FIT ~ Finding IT Together, Register HERE
Contact Improvisation Exploratorium + Live Music Jams
W/ Carolyn Stuart & Eric Nordstrom
Where: Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
Three Day CI Exploratorium ~ 1-4pm, December 29-31, 2023
Daily schedule:
~Workshop 1-4
~Dinner break 4-6
~Jam 6-9
Four Live Music CI Jams ~ 6-9pm, December 28-31, 2023
~Opening circle 6-6:15pm
~Open jamming 6:15-8:45pm
~Closing circle 8:45-9pm
Evening Jam Musicians
Dec 28—Skip VonKuske
Dec 29—Tim DuRoche
Dec 30—Courtney Von Drehle
Dec 31—silent jam
Register HERE
---Exploratorium description---
We're already in contact, already improvising.
Everything is itself. Everything is related.
We are co-creating, whether intended or not.
The question is how we already fit and could we be fitter at fitting into the fitness we seek?
This workshop will orient from our We to explore and discover the finest of fits for our Me AND You.
Awareness and Curiosity will guide our fit-ability to serve this dance of mutuality.
We'll tune to Support, inside and out. Support supports fitting.
We'll focus on what emerges, paying attention to the fits that nourish and any fits that move us in new directions!
All are welcome.
We come as we are and explore how we fit with others as they are, creating one of a kind dances with our contact and improvisation.
We hope you join us, bringing what only you can, to help inform the WE of our dreams that Cares for ALL.
Let's fiddle with fitting, together. The possibilities are infinite/
Workshops ONLY - sliding scale $100-$200
Workshops + all four live music jams - $140 - $250
Live music jams ONLY - sliding scale $15 - $25 per jam
Registration is now open. Space is limited to 15 workshop participants and 30 people for the jams. All levels welcome. Advance registration required!
CAROLYN STUART has been a devotee of Contact Improvisation since 1984. Her research and development in the art of improvising in contact has spanned 17 countries, countless performances, hundreds of projects, and diverse populations. Her primary teachers have been commitment to the process of exploration and the use of the blindfold. Her mission is to make contact improvising accessible by distilling the vastness of possibility into the simplest of terms. The current edge of her investigation is applying the principles of the C.I. paradigm to life at large. If mutual well-being is possible on the dance floor, then what about off the dance floor too- for the generations to come!
https://contactgames.wordpress.com/about/
ERIC NORDSTROM is a dance performer, filmmaker, and teacher living in Portland, OR. He teaches in the Dance Program at Lewis and Clark College and has taught at contact festival Freiburg in Germany, the Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation, and Conduit Dance.
Eric has performed with Karen Nelson, Keith V. Goodman, and was a core company member of Oslund + Company. To help preserve Portland dance history, Eric created a documentary film Moving History: Portland Contemporary Dance Past and Present. To centralize and preserve dance history source material, Eric has partnered with Portland State University to create the Portland Dance Archives. He studied with filmmaker Mitchell Rose and choreographer Bebe Miller at The Ohio State University, where he earned his MFA in Dance.
www.eric-nordstrom.com