ContactFestival: Program 2010
Intensives
The intensives will give a sense of continuation. They happen every day with the same teacher and the same group, mainly in the morning. Each teacher will give a certain personal mixture of CI and Contemporary Technique with a main emphasize on one side. All three intensives will focus on fundamental principles, in a way that is accessable for people with basic skills but at the same time provides opportunity for the more advanced dancers to deepen their knowledge.
There will be also an intensive lab with a focus on performing improvisation and CI facilitated by Ulla Mäkinen and Sebastian Garcia Ferro.
Other Classes
The other classes are single classes with one specific focus. They will take place in the afternoon and maybe in the evening. Each day there will be one class focussing on fundamentals in CI and also Contemporary technique. The teachers will share what they found to be essential and still inspiring. The other two classes will be more specific or advanced. A focus on Improvisation and the desire to give tools and inspirations to be tried out in the Jam Session will be the link between all classes.
Jam session
We imagine a space, where CI can be practiced and contemporary dance can be actually danced (instead of being only a preparation for the dance on the stage). We are curios how the classes. labs performative frames and interludes will inform the jams sessions.
Performances
We want to create smaller and more relaxed frames to explore „performing improvised dance“ using feedback structures, scores for watchers, settings for „rehearsed“ impros as well as scores for random combinations of performers.
Open labbing
There will be 30 minutes for open labbing and dancing after the morning classes/ intensives. Talking, writing-corners, repetition of class material or explorative dancing can happen in a self organized way. In the afternoons there will also be space available for open labbing.
One2ones
Each participant will get a 20 minutes private lesson with a teacher. One afternoon will be dedicated to this wonderful and efficent way of individual learning in a big group.
One hour interludes
... will create focussed space for dance structures, lecture-demonstrations, dance dates, bodywork and whatever we feel is needed
Do what you need
We added another day to the festival without adding more content. So the schedule has several open slots to encourage a sense of doing less and sometimes nothing – a reminder to follow your own needs in an easily overstimulating athmosphere of a festival. Evening Sauna and swim, a little pool outside and open studios may help this purpose, too.
Experience level
We designed this festival for people who have at least a basic knowledge in CI and/or contemporary technique with a sense for improvisational work. Our experience is that complete beginners get easily overwhelmed by the amount of new information and the mass of people.