Moving, Sounding, and Acting
This workshop intensive explores the integration of movement and voice by delving into the mind/body connection, sensations and experiences through structured improvisation. Each class incorporates a physical warm-up as well as a vocal warm-up with the group learning songs to be sung together in "rounds." This creates a great sense of community and unified purpose, from which we can move into explorations together and individually.

Improvisation Music and Dance
��œThe ear experiences and then reads. The eye reads and then experiences.��� This workshop is geared toward performing artists who are interested in amplifying live time in the performance space, building bridges between technique and composition skills, and practicing interdisciplinary activity. It introduces dance and music artists to a dialogue that has evolved within Katie Duck���s practices. Using the eyes and ears as the main sensorial focus, these physical sessions will emphasize the use of memory preceptors. Improvisation sessions will revolve around applying the terms ��œPause,��� ��œFlow��� and ��œExit��� to time-based structures, and having theoretical discussions to help articulate physical areas like ��œmemory��� and ��œpresence��� while under the influence of creative activity, live time and the public format. The aim is to provide a situation where dancers and musicians can grow in confidence and presence and communicate to an artistic ensemble and/or public audience.

Logomotion
We naturally weave together body language and the spoken word in order to understand and to communicate. In this dance/narrative workshop, we will cultivate this poetic, synergistic process. The work will include a warm-up practice to awaken our kinetic juices and mindfulness, and timed writings to put us in touch with our wild thoughts and observations. We will focus on improvisation, including exercises for perceptual and compositional awareness and for developing a natural and intuitive flow between our moving and our speaking, with surprise and delight.

Seize the Moment
This workshop dives deeply into dance improvisation as a performing art. It is for the experienced improviser/performer/teacher who wants to discover new ways to integrate fully realized physical states and movement imbued with emotionality. Our approach is to develop multiple points of view towards improvisational performance that move us towards an innate sense of composition, design and theatricality. We are interested in making decisive compositional choices from within the performance. This workshop integrates and goes beyond the realm of contact, and movement techniques leading us toward the creation of environments and performance states which allow for various journeys to unfold. All interested applicants must have a minimum of two years of ongoing experience in improvisation and must send a letter of motivation via email describing their interest and experience with this work. Please send to both Chris and Andrew at: caiken@ursinus.edu and a1harwood@aol.com by Friday, November 5.

November 29 ��� December 12 Two weeks of improvisational performances, at Danspace Project at St. Mark���s Church and borough lofts. Week 1: Multiple performance evenings at Danspace Project featuring Simone Forti, Andrew Harwood and Chris Aiken, Heather Kravas and Jeremy Wade, and others TBA, organized by staff and a team of four curators. Week 2: The Moving Loft Series, organized by Miguel Gutierrez with a team of four curators. Artists and loft sites TBA. Stay tuned for more information on our website, emails and the IFNY newspaper!

Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT)
Skinner Releasing Technique integrates mind and body in the creative act of dancing. This workshop is a series of guided solo and partner investigations and exercises, using poetic imagery to create a rich experience of personal movement. Alignment, balance, autonomy of body parts and economy of movement are developed as we practice releasing tension patterns, preconceptions and fixed states of being. This workshop comprises the first week in the SRT Foundational training.