Events

NYI 2010

New Year's Intensive 2010

CIRF's annual weekend New Year's Intensive (NYI).
2.5 Days of concentrated training and creative challenge with CIRF Faculty.

New Year's Intensive (NYI) 2010: Research Into Scores with Brenton Cheng and Jennifer Chien

Rejuvenate and re-inspire your dancing body in the New Year with renowned performers, Jennifer Chien and Brenton Cheng. This 3-day Intermediate intensive will focus on shifting physical states, deepening into sensation, and refining both solo and ensemble awareness. Explore scores as frameworks for dancing and witnessing, build structures to play in and on, and practice spontaneous composition.

In this Intensive you will learn/enhance how to:
- Craft scores for performance, jamming, artistry, and personal practice.
- Discover new tools for staying engaged and true to your own impulses.
- Identify your own superpowers and get new ones.
- Learn how specific scores and parameters can clarify your compositional intent.

METHODS:
We will draw on the frameworks of Body-Mind Centering, Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, yoga, body system exploration, contact fundamentals…each of which provides a lens for approaching the construction of scores and identifying personal movement patterns.

OBJECTIVES:
1. Engage with tools for re-interesting yourself in your individual dancing
2. Enhance skills for dancing CI with more than one person
3. Integrate contact improvisation into more open improvisation without losing track of partners
4. Big picture vs. little picture focus – make the dance meaningful
5. Move beyond your current edge by employing new concrete tools/pathways

SCHEDULE:
Fri Jan 1:
7-10pm: Intros & Intentions Jam: semi-open score, watching, collecting, harvesting
Sat Jan 2:
10am-1pm: CI Class: Skills and Patterns
1-2pm: LUNCH
2-4pm: Tools/Exercises for Group Tuning
4-6pm: Scorework: Practicing & Feedback
Sun Jan 3:
10am-1pm: CI Class: Personal Style and jumping out of your own frame
1-2pm: LUNCH
2-4pm: Tools/Exercises for Solo Resourcing vs. Group Action
4-6pm: Scorework: Development, Usage and Crafting. Final Harvest.

CIRF Intermediate Prerequisites: at least 2 years’ current CI practice.
Familiarity with:
jam partnering & etiquette, inversions, falling, rides/lifts. Comfort with: maintaining rolling point, counterbalance, taking/giving weight. For more info go to the Prerequisites Link.

Teacher Prerequisites: This intensive is for dancers who already feel comfortable coming to a jam and initiating and ending contact dances. For info on upcoming classes/jams in your region that can help you assess your experience level, please email contact@ciResearchForum.org