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Maria Grudskaya
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Class for all levels
“Light Weight” is a type of movement dynamics in Laban Movement Analysis.
This is my favorite one in contact dance.
This is a mix of lightness, mobility, sense of support and possibility to play with timing and speed. This quality gives opportunity to enjoy partner’s support staying light; also, it creates safety and gentleness even moving at higher speed. Due to this quality you can dance for a long time without getting tired!
We will find breath and attention that support Light Active Weight.
And we’ll dance a lot with partners and solo.
Has been dancing CI since 2003, teaching in Moscow, other cities of Russia and in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Israel. Studied with many teachers, among them Andgela Dony, Steve Batts, Nancy Stark Smith. Masha is one of the organizers of Moscow Contact Festival. Also, she explores dance improvisation in performance, works with dancers, musicians and artists in different performance projects.
“To me, in CI there are two worlds, closely connected and supporting one another: one is body organization, movement analysis, connections in the body, reflexes; other is expression, sense, composition. I enjoy the depth, richness and endless of both these worlds…”
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festival program
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July 9-12 - Workshop
for beginners and all levels with
Benno Voorham;
July 9-12 - Workshop
for beginners and all levels with
Manuela Blanchard;
July 16th - Teachers performance and the festival project in Moscow Theatre;
July 17 - 24 - Main part of The Festival
8 days of dancing in the countryside;
July 27 - 31 - Contact-tango Workshop
for all levels with Leilani Weis;
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INTENSIVES
The longest and the most important workshops at the festival. Four teachers do their classes separately during five days. On 19, 20, 23 and 24th of July intensives begin at 9.30, on 21st they start at 1330.
CI CLASSES
On 19, 20 and 23rd of July we have Contact Improvisation workshops/classes. They start at 1430.
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
These 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.
Underscore
An introduction to the Underscore, a long jamming/contact/improvisation score that Nancy has been developing since 1990. The Underscore guides us through a progression of “changing states” of body and mind—from solo sensitizing to gravity and support, into group circulation and contact improvisation engagements, opening out into whole-room compositional awareness and interaction, and back to rest and reflection.
“The Underscore talk” (required for participation in the practice) will give some background and will outline the structure in detail. After this concentrated instruction on the nature of the Underscore, participants will be ready for the physical practice itself, which will include periods of silence and periods of live music improvised/composed by Mike Vargas.
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