WORKSHOP LEADERS AND
DESCRIPTIONS
FALMOUTH, Massachusetts---THANKS TO ALL FOR A WONDERFUL FESTIVAL!
Namita Bodaji, Skip Costa, Geordie Holmes, Paula Josa-Jones,
Black Bear, Steven Malkus, Shaker and Anja, Bobbi Bailin, Douglas Victor
* Festival info, daily program, registration
SAN FRANCISCO---date not set
Anandha Ray, Dudley Brooks, Geordie Holmes, Steven Malkus, Shaker and Anja, Douglas Victor, Isabeau Vollhardt, Kathleen Arnold, Bill Evans and others TBA
ALSO Please Help The Festival!-----Complete our online survey
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The Dance Vision Festival is a project of the Virtual Dance Festival, A Dance Sources Project
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This is the second in a series of festivals dedicated to dance as spiritual practice. The first was in New York City April 21-23rd at the BRIDGE on Broadway and 104th St., a beautiful dance and yoga studio, and the IM School for Healing, also a great space.
The Falmouth Dance Vision 2000 Festival, Friday, Saturday and Sunday June 9,10 and 11th, will occur at the Falmouth Unitarian Universalist Fellowship and the Mary French Dance School. Falmouth is a sanctuary seacoast town on the "heel" of the boot of Cape Cod. SEE MAP.
Workshops are in the day and evenings will be for informal jams/showings free to workshop participants and open to the public for a suggested price of $10. Skip Costa and Amiti from New York City will be giving a special preview performance of a new work the opening night, Friday June 9th, 8pm-10pm. Saturday night 8-10pm will be a facilitated jam with festival leaders, plus special guest, Bobbi Bailin, a Falmouth resident.
The third evening FINALE, Sunday, June 11th, at 8pm-10pm will combine workshop efforts, audience celebrations, and featured performances including Namita Bodaji, who is a wonderful classical dancer from India (and is here because of our internet friendship!), and Geordie Holmes/ Steven Malkus, full-time Falmouth residents. (Reservations accepted—–$12 adults, $10 seniors and students and $6 for children). CALL 508-495-3311.
The line-up of daily workshops is this: Paula Josa-Jones, SOURCEWORK ,Douglas Victor, CREATIVE DANCE, Steven Malkus and Geordie, VISIONING, Namita Bodaji, BHARATHA NATYAM.
Each day will begin and end with a brief ceremony and meditation period conducted by a Black Feet Tribe elder, Black Bear. These will be outdoors at one of the local parks, by the ocean or at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. There will also be daily outdoor creative rituals such as chanting, dancing, walking, facilitated by festival leaders.These are also free to workshop participants and, for a nominal donation, open to the general public.
And to top of this amazing event, masters of song and dance from Easthampton, MA, Shaker and Anja will be conducting daily circle dances and facilitating the evening events!
We are trying to make a real festival---a joyous three days you can really dive into. Group rates are available for accommodations. Check out the really nice and affordable local B&B, the Sjoholm Inn. We can help with arrangements---email Steven...Also if you want a brochure just email your snail mail address.
We are not just another dance event. We are trying to create a network of people that pool resources to promote this very needed work of health, spirit and community. We hope that "hosting" will catch on with an active exchange of teachers and performers. Please consider what can happen in your area and freely use our model. Above all let us help each other...there is a whole world out there in need and waiting! By all means stay in touch! We have a listserv and their is an email list of people who would love to hear from you on ideas and collaborations.
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* FOR ANY SINGLE WORKSHOP($50)
* FOR 2 OR MORE WORKSHOPS AND GET 20% OFF
* TO HOLD A SPACE FOR A WORKSHOP($20)
* FOR MORE INFO AND TO GET A FREE BROCHURE
EMAIL STEVEN MALKUS (stevenmalkus1@prodigy.net) OR SEND CHECK AND INFO TO: Dance Vision 2000 Festival 50 GLENWOOD AVE. FALMOUTH, MA 02540... OR CALL: 508-495-3311
OR print, fill out and send our registration form to above address.
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The Dance Vision 2000 Festival is a project of the Virtual Dance Festival, A Dance Sources Project
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DESCRIPTIONS(by teacher---alphabetical)
Performance - Moods of the EarthMother - a new web based performance piece combining movement, voice, poetry, ritual and prayer.
Workshop - Newary Buddhist Tantric Dance - I teach an ancient prayer dance
from Nepal from a tradition where the dancer literally becomes the deity for
the duration of the dance. Beyond being a beautiful and simple dance, we
get a chance to explore the divine in performance and dance.
Group Ritual Performance Event - From Lizard Dreams -I would like
to lead a group on a dance/meditation through a pool of white clay symbolic
of rebirth into the dream time or sub-conscious mind. This is an extremely
visceral, tactile and physical experience - I found it life changing in my
journey as a performing artist. .............................Kathleen Arnold is a theatre and dance artist based in her home of Edmonton, Alberta. She is the Artistic Director of Wild Sage World Arts Company.
.WEBSITE: http://kathleen_arnold.tripod.com ....Email: kathleen_arnold@hotmail.com
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AWARENESS
THROUGH MOVEMENT
Bobbi Bailin is a teacher of the Alexander
Technique, an artist and healer.
She creates movement environments using awareness and images of
Nature to
focus on and free the divine, creative energy flowing through us.
Background includes study of Gurdjieff Movements, Noyes Rhythm,
Sacred Circle
Dance. Taught Sacred Dance at Interface and Hancock Church.
Recipient of
Mass Cultural Council Grant for movement 2000.
EMAIL: bobbibysea@aol.com
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Black Bear
is a member of the Blackfeet Tribe. He is an
artist/scholar
Website: Healing of Nations Email: blkbear@mis.net
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Namita Bodaji is a Bharatha Natyam exponent from India. Bharatha Natyam is a visually dynamic and very precise classical dance. Classical dances in India are considered a form of yoga because of its amalgamation of physical energy and spiritual quality. Namita Bodaji started dancing at the age of six. Though a classical dancer she has even been trained in Indian folk dances. She is the recipient of the award "Singar Mani",has several performances to her credit. Namita teaches dance and also choreographs.
Namita Bodaji's workshop "Joy In Dance" will use pure dance, interpretative dance and facial expressions to create pure joy thereby creating an aesthetic expression. The workshop will use "hastas", "mudras", and stories from mythologies, and the use of symbolism
Where the hand goes, there should follow the eyes,
Where the eyes go, there should go the mind,
Where the mind goes, bhava or emotion is created,
Where bhava is created, rasa or sentiment will arise
--From (Nandikeshvara's Abhinaya Darpana)
http://www.itsecure.com/namita .... Email: namita64@hotmail.com
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PHYSICAL COMEDY AND CLOWNING
http://www.best.com/~voices .....Email: voices@best.com
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SKIP COSTA
, founder and artistic director of COREmovement PROJECT,
received
his MFA in Movement Studies & Choreography at George
Washington University
and a Movement Certificate from The Naropa Institute. He
has worked with
Barbara Dilley, Meredith Monk, Anna Halprin, Bonnie Bainbridge
Cohen, Ralph
Lemon, Katie Duck and has performed nationally with Maida
Withers, David
Rousevve/REALITY, Naropa Artist Exchange, School for New Dance
Development,
European Dance Development Center, DC International Improvisation
Plus+
Festival, The Washington Opera, and The New Orleans Ballet.
At THE BRIDGE in
Manhattan he serves as faculty, Company-in-Residence, and
Associate Director
of Uptown Performance Series........... Email: HeartHeals@aol.com
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Achieving Cellular Vibrancy
This workshop is based on the Evolutionary Developmental Movement Patterns as inroads to becoming fully alive--fully embodied--achieving vibrancy on the cellular level.
( Influences are Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen and Imrgard Bartenieff, via
Peggy Hackney).
Part of this process involves yielding and bonding with the earth, letting
the outside (earth and sky) in and the inside (feelings and sensations)
out.
When this state is achieved, the dancer is ready to move from a place of
personal meaning. We build full body, three-dimensional, dynamic dances
based on images which are derived from and supportive of the Developmental
Patterns. These dances become manifestations of personal meaning.
We connect the parts of ourselves to each other, ourselves to the earth
the sky and each other. It is life affirming, a process of
regeneration.Bill Evans has an MFA in dance from the University of Utah, where he was a
member of the Modern Dance Department faculty for two years and artistic
coordinator of the professional Repertory Dance Theatre for seven years.
He has performed as a soloist in England, France, Italy, Germany, Hungary,
Finland, Norway, Japan, India, New Zealand and Australia. He has
choreographed more than 175 works for ballet, modern and tap dance
companies throughout the world. He has been honored with the Guggenheim
Fellowship, seven Choreographic Fellowships from the NEA and 38 other
grants from federal, state and provincial arts agencies and universities.
He was awarded the first Albuquerque Arts Alliance "Bravo" Award for
Excellence in Dance in 1997, the same year in which he was named
"Scholar/Artist" of the National Dance Association. He is a full
professor of Dance at the University of New Mexico and a Certified
Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst.WEBSITE: http://www.lobo.net/~michael/bedc .....Email: bevan@unm.edu
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1.. "natural
dances".....working with breath+stillness
within dance phrases+relating to gravity,muscular
intensity,dynamics and repetition.....and motivation coming from
inner impulses.....are the elements to learn from, the tools to
allow the imagination to grow into.......
2. "dance
stories"....combining the relations between
human/cultural/natural environments, we will arrive at a
crossroads where the body/person/character will merge into a
storyteller........in movement metaphor....
geordie holmes is a believer in the broad sweep of feelings to create a movement impulse or a beginning dance idea........its so much about how the creator is inspired as to how the the feeling of the work /the dance is felt by others.......there are many ways to come into watching and feeling a dance unfold........but the intent of the artist is the key to unlock the new door........the inner impulses ...even if seeming very abstract in the form, the dances have to be felt as something strongly joyous in the creator......in order that the imaginative power or quality of the dance motifs can be felt in some way by another person.......... (for more info on geordie holmes and photo) ...........Email: Geordie@capecod.net
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SOURCEWORK
Sourcework
deepens the practice of performance by expanding the range and
depth of physical sensing and response through the use of imagery
and specific movement and voice strategies.. Attention to
the subtle, continuous flow of movement and sensation challenges
and transforms physical habits and boundaries, dissolving the
body's automatic responses, and opening to unexplored
movement possibilities. Includes work with Authentic
Movement, a movement and sound process in which the mover brings
psyche, dream and feeling into form through movement. Also
includes: cultivating a clear and generous inner witness;
learning to listen internally to the body, and externally to
other performers, space, and audience. Classes will
integrate performance, witnessing and discussion.
(2) MAKING
DANCES
This class is about
discovering an authentic impulse to move, and how to journey from
that impulse to the creation of choreographic work without
sacrificing freshness and heat. Beginning with a "hot"
physical impulse we learn to expand and edit movement materials
by learning to listen: when to build and when to let the
dance "compost", and how to develop clear intention and
motivation. Other strategies include: development of
personal imagery, work with sound and text, utilizing stillness,
sequencing, speed, spatial relationship. Classes include
improvisation, writing, drawing, discussion, and the development
of a new work.
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Paula
Josa-Jones began her performance
work in the theater twenty-five years ago. After several
years in classical and experimental theater, she began an
eclectic, wide-ranging study in dance, beginning with African
master teacher Charles Moore and including intensive work with
Eiko & Koma, Authentic Movement, and Deep Listening with
Pauline Oliveros. She has developed a unique form of
visually charged dance theater built on the sensuous experience
of the body as landscape and source for movement, image and voice.
As the Artistic
Director of Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works, Josa-Jones
has received two consecutive two-year Choreography Fellowships (1992-96)
from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as an Artist's
Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her
choreographic and teaching work in Mexico from 1993-1996 has been
supported by an NEA US/Mexico Cultural Exchange Fellowship and
the US/Mexico Fund for Culture. She is the recipient of two
New Forms grants from the New England Foundation for the Arts and
an Artists Foundation Fellowship in Interarts for her video
dance collaborations with Vin Grabill. Paula Josa-Jones/Performance
Works has received support from the Massachusetts Cultural
Council, the New England Foundation for the Arts, the Arts
Lottery, Creative Time, the Dakota Foundation, LEF Foundation, the
Claneil Foundation, the Polaroid Foundation, and the Trust for
Mutual Understanding for their work in Russia. Ms. Josa-Jones
has received commissions from the Joyce Theater, Jacob's Pillow,
Dance Umbrella, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, and nuArts at
Northeastern University. Her newest work,
Antigone's Dream, is supported by the National Dance
Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts and Meet the
Composer.
During the past
fifteen years, Ms. Josa-Jones has produced over thirty works of
dance theater, nine of them evening-length. She has created
several works for film and video and frequently collaborates with
visual and media artists. She has commissioned original
musical scores from numerous contemporary composers, including
Ingram Marshall and Pauline Oliveros. Ms. Josa-Jones has
been in residence at The Yard, Yaddo, Yellow Springs Institute
and the Djerassi Foundation and her work has been produced at
Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), The Joyce Theater (New York),
Jacob's Pillow (Lee, MA), Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors (New York),
Dance Umbrella (London and Boston), Performance Space 122 (New
York), Tangente, Inc. (Montreal), Bates Dance Festival (Maine),
Women in Theater Festival and Mobius (Boston), Yellow Springs
Institute (Philadelphia), the Performance Art Festival (Cleveland),
as well as numerous universities and colleges.
Ms. Josa-Jones is a
master teacher whose classes focus on composition, improvisation,
creative process and the integration of voice and movement.
She has taught in the dance program at Tufts University and in
the Opera Department at Boston University and is a co-director of
Green Street Studios in Cambridge. Her writings on movement
and dance are published in Contact Quarterly.
www.paulajosajones.com.
...........Email: josajo@vineyard.net
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This workshop is about visioning. After a warmup we will concentrate on bringing visions up from the source and flowing with their power as inspiration for making your own dance.Visions are not images---they come through the spirit and pervade the entire being, all the senses, and with great force, feeling and clarity. They are vivid communications from the deep well of our hopes,desires and dreams---also from the intangible presences which surround us. In this workshop we will learn how to crystalize these gifts into prayer and art. (more info on Steven Malkus and photo)
Email: stevenmalkus1@prodigy.net
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CREATING DANCE OF SIGNIFICANCE: Expressive Movement
Processing. EMP is a choreographic form abstracting processes from dance
movement therapy to enable the choreographer to access the subconscious as
a guide for the creation of rich professional dance art. This process
develops in the choreographer a keen understanding of the integral
relationship of time and space in the weaving of "authentic" movements
into viable and meaningful art. Anandha Ray has two MA degrees,
Dance/Movement Therapy and a second degree with double major in
Choreography and Kinesiology. She is the director of Moving Arts Dance
Collective, a former Professor of Dance in several colleges and at the
University of the Pacific, and has choreographed and performed nationally
and internationally with several companies.http://www.movingartsdance.org Email:Ananda@movingartsdance.org
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Creative Dance: Human Expression through Improvisation
In this workshop, you will be introduced to a Mettler-based approach to
the art of body movement. The major emphases of the workshop are: the
development of the kinesthetic sense independent of external
accompaniment; the exploration of natural individual movement expression
independent of learned ways of moving and based upon your own internal
rhythms; and creation of dances with others including group dance
improvisations which harken back to the choric dances of Mary Wigman.
Offering a basic and free approach to the art of body movement whose
language is the interplay of the elements of dance, force, time, and
space, this workshop provides a means to discover the power and joy of
creative movement expression that is available to us all, that reflects
our humanity, and supports a primary need for expression that modern
culture seems to have mostly forgotten.
Doug Victor, long-term student of Barbara Mettler, is a certified
holistic counselor with nearly 30 years of teaching, counseling and dance
experience. He has taught at Brown University Department of Athletics
and Rhode Island College. He has performed in the Barbara Mettler
International Company, Dance Now, Still Dancing, Doug Victor & Company,
and in Circle the Earth with Anna Halprin. He is a founder of the
International Association for Creative Dance and is editor of the
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Sacred Circles Masters of
the ancient and new, song and
dance, Shaker and Anja will lead us into the mysteries of the
circle where
we are renewed and find union. Anja and Shaker
live on Touchstone Farm in
Easthampton, MA where they raise herbs, flowers and the spirits
of all those
who visit to partake in their evenings of dances from all over
the world and
touching thru millenia. Shaker began formal studies of Sacred
Dance in the mid-seventies
with Yakzan Valdez, a sheik of both the Chisti and the Mevlana
Sufis. He
currently uses The Dance as a medium to cultivate that same union
which
Hafiz or Rumi talked of, that soft space which is the real being,
that time which
is not measured by any clock but rather by the depth of one's
dreams.
Anja is a minstrel in the truest sense. For years she wandered
through Europe simply singing the songs which were close to her
Heart. She sang songs of the circle, songs of the environment,
songs of peace.
www.sacredcircles.com
.........Email: shaker@sacredcircles.com
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Qi Gong & Taiji Movement &
Visualization 
All exercises will be at a basic level (no previous experience
needed).
Purpose of exercises will be to tap into meditative states of
consciousness
while in motion, learn to move the body with relaxation rather
than tension,
find the 'still point' (center of gravity), define personal space
and
maintain it when working with others, experience qi flow in the
body, learn
to perceive qi flow with different senses.
Exercises will include: taiji walking, qi gong exercises (standing),
push
hands (contact and non-contact).
Class will also cover: qi visualizations (internal pathways),
finding the
connection through the body via balance on one foot, slowing
movement, inner
perception & focus.
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photo by Elizabeth Ellingson
Isabeau Vollhardt, L.Ac. is a 1996 alumna of Samra University of Oriental
Medicine, an NCCAOM Diplomate in Acupuncture and Herbology, in professional
practice in Ashland and Klamath Falls, Oregon..
Over the past thirteen years, Ms. Vollhardt has continued studies of T'ai Chi
Ch'uan and Qi Gong history and theory. Her internal martial arts teachers
include Grandmaster Carl Totton, Taoist Institute, Burbank (qi gong and tui
na/Chinese bodywork); Tan Quach (qi gong); Marjorie Jackson (Kuang Ping style
t'ai chi ch'uan), and Jeff Nagel, L.Ac. (Nei Kung Chi Liao). She also has a
background in basic ballet and fencing.
For more about her work, see her website http://www.imagist.net/orientalmed/index.htm . Also for photo of her and her writings on this site: click here. Email: CinSwan@aol.com
