Spring/Summer 2011: DanceSomatics - Body-Mind Centering® and Dance Training in Stolzenhagen Germany |
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Body-Mind Centering® project: DanceSomatics
This training is for performers who seek to enliven their work through embodiment, specificity and authenticity and for choreographers who seek to integrate internal somatic states into their work and develop accessible and dynamic choreography. Through movement and hands-on partnering we will open perceptions of self, increase physical potential and expand our choreographic choices. Participants are invited to enter their animal-like appetites and childlike curiosities for physical investigation through engagement of the sensorial body. Week 1 Embodied Developmental Movement and Dance We will explore the developmental movement patterns and reflexes as developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen to expand the range and articulation of our physical expression. By exploring these patterns, which are beneath technique, we can build new neurological connections in the lower brain, tap into the power of physiological flexion and extension, transform how we use our eyes, and attune to our own instinctual comfort. We will apply our movement explorations to dance improvisation and composition. Keywords: Deep compression, lateral line, turning towards and making headway. Week 2 Embodied Anatomy and Dance We will explore embodied anatomy through the systems of the body (bones, organs, ligaments, fluids, endocrine, nervous system, senses and perception) and investigate how these systems in-form our dance and performing practice. By allowing for a greater modulation of tone we expand our choices in movement and perception. Together we will cultivate a vitality of presence and an embodied intelligence that will put guts in our dancing. We will investigate the subtle and radical qualities that somatic work can offer to our performing and choreographic practices, building scores for performing solo, duet and group dances. Week 3 Symposium: Applying BMC to the Creative/Creation Process This experimental/experiential symposium is devoted to research into the use of Body-Mind Centering® in the creation of dance. Individuals or collaborative teams will present their work in a variety of formats: group exploration, performance showing, video documentation, lecture demonstration and discussion. We are offering 8, 2 hour time slots. The DanceSomatics conference is happening during the final week of the Ponderosa TanzLand Festival. There will be an opportunity for exchange and connection with Ponderosa TanzLand Festival participants and teachers and an opportunity to perform in the Performance Marathon Weekend July 29-30. To register for DanceSomatics, please fill out the PDF file and return per post or as an email attachment. PDF download Faculty Saliq is a certified teacher at the School for Body-Mind Centering®, an Infant Developmental Movement Educator and teachers in the licensed BMC® programs in Europe and North Carolina. He maintains a movement therapy and body-work practice working with infants and adults. Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad, co-directors of the BodyCartography Project, investigate the physicality of space in urban, domestic, wild and social landscapes through dance, performance, video and installation work. Their works range from intimate solos for the street or stage, to large community dance works in train stations, short experimental films in national parks, to complex works for site or stage amidst installations of video and sound. As certified practitioners of Body-Mind Centering® a somatic approach plays a primary role in the construction and performance of their work which has been presented across the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Europe, Russia and South America. Recent projects include Symptom, with Minnesota twins Emmett and Otto Ramstad, Mammal, a commission for the Lyon Opera Ballet, ½ Life, a performance and installation with physicist Bryce Beverlin II, visual artist Emmett Ramstad and composer Zeena Parkins. They are featured artists in the first book about site dance in the USA published by University of Florida Press titled Site Dance, the Lure of Alternative Spaces. Olive is a movement and video artist and bodyworker who trained at the European Dance Development Center in the Netherlands and is a certified practitioner of Body-Mind Centering®, shiatsu and teacher of DanceAbility®. She has been teaches internationally for Impulstanz, Vienna, Movement Research, NYC, Axis Dance Company, California. She has performed in the work of Deborah Hay, Jennifer Monson, Eva Karczag, Sara Shelton Mann amongst others. Otto is a dance and video artist, a practitioner of Body-Mind Centering®. He is fascinated by the moving image both visual and kinesthetic. He has danced in the work of Sara Shelton Mann, Morgan Thorson, DD Dorvillier, Miguel Guiterrez, and Kitt Johnson of Denmark. He was an Archibald Bush Fellowship Artist 2006, and a DanceWeb scholar at ImPulsTanz 2005 and 2008. Wire Monkey Dance Premieres RE- at A.P.E.
Thursday-Saturday April 28-30, 8 PM
This intimate and epic work features dancing by long time collaborative directors Jennifer Polins and Saliq Francis Savage, joined by Cynthia Mclaughlin and Justin Norris. Berlin based videographer Yoann Trellu replaces the company's signature metallic scaffolding landscape with a vast and layered interactive video and audio environment that the dancers navigate through. A.P.E.'s long white walls are transformed into video montages amplifying and altering events to re-cord, re-peat and re-imagine the moment. Open gallery hours tue-fri 12-4, allow the public to experience the interactive computer machines that play with time lapse technologies, duplicating images of self, and bending sound.
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