Mim King is curating Movement 12′s events for Feb/Mar under the title of ‘Perception and Invisibility’. Back by popular demand is another opportunity to do an Ideokinesis Master Class  with Ursula Stricker. Mim will also continue to explore the theme of her month when she takes a group on a walk in a wood at twilight.

Lisa Nelson(USA).
Curated by Becky Edmunds

Exploring the dialogue between moving and seeing.

The second of Lisa Nelson’s Video Lab’s in Brighton following on from the first the previous year.

This workshop is suitable for screen dance artists, and dance artists with a particular interest in Lisa’s work.

With hands-on work with the mobile camera, we will focus on the process of in-camera editing, generating spontaneous and complete compositions.

The workshop is preparation for any application of video to dance to video.

Emphasis will be placed on developing a spontaneous response and flexible attitude toward seeing movement, and evolving camera and editing techniques that complement, augment, and/or reflect the way we move through our world.
Lisa Nelson has been exploring the role of the senses in the performance of movement since the 70s.

Best known for her work as an improvisational performer and choreographer, and developer of Tuning Scores, she has been extending her inquiry into the video medium for many years, creating and teaching a two-year course of study in video and dance at Bennington College, U.S.A.

She teaches and performs across the U.S and abroad and continues a longstanding collaboration with dancer Steve Paxton.

She is director of Videoda, an archival, production, and distribution project for videotapes of improvised dance performance worldwide, and since 1977, has co-edited Contact Quarterly, an international dance and improvisation journal. She lives in Vermont.

Ideokenisis
Mabel Elsworth Todd pioneered Ideokinesis in the 1920s. Her book, The Thinking Body, described new ways to use all the senses as well as inner feeling and imagination to retrain the body to move with ease and balance.

The system became an invaluable tool for generations of dancers, actors, and performance artists, thanks largely to one of its most important teachers, Andre Bernard (1924-2003).
Ursula Stricker trained directly for 20 years with Andre Bernard.

http://www.ideokinesis.com

Flight and Fall

A workshop for solo, duet and trio work derived from Contact Improvisation
with
Jacky Miredin (Rome)
Charlie Morrissey (UK)
Adrian Russi (Switzerland)

This workshop explores Contact Improvisation in trio and duet work with three acclaimed and highly experienced male dancers and teachers.

Looking at upward motion and elevation, lifting and falling, elasticity and connection, resistance and yielding – via the connection with two partners.

We will work with three-dimensional awareness, and explore the space behind, above, below and in front of us – both external and internal experiences of it, as a way to facilitate an agile and playful approach to the many choices we encounter in our dancing.

We will use momentum and weight as a catalyst for lifts, and find ways in which we can ride the momentum created by setting our masses in motion.

We will capitalise on this opportunity to work in trio’s and use it to go beyond our perception of what is possible in our dancing; working with two partners
will help us find places and pathways we have not yet been able to explore with one.

Be ready to dance!

This workshop will be physical, fun and exhilarating.
For experienced dancers.

A session in Little Dippers swimming pool on 11/10/08
Video by Becky Edmunds

At The Basement, Brighton. 03/10/08
An event hosted by Liz Aggiss with performances and installations by:
Miriam King, Ben Wright, Lila, Charlie Morrissey, Scott Smith, Andrew Harwood, Underground 7, Loop, Claudia Kappenburg, Becky Edmunds, Maria Lloyd and Lucy Cash.
Video by Becky Edmunds.

At The Nightingale Theatre, Brighton, 23/11/07
An evening of work in progress showings from:
Augusto Corrieri, Tamar Daly, Ana Fernandez, Tamzin Hurley, Maria Lloyd and Bethania Matheus
Images by Miriam King.

At the Nightingale Theatre, Brighton 03, 04, 05/11/07
Video created by Andy Wood on Lisa Nelson’s workshop.