The 14th Annual
(2010)
Moab Jam

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Presenting Chis Aiken and Angie Hauser teaching a five day workshop...

* * * FULCRUM* * *
An advanced-level CI workshop

Saturday May 22 to Wednesday May 26, 2010

Chris and Angie

Angie Hauser & Chris Aiken

Registration on this website opens at noon Mountain Time on Sunday, February 14, 2010. Click here make sure that your receive email registration reminders. NOTE: The workshop and jam fill very fast.
 
Workshop 2010 - FULCRUM - Chris Aiken and Angie Hauser
   
Description

This is an advanced level workshop for dancers who are committed to expanding their knowledge and practice of Contact Improvisation. Our focus will be to deepen our skills while connecting our perceptual awareness with our poetic imagination. We believe that emotional presence and clarity are essential to create a supportive environment for this kind of exploration.

We use a variety of approaches including skill work, perceptual tuning, open dancing, and imaginative practices designed to teach students how to engage more fully with their partners.

We define advanced contact as the development of a highly refined sensory and movement practice which makes possible passionate, safe, committed dancing. This is different than simply being able to execute physical skills. It means being able to open oneself to what is happening and courageously exploring new ways of dancing.

It takes courage not to fall into habitual ways of dancing and perceiving. To be free within the dancing we need to some times say no to our impulse. This means caring for ourselves and the dance.

Contact is more than a physical practice. It is the continual joint exploration of that permeable boundary between the real and the imaginary—the laws of physics combined with the curiosity and playfulness of our hearts and minds.

   
Experience
Level

Advanced level in CI required -- This means being able to fall safely from any level, take weight, follow the point of contact, move upside down, and being comfortable with disorientation. Also, being able to modulate the physical tone of your body in relation to your partner and the demands of the dancing. Finally, it means being committed to being emotionally clear and present while practicing contact, accepting responsibility for your own safety. Typically dancers take CI classes steadily for at least 3 years before they begin to move proficiently at an advanced level of practice. It is important for the congruency and safety of the group that all those who apply for this workshop are truly confident at this level of practice.Contact us if you have any questions about whether this workshop is the right level for you.

   
Instructors
Chris Aiken

Chris Aiken is a leading international teacher and performer of dance improvisation and contact improvisation. Over the past two and a half decades his work has evolved through ongoing investigations of performance, composition, movement technique and design. His work has been significantly influenced through the somatic practice of the Alexander Technique, ideokinesis, yoga and the work of Ida Rolf. Chris has performed and collaborated with many renowned dance artists including Steve Paxton, Kirstie Simson, Nancy Stark Smith, Peter Bingham, Andrew Harwood, Patrick Scully and Angie Hauser. He has received numerous awards for his artistic work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Bush Foundation Fellowship, funding from the Jerome Foundation and commissions from the Walker Art Center, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Dance Theater Workshop, Bates Dance Festival and the National Performers Network. Chris is an Associate Professor at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania. He is currently touring a NPN-commissioned work entitled “Dwell” co-created with Angie Hauser and is working on a new project inspired by the works of the artist Joseph Cornell.

   
 
Angie Hauser

Angie Hauser is a dancer and teacher. Her work is grounded in improvisation and performance reflecting the influences of contact improvisation, postmodern choreography, ballet and Butoh. Since 2000, Angie has been a member of the Bebe Miller Company, where she contributes to the creation of award winning dance works that are performed throughout the United States. In 2006 Angie was awarded a BESSIE (N.Y. Dance and Performance Award) for Creation and Choreography for her work with Bebe Miller. As an improviser she collaborates with many gifted artists including Chris Aiken, Kirstie Simpson, K.J. Holmes, Darrell Jones, Andrew Harwood and Kathleen Hermesdorf. She has also danced with the companies of Elizabeth Streb, Liz Lerman and Poppo Shiriashi. She has taught contact improvisation, improvisation and dance throughout North America as well as Switzerland, Germany, France and Scotland. Angie received her MFA in dance from the Ohio State University and holds a BA in Art History from University of South Carolina.

   
Rates:
DEPOSIT: A $100 deposit is required. See Registration Process below.
Student/Unemployed: $305
Regular:$325 - Employed but economically challenged
Professional:$355 - Contributing to retirement plan, stable job
   
Registration Process

We anticipate that registration for the Workshop will fill very quickly. We are limiting the workshop to 26 dancers (that is all that the space can comfortably accommodate.)

Online registration opens Sunday February 14, 2010, at noon (12:00pm) MST (mountain standard time, USA)
1. Register online for the Workshop (and optionally the Jam), including $100 deposit minimum online (see NOTE below).
2. Registration for the 2010 workshop is on a first-come basis, with a LOTTERY which will be done by REGION (among those with an advanced level of experience), to ensure geographic diversity of workshop registrants. **Please also read the note below regarding the “level” of the workshop.**
3. You will be notified by email by 2/18 whether you are have a confirmed space in the workshop, if you are on the wait list, or if your name did not get drawn in the lottery. (If your name was not drawn, you will be refunded your deposit, or [if you are going to the jam] you can use the deposit money toward your jam balance.)
4. If you are on the “wait list”, you can stay on the wait list to see if a space opens up, or you can receive a refund immediately (and thus be taken off the wait list). If you are on the "wait list" for the workshop and a space opens up , we will notify you by email and/or phone and you will have 72 hours to let us know whether you plan on attending or not. If you decline to attend or we do not hear from you after 72 hours, we will ask the next person on the "wait list.
5. When the workshop and wait list are full, we will close online registration for the workshop, and post that registration is FULL here on this website.

*GEOGRAPHIC DIVERSITY: We as organizers desire to have a geographically disperse group for Chris & Angie’s 5-day CI workshop. We will confirm registrations based in order of registrations received from the various areas of the country. The Boulder community is historically the biggest group represented at the Moab Jam, but we want to ensure spaces from dancers from other parts of the country.

**WORKSHOP EXPERIENCE LEVEL: Please note that this is an advanced-level workshop. If you have questions about whether your experience and skills are appropriate for this workshop please contact us BEFORE the registration date. If the organizers have a question about whether this is the right workshop for you, they will contact you after you register, but this step delays the registration confirmations for everyone…please contact us if you need any further information.

NOTE: If you anticipate being unable to pay your deposit online on the registration date, please contact us (before registration opens) to make other arrangements.

CANCELLATIONS: For those who pay in full and are accepted into the Workshop and cancel before the event, all of your money, less the deposit amount ($100) will be returned. All deposits are non-refundable unless you are on the wait-list (see above).

   
Work-Study Positions

Sorry, all Workshop Works-Study positions have been filled. Thanks!

   
Where

DANCING: The Workshop will be held indoors at the Moab Arts and Recreation Center (MARC)(show me on a map), a beautifully renovated church with nice hardwood floors, high ceilings and tall windows that let in the bright desert sunshine.

CAMPING: The Workshop participants are all invited to stay together and car camp at either Up the Creek Campground (in downtown Moab, 4 blocks from the MARC) or Ken's Lake (20 minute drive from the MARC.) It's OK if you don't have a car because we'll car-pool as much as we can. A bike is handy if you stay at Up the Creek Campground. Bikes can be rented in Moab.

Campsite fees are NOT included in the Workshop price. See the Logistics page for campsite costs, location, and how to make reservations.
IMPORTANT: Up the Creek Campground takes reservations and sells out months in advance around Memorial Day weekend. Ken's Lake Campground takes NO reservations and we'll have a work-study person who will be present to hold a few campsites for those who want to camp there, so be sure to let us know (on the registration form) if you think you'll be staying there. For both campgrounds, Workshop and Jam participants are highly encouraged to share campground sites and tents with other dancers. Work-study will help coordinate where everyone is staying.

HOTELS, MOTELS, HOSTELS, BED & BREAKFASTS, CONDOS: If you'd rather not camp, there are other accommodations within just a few blocks of the MARC in Moab. See the Logistics page for LOTS of information.

   
Food Bring your own breakfast, lunch and dinner and camping gear. There is a reasonably priced organic grocery store just two blocks away. The group will have access to a full kitchen to prepare meals and a refrigerator to store our food. Group members are welcome to create their own pot-luck or organized food events. To help keep the costs low and meet each person's food requirements, everyone is responsible for their own food. WEX team will provide a group dinner for all workshop participants on the Sunday evening of the Workshop.
   
When

The workshop begins Saturday afternoon, May 22. We suggest arrival on Friday evening May 21. There will be 5-7 hours of classes daily. (We will post a detailed schedule on the website before the event.) The workshop will end with an evening class on Wednesday May 26

This section will contain a schedule of the event once it is ready. (last updated 12/23/2009 - Todd)

If you're coming to the Workshop from out of state, consider making the trip an even longer vacation and join us for the Jam after the Workshop.

   
   
Registration on this website opens at noon Mountain Time on Sunday, February 14, 2010. Click here make sure that your receive email registration reminders. NOTE: The workshop and jam fill very fast.




For more information or contact Gretchen: (303) 545-9956 or Todd: (801) 467-8064


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