Ana Barbour who co-founded Oxford Contact Dance with me about three years ago, died on Monday (6 November 2017).
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English Folk Dance with Chloe Metcalfe
In this lecture/workshop at Oxford Town Hall on 3 October 2017, Chloe Metcalfe – a researcher from Roehampton University presented ‘When non-dancers dance: considerations of audience and performer in contemporary British community-dance events.’ She also taught a dance to the audience, and played violin accompaniment as they danced.
Class with Robert Anderson on 23 September 2017
Robert Anderson opens the class by acknowledging the teaching of Steve Batts in this session at London Contact Improvisation. We are studying space and spatial arrangement.
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Contact meets Contemporary 2017
In July 2017, I attended the Contact meets Contemporary dance festival in Göttingen, Germany. It’s a week long festival for contact improvisation with contemporary dance elements – people with backgrounds in either dance form – or both, attend the festival which gives it ‘an edge’. I kept a dance diary and recorded my experience and thoughts – presented here.
My workshops at Contact meets Contemporary 2017
This is my schedule of workshops and dance sessions at Contact meets Contemporary 2017 (24 – 30 July).
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Water Contact & Fascia Motion in a Warm Water Pool with Daniel Werner
This workshop was on Saturday 29 July; part of Contact meets Contemporary 2017.
I am suspended, weightless in the water. What a relief! It’s good to be off the ground: after five days of dancing at this festival, I have a swollen knee from the impact of the hard floor of the Felix-Klein Gymnasium!
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Dust off effort – Revealing non-doing through touch & movement with Dino Spiri
This workshop was on Saturday 29 July; part of Contact meets Contemporary 2017.
The workshop could be paraphrased as: doing more with less. Aspects of it resonate with Steve Paxton’s notion of the small dance.
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CI Essentials with Jörg Hassmann
This workshop was on Saturday 29 July; part of Contact meets Contemporary 2017.
Jörg Hassmann excitedly introduced this workshop as one which he had conceived at this year’s festival.
Contemporary Dance Intensive – Session 4 with Olivia Court-Mesa & Yochai Ginton
This workshop was on Saturday 29 July; the fourth of four linked sessions at Contact meets Contemporary 2017.
The final session of the Contemporary Dance intensive; thoughts about learning; and the differences between contemporary dance and contact improvisation.
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Intertwined Marketplace Performance with Markus Hoft
This performance and its workshop was on Friday 28 July; part of Contact meets Contemporary 2017. The public performance entitled “Intertwined”, was in Göttingen’s marketplace.
This was exciting and a challenge: a two hour workshop leading to a public dance performance. Is it possible? Yes! And it was fun!
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