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2008 Tour - Schedule April 9 – April 21 Paris, France Nita will be in a choreographic residence working on a new work with Stephanie Auberville: Restless Peace Contact: stephanieauberville@hotmail.com
April 25 – May 2 Orvieto, Italy Nita will be teaching an 8 day workshop. The workshop description is available below the calendar. Restless Peace: A Mind in Motion / contact improvisation workshop Caravajal15 residenza dinamica movement research residency Info and reservation: Caravajal15 residenza dinamica Via Malabranca 15 05018 Orvieto (TR) - Italy tel +39 0763.341479 fax +39 0763.340669 info@contactfestival.it www.contactfestival.it
May 5 – May 17
Kassel, Germany
Nita will be in a teaching residence with the Staatstheater Kassel.
May 22 – 27 San Francisco, Ca, USA Nita will be teaching a 5 day workshop. The workshop description is available below the calendar. Mind in Motion – Introduction An advanced workshop to study the levels and states of mind that influence movement Info/contact: ilkafanni@hotmail.com
June 8 – 18 Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, USA Nita will be participating in CI 36 Birthday Celebration at Juniata College teaching an intensive workshop and participating in discussions, events and performances.
June 8-11 Training Intensive: Nita will be teaching a Workshop: The Dimensional Mind of contact improvisation – investigations into states and their material, relational and creative potential. Info/contact: www.ci36.com
June 20-29 Orvieto, Italy Nita will be teaching and performing at the Zipfest contact festival in Italy, along with many great international teachers! Info/contact: Caravajal15 residenza dinamica Via Malabranca 15 05018 Orvieto (TR) - Italy tel +39 0763.341479 fax +39 0763.340669 info@contactfestival.it www.contactfestival.it
July –
Paris, France
Workshops are currently being developed for Nita to teach in the first two weeks of July in Paris at Point Éphèmére. Info/Contact: Stephanie Auberville at stephanieauberville@hotmail.com
August 11 – 15 San Francisco, Ca, USA Nita is teaching a 5 day workshop at the ODC school. This workshop is multi-level and will include contact improvisation. Mind in Motion with contact improvisation: Info/contact: www.odcschool.org Description of workshop below.
2008 Tour - Workshop Descriptions: April 25–May 2 Orvieto, Italy
Restless Peace A mind in motion and Contact Improvisation experience Eight-day intensive workshop in residency A project with Nita Little, first time in Italy as guest artist. The intensive workshop will be from April 25 to May 2, 2008 in the beautiful Etruscan city of Orvieto, in middle Italy. After the end of the workshop, on May 3rd and 4th, the association will plan also two days with the International Springfest Jam. For information about details write to: info@contactfestival.it, or telephone to +39 0763.341479. Restless Peace A mind in motion and Contact Improvisation experience Intensive residential workshop April 25–May 2 / 2008 7-day workshop, plus one day pause The urge to move, to go where we have never been, is the soul of our practice in this workshop. Developing a "home base", a place of personal and creative safety is as important as the journey; how wonderful to be free when you have a home! We learn, how like nomads, we may carry our home with us, even as we track paths in and out of unfamiliar territory. We focus on developing the mental, emotional, and physical skills that enable dancers to travel creatively. Utilizing a full dance vocabulary, we integrate gestured movement improvisation with contact improvisation and build the skills to consciously weave these two forms. We investigate “states” of mind / “states” of body as a means to develop and direct creative work in our improvisations. Developing the ability to describe and craft subtle levels of action and experience, we boost our physical potential while increasing our readability. Moving in solo, duet and group forms, we gain compositional tools for structural orientation; like torches, they light the way. This workshop is developed for experienced movers who wish to pass beyond the threshold of old patterns. The restless human drive that takes us out of comfort, urges us to meet the unfamiliar, to move into, through and with the unknown, is a dance artist’s call. Here, we harness that drive and discover how, moving at the speed of our restless calling, we can find peace. This class culminates in a creative work for a performance. Things we will do: Go deep into the physical philosophy behind contact improvisation. Learn underlying CI principles that manifest as pathways of action. Build the tools for safe physical and creative relationships Discover different spatial orientations: vertical/hierarchical and horizontal/diffuse. Learn about our temporal orientation and develop tools that modulate time. Develop the skills to be able to move freely between states of mind. Deepen our agreements to open to life, to the dance. Honor peace.
Fees April 25 - May 2 \\ Nita Little workshop fee 280 euros April 25 - May 2 \\ for Nita Little's lodging and all meals 120 euros (for the 8 days project, all included, that is 15 euro per day). May 3 and 4 \\ International Springfest Jam 80 euros, which includes also hospitality, reception and meals. April 25 - May 4 \\ Both programs (Nita Little and jam) 420 euros, which includes also hospitality, reception and meals.
Lodging in the residence We are organized with mattresses that the participants can use, scattered here and there in the 150 square meters of the studio. You have to bring your own sleeping bag and a blanket, or sheets, pillow and blanket, as you prefer. There's a room in residence equipped for preparing breakfast and meals, in addition to dressing rooms and showers. One person will cook for us during all the days of the project and during the jam. Lunch will be light (fruit, rice, vegetables and/or cheese, cookies, honey, tea, coffee, etc.). Evenings a dinner will be offered.
Info and reservation Caravajal15 residenza dinamica Via Malabranca 15 05018 Orvieto (TR) - Italy tel +39 0763.341479 fax +39 0763.340669 info@contactfestival.it www.contactfestival.it
May 22 – 27 San Francisco
Mind in Motion: Introduction An advanced workshop to study the levels and states of mind that influence movement “So my point is simply that the intellect is not something cut off from every other kind of experience, existing in a kind of abstract vacuum which has nothing to do with anything else. The intellect is part and parcel of the whole fabric of life. It goes along with your fingers; it goes along with being able to touch. After all, what an intellectual thing in a way the human hand is.” --Alan Watts The mind is boundless in its nature. The body is bound. Human experience is composed of both. Holding these natures separately we limit our potential. When we infuse the one with the other, experience expands and extends. For dancers, the range of physical language and creative expression is in direct relationship to the character of this union. This workshop explores ways our mind can suffuse our body with its boundless nature expanding its bound potential, until something new exists. The mind, like the body, is an instrument, only when you know how to play it. When we engage both the mind and the body instruments as one, we are working on transcendent levels. Knowing the moving mind increases dancer's potential on almost every level: technical and performative skills; material, creative process and communication; and internal and external experiential relationships. Collaboration takes on new meaning when the mind is involved in its creative rather than reactive, and even responsive modes. Come to engage in the growing meaning of mindfulness and receive support for the acquisition of a potent mind/body relationship that transcends cultural bounds and definitions. There will be some discussions, a great deal of moving, some attention to technical skills and creative work resulting in dance making. We will respect intimate territories, be mutually supportive as we enter new realms of exploration and play, and have a small informal open showing at the end. Your presence will not only be greatly appreciated, it will be honored and respected as the means by which magic happens.
August 11-15 San Francisco Mind in Motion with contact improvisation: Touching Mind, Touching Body, Moving Grace This improvisation workshop is based in the study of Mind in Motion and is inclusive of contact improvisation. Designed for dancer/movers who wish to extend their physical skill and creative aperture through expanding their mental acuity, accuracy, clarity and range. We will push the common cultural and creative boundaries of the mind/body interface and freely incorporate into our dance relationships all levels of this continuum, challenging the flexibility of our “states of mind/states of body”. This workshop will be skills based and creatively oriented. It concludes with an open showing.
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