Dear
Jammers,
Can
you believe it is February already? We have been very busy at @TGJ headquarters,
so we have not noticed how time flies. Our first jam of the year was very well
attended and we also welcomed our special guest Sara Bizzoca from Leece, Italy.
What a fantastic start of the year.
In
January, Penny spent with three weeks in Shanghai, performing We Dance Wee
Groove by Stillmotion. Check this great celebratory dance piece for children
here: http://wedanceweegroove.co.uk
We
have been busy organising our Embodied
Vision workshop, which will be led by Anna Bambridge on Saturday 26 March.
This is an opportunity to explore your true vision in contact improvisation.
Who knows what great powers will be unleashed with this practice.
We
have also firmed plans for a special jam
on Wednesday 20 April, to celebrate Glasgow International Festival of Art. It will take place at the
ArtSchool (what a cool venue) from 6 to 9.30pm and promises to be so
spectacular we have engaged two facilitators to work together: Nina Enemark and
Laura Gonzalez. The focus will be drawing and the body. More information will
be posted soon on social media, the website and, of course, our next
newsletter.
Finally,
we have given our website a lick of
paint. Have a look and let us know what you think: http://theglasgowjam.blogspot.co.uk. We are keen to make
this a resource for regular and itinerant @TGJ jammers.
As
ever, below is a list of upcoming jams for the next couple of months (with more
on our website here: http://theglasgowjam.blogspot.co.uk/p/jam-calendar.html). We hope to see you
there!
Much
love,
Penny
and Laura x
WE ARE NOW BOOKING FOR
EMBODIED VISION
A contact improvisation weekend
with Anna Bambridge
LIMITED PLACES!
Workshop Saturday 26 March 2016,
11am–5pm
Class and Jam Sunday 27 March
2016, 1–4.30pm
Kinning Park Complex
Using
relaxation and movement techniques grounded in the Bates method of vision
education we will explore how our attention and intention affects how we see
and how we feel. Vision is a learned sense that we can continually attend
to and we will encourage new ways of using our eyesight. Aspects of vision we
will explore include peripheral and central sight (and the relationship between
them) and our senses of perspective, colour, movement and depth. You are
encouraged to bring warm layers, as there will be times of stillness in the
workshop.
You
are invited to explore your natural vision for this workshop. This means that
if you wear glasses you can take them off or if you wear contact lenses please
bring what you need to take them out.
Saturday
workshop only £40
Full
weekend £45
More
information here: http://theglasgowjam.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/book-now-for-embodied-vision-with-anna.html
OUR
CLASS AND JAM CALENDAR
FEBRUARY
JAM: Friday 12th February
--- 6-9.30pm --- Penny Chivas --- KPC --- £5
CLASS: Sunday 28th February
---1-2pm --- Penny Chivas --- KPC --- £10
JAM: Sunday 28th February
--- 2-4.30pm --- Penny Chivas--- KPC --- £5 (free with class)
MARCH
JAM: Friday 11th March --- 6-9.30pm --- Brian Hartley --- KPC
--- £5
WORKSHOP: Saturday 26th March ---Natural Vision workshop with Anna
Bambridge. (See above)
CLASS: Sunday 27th March --- 1-2pm --- Anna Bambridge --- KPC
--- £10
JAM: Sunday 27th March --- 2-4.30pm --- Anna Bambridge--- KPC ---
£5 (free with class)
OTHER
CONTACT EVENTS IN SCOTLAND
Sunday
February 7, 6:15pm-8:45pm
Sunday February 21, 6:15pm-8:45pm
Sunday March 6, 6:15pm-8:45pm
Sunday February 21, 6:15pm-8:45pm
Sunday March 6, 6:15pm-8:45pm
All at the Calton Centre, 121 Montgomery St, Edinburgh
£5 (£3 concessions)
POZA Project Music
and Dance Improvisation lab
Kinning
Park Complex
8
day long creative lab ending with a public performance, open to: dancers,
movers, musicians and sound makers.
Tues
9th & Wed 10th February 10.00 - 15.45
Tues
16th & Wed 17th February 10.00 - 15.45
Tues
23rd & Wed 24th February 10.00 - 15.45
Tues
2nd & Wed 3rd March 10.00 - 15.45
Public
Sharing on 5th March - 17.00
Every
day will start with the focus on physicality where the musicians will get the
chance to move and the dancers will challenge their physical range through
improvised tasks and set phrases - all with live music.
Solène
Weinachter and Jer Reid will explore many aspects of improvised music / dance.
There is no 'and' in the title because our interest is in blurring the
boundaries between music and dance. The music and the body will exist with an
equal weight. To make a single event. We will explore the physicality of sound
and the music inherent in movement and how both exist in the acoustic-spacial
area of architecture. This is not at the expense of what is unique about the
two creative areas. What is similar and what is different make an endless
dialogue. Areas to explore will include deep listening, fusing of dynamics that
exist in both or either music and dance, physical tasks based on anatomic
principles and instinctive impulses, and developing techniques for structuring
improvising in performance.
£150
- Booking before 15th of January / £165 - Booking after 15th of January
**We
will offer 4 concession places (unemployed/ low income) at £100.
Please
contact: projectpoza@gmail.com to discuss your situation.
For
more information: http://www.pozaproject.org
AROUND
THE UK
SUSPENSION [of
weight, of time, of balance and of disbelief]
a contact improvisation workshop with Andrew de
Lotbinière Harwood
MovingEast, London
28th March - 1st April 2016
In
this workshop, we will explore the many facets of suspension. In a physical
sense we will focus on the suspension of our weight allowing a stretch of time
as we float in the air for a moment longer. Also, our bodies, like all motor
vehicles, are equipped with a system of shock absorbers, also know as
suspension, allowing us to cushion the impact of our mass as we move safely in
and out and across of the floor. On a subtler level, it may also refer to the
postponement or temporary halt of a judgment, an impulse, a decision or an
opinion as in suspending our disbelief. Through a dynamic physical
collaboration of the senses we will follow our instincts and be guided by what
is already in our body in order to access multiple facets of our innate
creative wisdom.
Fully waged / funded: £185
Part-time waged / Independent artist: £165
Unemployed / Full-time Student: £ 145
This workshop is hosted and administered by MovingEast in
partnership with London Contact Improvisation and curated by Robert Anderson.
This is an intermediate/advanced workshop for students
or professionals that have a firm grasp of Contact Improvisation basics.
If you wish to participate please email: admin@movingeast.co.uk
Contact
Improvisation residential Jam in Anglesey, N. Wales
--
@TheGlasgowJam
Penny
Chivas and Laura Gonzalez
In
association with Dance House
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