The 18th Berkeley Thanksgiving Weekend Contact Improvisation Intensive w/ Karl Frost
Schedule
Fri Nov 29 2024 at 01:00 pm to Sun Dec 01 2024 at 07:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Western Sky Studio | Berkeley, CA
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the 18th annual Thanksgiving WeekendContact Intensive with Karl Frost
Nov 29 - Dec 1, 2024
Berkeley, CA
This yearly workshop for experienced contactors is Karl’s most
“improvised” workshop of the year, offering new experiments
based on recent work and curiosities. ‘an organic mix of
technique and poetic exploration of physical encounter.
The yearly tradition was interrupted in 2020 with Covid, but we restart in 2024!
Technical work cultivates efficiency, kinesthetic pleasure, physical safety, fluid speed and power. Art and felt meaning in the dance create physical poetry.
While our path will be discovered as we go, you can expect…
• contact vocabulary: novel lifts and mechanical details
• a balance of study and abandon, tight investigations and open questions
• Explorations of release technique and the “passive sequencing” work
• Questioning ‘meaning’ and poetry of the body
• Using the mind and losing the mind
• States of awareness and experiments in mind/body relationship
• the possibility of intentionality and composition juxtaposed with the impossibility of control of meaning and motion.
Karl Frost has been teaching, performing, and directing experimental theater and explorations in contact improvisation for over 37 years in over 30 countries. His company, Body Research, is devoted to exploration of the self through the lens of the body, encompassing stage work, participatory performance happenings, workshops, and gatherings that facilitate the integration of life and art. Central to his work is the provocation of explorations of agency and meaning. He has an MFA in Dramatic Arts and a PhD in Ecology at UC Davis and currently works as a research anthropologist at
the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany
Of Body Research performing work …
’something startling but strangely beautiful to behold.
Molly Rhodes, SF Weekly, San Francisco, August 07
Logistics -- contact: [email protected]
Time/Location: 12-6pm Fri-Sun, Western Sky Studio (2545 8th Street at Dwight)
Fees: $335-$600 sliding scale,
rolling discounts for early registration starting at $260 (see website)
visit the website for registration and payment details
This workshop is for those who already have an intro to Contact Improv.
www.BODYRESEARCH.org
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Where is it happening?
Western Sky Studio, Berkeley Moving Arts, 2525 8th St, Berkeley, CA 94710, United States,Berkeley, CaliforniaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
