smith
Rosalind is a Dance Artist based in Snowdonia. She creates performances and installations inspired by her work with Contact Improvisation, Authentic Movement and Body-Mind Centering. Her dance practice is also inspired by her love of swimming, and the textures of moving outdoors. She has a Masters in Dance Creative practice and a BA degree in Fine Art and Choreography. She has been practising CI for 10 years and besides teaching workshops internationally she has led regular classes at Chester University, at Goldsmiths and now facilitates 'CI North Wales'. Rosalind has further experience facilitating dance for diverse groups including children, disabled adults and older people and also teaches yoga and swimming with the Alexander technique.
www.rosalindholgatesmith.com
The Perception Gap - Lisa May Thomas
An exploration into bodies human and nonhuman - that are seen and unseen; felt and not felt in the layering of the real and the virtual using a multi-person VR (virtual reality) framework. This framework enables bodies to enter into VR together and to be both physically and virtually present with each other.
The session will be an exploration using VR technology to investigate what it means to be virtual bodies in a virtual environment and how this can feed back into the physical (jam) space and to physical seen and felt - connections between bodies.
I am exploring the perception gap between what is seen and what is felt when a body enters into a virtual environment using VR technology. I am interested in how it might it be possible to use dancerly sensibilities and practices such as peripheral intelligence and using touch as a point of orientation and navigation between two moving bodies to inform how the technology is used; and to discover if there are ways in which this technology can help the dancer to know the body and exchanges between bodies and environments in a different way.
Lisa May Thomas
Lisa is a contemporary dance artist who has worked with dance for screen and whose award-winning film work has been presented globally and broadcast for BBC and Channel 4. She trained at Laban (BA) and received an MPhil in performance and technology at the University of Bristol (UoB) as their first hybrid arts scholar, with a grant from Interactive Scientific. Her research sits between the departments of drama and computer science and takes a dance-somatic approach to her investigations into how digital technologies mediate interactions between human and nonhuman bodies, and ways in which digital tools can be used to develop an aesthetics of interaction. Her current PhD studies are funded by a UoB arts scholarship, with additional support from David Glowackis Royal Society Research Fellowship and Phillip Leverhulme Award.
http://www.lisamaythomas.co.uk
Moving Underscore - Agnieszka Grenckowska
Agnieszka will lead this fundamental CI practice that has grown out of investigations by Nancy stark Smith into what happens at CI Jams.
Nancy named and codified her observations, sharing these with the CI community and as a result underscore practice has become not only a useful tool for entering a Jam space and sustaining own participation throughout but also a bit of a CI Ritual Practice.
Agnieszka will be introducing Nancys Underscore symbols whilst facilitating us to move and embody their qualities and the states of improvised dance, so that those principles are felt rather than just thought.
It is encouraged that people participate for the whole jam to gain a better understanding of the full process as well as ritual aspect of the work (togetherness, care, moment to moment creation, active reflection, sharing).
Agnieszka Agni Grenckowska
Agnieszkas vision is centered around bringing people together and helping them experience their selves through embodying the universal laws of life. She does this as a healthcare practitioner, dance practitioner, movement teacher, event organiser and a holistic personal development coach. She trained formally and informally in Contact Improvisation Dance form, been actively practicing Contact Improvisation for 12 years. She contributed to the formation of Contact Improvisation Dance platform in Bristol and organized several local events, such as Bristol National Jam as well as co organised European ones: ECITE Poland 2013, Flow Warsaw 2015. Agnieszka is also teaching a holistic movement class to women from disadvantaged backgrounds in the Inner City Bristol.
Her collaboration with Nancy Stark Smith: she has co-organised the Global Underscore with Nancy Stark Smith during her residency in Poland in 2014. She worked closely with Nancy in 2011 at the States of Grace residential intensive in Spain and developed a Polish translation for the Underscore that is now being used by the local communities.
Pilates meets Improvisation (Stability & Mobility of Joints) - Itta Howie
A whole-body warm-up class drawing on the discipline of Pilates and the explorative nature of improvisation. In this slow and focused class we prepare our bodies for taking weight and for moving with fluidity. No previous Pilates experience necessary. Individual guidance will be given within the group context.
Itta Howie
Itta is a Bristol-based movement artist who explores dance improvisation in relation to other art forms, in urban and natural environments, and occasionally in the context of performance.
In 2014 Itta qualified as a Pilates mat work teacher. She has been teaching Pilates to a wide range of clients ever since.
I enjoy seeing my clients gain strength, mobility and body awareness, and feel privileged to observe them flourish as they re-discover their bodies anew.
Itta is intrigued by how her two passions (the Pilates system and movement improvisation) could meet and feed each other. To explore this interweaving of forms she uses a teaching approach inspired by experiential anatomy facilitation.
Itta has been a regular practitioner of somatic movement and dance improvisation (incl. CI) for many years.
http://ittahowie.co.uk
Jam Facilitation
Connecting with Your Animal Body - Jocasta Crofts
Moving through the evolution of the developmental levels. Opening the senses and using them as animals/other mammals do. Breathing as an animal. Sounds from your organs as an animal. Meeting and moving with others/alone in the quality of your animal. Allowing your reflexes, instincts and intuition to lead your animal dance.
This warm up can open up tactile, less heady states of play and dancing. It invites people to tune into their body not their head by moving through the developmental levels and opening the senses.
The following jam will be accompanied by a projection of the film
"Ashes and Snow" by Gregory Colbert.
The film shows humans and animals moving together and makes for a lovely animal connection to round off the Jam.
For a preview of the film, go to https://vimeo.com/29498902)
Jocasta Crofts
Jocasta is a body worker & healer working with healing energy through touch and movement. She teaches Baby massage, Kids yoga and Contact Improv. Jocasta has 20 years of CI dancing & teaching experience, having trained with many teachers at schools,festivals and workshops in Europe and USA including Somatic Educator Training (SME) and Infant Development Movement Education (IDME) Programme with The School for Body Mind Centering.
I trust the body and its animal ways of being and moving.
I am a mama and that dance with my son constantly teaches me about relating and contact as well as keeping me quite busy.
Jam Facilitation
Solo, Shared or Other - Sam Bloomfield
We will be following group/solo scores, fully improvised, based on inviting dancers to find their own score, both created in the moment and/or with score cards.
We will experiment with holding a score firmly and lightly to find the balance between having ones own dance, sharing a dance and dancing someone elses dance.
This will be a playful and free warm-up leading into a jam, ideal for all levels
Sam Bloomfield
Sam is a dance movement psychotherapist (MA RDMP) with over 25 years experience in facilitating workshops. Since 2002 he has trained adults at festivals, colleges and teaching staff in special needs schools. His regular work is as a psychotherapist in Bristol schools (mainstream and SEN) and adult care provisions. He is also a full member of the College of Healing and is a body-work teacher with 27 years experience in transformational bodywork.
Sam is the author of a book on poetry Human Ocean (2nd edition), and an exhibiting artist (2015) and regular performer in poetry, dance, sound and digital media. In addition to his distinction in a three year creative arts psychotherapy MA (2017), he has trained extensively in personal development. He is currently teaching workshops in Contact Improvisation, Whole Heart - Whole Body, Men - The Lion and Dove, Body Poetry - words and movement and Igniting Creativity. He is fully CRB checked.
http://sambloomfield.org/
Weekend Schedule
Friday 5th October
18:00 22:00
Arrival, opening circle and jam, warm-up facilitated by K'lo Harris
Music from Simon on oud, guitar and percussion and Lulu on Violin
Saturday 6th October (two separate rooms for sessions - Dance Studio and Event Space)
9:00 10:00
Dance Studio
Contemplative Dance Practice morning warm-up with Jocasta Crofts
Event Space
Pilates Meets Improvisation morning warm-up with Itta Howie
Only 11 spaces available in Itta's class. Come early!
10:00 10:30
Dance Studio
Opening circle - Introductions and information
10:30 13:30
Dance Studio
Jam with warm-up facilitated by Sam Bloomfield
Music for the jam from Matthew on guitar and Esmeralda on vocals
Event Space
The Perception Gap with Lisa May Thomas
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 17:00
Dance Studio
Fluid freedom #1 with Alistair Edmunds and Rosalind Holgate-Smith
Event Space
Open Space what do you want to do?
E.g. dance dates, labbing, blindfold jam...
17:00 18:30 Communal Dinner
18:30 22:00
Dance Studio
Evening Film Jam
Connecting With Your Animal Body warm-up facilitated by Jocasta Crofts
Jam accompanied by the film Ashes and Snow, instruments available afterwards to create our own soundtrack
Sunday 7th October
9:00 10:00
Pilates Meets Improvisation morning warm-up with Itta Howie
Only 11 spaces available in Itta's class. Come early!
10:00 13:00
Fluid Freedom #2 with Alistair Edmunds and Rosalind Holgate-Smith
You can attend Fluid Freedom #2 without having attended #1
13:00 14:00 Lunch
14:00 17:00
The Moving Underscore, facilitated by Agnieszka Grenckowska
Please note there will be a talk through during lunch for those unfamiliar with the Underscore. Accompanying musician to be announced...
17:00 18:00 Dinner
18:00 20:30
Warm-up into final Jam
This will be in place of the regular Bristol Sunday night class and jam. It will be a classic silent CI jam.
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LocationDMAC Studios, Hamilton House (View)
80 Stokes Croft
Bristol BS1 3QY
United Kingdom
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