International Contact Improvisation and Performance Festival

Международный Фестиваль Контактной Импровизации и Перформанса

Festival program

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"Falling into contact", with Mirva Mäkinen
July 5-8, Workshop for beginners
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July 12th - Teachers' Performance in the Theatre of THE MEYERHOLD CENTRE, starts at 6 p.m.

The Festival Program - July 13-20

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"CI and performance:visible-invisible", with Alexandra Soshnikova and Sergey Golovnya
July 23-27, Workshop for advanced CI dancers
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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 14, 15, 18 and 19th of July intensives begin at 10 o'clock, on 16^th they start at 14³⁰. Duration of these classes is three hours each specified day.

CI WORKSHOPS. On 14, 15 and 18, 19^th of July we have Contact Improvisation workshops. 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.

Starting to fill up this pool of ideas already, we invite everybody who is participating in the festival, to email their theme together with a few explaining sentences to Gesine at gesineda@gmx.de; from now on. Gesine will help to distribute these themes, organizing time and space for them to happen, by preparing the time-table for the labs everyday during the festival.

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 17th of July we have day-off. You can use this day on your own. In the evening we have live music open jam.