8ºEncuentro C.I. BCN-2009

2009-07-01T09:51:00.018+02:00

con Scott Wells; Flying ≠ Jumping
Lose your head to fly contact improvisation: Flight patterns, Fluid Acrobatics and Pure Contact
We will work for clear, satisfying contact improvisation in which pleasure is the first teacher. We will practice flying, catching, landing, fluid acrobatics, deft maneuvers. For the acrobatics in particular everyone will work at their own level and will learn best by building group safety and trust--I think everyone will do something they never expected.
We will practice integrating the flying and acrobatics into the contact flow. That is: aerial interactions that increase the contact.
Jumping ≠ Flying because jumping is a muscular action, whereas flying is a joint nervous system based and is affected greatly by emotions and attitude.

Perder la cabeza al volar en contact-improvisación: Patrones de vuelo, Acrobacias fluidas y Pureza en el Contacto. Vamos a trabajar la claridad y la satisfacción en el contact-improvisación, donde el placer es el primer maestro. Vamos a practicar los vuelos, la captura, el desembarque, y maniobras hábiles para realizar acrobacias de forma mas fluida. Para la acrobacia, en particular, todos trabajan a su propio nivel y aprenden mejor mediante la creación de seguridad y confianza en el grupo - Creo que todo el mundo va a hacer algo que nunca esperaba.
Vamos a practicar la integración de vuelos y acrobacias en el flujo del contact: interacciones aéreas que aumentan el mismo contacto. (Jumping ≠ Flying ) saltar no es volar, porque el salto es una acción muscular, mientras que volar es un conjunto basado en el sistema nervioso y se ve afectada en gran medida por las emociones y actitudes.

& Otto Akkanen;I fall into you...

Weight is not a thing, it's a force with direction. Weight is fall. To weight is to fall.
Let the weight fall, through the bones, into the earth.
Don't hold it, it's not yours, not your to carry.
To let is to be ease.
I fall into you, through you. You fall into me, through me.
We are weightless.

If you didn't understand any of this, do not worry. It's all very basic CI, all happening all the time. Just putting more care into it, might make things easier, might not.

Workshop Scott Wells:
Lugar: C/Conreria 9 Barcelona (Centre Cívic Barceloneta)
Dias: 14,15,16,17,18 Septiembre 2009
Horario: 10:00-14:00
Precio:160€
Nivel: Medio/Avanzado

Workshops (Otto Akkanen):
Lugar:C/Conreria 9 Barcelona (Centre Cívic Barceloneta)
Dias: 15 y 17 setiembre 2009
Horario: 16:00-19:00
Precio: 50€ (30€ inscritos W.Scott Wells)
Nivel: Abierto

Jams:
Dias 14/16 (lun-mier.)de 17:00 a 21:00; día 18(viernes) de 16:00 a 19:00

Inscripciones: ramonroig@hotmail.com
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Scott Wells

Scott’s style of contact is athletic and emphasizes freedom of movement, flying, fluid acrobatics (easy to advanced), safety, precision, pleasure and technique. What students often like best in Scott's classes is the variance between the meditative, listening, slow and sensual dancing and the fun, playful, very physical dancing. And students appreciate how the scary or advanced moves are safe, relaxed and made possible.

In 1981 Scott he discovered the pleasure of contact improvisation shortly after becoming obsessed with the struggles of modern dance. He stuck with both and currently directs a company in San Francisco and tours annually to Europe. In 2005 Scott received the San Francisco Award for Outstanding Choreography. and was selected by Dance Magazine as “one of the 25 To Watch in 2005”. He is highly regarded contact improvisor. “an electrifying style of contact” SF WEEKLY. Scott has trained extensively in contemporary dance and the Alexander technique. and has an MFA in dance (the highest academic degree for dance). This summer/fall he is teaching workshops at festivals Romania , Graz, at schools in Munich and tubingen and doing a month long project in Zagreb Croatia (Sept 24-Oct20).

El estilo de Scott es atlético, y propone libertad en el movimiento, el vuelo, acrobacias fluidas (de fácil a avanzado), la seguridad, la precisión, el placer y la técnica. Lo que sus estudiantes a menudo valoran mas de sus clases es el contraste entre la meditación, el escuchar, el baile lento y sensual y el placer y alegría de un baile muy físico, como un juego. Y los estudiantes aprecian que los movimientos de más riesgo se realizan de forma sencilla y relajada.
Scott en 1981 descubrió el placer del contact-improvisación poco después de convertirse en obsesión su trabajo con la danza moderna. Relacionado con ambos, en la actualidad dirige una compañía en San Francisco y visita anualmente Europa para dar cursos y talleres. En 2005, Scott recibió el premio San Francisco de Coreografía Excepcional. y fue seleccionado por la revista de baile como "uno de los 25 Para Ver en 2005". Él es muy respetado en contacto improvisador. "Un estilo de contacto electrizante" SF SEMANAL. Scott ha licenciado en danza contemporánea y técnica de Alexander. y tiene un MFA (el más alto grado académico de danza). Este verano / otoño dará distintos talleres en festivales como el de Rumania, de Graz, en las escuelas de Munich y Tubinga y realizará un proyectos a lo largo de un mes en Zagreb Croacia (septiembre 24-Oct20).
Resume/Bio

"Wells.…has a dizzying abundance of pure dance-making talent" San Francisco Examiner

In 2005 Scott Wells received San Francisco’s most prestigious choreography award: The Isadora Duncan Award for Outstanding Choreography and was selected by “Dance Magazine as one of the 25 To Watch”. Since 2000 he has taught and performed in Ankara, Turkey, at Impultanz in Vienna, Budapest, Berlin, Amsterdam, Zagreb, Transylvania, Munich, Bern, Halifax, Toronto and other cities.

EDUCATION
1991 M.F.A. Choreography, University of Illinois
1988 B.A. Mathematics, University of California at Santa Cruz

AWARDS
2007 Nominations for Outstanding Choreography and for Company Performance
(Isadora Duncan Awards,; San Francisco’s annual dance awards)
2006 Selected top ten performances of 2006 by San Francisco Chronicle
2005 Named as one of the 25 to watch in Ameriaca by Dance Magazine
2005 Received Isadora Duncan Award for Outstanding Choreography
2002 Named by Ballet Tanz (Europe's largest and leading dance magazine) as one of the year's outstanding choreographers
2002 Acclaimed as San Francisco's Dancer/Athlete by San Francisco Magazine annual review
1998 Black Box Award for Best Dance Ensemble (SF Weekly)
1995 Lester Horton Award for Choreography (Los Angeles)
This is the annual award for best contemporary choreography
1994 GOLDIE Award, S.F. Bay Guardian
1991 Bates Dance Festival Emerging Choreographer Commission
1990 Martha Hill Award form the American Dance Festival

2002, 2004 Irvine Foundation Dancemaker Grant
2004, 2006 CEC Artslink
1999-2007 San Francisco Grants for the Arts
1999- 2002 California Arts Council
1997, 1999, 2001, 2006 San Francisco Arts Commission
1992- 2007 Zellerbach Family Fund Grant
1999, 2001. 2003, 2006 CA$H grants from Theater Bay Area

TEACHING RESIDENCIES
U.S.
2008 St Joseph Ballet (Commission)
2006 University of California at Berkeley
2000, 2006 Stanford
1999 - present Sonoma State University
1997, 1999 Seattle Festival of Alternative Dance and Improvisation
1993-2000 West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival
1994, 1999 Cabrillo College

EUROPE
2007 Zagreb, Croatia (Improvisation Festival and Creation of new work with
Sonja Pregrad), Transylvania, Romania (Trans- Contact Festival),
Graz Austria (Buehnewerkstatt Festival)
2006 Iwanson Schule, Munich, Tubingen University, Tubingen, Germany
2005 Halifax, Canada (Decoding the Undertow—a project with skateboarders)
2004, 2005 Vienna, Austria (Impulstanz)
2003 Austria. Hungary (International Festival of Dance Improvisation)
2000-2003 Tanzsommer Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
2001 Bern, Switzerland (European Contact Improvisation Teachers Exchange)
1998 Copenhagen, Denmark Tanz Haus
1997 Brixen, Italy (European Contact Improvisation Teachers Exchange)
1996 - 2003 Germany-- K77, Berlin; Tanzfabrik, Potsdam; Tanz und Theatre werkstatt, Stuttgart; Mamut Studio, Köln, Die Musa, Göttingen
Scott Wells & Dancers Press

2007 15 th Anniversary
Come for the thrills, stay for the Artistry. Allan Ulrich, Voice of Dance

2006 Over You
Wells is the Paul Taylor of contact Improvisation Paul Parrish, Dance View Times

2004 Zen: if you don’t mind
there isn't a split second when my attention to the action falters or fades.....The rhetorical question is: How can a small, very low budget dance company deliver so much more in terms of choreography and performance than a larger, established, financially stable one? Don't even bother looking for an answer, just go see Scott Wells and Dancers.
Aimee Tsao, Dance Insider

2003 @848
funny, touching and sensual….the company looked fabulous. The dancers’ full bodied attacks and buttery releases, their nanosecond timing and intense presence, and above all their generosity of spirit are inspiring. Rita Felciano, SF Guardian

On any given night in San Francisco, a fancy, imported dance company may be taking the stage at Zellerbach Hall or Yerba Buena....while the Scott Wells Company danced on the walls, ceiling, kitchen and doorways at 848 Community Space. Interestingly enough, it was the Wells dancers who triumphed. Matthew Kennedy, Bay Area Reporter

2002 Rocky vs Baryshnikov (Dance Mission Theater)

Scott Wells...has a dizzying abundance of pure dance-making talent...a match not only between two actual boxers and two achingly expressive dancers, but between two visions of masculinity. The extended boxing segments are just as mesmerizing as the liquid dancing,..this is serious and first-rate choreography....is thinking, feeling, sensory-reeling stuff not to be missed. Rachel Howard, SF Examiner

Earlier Press
"Wells' movement phrases are uncommonly lush and fluent...His control of the viewer's eye is masterly beyond his years" David Gere, Oakland Tribune 1992

"Physical Audacity" San Francisco Sentinel, 1994

"with Wells supplying the most extended and distinctive essay in pure movement invention: a spectacular binge sequence full of wild, unpredictable partnering gambits" Lewis Segal, LA Times 1995

“ an electrifying style of contact improvisation'' SF Weekly 1997

"There are two things I love about Scott Wells' work: it's accessible, and it's intelligent...After all, what's the point of an art form if you can't communicate with your audience? And Wells does that exceptionally well." Aimee Tsao, Bay Area Reporter, March 1999

Otto Akkanen

Is dance artist, among other things and beings.
His dancing started with contact improvisation and it seems that it will also end so, at least he is planning to continue dancing CI till he dies. His main teachers and inspiration have been CI community in helsinki and some of his good friends around other places. But of course initially he has got a lot from Malcolm Manning, Jaana and Jaap Klevering and Katariina Vähäkallio.

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2008-11-01T14:12:00.006+01:00

s.i.a.m.b
En el año 2000 formamos el grupo S.I.A.M.B que influye definitivamente en la implantación del contact-improvisación en Barcelona. Organizamos las primeras Jams (la Caldera, Bana Factory, C.C.Barceloneta, LaMina, Riereta...)y empezamos a dar las primeras clases de contact-improvisación propiamente dichas en la ciudad. Estudios sobre la improvisación en la escena, laboratorios de Vídeo -Danza, performance, la calle y la danza, etc. Organizamos también cada añ0 un encuentro internacionales de contact-improv.(Martin Keogh 2002, Gustavo Leiche 2003, Cathie Caraker 2004, Frey Faust 2005, Ray Chung 2006, Martin Keogh 2007, Karl Frost, Dominick Boruky, Jordi Cortes 2008) Con todo ello hemos querido reivindicar el derecho a la danza.

Contact-Improvisación
Movimiento físico o danza donde se pretende... Suspender la mente, dialogar con el peso, escuchar y hacer del otro, el centro de tu atención. En nuestro propio cuerpo , como mensajes, todos los mecanismos líneas y sensores que necesitamos ... entonces fluir dejando que suceda, en un lugar donde el tiempo nos encuentra... respirando cada una de las caídas, juntos... no hacer, mantenerse ahí donde si lo piensas ya no existe ...

"La Jam"
Todos los jueves de 16h. a 20h. en Centre Cívic Barceloneta
centre cívic Barceloneta C/Conreria 1-9; BCN http://www.bcn.cat/centrecivicbarceloneta/
info: 0034 932213241

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8ºEncuentro C.I. BCN-2009

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