Contact Improv Workshop and Jam with John Faichney and Eryn Dace Trudell
Arriving Sunday Aug7 or before and departing Saturday Aug13 after breakfast or later.
$450 includes workshop tuition, all meals, camping and transportation on Lasqueti.
contact markyoung [at] lasqueti [dot] ca" rel="nofollow">markyoung [at] lasqueti [dot] ca to register
$75 deposit with balance due by Aug1.
For more info, see http://leviathan.lasqueti.ca
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In John's class we will focus on cultivating and refining single-point contact with a partner - that is, on channelling all useful awareness of partner
location and impetus through a single-point touch-pathway. This will
include working-through the difficulties and deadlocks (physical, but also
interpretive) of single-point touch - for example, the temptation to turn
rolling, contiguous touch into sliding or discontiguous or multi-point
touch. From this baseline, we will take-up more context-oriented
tactics - for example, resisting, exceeding, and pivoting against
our partner's movement initiatives - opening onto a vision of CI as
a 'both-parties-speaking' conversation formed out of identifiable
trajectories of movement over the surface of the body. Some of the
exercises will exploit game-like and/or martial-arts-like structures.
In every case, we will re-discover CI as a touch-based dialogue oriented,
by choice, to the problem of taking and re-interpreting initiative in
any of its expressions.
Eryn's classes provide somatic and athletic tools by combining modern dance
techniques with Skinner Releasing Technique to prepare the physical self to
be available and capable of being carried into a dance by what is present.
Multi-directional awareness, multidimensional alignment, softening and
letting go into states of non-compression and freedom. In solos, groups,
couples and trios, we will harness the power that comes from practicing
suppleness and trust to enable a deepening into buoyancy, risk and playful
celebration of the human body in contact.
John Faichney (http://www.personae.com) has practised Contact
Improvisation for more than three decades, since the form's inception.
With Anne Cooper, he taught the 2010 Lasqueti Workshop and Jam.
*Eryn Dace Trudell *is a dance artist: producer, choreographer, dancer and
teacher originally from Toronto, now living in Montreal. Experienced in all
aspects of dance creation from the idea to the stage, her versatile career
includes choreography, commissions and collaborations of many varieties.
*Honouring the body conscious, Trudell teaches kinaesthetic awareness
through dancing as an ingredient to boosting self-confidence, motivating
energy and maintaining good health? physically, emotionally and
psychologically. Her classes speak to the body itself, suggesting ways that
movement can free us from unconscious patterns, to enhance our thinking and
creativity, animal grace, social availability, cultural empathy, and genuine
pleasure in being: a state of innate wisdom and freedom. *
Trudell?s students include professional and non-professional adult dancers,
educators, children, and parents and children. She particularly enjoys
inclusive dance practices, which ignite community spirit through artistic
physical exploration. Since the birth of her first child, and the founding
of *Mama dances!* in 2006 she has been exploring and illuminating the
physical relationship and the spontaneous events that transpire between
mother and child in the dance studio, inspiring a post natal activity boom
in Montreal.
Trudell holds a BFA from Juilliard and Teachers? Certification in Skinner
Releasing Technique?. She is a an active member of ACI (Association of
Contact Improvisation of Montréal), RQD, CAEA, CDA. She is deeply dedicated
to the development of Contact Improvisation. Her teachers include Andrew de
Lotbiniére Harwood, Peter Bingham, Chris Aiken, Ray Chung, Daniel Lepkoff,
Nancy Stark Smith, Benno Vorham and Martin Keogh along with many years of
jamming. She is presently living the dance everyday.
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