Nita Little | Advanced CI Practitioner Workshops | Berkeley, CA

Name: Nita Little | Advanced CI Practitioner Workshops | Berkeley, CA
Start: 2024-10-19T09:30:00-07:00
End: 2024-10-23T16:30:00-07:00
Location: Berkeley Finnish Hall

Schedule

Sat Oct 19 2024 at 09:30 am to Wed Oct 23 2024 at 04:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Berkeley Finnish Hall | Berkeley, CA

Nita Little is coming to Berkeley this October! Applications are open for her 5-day or 2-day advanced CI practitioner workshops: Technical, Ethical, Creative, and Relational: Transcendent Practices in Contact Improvisation and Ensemble Dancing
**APPLY HERE: https://forms.gle/CrjECppjo5czPqQWA
Workshop Description
Technical, Ethical, Creative, and Relational: Transcendent Practices in Contact Improvisation and Ensemble Dancing. Until you have skills and the ability to act, possibilities have no meaning and are rarely even considered. With skill you have power, but not necessarily the intricate levels of care. With care creativity can be abundant, but what is realized by the imagination and how does it become art? Everything is relational, but when this is recognized, tasted, and skillful, two or more become a single organism that is always also a multiplicity acting beyond its individual limitations, communication can become communion, and we open to the transcendent potentials of emergent phenomenon. There are so many reasons to dance, especially those found in these four general categories of mindfulness. Beginning in Contact Improvisation on the weekend, we will develop our work to the level and values of ensemble dancing. Please come ready to grow, for your dance to expand, and for your world to rock.
**This workshop is for advanced ci practitioners only**
Dates+Times: Saturday 10/19 to Wednesday 10/23 at Finnish Hall (1970 Chestnut St, Berkeley, CA 94702)
- Saturday, Oct 19: 9:30am - 3:00pm
- Sunday, Oct 20: 9:30am - 4:30pm
- Monday, Oct 21: 9:30am - 4:30pm
- Tuesday, Oct 22: 9:30am - 4:30pm
- Wednesday, Oct 23: 9:30am - 4:30pm
The workshop will consist of two parts: 2 full days in a larger group followed by 3 full days of deeper study with a smaller group. Option to apply for the full 5 days or just 2 days (Sat & Sun).
See pricing details on the application form: https://forms.gle/CrjECppjo5czPqQWA
(early bird pricing ended on July 12)
Biography
Nita Little investigates embodied attention within movement practices with a concentration on the technicalities of both creative and relational practices. Through ensemble dance improvisation practice and performance she works toward a future that recognizes our environmental entanglements and values many forms of embodied communication. A dance researcher, theorist/artist, and one of the founding developers of Contact Improvisation (CI) she teaches around the globe, guiding one of its forward leading edges. She began 50 years ago, working with Steve Paxton on materials that became CI (1972) and was a participant in the earliest performances and teaching that helped it to become significant within dance and dance communities. Within CI’s first year she developed a curiosity about the relationship of the (physical) mind and relational events. Now, she investigates ecological actions of embodied attention, particularly with respect to somatic communication between humans and beyond.
Nita received her PhD in Performance Studies with a focus on the articulation of presence and creative actions of attention (2014). Her life work is inclusive of mindbody training, performing, choreographing, researching and writing about the ethics, politics and entanglement of somatic relations. With a world-wide audience for her teaching, dance making, and lecturing, she is an activist for relational intelligence and an advocate for dancers as embodied researchers. She looks forward to returning to direct the internationally active Institute for the Study of Somatic Communication (ISSC, 2016), a network of laboratories populated by dancer researchers and associate research experts from diverse fields. She lives near Seattle, in the USA. During the years of worldwide retreat she initiated online classes of “Relational Intelligence” and “Composing Emergence” as well as private coaching which continue. Currently she tours throughout the year and may be found on 6 continents. She invites you to get her monthly newsletter available by signing up at: www.nitalittle.com
This workshop is organized by Alex Weinstein & Merrick Jacob. Contact us directly with any questions at [email protected]