Movement and Workshop Classes
THE MOVING PERFORMER
Performing Arts Summer Intensive 2011
20th-24th June
10.00-12.00 The Expressive Body- Feldenkrais Method and Movement Improvisation
13.00-15.00 Mind-Centering and Performance Composition
16.00 - 18.00 Contact Improvisation and Partnering Skills
This week long course offers an exciting opportunity to study cutting edge movement approaches towards performance training with leading international practitioners. All three classes offered are suitable for professionals and students with an interest in movement and performance. The course can be taken in full or separately as per below.
Courses and Tutors:
The Expressive Body- Feldenkrais Method and Movement Improvisation 10.00-12.00
This course will explore the movement possibilities of our torso- head, ribs, abdomen, and pelvis - to allow us to find clarity, ease, freedom, and expressive potential in our movement choices. We will use ‘Awareness Through Movement®’ lessons,‘one to one’ hands-on explorations, movement improvisations and vocal experiments to playfully explore fundamental movement patterns of our ‘mobile axis’.
Thomas Kampe is a trained practitioner of The Feldenkrais Method and has worked as an artist with movement for the last 30 years. He worked as a performer, choreographer and director in Germany and Britain, and is a Senior Lecturer for Dance at London Metropolitan University. He has taught somatic approaches towards movement education for performers in different settings around the world and is currently completing his PhD- 'The Art of Making Choices-Feldenkrais Method as a Resource for Dance Making'
Body-Mind-Centering and Performance Composition 13.00-15.00
In this workshop participants will investigate the 'making and performing'.Inspirations coming from texts, stories, images and the approach of Body-Mind Centering are used as starting point to devise performance.
Body-Mind Centering® (BMCsm) is an integrated approach to transformative experience through movement re-education and hands-on repatterning. Developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, it is an experiential study based on the embodiment and application of anatomical, physiological, psychophysical and developmental principles, utilizing movement, touch, voice and mind. (http://www.bodymindcentering.com/About/)
Rahel Vonmoos Rahel has worked among others with choreographers Charles Linehan, Rosemary Butcher, Philippe Gehmacher, Philippe Saire and Iztok Kovac (film on improvisation) and has been part of Ricochet Dance Productions.
She intensively studied Aikido at Ikeda Dojo in Zurich and certified as a Body-Mind Centering practitioner in Massachusetts with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and regularly teaches for ID and GDA and different companies in London and abroad..
Contact Improvisation and Partnering Skills 16.00 - 18.00
Kathy Crick teaches Contact Improvisation through guided exploration comprising anatomical and kinetic imagery and principles for giving and receiving weight. She encourages people to attune their senses and deepen embodied awareness. Kathy promotes enjoyment and ease of effort in movement and supports the generation of different energetic states for improvising both in and out of contact.
Kathy Crick teaches Contact and Improvisation at Laban, the London Metropolitan University and has studied with Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith and Kirstie Simson, among others. She is a member of the collective SoFT, a group of artists researching Contact Improvisation and creating improvised performances. She has choreographed and taught extensively in educational and community settings and has supported her work with studies in improvisation, shiatsu, psychology and education
Date: 20th-24th June 2011
Times/Tutors:
10.00am-12.00pm Thomas Kampe: Feldenkrais Method and the Expressive Body
13.00pm-15.00pm Rahel VonMoos: Body-Mind-Centering and Performance Composition
16.00pm-18.00pm Kathy Crick: Contact Improvisation and Partnering Skills
18.00pm-20.00pm Opportunities to use studio spaces for individual research and rehearsals
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Fee: 1 course £70/ £55 conc* (click to pay online)
2 courses £120/ £100 conc* (click to pay online)
3 courses £170/ £140 conc* (click to pay online)
*Concession fees apply to London Met and staff and students as well as those on any kind of benefits, though proof must be shown prior to beginning class.
For further information about enrolment and payment:
Email: halshortcourses@londonmet.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7133 4398/2432
visit website: www.themovingperformer.com
All movement classes and workshops will be held at the Tower Building, 166-220 Holloway Road, London N7 8DB.
