Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Contact Improv Intensive with Nita Little

2009 Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation
16th annual SFDI! August 2-9, 2009

CLASSES . PERFORMANCES . JAMS . DISCUSSIONS

5-Class Intensives: Benoit Lachambre . Daniel Lepkoff . Nita Little

4-Class Somatic Intensive: Susan Schell

Plus classes with Delia Brett . Maureen Freehill . Margit Galanter . Alicia Grayson . Cyrus Khambatta . Aiko Kinoshita . Tonya Lockyer . Jack Magai . Karen Schaffman . Stephanie Skura . Gretchen Spiro . Brad Stoller . Alia Swersky

5-Day Contact Improvisation Intensive with Nita Little

BODIES THAT SPEAK: ACTIVATING THE EMBODIED MIND

This Contact Improvisation Intensive explores the dance produced by an activated mindbody continuum. Enhanced by the implicit freedoms of the boundless mind infusing a bound body, this dance builds skills of slicing time, oscillating attention, working multiple levels of space, shape-shifting the extended body, & assembling & disassembling to individuate & unite the dance & dancers.

Nita Little develops, choreographs, performs & teaches improvisational dance, notably Contact Improvisation, which she has practiced for 37 years. She tours worldwide including the ImPulsTanz, Zip & Budapest International Festivals.

For more information and registration, go to Dance Art Group.


Sunday, March 15, 2009

Contact FUNdamentals Workshop April 4-5

Contact FUNdamentals Workshop
Everything you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask
Sat / Sun April 4th & 5th

Co-facilitated by Cyrus Khambatta and Michal Lahav


Cost: $80-$140 sliding scale if check received by March 25, $90-$150 afterwards.
Single day $50-$80 sliding scale.

Send check made out to The Phffft! Company
mail to 5609 34th Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98126.
For more info, email cyrus@PHFFFT.org

Deepen your understanding of essential movement principles —
weight sharing, rolling, falling, balancing, and spiraling. We
begin to engage, explore and integrate the world of contact dance
using fun, enriching and satisfying exercises that are simple and accessible
to beginner/intermediate students. Your questions will help
form the class so feel free to write them and email them to us
or bring them with you.