SEEDS Festival 2010 Schedule

July 9 – 18 Butoh Ritual Mexicano Dance with Diego Pinon is a creative research practice based around personal experiences, collective symbols, and deep expressive needs. Intense physical training cultivates individual creativity through the use of emotional environments and energetnic charges within a supportive, non-judgmental atmosphere. Together, each individual reinforces the exchange and expansion of collective energy in order to realize a communal dance creation.

July 9–11 Extending the Comfort Zone with Benoit Lachambre. Through extended exercises Benoît Lachambre offers methods of awakening for the body. This leaves individuals free to follow their own aesthetics as they deepen their alignment and sensorial awareness. The goal is to pursue an awakened spirit and the shifting relationships with self, and to encourage self-reflection on the experience of awareness.

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Midweek: You have options! For this four-day mini-festival, you can sign up for all of the workshops and do a research project in your spare time, you can sign up for one workshop and use the rest of the day for a project, or you can spend these four days immersed in the Research Project—we leave it up to you.

July 12–15 (10am to 1pm) Weathering with K.J. Holmes. The body is the soil of our thoughts and imaginations. This workshop will devise the use of somatic explorations through the lens of Body-Mind Centering ® and improvisational dance tunings to discover, enrich, and explore how we are landscapes for our ideas. The workshop will be supportive and challenging—to embody our experiential knowledge with the uncertainty of what has yet to appear, manifesting trust in the unknown. We will spend time inside and outside.

July 12–15 (3pm to 6pm). Soft Body/Soft Terrain (Open Artist's Project) with Pedro Alejandro. The eco-imagination is the gateway, if not the destination, of our creative powers in movement making and place-making. The “soft body” creates inroads from streams of sensations/perceptions to tap the eco-imagination and expand the pleasures of the performative body everywhere.

July 12 - 15 SEEDS Research Project. During this four-day mini-festival, we invite you to create a SEEDS Research Project of your own design. For the Research Project, you are welcome to come with an idea fully developed, or arrive and see what grows from being amid the rich landscape of SEEDS @ Earthdance. You may meet others at SEEDS with whom you would like to collaborate or attend with a collaborator of your choosing. Through the SEEDS Research Project, we are fostering eco-somatic experiments to develop through the festival.
 

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July 16 Eden Arising: Ecological Design as a Spiritual Practice with Dave Jacke. Essentially, the goal of ecological design is to recreate the Garden of Eden—and why not? It is technically quite feasible in this age of high technology and information to create food-producing ecosystems that work like healthy natural systems with minimal maintenance and diverse yields.

July 16–17 (overnight event) K.J. Holmes: Pinecones. All creations pass through a time of being in the dark. It is the time of dreams, illusions, and magic. This evening into the morning event will be a guided physical meditation into the chimerical nature of dance. We will end the day and begin a new one together as we shift our relationship to time and composing space, creating and entering a theater of our own design.

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SEEDS EVENTS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC:
$7 to $10 suggested donation unless otherwise indicated; meals $10.
Free to SEEDS festival attendees. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Saturday July 10, 8 pm
Performance. Benoît Lachambre (Montreal) plus special guest performers

Sunday July 11, 6 & 8 pm
ECO Dinner. Delicious recipes by Leslie Cerier, author of Going Wild in the Kitchen
ECO Jam. Atmosphere et Musique to dance to with Ali Skalli

Monday July 12, 8 pm
Film Screening. Vanishing of the Bees—tracking the mysterious disappearance of honeybees across the planet.

Tuesday July 13, 8 pm FREE!
Panel discussion. SEEDS Artists-in-Residence, including dancemakers, somatics specialists, a landscape architect, and permaculturists.

Wednesday July 14, 8 pm
Film Screening. Four Women in a Tree—four successive generations of women choreographers and their influence on one another: Anna Halprin, Simone Forti, Pooh Kaye, Jennifer Monson.

Thursday July 15, 8 pm FREE!
Discussion. Paying Attention: The interdisciplinary weave of awareness in the practices of Permaculture, Contact Improvisation, and Body-Mind Centering. Just Manocchia, organizer.

Friday July 16, Please register for this event at contact@earthdance.net.
SEEDS Special Dance Sleepover Event: PineCones with K.J. Holmes ($125)

Saturday July 17, 10 am to 10 pm, $10 - $25, donations accepted + $10 per meal
SEEDS Festival Community Day (see detailed descriptions below!)
All day: Green m-Art: Crafts Fair and Sustainability Info Swap
10 am to noon: BioZone Walk with Gopi Krishna. Kid-friendly!
Noon to 1 pm: SEEDS Research Projects: discussion and performance.
1 to 3 pm Lunch Rest & Digest. Enjoy the Green m-Art crafts fair and Info Swap.
3 to 4:30 pm Community Sing: Songs for the Earth with Penny Schultz. All ages!
4:30 to 6 pm SEEDS Research Projects: discussion and performance.
6 pm Dinner & Discourse. Eat our delicious locally grown food and network.
8 pm Body Cartography Participatory Performance. Explore the land with group instruction.

SEEDS FESTIVAL COMMUNITY DAY CELEBRATION:
Detailed descriptions of activities for the full day and evening celebration with special events and the sharing of investigations that have taken place at SEEDS. You are welcome all day or for part.

Saturday July 17, 10 am to 10 pm, $10 to $25 suggested donation + $10 per meal

All day:
Green m-Art: Local craftspeople and artisans offer eco-friendly and eco-inspired creations for purchase.
Sustainability Info Swap: Local and regional organizations and education centers exchange information and resources.

10 am to noon: Biozone Walk with Gopi Krishna. Kid friendly!
Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of the Earthdance Bio-zone. Local tour of wonderous places to explore around Earthdance: Waterfalls, Edible Plants, Crystal stones, and Cavernous sound chambers are but a few of the places to commune with nature within a mile of Earthdance. Come explore with neighbor and longtime Earthdance community member Gopi Krishna.

Noon to 1 pm: SEEDS Research Projects
SEEDS festival attendees share their research through discussion and performance.

1 to 3pm: Lunch, Rest & Digest. Enjoy the Green m-Art & Info Swap.

3 to 4:30 pm: Community Sing: Songs for the Earth with Penny Schultz. All ages welcome.
Come celebrate the earth, peace, and well being in a Community SING. Traditional songs in 2 to 4 part harmony, from a wide variety of cultures will be taught by rote. (more info about SING)

4:30 to 6 pm: SEEDS Research Projects
SEEDS festival attendees share their research through discussion and performance.

6 to 8pm: Dinner & Discourse Eat our delicious locally grown food and network with friends, old & new.

8 to 9 pm: BodyCartography Participatory Performance
with Olive Bieringa & Otto Ramstad
Performance with group instruction. We will create a temporary animal movement village beginning in the tissues, fluids, and structure of our bodies, coming out to the surface of our skin to meet others, then traveling further past the skin of our eyes into micro macro spaces on the land and in the woods. Together we will blur the distinctions between deep inside and deep outside; breath is the air around us, food is the ground we walk on.

We hope to see you at SEEDS for a fabulous day of exchange of ideas and resources.