This workshop is rooted in the technical principles of Contact Improvisation and release-based Contemporary Dance. We use these techniques as tools to expand our physical capacity as solo dancers, with a partner and in group improvisation. They will feed our personal range of movement vocabulary and offer new approaches for choreographing and creating set material. After a start with dynamic group improvisations we continue on our own with alignment and awareness exercises and then alternate technical improvisations with simple movement phrases. Breaking down and practising patterns of falling, folding and softening into the floor, do's and don'ts of taking weight through the bones and a softness of skin and bones when dancing as a soloist will open our body and mind's sensitivity to listen and read another body when entering into contact and into group improvisations.
Professional Class at Tanzfabrik Berlin
20 - 24 June 2011 (Mo-Fri ) - 10:00 - 11:30 - Studio 1
Open Class - Contemporary Dance
Tanzfabrik
Moeckernstr. 68
10965 Berlin
www.tanzfabrik-berlin.de
2010
Berlin Workshop with live music by Barnaby Tree
Solo for Contact - Contact for Solo
28/29.5. 2011 11-15h - K77 Studios, Kastanienallee 77 Berlin
€55 (€45 early booking before 14.5.)
info and registration: contact@gabrielereuter.de
Improvisation Workshop with Gabriele Reuter Saturday 13 February 10.30am - 1.30pm Dance4 Studio, 3-9 Hockley, Nottingham £10 (£8 concessions) Level: Advanced - Ideal for dance and theatre students, experienced movers and improvisers. Gabriele will be sharing some of the methods and tools that inform her work in both improvised performance and choreography. The session will explore a selection of key improvisation practices and scores for performance, both for group and solo settings. This workshop is connected to the Improvisation Performance on 12th Feb at Nottingham Light Night, at the Congregational Hall, 8-10pm. For more info see www.dance4.co.uk
There are limited spaces available for this workshop, so booking is essential. To book contact Dance4 on 0115 941 0773 / info@dance4.co.uk
"Solo & Contact" - class at
Contact-meets-Contemporary
*Annual International Festival for Contact Improvisation and Contemporary Dance* July 28th- August 2nd 2009 in Goettingen Germany
Contact Improvisation and Contemporary Dance. Two worlds, two techniques, two communities. This festival is designed for people who have an interest in bridging the worlds of Contact Improvisation and Contemporary Dance. People who have their dancing home in either the CI community or the contemporary dance scene and who are curious about the knowledge of the other world will have the opportunity to combine them both. The common ground where we meet is improvisation. At this festival, the two worlds will meet, discover, clarify and enrich one another, finding ways to merge.
*Intensives 2009: * Mirva Mäkinen: Contact Improvisation Ingo Reulecke: Contemporary Technique Thomas Kampe: Feldenkrais into Instant Composition For info & Registration contact/Anmeldung unter: info@contact-meets-contemporary.de - Daniel Werner
Solo & Contact
This training is rooted in the technical principles of Contact Improvisation and release-based Contemporary Dance. We use these techniques as tools to expand our physical capacity as both solo dancers and with a partner.
After a start with dynamic group improvisations we continue on our own with alignment and awareness exercises and then alternate technical improvisations with simple movement phrases. Breaking down and practising patterns of falling, folding and softening into the floor, do's and don'ts of taking weight through the bones and a softness of skin and bones when dancing as a soloist will open our body and mind's sensitivity to listen and read another body when entering into contact.
Since 2002 Gabriele has taught company class, dance technique and workshops in improvisation and Contact Improvisation in the UK, Germany, Portugal, Norway and South America. She trained at LondonContemporaryDanceSchool and De Montfort University Leicester.
Gabriele is part of the organisational team of the monthly “Freistil” Improvisation platform at Tanzfabrik.