Nina Martin:

„The Big Picture“ - Dance Improvisation in Performance

Monday, February 7th - Friday, February 11th, 2011

daily 12 am – 6 pm

Schwelle7, Berlin/Germany

„The Big Picture“ - Dance Improvisation in Performance

This workshop focuses on three systems: Articulating the Solo Body, Contact Improvisation and Ensemble Thinking.  

Articulating the Solo Body focuses on techniques for spontaneous dancing rich in detail and phrasing. We will use hands on re-patterning, structures inspired by Trisha Brown’s choreographic structures, and Martin’s ReWire: Dancing States— a system that motivates dance from a Kinetic Body State and from a Neurological (Neuro) Brain State. The Kinetic State brings us to awareness of the body’s emergent desires for movement and the Neuro State allows us to dance the brain and bypass “Mind” as much as possible.  We extend these investigations into Contact Improvisation to embody these dancing states as duets and discover new vocabulary for our Contact dancing.  Martin’s Ensemble Thinking (ET) creates ensemble compositional sensibilities to frame for our solo,contact, and ensemble dancing.

We will work through the week towards a performance on Friday, February, 11 th, 2011, at 8:30 pm

„I recently read Peter Ryan’s essay “10,000 Jams Later: Contact Improvisation in Canada, 1974-95” and Steve Paxton is quoted saying “I don’t think the idea of composition has occurred to more than two in a hundred of contacters, or composition in the way that dance art uses it.”  Articulating the Solo Body and Ensemble Thinking address improvisational composition as a technique and enhances the experience of Contact Improvisation both as the doer and the watcher „

NINA MARTIN www.lowerleft.org

UDDATES: http://www.schwelle7.de/Nina%20Martin.html

REGISTRATION: xs4jan (at) gmx.de

PRICE: 150 EUR

SLEEPING:

We can host up workshop participants in our special sleeping cocoons. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person.

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Schwelle 7

Uferstraße 6, backyard, left site, 2. floor

13357 Berlin – Wedding (Nähe Uferstudios)

http://www.schwelle7.de

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Schwelle 7 – Cie. Felix Ruckert Berlin e.V.

Artistic & Managing Director: Felix Ruckert

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Trafic Link: U8 Pankstraße, U9 Osloer Straße, U9 Nauener Platz, SB Gesundbrunnen, SB Humboldthain, Bus M27 Brunnenplatz

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