International Contact Improvisation and Performance Festival

Международный Фестиваль Контактной Импровизации и Перформанса

Festival program

To view short teacher's CV and masterclass description - hold the mouse above the name or the title. To view class details - click on its title or teachers name. There are comments at the bottom of the page after timetable!

"EMPTYING, LANDING, SOARING", with Andrew Harwood
July 10-14, Workshop for all levels
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Schedule: 10, 13, 14 of July: 7 p.m. - 11 p.m.
11, 12 of July: 12 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Location: Lyalin sidestreet 3A, room 44. Nearest subway stations - Kurskaya, Kitai-gorod. See the map!

July 18th - Teachers' Performance in the Theatre of THE MEYERHOLD CENTRE
starts at 6 p.m.

The Festival Program - July 19-26

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"Nowhere Bound", with Martin Keogh
July 28 - August 3, Workshop for advanced CI dancers
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Schedule: 28, 29, 30 of July, 3 of August: 7 p.m. - 11 p.m.
1, 2 of August: 12 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Location: Lyalin sidestreet 3A, room 44. Nearest subway stations - Kurskaya, Kitai-gorod.

If you look at the structure and do not understand what it all means this section is for you J.

INTENSIVES. The longest and the most important workshops at the festival. Four teachers do their classes separately during five days. On 20, 21, 24 and 25th of July intensives begin at 9.30, on 22^nd they start at 13³⁰.

CI WORKSHOPS. On 20, 21 and 24^th of July we have Contact Improvisation workshops/classes. They start at 14³⁰. Duration of these classes is two hours each specified day.

PERFORMANCE RESEARCH labs. The performance research laboratories are meant to become a basis and tool for participants who want to take on the opportunity to perform at the two performances that are happening at the festival site. A lab can be the chance to carry out one small project with a constant group of people or to investigate different themes around performance each day. You can participate in laboratories one or more days.
We would like to create the freedom for the participants to develop ideas and find ways to use them in performance. We want to invite everybody, participating in the festival, students as well as teachers, to propose their ideas and questions for a performance research lab. Ideas could contain how improvisational forms and contact improvisation are a performance art. Including possible themes like trio, site specific, spontaneous composition, how do we communicate within an improvised piece, working with props, the use of voice, sound, music, texts/poetry, relationship to choreography...
These labs can happen only once or continue for several days, depending on demand. People, who feel confident about facilitating group work and enjoy it, are welcome to offer themselves as facilitators, even if they don’t have a personal performance research theme that they want to investigate.

Labs will start on the first day of the festival. Themes will be chosen from a pool of ideas and questions about improvisation and performance, proposed to us in advance before the festival. We will create a system (i.e. blackboard) for this pool to be added to, so that ideas that come up during the festival can be included in the labs, by a new timetable each day.

ONE-2-ONE SESSIONS are 20 min long individual sessions with teachers. In the begining of the festival there will be list of teachers and time where you can write your name to reserve this time for your lesson.

FREE TIME. On 23rd of July we have the rest&integration day. Although you may sleep till lunch we ask you not to leave festival venue. After lunch the interesting events are planned.