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Class levels

Before you make your choice for an intensive / workshop, please, read our thoughts concerning levels carefully:

It's our big whish that you as a participant can profit fully from this festival, also from the classes you will take. An important question is - for which level one should register: fundamentals, intermediate or advanced?

It's our experience over the last years - and we can also understand this in a certain way - that many of you want to proceed very fast in learning CI and therefore want to take classes for intermediate or advanced dancers quite soon. Just be aware, that CI is a very complex and demanding dance form, and that it can take a really long time to learn it.

We think that most of us stay "beginners" maybe for one year, even if we are dancing CI regularly. And then we stay for a few years intermediate before we can call ourselves advanced CI-dancers.

To get the many different aspects of CI it's very important to first get a good basis - that means you probably learn more in a class about CI-fundamentals when you're quite new to CI than in a class for intermediate/advanced dancers. And for every advanced dancer who is already dancing for many years it can be very fruitful to come back again and again to the fundamentals to get a deeper understanding as the individual background has been changed over the years.

For that we encourage you to be honest with yourself and maybe even a little bit modest while choosing your classes - to learn as much as possible at our festival!

Every teacher on our website offers a pretty clear description of the material that will be given at his class. We invite you to spend time on reading it, meditate and ask us your questions if you are in doubt. Then you will make a right choice and register!

«Dance me to the end of..», with Itay Yatuv
July 7-10, Workshop for all levels
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Schedule: 7 - 10 july
Location: Moscow.

Theatrical training on improvising:
"Force of presence" on July 10-12. Ilya Domanov, Mikhal Mazar

(Click here to see the description)

Time 19:00-22.00
Address: Center "Otkrytyi Mir" street Pavlovskaya 18
(Moscow)

Teachers Performance and Jam 13 july

More information about performance...

Schedule: 18:30 – 20:00 Performance
20:15 - 23:00 Jam
Address: Center "Otkrytyi Mir" street Pavlovskaya 18
(Moscow)

The Festival - July 14-21

To find out who leads INTENSIVES, CI Classes in each specified day and what are the classes for adults and children, click at the following words in timetable!

time 14.07 (Sat) 15.07 (Sun) 16.07 (Mon) 17.07 (Tue) 18.07 (Wed) 19.07 (Thu) 20.07 (Fri) 21.07 (Sat)
0700 - 0800 1700 - 1900
Participants Arrival and Registration

1800 - 1930

DINNER

Yoga for awakening   Yoga for awakening
0800 - 0900 breakfast
0930 - 1230 intensives
JAM
intensives
JAM
1230 - 1400 LUNCH Creative Day LUNCH
1400 - 1530
Creative Time
One2One sessions
Creative Time
12.00 - 15.00
Packing, cleaning space


15.00 - Participants departure
1530 - 1600 break break
1600 - 1800 Projects and labs Projects and labs
1800 - 1930 Dinner Dinner
1930 - Open circle

JAM
JAM JAM Performance and feedback

JAM
JAM Performance and feedback

JAM
Closing circle

Sweet JAM

«Contact improvisation lab for advanced dancers»,
with Yaniv Mintzer
July 25 - 29
(Click here to see description)

Time: 10:00 – 23:30 labs, intensive, bodywork, jam
Address: Moscow metro Kurskaya, Lyalin pereulok, 3a , 4 floor 44 map

Jam week in Moscow
25 - 29 july
(Click here to see description)

Time: 19:00 – 21:00 master-class
21:00 - 23:30 jam
Address: Moscow metro Kurskaya, Lyalin pereulok, 3a , 4 floor 44 map

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You may choose one of the following:

Ekaterina Basalaeva

Movement through balance

Gabriele Koch

Aerial dance. Dancing in the trees

Leilani Weis

Falling (up and down!)

Steve Batts

Phrasing

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Classes on 18th are lead by:

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Classes on 20th are lead by:

Itay Yatuv

Dance me to the end of..

Ilya Domanov and Katya Velichko

Performance Lab “Through the Borders”

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Classes on 23rd are lead by:

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Yoga and release!
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Creative Time

This is a special time of the day when you can concentrate on whatever is important for you.
Probably you would enjoy these options:
• Have some time alone, digest your experience, write down your thoughts…
• Talk to someone, share your feelings
• Make a small lab (e.g. work on the material of today’s intensive)…
• Give or receive bodywork…
• Make a photo shoot or video performance…
• Go on a dance date…
• Announce and facilitate a discussion on a topic that interests you – share your thoughts and find out what other people think…
• Make an unannounced performance for random audience…
• Announce place and time of your performance and perform (try out some creative ideas, collect feedback)…
• Rehearse for the evening performance…
• Connect with nature (go out for a walk or swim in the river)…
• Just have rest and sleep…
• Relax and think of something of your own…

If you want someone to join you at tomorrow’s Creative time, put an announcement on the information board in the “Creative time” section or speak up in the cafe during food break.

If you need support for your ideas feel free to ask teachers, organizers, friends and other participants.

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Projects and labs

At the festival you can participate in one of the Projects. Project is a lab that continues for 5 days. Projects are facilitated by teachers, but it is not a workshop, as teacher is only support the process of exploration, keep time and offer structure for the work. If you choose to be in a project, please participate all 5 days, so that the group can really go deep in exploration. This year we have two projects:

Adrian Russi

«Lab CI-Technique. From questions to deeper understanding»

Ilya Domanov and Katya Velichko

«Performance Lab “Through the Borders”»

If you want to explore your own themesorganize the process yourself and have an opportunity to take different themes every day with different people, than instead of joining a project, you can participate and organize laboratories. Laboratory is an opportunity to work with a theme that interests you with a group of interested people.

Laboratory is an opportunity to work with a theme that interests you with a group of interested people  We invite every festival participant to offer ideas and questions for labs. In the lab you can explore any aspect of CI and performance. Themes can be various, for example: contact trio, street performance, how to land softly when moving with a partner etc. Theme can be taken from morning intensive, if you want to explore something deeper. Labs can continue for 1 or more days depending on the interest of participants. The role of facilitator is to offer a theme and support creative exploration of the group.

We will have an information board for lab offers.
Welcome on board of exploration, curiosity, insights and creativity!!!

Some ideas on how to create a lab.
General Points:
 • Be passionate about your question or theme
 • Questions do not have to be answered. Question might produce more questions.
 • Motivate people to explore rather than give your own answers
 • Be open to let the explorations go in unexpected direction
 • There is no right or wrong way to lead a lab

Practical Points
1. Introduce the question or theme – in verbal or practical way as appropriate.
2. Discuss and agree the working methods – make best use of time available. It’s often useful to dance more, to explore the theme in movement.
3. Time keeping – watch the clock
4. Give time for feedback and sharing
5. There is a possibility to share your results in various ways
 - Documentation
 - Performance
 - Further lab

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One to 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.
festival program

July 7-10 - Workshop Contact improvisation
for all levels with Itay Yatuv;

July 13th - Teachers performance;

July 14 - 21 - Main part of The Festival
8 days of dancing;

July 25 - 29 - Contact improvisation lab for teachers and advanced dancers with Yaniv Mintzer;

July 25 - 29 - Jam week in Moscow
for everybody contact dancers



INTENSIVES

The longest and the most important workshops at the festival. Four teachers do their classes separately during five days. Intensives begin at 9.30.

PROJECTS AND LABS

At the festival you can participate in one of the Projects. Project is a lab that continues for 5 days. Projects are facilitated by teachers, but it is not a workshop, as teacher is only support the process of exploration, keep time and offer structure for the work. If you choose to be in a project, please participate all 5 days, so that the group can really go deep in exploration. This year we have two projects:
-Adrian Russi
-Ilya Domanov and Katya Velichko

If you want to explore your own themesorganize the process yourself and have an opportunity to take different themes every day with different people, than instead of joining a project, you can participate and organize laboratories. Laboratory is an opportunity to work with a theme that interests you with a group of interested people.

Laboratory is an opportunity to work with a theme that interests you with a group of interested people  We invite every festival participant to offer ideas and questions for labs. In the lab you can explore any aspect of CI and performance. Themes can be various, for example: contact trio, street performance, how to land softly when moving with a partner etc. Theme can be taken from morning intensive, if you want to explore something deeper. Labs can continue for 1 or more days depending on the interest of participants. The role of facilitator is to offer a theme and support creative exploration of the group.

We will have an information board for lab offers.
Welcome on board of exploration, curiosity, insights and creativity!!!

Some ideas on how to create a lab.
General Points:
 • Be passionate about your question or theme
 • Questions do not have to be answered. Question might produce more questions.
 • Motivate people to explore rather than give your own answers
 • Be open to let the explorations go in unexpected direction
 • There is no right or wrong way to lead a lab

Practical Points
1. Introduce the question or theme – in verbal or practical way as appropriate.
2. Discuss and agree the working methods – make best use of time available. It’s often useful to dance more, to explore the theme in movement.
3. Time keeping – watch the clock
4. Give time for feedback and sharing
5. There is a possibility to share your results in various ways
 - Documentation
 - Performance
 - Further lab

Creative Time

CREATIVE TIME

This is a special time of the day when you can concentrate on whatever is important for you.
Probably you would enjoy these options:
• Have some time alone, digest your experience, write down your thoughts…
• Talk to someone, share your feelings
• Make a small lab (e.g. work on the material of today’s intensive)…
• Give or receive bodywork…
• Make a photo shoot or video performance…
• Go on a dance date…
• Announce and facilitate a discussion on a topic that interests you – share your thoughts and find out what other people think…
• Make an unannounced performance for random audience…
• Announce place and time of your performance and perform (try out some creative ideas, collect feedback)…
• Rehearse for the evening performance…
• Connect with nature (go out for a walk or swim in the river)…
• Just have rest and sleep…
• Relax and think of something of your own…

If you want someone to join you at tomorrow’s Creative time, put an announcement on the information board in the “Creative time” section or speak up in the cafe during food break.

If you need support for your ideas feel free to ask teachers, organizers, friends and other participants.

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.