6-Day CI36 CELEBRATION
If you can attend only one CI event in the next ten years — make it the CI36 Celebration!
Thurs. June 12 - Wed. June 18
(arriving Thursday June 12)
The CI36 Celebration is a time to honor Contact Improvisation — with six days of festivities that recognize CI’s history, share in current research and practice, and consider the trajectory of the form into the future.
This historic Celebration will be an environment to rub shoulders (literally) with hundreds of practitioners, instigators, and supporters of Contact Improvisation from around the world. This event will have a spacious framework in which we will meet to dance, to question, to improvise, and to honor the work.
Joining us at the CI36 Celebration will be...
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Chris Aiken (USA) Angela Doni (Russia) Brenton Cheng (USA) K.J. Holmes (USA) Vitali Kononov (USA) Erica Kaufman (USA) Tica Lemos (Brazil) Nina Martin (USA) Nancy Stark Smith (USA) Carol Swann (USA) Mike Vargas (USA) Gretchen Spiro (USA) Lucia Walker (UK) Dror Zohar (Israel) |
Robert Anderson (UK) Sybrig Dokter (Sweden) Andrew Harwood (Canada) Joerg Hassmann (Germany) Ray Chung (USA) Alicia Grayson (USA) Kurt Koegel (Germany) Nita Little (USA) Eckhard Müller (France) Ray Schwartz (Mexico) Barbara Stahlberger (Germany) Ronja Verkasalo (Finland) Caroline Waters (UK) Moti Zemelman (Mexico/USA) |
Pen Dale (Germany) Katy Dymoke (UK) Keith Hennessy (USA) Martin Keogh (USA) Scott Rodwin (USA) Martin Hughes (Australia) Daniel Lepkoff (USA) Ulla Makinen (Finland) Adrian Russi (Switzerland) Daniela Schwartz (France) Cristina Turdo (Argentina) Benno Voorham (Sweden) Leilani Weis (Italy) |
...and many, many more!
Steve Paxton will also be present for a few days during the CI36 Celebration and will offer a lecture on CI and his more recent work, Material for the Spine.
You are invited to custom-make your own balance of activity and rest: to dance, study, observe, perform, exchange, hang out, and create as you please.
Want to contribute your work? There are 36 curators from around the world joining the CI36 Hub to create a format in which you can offer the cutting edge of your performances, classes, labs, or talk structures. Or you can come and simply partake of what others are offering. Or you can spontaneously decide. If you have an idea you would like to share please email the appropriate Curator. Organizing TeamSome components:
- 36-hour pass the dance
- Classes
- Teachers Track
- Performance work shown with different levels of formality
- Lecture Demonstrations
- Labs — small work/study groups on specific themes
- Talk Structures — public talks/lectures, panels, discussions, chat groups
- CI Library/ Reading Room/ Video Watch
- CI Art Gallery/Exhibit
- Spontaneous eruptions of creative exchange
- Special linkups with international CI36 Satellite Events
- 24-hour/day jamming
3-DAY TRAINING INTENSIVE (currently full)
Sun. June 8 - Wed. June 11
(arriving Sunday afternoon June 8)
The CI36 Training Intensive is designed as a time to focus our attention on the refinement and development of our practice and understanding of Contact Improvisation. To preserve a sense of intimacy, the Training Intensive is limited in enrollment size (approx 150) and is currently full.
The CI36 Training Intensive Teachers include...
Andrew Harwood (Canada), Martin Hughes (Australia), Nita Little (California), Nina Martin (Texas), Nancy Stark Smith (Massachusetts), Ray Chung (California), Mary Prestidge (England) and Benno Voorham (Sweden/Netherlands).
There will be four simultaneous tracks during morning and afternoon sessions designed for beginning and advanced contactors to strengthen their study and practice of Contact Improvisation. Our days will begin with warm-ups, and evening activities will include nightly jams. Complete class descriptions
Training Intensive participants are also registered for the 6-Day CI36 Celebration.
