Workshops

Contact Improvisation Teachers’ Exchange (CITE)
Facilitated by Nancy Stark Smith and Martin Keogh
Earthdance, Plainfield, MA
June 27-July 3, 2006

Every contact improvisation teacher brings their distinct approach to the form. During this four-day exchange we will bring our questions and challenges, share our findings, and look to broaden our inquiry and repertoire. Nestled in the quiet beauty of Earthdance this will be a focused time with a small group of teachers to replenish and investigate.

This is not a teacher training, but rather a facilitated inquiry and exchange for active contact teachers to work and collaborate with peers.

Possible themes and activities:
• Examining what is the core proposition of contact improvisation
• Looking at how we source and develop material that centers on this core proposition
• Identifying different teaching and transmission styles
• Sharing our “Tried and True” scores and exercises
• Discussing some of the philosophical and practical issues involved in our teaching
• And plenty of time to dance together

Bios:

NANCY STARK SMITH : See biography link to the left on this website for bio.

MARTIN KEOGH has been teaching and performing contact improvisation for over twenty-five years. For his contribution to the development of the form he is a Fulbright Senior Specialist. Martin was on the dance faculty at Stanford University and more recently at the National School of Fine Arts in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He has led and co-facilitated Contact Improvisation Teacher’s Conferences on four continents and his writings about the form have appeared in dance journals worldwide. When not on tour, Martin dances with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.
More info at: www.martinkeogh.com

Fees : Early registration (by May 31st): $325, includes room and board. After May 31: $375.

Contact:
info@earthdance.net, www.earthdance.net/cite.htm, martinkeo@aol.com, contactq@aol.com