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The Balance in Listening A Workshop in Contact Improvisation with Tim O’Donnell
September 18th and 19th
Through attentive and dynamic listening we can find balance in falling, redirecting and soaring. It is this balance in listening that allows us to risk the unknown more fully in our dancing. With care and attention we will pose and explore questions, ideas and concepts, working through exercises and scores that will hone our skills as movers and thinkers.
10:00-5:00 both days at The Nest Dance Sanctuary
To Register and Reserve a space contact Delisa at 928.713.5367 or email delisanest@animail.net
Tim O’Donnell has been studying teaching and performing CI for over 12 years. His exploration in the form is strongly rooted in a deep physical listening and a sense of adventure. His classes range from the gentle and subtle to the acrobatic and fluidly athletic. He holds an MFA in Dance and has been a bodyworker since 1991. Currently he is teaching and performing in NYC where he resides.
Animal Etiquette
Human Nature Dance Theatre is developing a new evening of performance entitled Animal Etiquette, new and best work from the last 16 years, exploring themes of feral and domestic, human and animal. feminine and masculine and manners and primal urges. See http://humannaturedance.wordpress.com/ for more photos and description of our process.
Fall Performances:
October 9 – Arcosanti, Arizona
October 16 – Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, Arizona
November 11-13 – The Headwaters, Portland, Oregon
“The Flying Nest” 6th annual summer dance intensive
August 22-29 with Delisa Myles and Jayne Lee at the Nest Dance Sanctuary in Jerome, Arizona.
The workshop begins each morning with Feldenkrais and moves into improvisation both in solo and group explorations. Afternoons and evenings are focused on frameworks that follow the seamless flow between internal life and external landscape… people, wind, rock, sky, rain, high desert, mountain, town. Through work with tarot and oracles of nature we will delve into archetypes of the self. Personal, and group material will be formed leading to a performance offering Saturday night. Work with imagery and writing exercises will stimulate the imagination and body. Excursions to nearby red rock canyons and swimming spots will be part of the week. Jayne and Delisa skillfully guide you toward listening to your movement, sensations, thoughts, images and dreams to form an organic pathway to dance and composition. The Flying Nest is an intimate week of sensitizing awareness while being guided toward personal and group artistic vision.
We are taking 8 students with dance experience. Please register with a letter of intent, description of background and $100 deposit by August 1st
Students camp and cook on the studio deck and share evening meals. More information will follow for registered students. There is an option of staying with hosts in Jerome for an added fee. Fee for the workshop is $450.
Letters to Self
April 30st and May 1st, 7:30, $5.00 at the door
Granite Performing Arts Center, 218 N. Granite St.
Letters to Self is a project of the Prescott College course Choreography in the Community. The course was developed by Delisa Myles in 2000 with the charter project, Growth Rings: Stories of Our Lives. A decade later, Letters to Self returns to the original collaboration with Skyview Middle School students and elders from the Prescott community. Each member is writing a letter to his or her younger or older self. There are choreographed dances, poems, improvisations and songs that revolve around the theme of communicating with oneself at another age.
The course provides opportunities for Prescott College Performing Arts students to teach and learn with people they would not ordinarily come in contact with. Past course projects have included collaborating with a therapeutic high school for girls, with local musicians, and working with third graders. They have also explored dance in public environments and learned about social dance forms of tango and salsa.
The Vagina Monologues @ Prescott College
March 5, 6 and 7 Crossroads Center 7:00
Come see this classic performance with a powerful cast of women celebrating women. My first time of joining the cast.
Saturday December 5th Old Town Center for the Arts 8:00
Human Nature Dance Theatre in Flying at Night
Human Nature Dance Theatre brings its unique blend of dance, theatre and live music to The Old Town Center for the Arts. This show marks a return of the performance group to its birthplace. The Verde Valley community witnessed the beginnings of the performance groups’ collaborative and improvisational process almost 20 years ago. The original mix of elements is generrated from a deep yearning for the true human experience. ” Flying at NIght” is the story of traveling into the unknown. We find ourselves surrounded by darkness, journeying deeper into our fears. While learning to trust new sensations, we create new pathways to take us where we need to go. We explore the transparencies that night brings on, shen the line between sleeping and waking is hard to distinguish. The impossible becomes possible and we begin to fly.
DANCEDOWNRIVER
A prayer for the River & all wild places & wild things
Thursday November 19, 2009 7:30
Human Nature Dance Theatre and
Prescott College Art Gallery at Sam Hill Warehouse
DanceDownRiver was filmed on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon in October 2007. Sixteen artists took part in the project, seven dancers, two cinematographers, several musicians, photographers, a painter and a poet.
Flying at Night at Arcosanti
Saturday October 3, 2009
Human Nature Dance Theatre
This is Human Nature’s 14th annual performance engagement at Arcosanti. Flying at Night brings us into the quiet dark exhilaration or danger? of flying into the unknown. Feeling and flying our way around the next beckoning corner what will we find? Our cast this year includes the regulars: Jayne Lee, Paul Moore, Nathan Montgomery, Breanna Rogers, Francis Martineau, Marsahll Elliott and myself. In addition we have a few new collaborators Jonathan Best, Kristen Greco and Gina Shorten. The group meets one week before the performance at Arcosanti and in that time we find our way toward the performance. It is a collaborative process with no director, chaos ensues and we improvise our way to cohesion. It is a time of experimentation, trust, fear, pioneering new territory and surrendering to the genius of the group. Elements of dance, spoken word, live music and original set design combine to offer a multifaceted performance event.
Tour of Arcosanti is offered at 5:00, Dinner (Reservations Required) at 6:00, Performance at 7:30
$20 Performance, $10 Students, $20 Dinner, Tel: 928-632-7135 email: info@arcosanti.org
Boulder International Fringe Festival
Human Nature Dance Theatre and Tin House Experimental Dance have collaborated to create Small Moment of Sky. Spellbinding new work juxtaposing virtuosic dance with the bizarre nature of being human. Fleeting moments of high velocity imagery and strikingly poignant stillness. Cast: Breanna Rogers, Joanna Rotkin, Jayne Lee and Delisa Myles and eight local performers. At Naropa Performing Arts Center. See BoulderFringe.com for audience reviews and more info about the festival.
Show Times: Thu Aug 13 7:00, Fri Aug 14 8:30, Sat Aug 15 7:00, Sun Aug 16 7:00, Fri Aug 21 8:30
