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Discovery Bal, Intensive and Performances

Week long intensive with Marc Boivin, Andrew Harwood and Chris Aiken in dance technique, contact improvisation, composition and performance.

January 2-7 2012

Montreal, Canada

Upcoming Events

Bebe Miller Company at Weslyan University

Angie Hauser and Darrell Jones in "History"

Angie will be performing with Bebe Miller Company November 18 & 19

at Weslyan (CT).  For tickets and more information click HERE.

Smith College Faculty Dance Concert

Works by Chris Aiken, Merce Cunningham, Rodger Blum and Marilyn Sylla.  Click HERE for more information.

November 17 – 19

Theatre 14, Mendenhall Center for the Performing Arts, Smith College
8:00 pm

Reflex Arc in New York City

2 – Day Contact Improvisation Workshop with Chris Aiken and Angie Hauser

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
Contact Improvisation is a movement form that offers opportunities to experience heightened states of being – times when we feel fearless and alive. There are no recipes to create these moments, but training can lay the foundation for physical and emotional breakthroughs. In this workshop we are specifically interested in developing our reflexes, our coordination, and the capacity to continually recycle our mental and physical energies back into the dancing. At the core is the commitment to staying with the modulation of tone and weight in the body – so that the touch remains alive.

Come with questions, energy and commitment to playful, imaginative dancing.

Some experience with Contact Improvisation or dance training is suggested.  Please contact us if you have questions about the material or level (ciworkshopadmin@gmail.com; angiehauser3@earthlink.net)
2 Sessions:
Sat Nov 26, 11-3 PM
Sun Nov 27, 11-3 PM
(Please arrive 15 min. early for each)

Price: $70 for both

OR if paying individually:

$45 for for Sat   /  $45 for Sun

Location:
Red Bean Studio
320 W 37TH STREET
(b/w 8TH& 9TH AVES)
Loft #702, 7th Floor, BUZZER #14

SPACE IS LIMITED
To reserve your place, please:
·      RSVP at ciworkshopadmin@gmail.com soon,

AND

send a single deposit check of $20
(check payable to ‘Edwin Adkins’)
to this address:

Edwin Adkins
Attn: Aiken / Hauser Workshop
PO Box 250051
NY, NY 10025

Two East Coast Contact Improvisation Workshops in November

We are teaching two Contact Improvisation Workshops on the east coast in November

The first is at the Fall Boston Jam November 12 & 13

The second is in New York City, November 26 & 27 (Contact Edwin Adkins for more information:  edwin.adkins@gmail.com

Chris Aiken teaching at MELT

Chris will be teaching in WEEK TWO of Winter Melt in New York City

January 9 – 13

10am-12pm $115An Eco-poetic Approach to Dance Improvisation and PerformanceIn this movement workshop we will explore awareness and intention through the development of perceptual acuity in relationship to our inner and outer landscapes. We will examine the delicate relationships between our poetic imagination and our sensory systems. The basis of my approach is that composition and performance are ecologically rooted acts. Our imagination grows from where and how we exist. Movement, story, image and gesture are imbedded in the relationships that are evolving all around us.  Come ready to dance, perceive, perform and imagine.

Location: Cluj, Romania

We are finishing our wonderful time here in Cluj.  Thank you to Kinga and Fero for a great experience.  The workshop and Jam is a great way to check out this part of the world if you have never been and it is a chance to dance with some wonderful people.  One special part of the festival is “nature day” when the entire group travels by bus to the countryside.  We worked outside, hiked, talked, slept, played volleyball and ping pong.  At night there was a huge bonfire followed my made to order CREPES cooked outside under the stars.  It was all very special and we recommend it.  Check out TransContact 2012.

Location: Chicago

We are in day 5 of the Chicago Improvisation Festival.  We saw a great show last night at Links Hall with Rebecca Bryant, Bebe Miller and other midwest improvisation artists.  Nancy Stark Smith, Ray Chung and Mike Vargas are performing tonight along with The Architects and Ensemble V.  Tomorrow night we present our work in progress, Utopia Parkway.  This is our 4th week on the road and we are a bit weary but the festival has given us energy and we are looking forward to the next few days.  And then HOME.

For information about performances go HERE

TransContact

A big thank you to DanceUSA/Philadelphia for supporting our travel to teach in Romania this summer.  We will be at the TransContact Festival in August.

For more inforamtion check out the website www.groundflor

Location: Moab, Utah

Chris and I finished our 5 day workshop here in Moab Utah.  It was a lovely collection of dancers from Colorado, California, New York, Chicago and more.  We focused on principles of Contact Improvisation, ideas of gesture, expanding how we use our spines, awareness, and ease.  We had several nice “non dance” experiences as well:  meals together, a discussion, and hike to the slickrock area of Moab.  Thank you to Gretchen Spiro for her wonderful organizing and facilitating.  Thanks also to Todd, Alicia, Steve, Lauraina, Uncle Roo, Carly and all the WEX people for your work.

We are staying in Moab through Sunday to be jam hosts at the Moab Jam.  We look forward to some more dancing and lots more nature.

Here is a photo of our outside adventure during the workshop.

Help Fund HISTORY a Bebe Miller Company Project

Please go to the USArtist website and check out the new Bebe Miller Company project “History.”  There is a short film that talks about the project.  If you have the ability to support us please consider donating.  We are trying to raise $8,800 in the next 60 days.

Thank you.

History.