Bodywork

Curator:
Ray Schwartz: zenmp(AT)hotmail(DOT)com

Dear CI36 participants,
As we know contact is an axis which many disciplines touch, merge, and pass through. Primary among these is bodywork. Many practitioners of CI view the form itself as a form of therapeutic engagement. Also, one can be sure that throughout the event, as in any jam situation, there will be spontaneous exchanges of delicious, healing touch and energy.

It is my intention as curator of Bodywork for CI36 to facilitate a space of focused practice in methods of one on one hands-on methodologies. These could range from Massage Therapy, Reiki, Rolfing, Somatic practices such as: Alexander Technique, The Feldenkrias Method of Functional Integration, Body-Mind Centering – as well as Trager, Zero-Balancing, Cranio-Sacral Therapy, Aston Patterning, Shiatsu, TuiNa, Accupuncture, Acupressure, Reflexology, etc. I am sure there are also many homemade remixes of the above forms and others I have neglected to mention. But you get the idea, I hope.

One defined rule, so far, is that in order to practice Bodywork at the event you must be a registered participant.

If you are interested in offering bodywork at CI36 please contact, me, Ray Schwartz at the email above with the subject line: "Bodywork CI36". I would love to have a sense of who is interested in this by April 8th, so that any conversations we have as a group will have enough time to digest, and clarify before we meet together in June. Thank you for your interest and kindness. Ray.

Classes

Curators:
Robert Anderson: robert(AT)contactimprovisation(DOT)co(DOT)uk
Ulla Makinen: ulla(DOT)makinen(AT)gmail(DOT)com

A major component of the celebration will be the opportunity to participate in classes being offered by teachers. As well as providing training, classes can provide insights into individual teachers interests and inspirations within CI. We hope the classes can further the exchange of ideas and practice that has kept this dance form alive and vibrant for 36 years! We wish to schedule classes that cover a broad range of themes and approaches to CI. Therefore we encourage teachers young and old to submit their suggestions for classes (whether they are contact ‘chestnuts’ or new areas of research).

How to get involved with this area?

Please email Robert and Ulla with descriptions of classes that you would like to offer. Most class will be two hours in duration. Let us know if you wish numbers of participants to be restricted. Also let us know if the class is suitable for all levels of experience or if you think the class should be advertised at a particular level.

Ulla Makinen and Robert Anderson are the primary curators for the classes at CI36. They are supported by Leilani Weis. Alicia Grayson is our Hub contact person. We look forward to receiving your class descriptions.

Communication Center

Curators:
Ronja Verkasalo: ronjaverkasalo(AT)yahoo(DOT)co(DOT)uk
Max Gautier: joyfuldanseur(AT)yahoo(DOT)com

We will be setting up an area for daily announcements, schedules, messages, and more. Please email us if you have suggestions.

Documentation

Curators:
Cheryl Pallant: cpallant(AT)vcu(DOT)edu
Vitali Kononov: arte.somatic(AT)gmail(DOT)com

Co-curators Vitali Kononov and Cheryl Pallant will make and collect written and visual documentation of classes, talks, and performances. Documentation will serve participants on-site, those hooked up electronically, for instance via the web. Products may be used in an issue of Contact Quarterly or used for historical purposes later. This team will be soliciting and organizing volunteers and work exchange participants who have written and/or visual recording skills.

Family

Curator:
Leilani Weis: leicielo(AT)tiscali(DOT)it

This team supports families with kids, giving them information that can help them enjoy and participate at CI 36. If you are thinking about bringing your kids to the event please contact Leilani with information about your kids ages, and childcare needs. We will organize a parent network so that we can support each other. Please offer suggestions for a family jam or other special events to include the "future contactors."

Information Technology

Curator:
Ken Manheimer: ken(DOT)manheimer(AT)gmail(DOT)com

Please email Ken if you have questions about computers, networks, etc. at CI36.

Jams/Music

Curator:
Adrian Russi: adrian(DOT)russi(AT)bluewin(DOT)ch

This curation area involves the jam structures at CI36.

There will be a jam space available 24 hours a day throughout the event. Most of the jams will be unstructured, but there will be some Jams with a specific focus such as a score and/or live music.

Some structured jams will be planned in advance and others will be scheduled as CI36 unfolds. A second jam space will be available for the structured jams.

Facilitating the aspect of (live) music is another part of this curation area. This will include discussion structures to find diverse ways to integrate music into jams.

How to get involved with this area?

The most direct way during CI36 is to come to the jams with your full presence and follow your own pathway in communication with the other bodies moving in the space!

And before CI36 starts we invite you to share your ideas and questions with us about jamming and/or music. We will include your suggestions in our planning of the jams and in the discussions to take place during the event.

If you are experienced in music improvisation in connection with dance and you would like to share this music during jams with the dancers and other musicians please contact us! It would be useful for us to know how many musicians are coming and what kind of instruments you are bringing.

What are your thoughts about music at CI36?

We look forward to hearing from you!

Labs

Curators:
Pen Dale: penster4(AT)hotmail(DOT)com
Joerg Hassmann: joerg(DOT)hassmann(AT)web(DOT)de

WHAT IS A STUDY LAB?
A lab is not a class! Be aware if your actual desire is to TEACH or to LAB. In a class you teach, giving information about something you have already figured out. So if you are coming with something you already know and want to share – try teaching a class instead. Labs are not the right format for this kind of sharing.

On the other hand, to lead a lab, you come with questions, and a structure to help find some answers. So if you have a burning question that you don’t know the answer to, and are looking for a space to work on it with like-minded people, then GREAT. A lab is your format!
The beauty of a lab structure is you actually participate yourself, rather than staying outside the process. Remember this is where YOU get to work on YOUR questions. Ideally a lab should be structured in such a way that a small group o f people get to work on problem solving around a particular issue.

If you think your topic of interest is more suited to a class than a lab, ask us about applying for a TEACHING space instead...

WHO CAN OFFER A LAB PROPOSAL?
Anyone can offer a lab proposal, as long as you have an idea, and a way of structuring it so others can participate. If you would like to lead a lab at CI36, please contact us now with your ideas, so we can start slotting things into the schedule. Enquiries to be directed to Pen Dale at penster4@hotmail.com.

HOW ARE THE LABS SELECTED?
A combination of labs will be selected prior to the start of CI36. Others we would like to be proposed and selected while the event is running, in an attempt to provide a forum for ideas which emerge at the festival itself. We aim to encourage a wide variety of lab topics, facilitated by a wide variety of people, so bring on those ideas! There will also be space provided for spontaneous, unstructured labbing to happen for those ideas that just come up spontaneously.

SO YOU WANT TO PROPOSE A STUDY LAB?
Please contact the Labs team, and we will send you more information about how to officially register your proposal.

Things to think about:

• Why – why are you doing this?
  
• What – be as specific as possible.
  
• How – structure, timing, methods.
  
• Who – Will you have help? An assistant?
  
• What size – How will you deal with large groups?
  
• Your role – Remember a lab is not a class. Participate!

Library/Reference Room

Curators:
Andrew Wass: wasswasswass(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
Angie Hauser: angiehauser3(AT)earthlink(DOT)net
Kristin Horrigan: kristinhorrigan(AT)yahoo(DOT)com

The CI-36 Reference Room is an exhaustive library of writings, videos and other items, such as flyers and posters, related to Contact Improvisation. It documents people’s ideas, reflections, and experiences regarding the form from its inception in 1972 through to today. The collection includes both published and unpublished material from around the globe. The Reference Room is organized for review by all event participants, as well as open for additional contributions.

Hello All CI videographers, video archivists, film buffs,

The CI36 Reference Room curators are asking for YOUR HELP in gathering videos, films, DVDs of classes, performances, discussions, dance films related to/dealing with/about Contact Improvisation. We are seeking video from the spectrum of Contact Improvisation from videos of jams, classes, performances from all over the world, in any language. How has the form evolved in different parts of the world? Are there regional styles? How and what are people teaching? How has Contact Improvisation informed and influenced work people are making?
Here’s how you can help:

• send us your videos- DVDs or VHS tapes. Along with your video please include written info on who is dancing, where, when etc.
• send us any links for interesting CI related web pages.
• pass this message along to friends and encourage them to send us their videos
• translate this message into your local language
• post this message to your local list-serve or read it out loud at a jam
• send us recommendations of videos that we should solicit

We will be collecting materials between now and MAY 1, 2008, so please send out your submissions as soon as possible. If you are concerned that we may already have some of the items, you can check with us via email (see below.) It is preferable that you send copies of your materials that do not need to be returned, as the materials gathered for the CI36 reference library will eventually be donated to the New York Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center as an archive of CI history. However, if you do want to share something that you need back, then please include self addressed envelope with postage and handling for the return.
Formats to send - DVD and VHS NTSC preferred - DO NOT SEND ORIGINALS
Any questions? Email Andrew Wass at the address above.
Send your DVDs and VHS tapes to
Andrew Wass
378 Belmont St. #6, Oakland, Ca 94610 USA

THANK YOU for contributing to what we hope will be the most comprehensive archive of CI writings and videos in the world, an incredible resource for generations of dancers to come!

Mixed Ability

Curator:
Katy Dymoke: touchkate(AT)aol(DOT)com

I would love to welcome people interested and/or already practicing mixed ability/integrated dance to CI36. Do contact me ahead of time with questions or ideas or just turn up and we'll find each other.

Come along and share practise. Bring videos, dance ideas, images and dreams.
Let's have a go at pulling out of a hat and playing with what ever comes up?

Lab ideas?
Offers for a study lab on specialist areas of practise, such as touch communication, entering the dance, communicating limits, teaching points etc.

Any other ideas? Do put them forward. We could create an e group or share web site links etc to start the ball rolling.

Onsite/WEX

Curators:
Steve Homsher: s(DOT)homsher(AT)magnoliaroad(DOT)net
Max Gautier: joyfuldanseur(AT)yahoo(DOT)com

WEX - Work Exchange: An enthusiastic international crew will be contributing their labor and skills to help create a successful event. All WEX positions are currently full.

Perfomance

Curators:
Chris Aiken: caiken(AT)ursinus(DOT)edu
Keith Hennessy: keith(AT)circozero(DOT)org
David Hurwith: antediluv5(AT)gmail(DOT)com

More performance info coming soon!

Photo/Art Gallery

Curators:
Leilani Weis: leicielo(AT)tiscali(DOT)it
Moti (Mark) Zemelman: moti(AT)contactimprov(DOT)com

A Call For CI Related Artwork

All ye contactors and artists who have CI related artworks, and would like to donate or lend your work/s for an exhibition during the CI36 Celebration, please submit digital image of work (via email) to mail(AT)livinglenses(DOT)com for consideration. All media works are welcome, even works in progress. The deadline for submission is March 15, 2008. Please include the name of artist/author, title and date of artwork, and a very brief description of the work.

And please forward this Call to anyone or website that you deem appropriate.

Thank you very much.

Satellite Events

Curators:
Daniela "Dani" Schwartz: satellite(DOT)events(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
Eckhard "Ecki" Müller: satellite(DOT)events(AT)yahoo(DOT)com

We invite you to create your own celebration for the CI36 birthday anywhere in the world. These events can take place throughout 2008 and/or happen simultaneously with the celebration at Juniata College June 12-18. They might take the form of a: Group Stand, Birthday Jam, Performance, Lecture, Video Showing, or a structure that you invent. Any existing event (jam, festival) can also be named CI36 Satellite Event. We are excited and intrigued to see the various forms these events will take.

To propose an event, contact the event curators Daniela Schwartz and Eckhard Mueller at their emails above.

See the CI36 Satellite Events page for more details.

Special Events

Curator:
Aaron "Brando" Brandes: heybrando(AT)gmail(DOT)com

This team organizes the special one-time activities that will take place during the CI36 Celebration and are not part of the regular schedule—films shown outdoors with seating on the lawn, ritual gathering at the Juniata College Peace Chapel, a 36-hour Pass the Dance, a World-wide Simultaneous Small Dance, a Global Underscore and talk by Nancy Stark Smith, and much more. Please send your ideas for a Special Events to Scott Rodwin at scott(AT)rodwinarch(DOT)com.

Store

Curators:
Barbara Stahlberger: babastaCI36(AT)babasta(DOT)de
Kristin Horrigan: kristinhorrigan(AT)yahoo(DOT)com

The CI36 store will offer books, magazines, clothes, music, DVDs, and more related to contact improvisation. CI36 t-shirts and materials from Contact Editions and Contact Quarterly will be featured, but others are welcome to contact the store team about the possibility of offering items for sale.

Talk Structures

Curators:
Carol Swann: CarolSwann(AT)aol(DOT)com
Lucia Walker: luciawalke(AT)googlemail(DOT)com
Keith Hennessy: keith(AT)circozero(DOT)org

As the curators of the Discussion/Talk structures for CI 36, we invite you to help us create a pool of TOPICS and a collection of TALK STRUCTURES in which those topics can come to light.

Please send us your ideas, requests, and offers for topics you would like to investigate.

And please forward any talk structures (or talking and moving structures) that might be evocative.

We intend to include a wide range of panel discussions, lectures, fishbowl conversations, dinnertime topic tables, and talks arising from dancing.

Send your thoughts to us at our emails above.

PS: Check back here for a web forum where you can propose and enter discussions online.

Teachers Track

Curators:
Brenton Cheng: brenton(AT)bfalling(DOT)net
Barbara Stahlberger: babastaCI36(AT)babasta(DOT)de
Eszter Gal: st(AT)juveprod(DOT)hu

The "Teacher’s Track" will consist of a series of labs, co-teaching sessions, discussions, network support groups, and other activities focused on the art of teaching contact improvisation. All activities will be organized as individual events, any or all of which interested participants can attend. In order to focus our efforts, we invite you to bombard us with your areas of interest, questions, subjects for talk and discussion groups, and ideas for activities. We are also looking for people who want to facilitate a lab, have a special way of teaching "difficult" groups, know tried-and-true techniques for teaching a particular skill (such as getting into the air), or anything else you would like to share with your fellow teachers. Send your suggestions to the Teacher's Track curators, or post them online at the CI36 Community Site discussion forum.

T-Shirt

Curator:
Angie Hauser: angiehauser3(AT)earthlink(DOT)net

We hope you like it!

Website

Curator:
Brenton Cheng: brenton(AT)bfalling(DOT)net

Please send any website feedback to the address above.