Artists for the Long-Haul

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October 12, 2012 - 10:00am - October 14, 2012 - 5:00pm

The focus of this workshop is to lure unexpressed aspects of ourselves as individuals, dancers, artists, activists and community forward and to develop endurance both physically and emotionally. In our improvisation, dancing and art, when do we indulge, inhibit, lead, follow, say yes, say no, witness, exit, or endure?

Synthesizing concepts from ensemble improvisation, contemporary dance, contact improvisation and story telling we'll lay skill sets to bring us closer to our power, our voice, our intention, and bring our work to some public action completion.

Both facilitators, after 50 collective years of CI, concert dance and performance, are finding that we want to articulate our activism more legibly; we want to invite methods that bring direct and deepening pathways of real communication. We seek to challenge assumptions, bumping ourselves out of the comfortable knowing we've earned and paved. We will bring literature and radicalism into our contact and improvisation teachings. We move toward new pathways and proclivities of articulation in order to call ourselves out to personal and community action.

Tuition:
Student/Retiree: $200
Regular: $250
Professional: $300

Room and Board:
Guest Lodge: $150
Camping: $130
Commuting: $120

Faculty

Lani Nahele

Lani Nahele/Lisa Schmidt has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from SUNY/Purchase, 1982. She was a member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 1985-1992. Lani received her Certification as Practitioner of Body-Mind Centering in 1994. Several years were spent in Berlin, Braunschweig, and Cologne Germany where she was commissioned to make work, performed and taught. Some of her collaborators include Dieter Heitkamp, Helge Musial, Ka Rustler (Tanzfabrik in Berlin), Olivier Besson (Boston, Paris), Eva Geueke (Germany), Frey Faust (France, Germany), and Catherine Musinsky (Boston) among others with whom she has created numerous evening-length duets, group works and improvisational work. Currently she is part of a collective which includes; Jen Polins, Saliq Francis Savage, Krista DeNio and herself. Certifications include BMC®, Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis®, Pilates, Circulatory Massage and Reiki. She has also studied Trager Psychophysical Integration, Orthobionomy, and CranioSacral Therapy. Lani has a private practice in her studio, Studio rEvolution, and makes and sells dance pants. She is mother to Willem, eight years old.

Amii LeGendre

Amii LeGendre is an independent choreographer, dancer, and teacher. She lived and worked in Seattle for 15 years. In 1994, she founded a company of dancers, LeGendre Performance Group, with whom she made contact-based contemporary dance work, located in a detailed study of contact improvisation and collaborations with musicians, composers, and designers. Amii has taught contact and modern technique, improvisation and choreography, performed, and/or set work all over the country and in Canada, Hong Kong, Ecuador, and Peru. A faculty member at Cornish College of the Arts since 1998, she also teaches intermittently at Velocity Dance Center in Seattle. She has choreographed over 30 works, many for groups or communities other than her company. She moved to the Hudson Valley in 2005 to raise her now three and a half year old daughter and to make dance and community there. On the East Coast, she completed a guest residency at Weslyan University (Fall 06), at Connecticut College (Fall 07), teaches modern and contact to the Bard (and beyond) community, teaches contact improvisation through Dance New England, hosts a weekly dance lab group with local dance artists, and choreographs and performs alternative dance and improvisation work with a small group of colleagues. Her work includes teaching Dance Improvisation with men in a maximum-security prison in NY.

Artists for the Long-Haul

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