In this CI-into-performance workshop we create a supportive environment to explore 5 big P’s :
Presence, Perception, Play, Practice and Performance.
One thing that defines performance is that one or more people are watching. But the first audience is one inside our own mind ! We will make friends with our inner judge and cultivate the benevolent witness. We will untangle the basic human paradox of wanting to hide and wanting to be seen. There will be some technique and a lots of see, feel, touch, heal.
We’ll explore duet, trio and group scores with names like Flop, Flow, Freeze;
Absolute Beginners; Caterpillar, Cocoon, Butterfly; The Gift is in the Wound; Clown Your Demons; Artifice vs Authenticity; Never Alone; and Tiger Meets Penguin. We will explore tenderness and wildness, innovative disorientation and we will brave
the unknown.
Contact Improvisation into Performance - Intensive
EVERYTHING COMES ALIVE
Jules Beckman, is an transdisciplinary performing artist and teacher from the USA living in France since 2002. He has been making work collaboratively, teaching, and touring steadily in dance, theater, performance and circus since
1987. He is artistic director of transminuko (https://www.transminuko.com) Some collaborations include Needcompany, Collectif AOC, Libertivore, I.D.A./Mark Tompkins, Cahin-caha, Lhasa De Sela, Contraband/Sara Shelton, Anna Halprin,
Jess Curtis, Stanya Kahn, Stephanie Maher and Keith Hennessy.
Jules’ work has brought him to thirty countries. He has taught at Centre National des Art du Cirque, Impulstanz, DOCH, University of Dance and Circus, Canaldanse, MADE in France, Connecticut College, Prescott College New College of California,and several Contact Improv Festivals including Freiburg, Grenoble, Barcelona, Moab, Budapest and Ibiza.
“I began learning CI in San Francisco in 1988, as a member of Sara Shelton-Mann’s performance group Contraband. We were passionate about mixing CI with other forms, experimenting wildly, using CI to respond to spiritual and political
concerns. CI remains a context for liberation and community building, a laboratory of hybrid play, a physical prayer, a contemporary expression of the ecstatic dance lineage, a radical practice of decentralized power, an apt metaphor for myriad forms of relationship, a hothouse of connection and empowerment.”