Dear
Jammers,
Bookings
are coming in for our Embodied Vision
workshop, led by Anna Bambridge on Saturday 26 March. If you are undecided
whether this is for you, this is how Anna describes the workshop:
Dancers, movers, jammers, come and experience how
natural vision techniques can deepen your practice. Learn how where you place
your attention affects your perceptions. Play with your awareness of space and
of movement (your own and others). Accept invitations to experience relaxation
and new ways of looking. Explore how your body habits and visual habits mirror
each other. This is a structured practice with deep potential which uses vision
as a way in, encouraging an integrated mind and body dynamic relaxation, which
means.... it'll put you in the jamming zone!
Doesn’t
that sound really interesting? Get your place soon (details below)!!
On
Wednesday 20 April, we are hosting a
special event to celebrate visual arts in Glasgow, as the International
Festival takes place around the city. We welcome artists, movers, singers,
musicians and curious people to a multidisciplinary improvisation space. Bring
your materials and instruments. No previous experience is needed as you will be
guided into the jam by Nina and Laura, who will introduce you to the form and
invite you to move, draw and see individually, in duets and ensembles. The
rest, is down to your creativity. Come and explore with us! You will find all
the details below on our list of events.
We are planning a very exciting event as part of the Global Underscore on Sunday 19 June. Save the date and keep your eye out for information on our next newsletter.
By
popular demand, we are welcoming the return of the gorgeous green @TGJ t-shirts. These will be available for a short
time only so get your orders processed by emailing theglasgowjam@gmail.com while our stocks last. Only
£15!
The
next jams are listed below and, if you need to plan more ahead, we have our
full January–June programme on our website: http://theglasgowjam.blogspot.co.uk/p/jam-calendar.html). Lets jam together
soon!
Much
love,
Penny
and Laura x
WE ARE NOW BOOKING FOR
EMBODIED VISION
A contact improvisation weekend
with Anna Bambridge
LIMITED PLACES!
Workshop Saturday 26 March 2016,
11am–5pm
Class and Jam Sunday 27 March
2016, 1–4.30pm
Kinning Park Complex
Using
relaxation and movement techniques grounded in the Bates method of vision
education we will explore how our attention and intention affects how we see
and how we feel. Vision is a learned sense that we can continually attend
to and we will encourage new ways of using our eyesight. Aspects of vision we
will explore include peripheral and central sight (and the relationship between
them) and our senses of perspective, colour, movement and depth. You are
encouraged to bring warm layers, as there will be times of stillness in the
workshop.
You
are invited to explore your natural vision for this workshop. This means that
if you wear glasses you can take them off or if you wear contact lenses please
bring what you need to take them out.
Saturday
workshop only £40
Full
weekend £45
More
information here: http://theglasgowjam.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/book-now-for-embodied-vision-with-anna.html
SPECIAL GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL
JAM
Wednesday 20 April, 6.9.30
Assembly Hall at the Artschool, Renfrew
Street (Scott Street entrance)
Led by Nina Enemark and Laura
González
More
information here: http://theglasgowjam.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/a-special-glasgow-international-jam.html
OUR
CLASS AND JAM CALENDAR
MARCH
JAM: Friday 11th March --- 6-9.30pm --- Solène Weinachter ---
KPC --- £5
WORKSHOP: Saturday 26th March ---Natural Vision workshop with Anna
Bambridge. (See above)
CLASS: Sunday 27th March --- 1-2pm --- Anna Bambridge --- KPC
--- £10
JAM: Sunday 27th March --- 2-4.30pm --- Anna Bambridge--- KPC ---
£5 (free with class)
APRIL
JAM: Friday 8th April --- 6-9.30pm --- Brian Hartley --- KPC
--- £5
SPECIAL JAM! Wednesday 20 April ---
6-9.30pm --- Nina Enemark and Laura González --- The ASSEMBLY HALL at the
ARTSCHOOL in RENFREW STREET --- £6
CLASS: Sunday 24th April --- 1-2pm --- Nina Enemark--- KPC --- £10
JAM: Sunday 24th April --- 2-4.30pm --- Nina Enemark --- KPC --- £5 (free with class)
OTHER
CONTACT EVENTS IN SCOTLAND
Jams are open to everyone and it is a family friendly
event
There will be a 30mins warm up. Musicians come and play!
There will be a 30mins warm up. Musicians come and play!
Sunday
March 6, 6:15pm-8:45pm
The Calton Centre, 121 Montgomery St, Edinburgh, EH7 5EP
Hall B (downstairs)
£5 (£3 concessions)
email m.deioanni@gmail.com (Monica)
call 07763 782 834 (Teresa), 07857 289 859 (Khalid)
Wednesdays Contact Improvisation Dance classes in Edinburgh
at St Margaret's House, studio G 25
Time: 6:30-8:00 pm
light, grounded, flexible and powerful,
set and free to express,
communicate,
improvise
create the dance with the others...
Price: £8 / drop-in, 6 classes £40
contact monica: m.deioanni@gmail.com
call 07763 782 834 (Teresa), 07857 289 859 (Khalid)
Wednesdays Contact Improvisation Dance classes in Edinburgh
at St Margaret's House, studio G 25
Time: 6:30-8:00 pm
light, grounded, flexible and powerful,
set and free to express,
communicate,
improvise
create the dance with the others...
Price: £8 / drop-in, 6 classes £40
contact monica: m.deioanni@gmail.com
POZA Project Music
and Dance Improvisation lab
Kinning
Park Complex
8
day long creative lab ending with a public performance, open to: dancers,
movers, musicians and sound makers.
Public
Sharing on 5th March - 17.00
Every
day will start with the focus on physicality where the musicians will get the
chance to move and the dancers will challenge their physical range through
improvised tasks and set phrases - all with live music.
Solène
Weinachter and Jer Reid will explore many aspects of improvised music / dance.
There is no 'and' in the title because our interest is in blurring the
boundaries between music and dance. The music and the body will exist with an
equal weight. To make a single event. We will explore the physicality of sound
and the music inherent in movement and how both exist in the acoustic-spacial
area of architecture. This is not at the expense of what is unique about the
two creative areas. What is similar and what is different make an endless
dialogue. Areas to explore will include deep listening, fusing of dynamics that
exist in both or either music and dance, physical tasks based on anatomic
principles and instinctive impulses, and developing techniques for structuring
improvising in performance.
For
more information: http://www.pozaproject.org
AROUND
THE UK
LONDON CONTACT IMPROVISATION
5, 12 March
Caroline Waters
13 March
Caroline Waters Sunday Workshop
19 & 20 March Weekend Jam @
Siobhan Davies Studios
2 April
Andrew Harwood
9, 16 April Rick Nodine
23 April Irmela Stone
9, 16 April Rick Nodine
23 April Irmela Stone
24 April
Rick Nodine Sunday Workshop
30 April
Rick Nodine
7 May Katy Dymoke
7 May Katy Dymoke
14 May
Katy Dymoke
class £8; jam £5.00; both
£10
class: 12.00 – 14.00
jam: 14:00 – 18:00
jam: 14:00 – 18:00
Moving East
St Matthias Church Hall
Wordsworth Road
London
N16 8DD
(access by stairs only, we regret)
Getting there:
http://www.movingeast.co.uk/getting_here.html
Information on other classes, workshops, jams in
London and the UK here:
http://www.contactimprovisation.co.uk/
SUSPENSION [of
weight, of time, of balance and of disbelief]
a contact improvisation workshop with Andrew de
Lotbinière Harwood
MovingEast, London
28th March - 1st April 2016
In
this workshop, we will explore the many facets of suspension. In a physical
sense we will focus on the suspension of our weight allowing a stretch of time
as we float in the air for a moment longer. Also, our bodies, like all motor
vehicles, are equipped with a system of shock absorbers, also know as
suspension, allowing us to cushion the impact of our mass as we move safely in
and out and across of the floor. On a subtler level, it may also refer to the
postponement or temporary halt of a judgment, an impulse, a decision or an
opinion as in suspending our disbelief. Through a dynamic physical
collaboration of the senses we will follow our instincts and be guided by what
is already in our body in order to access multiple facets of our innate
creative wisdom.
Fully waged / funded: £185
Part-time waged / Independent artist: £165
Unemployed / Full-time Student: £ 145
This workshop is hosted and administered by MovingEast in
partnership with London Contact Improvisation and curated by Robert Anderson.
This is an intermediate/advanced workshop for students
or professionals that have a firm grasp of Contact Improvisation basics.
If you wish to participate please email: admin@movingeast.co.uk
Contact
Improvisation residential Jam in Anglesey, N. Wales
INTERNATIONAL CI WORKSHOPS AND FESTIVALS
International CI workshops and festivals are listed
here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/359579953395/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/359579953395/
--
@TheGlasgowJam
Penny
Chivas and Laura Gonzalez
In
association with Dance House
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