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Registration Almost Full For East Coast Jam. 
Axis Syllabus Registration Now Open

The Fall 2017 *East Coast Jam*
a 5-Day Contact Improv Retreat

 

WEDNESDAY OCT 18 - SUNDAY OCT 22

Claymont Court Estate, Charlestown, West Virginia
 

Register before September 30 to get in on the early-bird discount. $50 holds your spot. www.eastcoastjam.com  Click on "Fall East Coast Jam” and follow the steps for registration and deposit.

The East Coast Jam is Contact Improv retreat held in a gorgeous setting in West Virginia near DC where we live between an historic mansion, a dance barn and a wood-fired sauna above a cold spring, with walking paths of rural beauty. Good food and good people. Intermediate level experience advised, though not required. Work study available.   
 

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THE AXIS SYLLABUS is here!
 


in Asheville, North Carolina
with Aaron Birk, Nuria Bowart, and Dan Bear

We are hosting three November Saturdays and two December weekend workshops on a type of movement research known as The Axis Syllabus.  The Axis Syllabus is a body of research relevant to dynamic movement.  It offers movement pathways for dancers, yogis, acrobats and martial artists that optimizes the body's natural fluency, using physics and anatomical realities to create beautiful, efficient, and safe movement patterns.  We are bringing in two internationally acclaimed teachers to offer Asheville movers this rare and profound modality.

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Pathways On The Road to Axis
with Aaron Birk

Saturday November 11th, 2:00-3:30 (right before open jam)
Saturday November 18th, 2:00-3:30 (right before Underscore at Battery Park)
Saturday November 25th, 2:00-3:30 (right before open jam)
$10 Drop-ins welcome.  No registration required
Center For Art and Spirit, Fellowship Hall
(1 School Rd, Asheville, NC 28806)

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Logical Progressions: A Focus On Fundamentals
The C-Stars Will Be Falling: Accelerated Pathways Through The Floor

with Nuria Bowart

Saturday December 2 10:00am - 6:00pm
Sunday December 3  10:00am - 3:00pm

Location: TBD -- Stay Tuned!
Tickets and Registration:
http://axissyllabus.brownpapertickets.com

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Interwoven: A Workshop in Axis Syllabus and Contact Improvisation
with Daniel Bear Davis

Friday     December 8 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Saturday December 9  10:00am - 5:30pm
Sunday   December 10:00am - 3:00pm

Location: TBD -- Stay Tuned!
Tickets and Registration:
http://axissyllabus.brownpapertickets.com

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Here's a look at our guest teachers:

Daniel Bear Davis:

photo taken by Anna Maynard

Interwoven:
A Workshop in Axis Syllabus and Contact Improvisation
by Daniel Bear Davis

The Axis Syllabus offers a groundswell of relevant and specific information into healthy movement habits for moving humans living in a dynamic world. In this dance workshop, we will look at details of our own anatomy, refined over thousands of years of evolution, to gain clues about how to move in collaboration with our own fascinating design. As we grow in our kinetic potential, we can meet our dance partners with increased access to range and choice. This workshop will weave explorations of healthy and creative relationships between the many parts of our selves, with other humans in partner dancing, and within larger networks. 

We will identify boundaries and limitations as building blocks of resilience. We will explore ourselves and our shared dances as tensegrity structures, cultivating out integrity through tensile resistance. We will investigate the self within interconnected networks and interconnectivity within the self. And we’ll do a whole lot of dancing.

Location: TBD -- Stay Tuned!
Tickets and Registration:
http://axissyllabus.brownpapertickets.com



Nuria Bowart:

LOGICAL PROGRESSIONS: A FOCUS ON FUNDAMENTALS. 
by Nuria Bowart

This class is designed to present the basic concepts of landing and launching pads as is defined within the Axis Syllabus.  The Axis Syllabus is a body of research relevant to dynamic movement.  This class will provide a clear mapping of soft tissue logic for entering and exiting a surface, wether it be a floor or another moving body.  We will also practice some spiraling pathways useful for greater ease while changing levels.  Tired of all those bruises from that hard floor when you land? Come and practice alternatives.

THE C-STARS WILL BE FALLING: ACCELERATED PATHWAYS THROUGH THE FLOOR.
by Nuria Bowart

Falling off our center of gravity allows for us to harness our potential energy and to take a ride on the force of gravity.  This class will elaborate on the concept of chronological architecture as it relates to moving in and out of the floor and one another in dynamic ways. The arms and the legs are useful to propel, absorb and pivot around.  Acceleration happens, and can be ridden.  In this class we will practice riding this bodyform safely and efficiently through the energy of a fall. Using some basic movement patterns, such as C-Star, offered through the Axis Syllabus, to help us to better understand useful mechanics for falling.  While in this class, the main partner will be the floor, we will be practicing many of the patterns in partners and groups as well.

Location: TBD -- Stay Tuned!
Tickets and Registration:
http://axissyllabus.brownpapertickets.com


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Here's a look at The Axis Syllabus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S25pVr5N4AA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR0NRGavsNw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgd50J5572k
http://nuriabowart.com/


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