zenoakImprovised place & improvised time

A site-specific movement research series (participation is free!), led by Gabor Pete

First place: Berkeley Marina, meeting at the NW corner
First time: March 15, Monday, 10 am - 1 pm, March 16, Tuesday, 9 am - noon, in 2004.

    In these two mornings, I will propose a series of exercises from warm-up to improv performances. The idea is to understand what this specific place and time, with its wind and birds and sun-bathing people give to our being and to our dance, and what we as dancers can give to this place and time. The exercises will help us listen more to the nature, and act freely in it. The first day will focus on solo experiences, the second on us as a group. Please join if you feel like!

    All levels are welcome, but please inform me in advance, since the research plan will be absolutely dependent on the participants. No improv performance experience is necessary, but be prepared e.g. to dancing in mud in case it will be raining! Contact me at (510) 843 3691 or gabor@stat.berkeley.edu.

    About myself: I have been extensively studying dance improvisation since 1999, mainly in  Europe  (Hungary, the Netherlands). But, for example, two recent workshops in the Bay Area I participated in, and enjoyed extremely, were contact improv by Karl Frost and action theater by Sten Rudstrom. In Berkeley I am doing my PhD in probability theory. For more info, see my homepage www.stat.berkeley.edu/~gabor.