Rajendra

Contact Improvisation, Constant Composition Improvisation

Masterclass with Rajendra Serber (US) & Niamh Condron (IRE) in DANCE THEATRE OF IRELAND, DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO DUBLIN, IRELAND. Mon August 30th - Fri September 3rd 2010.

Contact Improvisation is a dance form, originated by American choreographer Steve Paxton in 1972, based on the communication between two or more moving bodies that are in physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their motion—gravity, momentum, inertia.

Constant Composition, drawing from Body Mind Centering & the Alexander Technique, is dance Improvisation that explores your relationship to self, others & the space around you. Includes somatic sensing, bodywork, partner work & group work to awaken your mind, body, & soul.

Dates Mon 30th August - Fri 3rd September 2010 13.00 - 15.00 - Contact Improvisation 15.30 - 17.30 - Constant Composition

Price Full 5 days - 125 euro 1 day - 30 euro 1 session - 20 euro

Booking/Info
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Phone +353 87 6370567

Location Dance Theatre of Ireland, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, Ireland

en français

September 11th to 14th, 2010 - PARIS
with Stéphanie Auberville and Rajendra Serber

Présence and Performance

How can Contact Improvisation be used in performance? Contact Improvisation teaches us how to be present and make choices in the moment. What happens to our dance when we invite witnesses to view it? In this two part class we will practice using the tools of CI in the situation of being seen. Attendance to both sessions is not required.The first session will focus on how CI can help us to get deeper in a communication state. Communication with both our inner state and with our partner. CI has developed a wide range of tools about perceptions; touch, kinesthesis, balance, sight and more subtle energies. All of these senses inform our presence and our choices. By working on presence as the mode of communication with our partner, we will develop a balance between feeling, listening, acting and making choices in an instant.The second session will focus on using these tools in performance. What happens when we are in a performance situation – when there is a little stress of being seen? What kind of switch happens there? As we integrate the sight of a witness while we are dancing, we will use presence and attention to subtle energy as the subject of our performance practice.

Dates September 11th to 14th, 2010 from Noon to 6 pm
Location Point Éphémère (200 quai de Valmy 75010 Paris)

Fees Full workshop = 120 euros
Only the 11th and 12th september = 85 euros
Registration Stéphanie Auberville legrp.b@free.fr / +33 (0)6 50 81 41 08
Registration until the 31th august 2010

I am teaching in london on september 25, 2010.

It’s at Moving East Centre for Dance, Martial Arts and Complementary Medicine, St Matthias Church Hall Wordsworth Road, Stoke Newington, London N16 8DD.

Their website is hopelessly out of date (the still have the 2009 calendar up) but at least there’s some information about which bus to take to get there: contactimprovisation.co.uk

I’m going to be co-teaching a workshop with Stéphanie Auberville (France)

Presence and Performance an Advanced CI Workshop

July 10 – 11 (10am – 1:30pm) 2010

CounterPULSE 1310 Mission Street @ 9th San Francisco, CA

Prices and Registration CIRF

How can Contact Improvisation be used in performance? Contact Improvisation teaches us how to be present and make choices in the moment. What happens to our dance when we invite witnesses to view it? In this two part class we will practice using the tools of CI in the situation of being seen. Attendance to both sessions is not required.

The first session will focus on how CI can help us to get deeper in a communication state. Communication with both our inner state and with our partner. CI has developed a wide range of tools about perceptions; touch, kinesthesis, balance, sight and more subtle energies. All of these senses inform our presence and our choices. By working on presence as the mode of communication with our partner, we will develop a balance between feeling, listening, acting and making choices in an instant.

The second session will focus on using these tools in performance. What happens when we are in a performance situation – when there is a little stress of being seen? What kind of switch happens there? As we integrate the sight of a witness while we are dancing, we will use presence and attention to subtle energy as the subject of our performance practice.

I’ll be teaching a free class as part of national dance week. Check it out…

Contact Improvisation Research Forum (CIRF) is offering 3 FREE taster classes and a Jam April 29 at CounterPULSE as part of Bay Area National Dance Week.

FREE TASTER CLASSES

• 6:30pm: CI Square One with Ali Woolwich (fundamentals)
• 7:30pm: Body-Mind Centering & CI with Cathie Caraker (intermediate)
• 8:30pm: Advanced CI with Rajendra Serber
• 9:30pm: Round Robin

10pm-midnight: Open Jam

WCCIF 2010 Registration, Work Exchange (WEX) sign-ups, and Scholarship applications will be available all evening.

Thursday, April 29th in San Francisco at CounterPULSE 1310 Mission Street at 9th, SF, CA. 94103, RSVP here

More info at ciresearchforum.org