November
25 –27, 2016 (Friday – Sunday)
Finnish
Kaleva Hall
1970
Chestnut St,
Berkeley,
California 94702
The
technical work cultivates efficiency, kinesthetic pleasure, and physical safety
in contact as well as fluid speed and power. A recurring theme is the ability
to calmly sense with more somatic detail in more “frames per second” … to sense
and to be able to act creatively and functionally on what is sensed.
Art
and felt meaning in the dance are the subjects of physical poetics.
While
our path will be discovered as we go, you can expect…
-A
balance of study and abandon, tight investigations and open questions
-Contact
vocabulary: novel lifts and mechanical details
-Explorations
of release technique and the “passive sequencing” work
-Questioning
‘meaning’ and poetry of the body
-States
of awareness and experiments in mind/body relationship
-The
possibility of intentionality and composition juxtaposed with the impossibility
of control of meaning and motion.
-The
dance both as a physical process and as the poetic interplay of two
experiencing beings.
-The
interplay of open discovery and compositional intention as experiment and
deliberate provocation to novel experience.
-Body
work, Mind work, pleasure, intellect, and a fair bit of sweat.
Karl
Frost has been teaching and performing contact and related work in body-based
creative process for the over 20 years. He is known internationally for his
dynamic and articulate movement style, his rigor in physical research and
teaching, and for the edge-pushing nature of his work in both practice and
performance. His work, influenced by studies in contemporary release technique,
Alexander technique, and martial arts, has been showcased across the states,
Canada, Europe, South America, and Israel. His performances take the body and
emotionally and physically felt experience as their reference points.
Cost:
$260 - $400
