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Begginer is also welcome.
Dance Method
What is the body for dancers? What do you need to acquire to become a dancer? In this Dance Method workshop, you will come to understand the structure of the body, and comprehend the space, time, energy and other elements in need for a flight to creativity. You will also learn the wisdom of the body which enables you to move without injury in a more natural, unconstrained, daring and free manner.
A-1 KO MUROBUSHI (Tokyo)
In this session, You will try to think about possibilities/impossibilities of the body through “Butoh”. First, you will return the “act of dancing” to the bosom of nature and make the body for “Butoh” a multiple number of places of encounter. You will unfold and train the potential of the body, and meet “Butoh” in the process of free creation and play. Anybody of any age and experience can participate. Let us move the body together.
[date] 4/17(Fri) 18:30-21:30
18(Sat)&19(Sun)
11:00-13:00、14:00-16:00 5 classes
[place] Kyoto Art Center/ Atrium
[price] ￥13,000/all ￥3,000/class
[capacity] 25
A-2 KEITH THOMPSON（U.S.A）
Releasing technique lessons by Keith who has a long experience of dancing at Trisha Brown Dance Company (TBDC). He introduces the techniques of the TBDC which facilitates deep and accurate understanding of the body and allows dynamic dancing without heavy burden on the body.
[date] 4/25(Sat)-4/30(Thu) 10:30-12:30 6 classes
[place] Kyoto Art Center/ Free Space
[price] ￥15,000/all ￥3,000/class
[capacity] 25
Body Work / Basic
This program focuses on the awareness of our bodies, becoming conscious of our inner workings and the interconnection of this into movement.
B-1 NUNO BIZARRO (France)A class for the audition 1
A morning lesson to awake the sensory perception of the body very slowly and gently. It will use such methods as Feldenkrais Method or “meditation through movement” for encouraging the tuning of the neural circuit, the integration of the physical function, and the awareness through movement. It will help you to become aware of your habit in moving your body and its stiffness, and to stretch out with your feeling for more effective movement.
[date] 4/26(Sun)-5/4(Mon) 10:30-12:30 8 classes *5/1(Fri)off
[place] Kyoto Art Center/ Atrium
[price] ￥18,000/all ￥3,000/class
[capacity] 25
B-2 Jung Young-Doo（Korea）
This is a training to deepen your consciousness of respiration, weight and the floor, to capture the flow of energy more effectively, and to make your movement freer and more creative. He is highly praised as an excellent choreographer. What makes his rare quality composed of elements of the Orient and the West? This lesson will surely awake your body, and is most suitable for those who want to re-look at your body as an Oriental.
[date] 5/2(Sat)-5/5(Tue) 10:30-12:30 ４ classes
[place] Kyoto Art Center/Free Space
[price] ￥10,000/all ￥3,000/class
[capacity] 25
Creation
The internationally renowned choreographers will teach their unique dance vocabularies as well as the heart of their creation. Themes are given to participants encouraging their personal creative awakening. You shouldn’t miss the showing scheduled for the last day.
C-1 Jung Young-Doo（Korea） A class for audition 2
A very unique workshop by Young-Doo who has an oriental body and a wide-ranging technique of the Western contemporary dance. This class focuses the “direction of perception”, “structure of time”, “relationship between respiration and movement”, and others. A part of the creation will be used for the piece to be performed during the festival in 2010.
[date] 4/25(Sat)-5/5(Tue) 13:30-15:30 *4/30(Thu),5/1(Fri)off
＊5/6(Wed)14:00- Showing
[place] Kyoto Art Center/Free Space
[price] ￥20,000/all ￥3,000/class
[capacity] 25
C-2 ERIC LAMOUREUX（France） A class for audition 3
You will share with him experiences of using the body, and meet with the moment when the body reacts spontaneously and instinctively, and multiple crossroads where energies get blended, exchanged and enriched. In crossing with others continuously, you will capture the condition, relationship, and changes through your body, and move forward to the next step of your own, through which your dance will be created.
［date］ 4/25(Sat)-5/5(Tue) 19:00-21:30 *4/30(Thu),5/1(Fri)off
＊5/6(Wed)14:00- Showing
［place］ Kyoto Art Center/ Atrium（*4/25 Free Space）
［price］ ￥25,000/all ￥3,500/class
［capacity］ 25
C-3 LISA NELSON (U.S.A)
“Touch,Conctc,Bones:” Steve Paxton + Lisa Nelson Dance Project
Organizer：DANCE DOCUMENTS JAPAN COMMITTEE
TUNING SCORES: a laboratory on composition, communication and the sense of imagination. This research focuses on the physical base of the imagination. Focusing on vision, touch and hearing, the scores provoke spontaneous compositions that make evident our opinions about space, time, action, and desire, and provide a framework for communication amongst us. The question of what are we looking at when we look at dancing is always present.
［date］ 4/29(Wed)-5/6(Wed) 16:00-18:30 *5/1(Fri)off ７ classes
＊5/6(Wed) Open Workshop
［place］ Kyoto Art Center/ Atrium
［price］ ￥20,000/all *sorry all only.
［capacity］ 25
Contact/Partnering
Now that Contact is a must for contemporary dancers. It renders a great deal of influence to wide-ranging genres of society such as counseling and community art. Contact/Partnering creates a venue where reality and imagination of your own body and others’ meet. This workshop aims to nurture your body’s ability to “listen to” the others’ body, to construct conversation unique to you and your partners, to search for universal “dialogue between the bodies”, and to tap the creativity of communication in the body.
D-1 YUKO MORI(Kyoto)
A basic course. This course emphasizes your body’s listening to and deepening understanding of “others’ body” of different characteristics through various movements created by the bodies. It also focuses on how to respect the sensation of your body and the others’ and to communicate with each other through a sequence of contacts with “others”. Let’s try it out by drawing on all of your five senses and the sixth! (Those without experience of dance are also welcome.)
[date] 4/10(Fri) 18:30-21:30
11(Sat)&12(Sun) 11:00-13:00、14:00-16:00 5
classes
[place] BIWAKO HALL Rehearsal Room and the Theatre Stage
[price] ￥13,000/all ￥3,000/class
[capacity] 25
D-2 Contact jam session「BIWAKO JAM」
A jam session of improvisation on Contact open for everyone. A brief navigation is given at the beginning of the session. This session takes place on the Theatre State, and maybe on the shore of Lake Biwa?
[date] 4/12（Sun）16:30-18:30
[place] BIWAKO HALL the Theatre Stage etc.
[price] ￥1,000（￥500 for participants of D-1）
[capacity] 25
D-3 INAKI AZPILLAGA 1 （Belgium）
*Open only for the persons contact experienced and the participants of D-1
Moving rather than formal technique will define the atmosphere of the workshop. He will introduce terms such as intentions, projection, change of dynamics, which will become the language of the work. Boundaries between fragile & powerful, Communication between partners, Relationship with music, time & space, Expressions of movement & act, Imaginary & emotion. All this themes will be treated reminding the high voltage energy used at Ultima Vez dance company.
※ Bring your own sneakers.
[date] 4/26(Sun)-4/30 (Thu) 13:30-15:30 5 classes
[place] Kyoto Art Center/ Atrium
[price] ￥13,000/all ￥3,000/class
[capacity] 25
D-4 INAKI AZPILLAGA （Belgium） ※ Hyper-class for advanced contact dancers
A hyper-class newly created in response to the voices of the participants saying “I want to immerse myself so deep in Inaki’s world!”. This class features not only the work of a high voltage but also joint production of a dance together with participants which is scheduled to be staged on the 30th April. Participants are recommended to take the D-3 class as well.
※ Bring your own sneakers.
[date] 4/25(Sat)-4/29(Wed) 16:00-18:00 5 classes
【performance】4/30（Thu）19:00-
[place] Kyoto Art Center/ Free Space
[price] ￥10,000/all ￥20,000/D-3+D-4 Both classes are compulsory.
[capacity] 25
Media & Dance
Media technologies such as images and LED lighting are now more common as a medium of expression. This workshop provides dancers, directors, stage artists and alike with various classes to learn relationship between the body and the media and how to express the relationship. Each class lasts only a few days. Good for those who want to cram the basics in a short period.
※Group participation acceptable
E-1 TOMMI KITTI （Finland）× TAKAYUKI
FUJIMOTO（Kyoto）
LED lighting design is given with a special software to the choreography and sound of each participant’s selection. This is a very valuable opportunity to experiment the relation among the light, the sound and the movement through a creation of a short performance. Group participation (up to four persons per group) is also recommendable.
[date] 5/2(Sat)-5/5(Tue) 12:00-15:00
[showing] 5/6（Wed）15:00-
[place] Kyoto Seika University shin-bi studio（COCON Karasuma bld.３F）
[price] ￥12,000/group Participation in all classes is compulsory.
[capacity] 10 groups (Individuals are also acceptable.)
[carry-in] notebook computer windows2000/XP※VISTA not compatible (XP mounted
MAC BootCamp compatible)
Please preinstall in your PC the application “ColorWave” (good only for Win XP and 2000) from the Web site of TamaTech Lab http://www.tamatech.co.jp/download/dl_exe.php#WIN.
»Profile »Now RegistrationE-2 NAOTO IINA （Tokyo）
A workshop to produce media other than dance while creating dance. Participants
create their pieces by taking up different elements necessary for stage art such
as images, sound and lighting. On the last day showing is scheduled for each
group. As the workshop focuses on the collaboration of dance and images, it does
not use any special and difficult technology. It introduces simple programs,
camera work, methods of direction and others. Group participation (up to four
persons per group) is also recommendable.
[date] 5/8（Fri）19:00-21:00
9（Sat）&10（Sun）11:00-18:00 ※Breaks
inclusive
[showing] 5/10（Sun）17:00-
[place] Kyoto Art Center/ Meeting Room 2
[price] ￥15,000/group（all） *￥3,000/group (only 5/8)
[capacity] 10 groups (Individuals are also acceptable.)
[carry-in] notebook computer（MAC/WIN）digital video camera, accessories
such as cables to connect with your PC), Music CD’s of your favor
※Those who do not have a PC or video camera are requested to contact the staff in advance.
Beginner Class
What is Contemporary Dance? What are the artists currently working on? You will find the answers in this workshop called the "Salad Bowl Program", a very popular introductory class for those who interested in dance. Catch a sampling of various styles and ideas in dance taught by various teachers. There is a round table Q&A with teachers after each workshop.
[lecture]
4/26(Sun) YUKO MORI (Kyoto)
4/27(Mon) INAKI AZPILLAGA (Belgium)
4/28(Tue) KEITH THOMPSON 1（U.S.A）
4/29 (Wed) KEITH THOMPSON ２（U.S.A）
5/1 (Fri) ERIC LAMOUREUX（France）
5/2 (Sat) NUNO BIZARRO (France)
5/3 (Sun) TOMMI KITTI（Finland）
5/4 (Mon) LISA NELSON (U.S.A)
5/5 (Tue) JUNG YOUNG-DOO (Korea)
[date] 4/26(Sun)-5/5(Tue) 18:30-20:30 *4/30(Thu)off 9 classes
[place] Kyoto Art Center/ Free Space
[price] ￥20,000/all ￥12,000/5 classes ￥3,000/class
[capacity] 25
After
Talk
free of charge
After Beginners Class, there will be a time for discussion with the instructors. This is a good opportunity to ask questions about the creative process, and other topics of interest.
[date] after beginner class 20:45-21:30 *4/29(Wed),4/30(Thu)off
[place] Kyoto Art Center/ Free Space
[navigator] dance+ & Keiko KAMEDA［ATL］
Kids & Adult
This is a class for kids and adults. This is a four-day session during which the Uncle Pajamas who all of a sudden showed up in the last year’s Kids’ Class will introduce to the class many of his friends from Japan and abroad. Those who will be introduced are all top-ranking choreographers and dancers. In this session, both kids and adults will come to know their own body and others’ and to express something by using the body. This class will be a place where to experience rich expression of kids, and pleasure and difficulty of communicating between different ages.
[lecture]
5/2（Sat）KOSEI SAKAMOTO 1（Kyoto）
5/3（Sun）NUNO BIZARRO（France）
5/4（Mon）j.a.m.Dance Theatre（Osaka）
5/5（Tue）KOSEI SAKAMOTO 2（Kyoto）
[date] 5/2（Sat）-5/5（Tue） ❶.13:30〜14:20 ❷.14:30〜15:20 8
classes（Different sessions on ❶and❷）
[place] Kyoto Art Center/ Atrium
[price] kids ￥3,500/all ￥1,000/day (2 classes) ￥500/class
adults ￥10,000/all ￥3,000/1day (2 classes) ￥1,800/class
[capacity] kids 10 adults 10
[objects] kids 5 years old – elementary school students adults more than18 years old（who is not the parent and child either can participate.）