Workshop and Jam, Sunday September 4, 2011

What's danced, Etiquette, Snacks & Drinks etc.: see the Jams page

Location: Grote Zaal, WG-Terrein, Ketelhuisplein 47, 1054RD Amsterdam (map), a short ride or walk from Overtoom, Kinkerstraat, and Bilderdijkstraat.

Date/Time: Sunday September 4, 2011. Workshop 13:45-15:00; Jam 15:00-17:00.

Price: Workshop €11,- (includes jam); Jam only: €5,-

RSVP: Not necessary but greatly appreciated, see Facebook event

Workshop: Suggestion, seduction, surrender: the dynamics of the spiral with Claudia Kratzheller

Spirals are a dynamic shape that you encounter everywhere: be it in a growing plant, a DNA code, architectural constructs, your own walking pattern or a Tango ocho...

As well in CI as in Tango the use of the spiral is essential to our repertoire: it can be very subtle and elegant in walking, it can be lushly rolling on the ground, curling and reaching your limbs in love with the floor and other available playmates, it can be in quiet expansion and dynamic stillness before the explosion into the next moment-

We'll explore this beautiful state of being in various forms: from the relation to the ground rising into standing and playing with it in contact with each other, engaging in embrace and letting go again.

Please come and celebrate the joy of spirals together!

Lab and Jam, Sunday August 7, 2011

What's danced, Etiquette, Snacks & Drinks etc.: see the Jams page

Location: Grote Zaal, WG-Terrein, Ketelhuisplein 47, 1054RD Amsterdam (map)

Date/Time: Sunday August 7, 2011. Lab & Jam 14:00-17:00.

Price: Lab & Jam €5,-

Lab: We'll have a collaborative lab before the jam, see the newsletter

RSVP: Not necessary but greatly appreciated, see Facebook event

Workshop and Jam, Sunday July 3, 2011

What's danced, Etiquette, Snacks & Drinks etc.: see the Jams page

Location: Grote Zaal, WG-Terrein, Ketelhuisplein 47, 1054RD Amsterdam (map)

Date/Time: Sunday July 3, 2011. Workshop: 13:45-15:00. Jam: 15:00-17:00.

Price: Workshop €11,- (including jam). Only jam €5,-

RSVP: Not necessary but greatly appreciated, see Facebook event

Workshop: Tango and the Elements

Claudia Kratzheller will give the workshop preceding this jam.

fire fuego = axis
air aire = space
earth tierra = floor
water agua = embrace, connection

We'll live through a warm-up that takes the elements as metaphor for moving. Any movement, be it tango, contact or any relating contains all of them:

Let's connect to the floor, to ground, feel the space in yourself, the room and the partner(s) with the ease of air, feel the fire in our spines as axis, and float with open arms to embrace the currents of connection like streams of water!

Come and enjoy!

Workshop and Jam, Sunday June 5, 2011

What's danced, Etiquette, Snacks & Drinks etc.: see the Jams page

Location: Grote Zaal, WG-Terrein, Ketelhuisplein 47, 1054RD Amsterdam (map)

Date/Time: Sunday June 5, 2011. Workshop: 13:45-15:00. Jam: 15:00-17:00.

Price: Workshop €11,- (including jam). Only jam €5,-

RSVP: Not necessary but greatly appreciated, see Facebook event

Workshop: "Contact-Improv with Tango Flavour" by Ezequiel Sanucci and Lydia Müller

We will teach several tango steps, tango quality and basic principles of tango musicality. Then we will use this material in order to combine it with CI principles. We will work on how to use different points of contact to dance with one or more partners at the same time but keeping the essence of tango in their quality, musicality and flavour.

About Ezequiel Sanucci and Lydia Müller: Ezequiel did a long carreir as a ballet and contemporary dancer at some top companies in The Netherlands, Germany, Zwitserland and Argentina. At the same time he works as a professional tango dancer performing at milongas and festival in Holland, Belgium and Argentina together with known tango orquestras. Since 2008 he is working at the fusion of tango, contemporary dance, CI, theater and video. He created several contemporary tango pieces that were presented at important festivals in Europe and Latin America. In 2010 he won together with Lydia Müller the 1st prize at the Rabotheatrer Open Podium Twente. His is at this the director of the company Tango DansTheater/Ezequiel Sanucci. Lydia studied at Codarts, Rotterdam Dansacademie. She works as contemporary dancer at Merkxs & Dansers and Danstheater Adentro. As well she is a CI teacher and she teaches regulary at Contact Zone in Rotterdam. She works since 2009 together with Ezequiel Sanucci as dancer and co-director of Tango DansTheater/Ezequiel Sanucci. They work together in the Contact Tango research and they teach their workshops at dance schools as Codarts and in festivals and jams in Europe.

Workshop and Jam Sunday March 27, 2011

What's danced, Etiquette, Snacks & Drinks etc.: see the Jams page

Location: Grote Zaal, WG-Terrein, Ketelhuisplein 47, 1054RD Amsterdam (map)

Date/Time: Sunday March 27, 2011. Workshop: 14:00-15:15 (please arrive ten minutes earlier for welcome and warmup). Jam: 14:15-17:00.

Price: Workshop €11,- (including jam). Only jam €5,-

RSVP: Not necessary but greatly appreciated, see Facebook event

Workshop: this month Patrick Johnson leads the workshop "Walking Contact Improvisation":

"When we think contact improvisation, we may think of rolling, jumping, and falling. When we think of tango, we may think of walking. So how can contact improvisation and tango meet?

In this workshop we'll explore the roll of walking in contact improvisation and see how it can lead to intimate dancing. After all, walking is a combination of falling and recovering and when done with a partner involves thrillingly sensitive communication. In particular we'll look at walking forward, backward, and sideways, spinning while walking, falling and rising to and from the floor from walking (forward and backward), and lifting from walking. Our goal will be to link contact improvisation and tango so that the two forms can flow together seamlessly."

About Patrick: Patrick Johnson has studied and taught contact improvisation for over a decade in the U.S. and Europe. He is also a certified teacher of the Alexander technique and applies principles of Alexander technique to all aspects of his dance teaching.

Workshop+Jam Sunday March 6, 2011

What's danced, Etiquette, etc.: see the Jams page

Location: Grote Zaal, WG-Terrein, Ketelhuisplein 47, 1054RD Amsterdam (map)

Date/Time: Sunday February 6, 2011. Workshop: 14:00-15:00. Jam: 14:00-17:00.

Cost: Workshop €5,-. Jam €5,-

RSVP: Not necessary but greatly appreciated, see Facebook event

Workshop (canceled): This month Claudia Kratzheller will host a workshop/guided warm-up from 14:00 to 15:00: CI-Tango and the Elements:

fire, fuego = axis
air, aire = space
earth, tierra = floor
water, agua = embrace, connection

We'll live through a warm-up that takes the elements as metaphor for moving. Any movement, be it tango, contact or any relating contains all of them:

Let's connect to the floor to ground, feel the space in yourself, the room and the partner(s) with the ease of air, feel the fire in our spines as axis, and float with open arms to embrace the currents of connection like streams of water!

Come and enjoy!

Jam Sunday February 6, 2011

Location: Grote Zaal, WG-Terrein, Ketelhuisplein 47, 1054RD Amsterdam (map)

Date/Time: Sunday February 6, 2011. Jam: 14:00-17:00.

Cost: Jam €5,-.

RSVP: Not necessary but greatly appreciated, see Facebook event.

Virtual DJ: Alessandra Mercorella