The 13th Annual
(2009)
Moab Jam

Dancing,
Inspiration,
Joy,
Friendship,
Nourishment,
Support,
Nature,
Space

Presenting Nancy StarkSmith, with Mike Vargas, five day workshop...

* * * We don't know the name, yet. (No, that's NOT the name, silly!)* * *

Sunday (afternoon) May 17th to Thursday (afternoon) May 21st, 2009

Kirstie Simson
Kirstie Simson
 
OLD - Workshop - LAST YEAR - 2008 (2009 info coming soon)
   
 

Kirstie's big gift is creating a state in the room where everyone simply knows how to do CI. It's not through skills, it's not about beginner/advanced, people enter the weather she creates and that weather changes people's cells into CI cells. (Martin Keogh)

Kirstie focuses on the clarity and simplicity of the bones with a ferocity of animal instinctualness. She brings a rich background of knowledge in contact improvisation and improvisation in general. She is generous, humble, and strong. She helps me remember improvisation is already happening - I only have to tap into it. She is one of my favorite teachers. (Patrick Crowley)


 

(2/19/2008) WORKSHOP IS FULL and WAITING LIST IS FULL!!! We are very sorry that we cannot accomodate everyone who wants to take Kirstie's workshop.

Please click here to sign up for EARLY EMAIL NOTIFICATION for next year!!!

   
Description:

Kirstie is a world-renowned teacher and performer of Improvisation. She has been exploring the form for the past 25 years, since she first studied with Steve Paxton when he brought Contact Improvisation to Europe in the early 1980s.

The workshop will be a deepening exploration of Dance Improvisation, in which Kirstie will draw from her extensive knowledge of Contact Improvisation, the Japanese martial art Aikido, and her extensive experience of Improvisation in performance.

Her focus will be on exploring uninhibitedly the huge potential of the body’s response to the primal urge to move, inspired by deep energies released through human interaction, physical challenge and through the excitement of discovering new territory, new sensations and of daring to go beyond inherent ideas of limitation.

Kirstie builds her classes on simple physical principles and is always exploring ways for students to experience and understand their own bodies more profoundly, which is often experienced as joyful and liberating. The workshop offers a way in which participants will extend and deepen their experience of moving, their physical vocabulary and inspire their creative expression.

Kirstie's time in the USA is limited. Come take her workshop while she's still in the states.

   
Experience
Level :

This Workshop is designed for CI dancers with substantial contact improv experience. For example, you should fit in well if you've danced CI regularly (once a week or so) for a good while* and you've been to some jams and/or workshops and feel that you've sufficiently passed the "advanced beginner" stage.

* A good while could be about 6 months or more for someone with previous modern dance experience, or about 12 months or more if CI is your primary dance movement form. Contact us if you have any questions about whether this workshop is the right level for you.

   
Instructors:
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Kirstie Simson

Kirstie Simson has been a continuous explosion in the contemporary dance scene, bringing audiences into contact with the vitality of pure creation in moment after moment of virtuoso improvisation. Called "a force of nature" by the New York Times, she is an award-winning dancer and teacher who has "immeasurably enriched and expanded the boundaries of New Dance" according to Time Out Magazine, London. Simson’s eternal subject is freedom, as she dares to go beyond the boundaries of form and structure to create movement out of the rhythm of life itself.

   
When

The Workshop schedule below is TENTATIVE and APPROXIMATE. The schedule will be finalized in early 2008.:

These are times at the Moab Arts and Recreation Center (MARC). Please arrive in Moab either Saturday or Sunday - early enough to get your tent set up at Ken's Lake Campground (show me on a map) and get to the MARC (show me on a map) by 2:00pm.
Sunday, May 18th Before 2:00pm Set up your tent at Ken's Lake Campground (how to find Ken's Lake Campgound)
  1:00pm - 3:00pm MARC Kitchen (downstairs) put your food in refrigerator or fix some food
  2:00pm - 3:00pm DANCE ROOM opens - Welcome - come on in and have a warm-up dance!
  3:00pm - 5:30pm Class
  5:30pm - 7:30pm MARC Kitchen (downstairs) Work Exchange/Study Students (WEX) fix dinner
  6:00pm - 7:30pm Dinner - provided by Workshop (built by WEX earlier that day)
  7:30pm - 9:30pm Class
 
Mon. May 19th
9:30am DANCE ROOM - opens. WEX opens and cleans floor, etc. Students arrive and settle in BEFORE 10AM.
  10:00am - 1:00pm Class
  1:00pm - 2:30pm Lunch - the downstairs kitchen is available for use DURING THIS TIME ONLY
  2:30pm - 5:30pm Class
  5:30pm - 7:00pm Dinner - the downstairs kitchen is available for use DURING THIS TIME ONLY
 
Tue. May 20th
Morning Take in a morning adventure! (Hike, Swim, Bike, Rock Climb, Kayak, Chase Lizards)
  1:30pm - 2:30pm Lunch - the downstairs kitchen is available for use DURING THIS TIME ONLY
  2:15pm DANCE ROOM - opens. WEX opens and cleans floor, etc. Students arrive and settle in BEFORE 2:30pm.
  2:30pm - 5:30pm Class
  5:30pm - 7:00pm Dinner - the downstairs kitchen is available for use DURING THIS TIME ONLY
  7:00pm - 9:30pm Class
 
Wed. May 21st
9:30am DANCE ROOM - opens. WEX opens and cleans floor, etc. Students arrive and settle in BEFORE 10AM.
  10:00am - 1:00pm Class
  1:00pm - 2:30pm Lunch - the downstairs kitchen is available for use DURING THIS TIME ONLY
  2:30pm - 5:00pm Class
  5:30pm - 7:00pm Dinner - the downstairs kitchen is available for use DURING THIS TIME ONLY
  7:30pm - 9:30pm Focused Open Dance Time
 
Thur. May 22nd 9:30am DANCE ROOM - opens. WEX opens and cleans floor, etc. Students arrive and settle in BEFORE 10AM.
  10:00am - 1:00pm Class
  1:00pm - 2:30pm Lunch - the downstairs kitchen is available for use DURING THIS TIME ONLY
  2:30pm - 4:00pm Class
  4:00pm - 7:00pm Dinner - the downstairs kitchen is available for use DURING THIS TIME ONLY
[Jam begins==>] 7:00pm - 9:30pm STAGE ROOM - Jam begins in the room with a stage in it

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.

   
Where

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.

The Workshop participants are all invited to stay together and car camp at a Campground that will be nearby Moab, within a short drive. Note that it's OK if you don't have a car because we'll car-pool as much as we can.

[The exact location is still being worked out. Wherever we stay will have lots of nearby canyons and beautiful places to explore. Moab is an incredibly beautiful area!]

The camp site fees are included in the Workshop price. If you bring a friend along who's not dancing, they are welcome and we ask that they donate some money for the camping fees.

Plan on arriving during the day and before the Workshop starts so that you have time to set up your tent, meet others and explore the nearby area.

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. Note that for the WORKSHOP, WEX will provide a lovely group dinner for all workshop participants on Sunday evening.
   
Cost & Rates (Our goal is to make this event affordable to everyone.)
   

Early Registration Discount

Register online and send in a $100 Workshop deposit check (or pay in full) to Magnolia Healing Arts, Inc., and have your envelope postmarked by April 2nd for a $0 Workshop discount. (You will receive the Magnolia Healing Arts, Inc. mailing address once you register on-line.)

   
Student: $295 - Economically deprived students and the unemployed (someday you'll have a real job, but what's the rush!)
   
Regular: $315 - Employed but economically challenged (teacher, librarian, lots of kids, stock portfolio tanked, etc.)
   
Professional: $345 - Actually contributing to your retirement plan (support the arts!)
   
  NOTE: No More Workstudy is available for the Workshop. Workstudy is FULL for the Workshop.
   
Cancellations: For those who pay in full in advance and cancel before the event, all of your money, less the deposit amount of $100 will be returned
   
   
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