BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2336@contactdance.co.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181005T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181007T203000 DTSTAMP:20181003T221530Z URL:https://contactdance.co.uk/events/bristol-national-jam-2018/ SUMMARY:Bristol National Jam 2018 - DMAC\, (4th Floor) Hamilton House - 5 O ct 18 18:00 DESCRIPTION:\nEverything you need to know about attending the National Jam! \nWe're all very excited about the weekend and looking forward to meeting and dancing with visitors from all over the UK.\nHere is some important in formation for the weekend. Please read it to ensure you can get the most o ut of the event. If you have any queries please contact info@contactdance. co.uk\nArrival and registration\n\n\n \nThe event starts on Friday evenin g at 6pm with the opening jam. We are aware not everyone will be able to a rrive for this or may arrive late. This is fine\, you'll be able to regist er whenever you arrive.\n\n \nThe event continues on Saturday morning fro m 9am with 2 morning warm-up classes happening simultaneously. If you want to do one of these please arrive in good time – aim to be there by 8:45 .\n\n \nWe will continue registering people during the warm-up classes an d hope everyone will be ready for the opening circle at 10 and the main cl asses/jam starting at 10:30.\n\n \nWe will issue you with a piece of colo ured wool to be worn as a wrist band so we can identify who has a ticket – with a different colour for Saturday and Sunday. This will help us to quickly identify who has a ticket and who needs to pay for individual even ts\, so please help us by wearing the wrist bands.\n\n \nOn registration you will be required to sign a disclaimer form making clear that you are a ware CI can be risky and that Bristol Contact Improvisation cannot be held liable for any injuries sustained over the weekend.\n\n\nTransport\n\n\n \nThe event is at DMAC Dance Studios and the Event Space on floors 3 and 4 of Hamilton House\, Stokes Croft\, BS1 3QY. https://www.hamiltonhouse.or g/getting-here/\n\n \nYou can easily get a bus in to central Bristol and walk to Hamilton House. Google Maps and most Bristolians will be able to d irect you to Stokes Croft. Driving in might involve difficulty parking – see below.\n\n\n\n \nIt's also possible to get a train from Temple Meads Station to Montpelier Station which is about 10 minutes walk from Hamilto n House.\n\n\nParking\n\n\n \nFree parking can be difficult to find nearb y as we are close to the city centre. The nearest multi-storey car parks a re about 10 minutes walk away\, NCP on Bond Street BS1 3LJ and Cabot Circu s on Newfoundland Circus BS2 9AB. These can be an expensive option for the whole day!\n\n \nOn a Saturday I would highly recommend getting a bus in to central Bristol rather than driving and expecting to easily find a park ing space.\n\n \nOn a Sunday all day or a Friday or Saturday evening you should be able to park on single yellow lines and pay and display spaces o n Upper York Street BS2 8QN or surrounding streets in Nearby St Pauls for free.\n\n\nThings to bring\n\n\n \na blanket and cushion if possible to a dd to our chill out area\n\n \nwater bottle\n\n \nlayers of clothing so you can regulate your temperature to your liking\n\n \nKneepads if you us e them. We will have limited numbers for sale for £10 a pair.\n\n\nFood\n \n\n \nWe will be providing hot water\, a variety of teas and snacks to s ustain people throughout the weekend.\n\n \nLunch and dinner can be purch ased from a large ranged of local cafes\, shops and takeaways. The venue w e are at has it's own bar/restaurant called The Canteen on the ground floo r.\n\n \nWe are hoping to be able to have a communal dinner together on S aturday between 5 and 6:30 at the Canteen and aim to book a big table for this.\n\n\nClasses/Workshops\n\n\n \nPlease help the event to run smoothl y by referring to the schedule (which will be displayed prominently) and t urning up to classes on time whenever possible.\n\n \nThere is a warm-up class and workshop which can only cope with limited numbers. There will be other things to do instead. Please read below.\n\n\nMorning Warm-up Class es\n\n\n \n“Pilates meets improvisation” with Itta Howie running 9am to 10am on Saturday and Sunday is limited to 11 spaces. On the Saturday th ere is a different warm up running simultaneously. On the Sunday this is t he only warm-up\, so please turn up early.\n\n \nIn past experience of Na tional Jams very few people turn up to a 9am warm-up class\, particularly when it gets to Sunday. However\, there will be space in the studio for pe ople to perform their own quiet individual warm-ups if they are not able t o join Itta's class.\n\n\nThe Perception Gap (with Lisa May Thomas)\n\n\n \nThis is a unique opportunity to try something quite different - “An e xploration into bodies – human and non-human – that are seen and unsee n\; felt and not felt in the layering of the real and the virtual using a multi-person VR (virtual reality) framework. This framework enables bodies to enter into VR together and to be both physically and virtually present with each other.”\n\n \nDue to this involving quite a technical set-up \, the maximum number who can participate in this workshop is 18. There wi ll be a warm-up into a jam accompanied by live music going on in a differe nt space simultaneously\, for those who prefer straight forward CI with no technology involved.\n\n \nIf you want to attend Lisa's workshop\, pleas e email info@contactdance.co.uk as soon as possible to book a space. Space s will be allocated on a first come\, first served basis.\n\n\nEvent “go to” people\nWe've got a great team of volunteers for the weekend. Talk to them if you have any questions on the day. They are Asher\, Dee and Sil via.\nIf you really need to talk to the main organisers\, come and talk to us\, K'lo and Simon. Please be aware we will be really busy with just abo ut everything\, as well as trying to have a dance or two!\nWorkshops led b y Alistair Edmunds\, Rosalind Holgate Smith and Lisa May Thomas\nUnderscor e led by Agnieszka Grenckowska\nEarly morning warm-ups with Itta Howie\nJa m facilitation by Jocasta Crofts\, Sam Bloomfield and K'lo Harris\n\nLarge wooden floored dance studio plus second dance space available on Saturday \n14 hours jamming including the Underscore\n8 hours of classes\n2 hours o f morning warm up classes\n2 hours open space for labbing/discussion/explo ration etc.\nEasy access to places to eat and drink\nEasy access by public transport from the rest of Bristol\n\nEarly bird before 5th September £6 5\nAfter 5th September £70\n\nWe are hoping to provide non-Bristol dancer s with accommodation with members of the Bristol CI community. When buying your ticket\, please complete the questionnaire to help us match dancers with suitable hosts.\n\nTickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/ 3577775\n\n\n\nBelow is a full schedule. Read on for details of the sessio ns offered.\n\nFor those unable to attend the whole event\, it will be pos sible to attend different bits of it and pay on the day. Have a look at th e schedule and descriptions below. Come and dive into the jam!\n\nDay Tick et (Sat or Sun) - £40\nOpening jam (Fri night) - £5\nClosing jam (Sunday night) - £5\nMorning warm up (Sat/Sun 9 to 10) - £5\nPerception Gap (Sa t class) - £15\nFluid Freedom #1 (Sat class) - £10\nFluid Freedom #2 (Su n Class) - £15\nSaturday jams (morning and evening) - £10\nMoving Unders core (Sunday) £15\n\n\nFluid Freedom  - Alistair Edmunds and Rosalind Ho lgate-Smith\n\n\nInspired by a sense of fluids we will explore falling\, f lying and floating\, dancing in duets and solos and investigating experien ces of freedom.\n\nWe would like to facilitate dancers to dive deeper into the embodiment of the fluid system\, drawing on our own research and know ledge of BMC and unpicking how this system supports us in CI. We are also interested to explore what it means to experience freedom on physical term s\, in contact improvisation and how we consider our embodied experience b eyond the dance studio.\n\nWe will use body work\, movement scores\, partn er exercises\, movement\, visualisation and touch\, to facilitate an exper ience of self-discovery within the body and in the dance.\n\nAlistair Edm unds\n\n\n\nAli is based in Bristol where he regularly teaches CI and soma tic movement sessions. He has been dancing CI for over 10 years. He has tr ained in Body-Mind Centering and is currently a student of Craniosacral Th erapy. Ali is also inspired by qi gong\, martial arts and climbing.\nwww.s omaticmovement.co.uk\n\nRosalind Holgate-Smith \n\n\n\nRosalind is a Danc e Artist based in Snowdonia. She creates performances and installations in spired by her work with Contact Improvisation\, Authentic Movement and Bod y-Mind Centering. Her dance practice is also inspired by her love of swimm ing\, and the textures of moving outdoors. She has a Masters in Dance Crea tive practice and a BA degree in Fine Art and Choreography.  She has been practising CI for 10 years and besides teaching workshops internationally she has led regular classes at Chester University\, at Goldsmiths and now facilitates 'CI North Wales'. Rosalind has further experience facilitatin g dance for diverse groups including children\, disabled adults and older people and also teaches yoga and swimming with the Alexander technique.\nw ww.rosalindholgatesmith.com\n\n \;\n\nThe Perception Gap - Lisa May T homas  \n\nAn exploration into bodies – human and nonhuman - that are seen and unseen\; felt and not felt in the layering of the real and the vi rtual using a multi-person VR (virtual reality) framework. This framework enables bodies to enter into VR together and to be both physically and vir tually present with each other.\n\nThe session will be an exploration usin g VR technology to investigate what it means to be virtual bodies in a vir tual environment and how this can feed back into the physical (jam) space and to physical – seen and felt - connections between bodies. \n\nI am e xploring the perception gap between what is seen and what is felt when a b ody enters into a virtual environment using VR technology. I am interested in how it might it be possible to use ‘dancerly’ sensibilities and pr actices such as peripheral intelligence and using touch as a point of orie ntation and navigation between two moving bodies to inform how the technol ogy is used\; and to discover if there are ways in which this technology c an help the dancer to know the body and exchanges between bodies and envir onments in a different way.\n\nLisa May Thomas\n\n\n\nLisa is a contempora ry dance artist who has worked with dance for screen and whose award-winni ng film work has been presented globally and broadcast for BBC and Channel 4. She trained at Laban (BA) and received an MPhil in performance and tec hnology at the University of Bristol (UoB) as their first hybrid arts scho lar\, with a grant from Interactive Scientific. Her research sits between the departments of drama and computer science and takes a dance-somatic ap proach to her investigations into how digital technologies mediate interac tions between human and nonhuman bodies\, and ways in which digital tools can be used to develop an aesthetics of interaction. Her current PhD studi es are funded by a UoB arts scholarship\, with additional support from Dav id Glowacki’s Royal Society Research Fellowship and Phillip Leverhulme A ward.\n\nhttp://www.lisamaythomas.co.uk\nThe Moving Underscore - Agnieszk a Grenckowska\nAgnieszka will lead this fundamental CI practice that has g rown out of investigations by Nancy stark Smith into what happens at CI Ja ms.\nNancy named and codified her observations\, sharing these with the CI community and as a result underscore practice has become not only a usefu l tool for entering a Jam space and sustaining own participation throughou t but also a bit of a CI Ritual Practice.\nAgnieszka will be introducing N ancy’s Underscore symbols whilst facilitating us to move and embody thei r qualities and the states of improvised dance\, so that those principles are felt rather than just thought.\nIt is encouraged that people participa te for the whole jam to gain a better understanding of the full process as well as ‘ritual’ aspect of the work (togetherness\, care\, moment to moment creation\, active reflection\, sharing).\n\nAgnieszka Agni Grenckow ska\n\n\nAgnieszka’s vision is centered around bringing people together and helping them experience their selves through embodying the universal l aws of life. She does this as a healthcare practitioner\, dance practition er\, movement teacher\, event organiser and a holistic personal developmen t coach. She trained formally and informally in Contact Improvisation Danc e form\, been actively practicing Contact Improvisation for 12 years. She contributed to the formation of Contact Improvisation Dance platform in Br istol and organized several local events\, such as Bristol National Jam as well as co organised European ones: ECITE Poland 2013\, Flow Warsaw 2015. Agnieszka is also teaching a holistic movement class to women from disadv antaged backgrounds in the Inner City Bristol.\n\nHer collaboration with N ancy Stark Smith: she has co-organised the Global Underscore with Nancy St ark Smith during her residency in Poland in 2014. She worked closely with Nancy in 2011 at the States of Grace residential intensive in Spain and de veloped a Polish translation for the Underscore that is now being used by the local communities.\n\n \;\nPilates meets Improvisation (Stability &\; Mobility of Joints) - Itta Howie\n\n\nA whole-body warm-up class d rawing on the discipline of Pilates and the explorative nature of improvis ation. In this slow and focused class we prepare our bodies for taking wei ght and for moving with fluidity. No previous Pilates experience necessary . Individual guidance will be given within the group context.\nItta Howie\ nItta is a Bristol-based movement artist who explores dance improvisation in relation to other art forms\, in urban and natural environments\, and o ccasionally in the context of performance.\nIn 2014 Itta qualified as a Pi lates mat work teacher. She has been teaching Pilates to a wide range of c lients ever since.\n‘I enjoy seeing my clients gain strength\, mobility and body awareness\, and feel privileged to observe them flourish as they re-discover their bodies anew’.\nItta is intrigued by how her two passio ns (the Pilates system and movement improvisation) could meet and feed eac h other. To explore this interweaving of forms she uses a teaching approac h inspired by experiential anatomy facilitation.\nItta has been a regular practitioner of somatic movement and dance improvisation (incl. CI) for ma ny years.\nhttp://ittahowie.co.uk\nJam Facilitation\nConnecting with Your Animal Body - Jocasta Crofts \nMoving through the evolution of the develo pmental levels. Opening the senses and using them as animals/other mammals do. Breathing as an animal. Sounds from your organs as an animal. Meeting and moving with others/alone in the quality of your animal. Allowing your reflexes\, instincts and intuition to lead your animal dance.\nThis warm up can open up tactile\, less heady states of play and dancing. It invites people to tune into their body not their head by moving through the devel opmental levels and opening the senses.\nThe following jam will be accompa nied by a projection of the film\n"Ashes and Snow" by Gregory Colbert.\nTh e film shows humans and animals moving together and makes for a lovely ani mal connection to round off the Jam.\n\n[embed]https://vimeo.com/29498902[ /embed]\n\nJocasta Crofts\n\nJocasta is a body worker &\; healer – wo rking with healing energy through touch and movement. She teaches Baby mas sage\, Kids yoga and Contact Improv. Jocasta has 20 years of CI dancing &a mp\; teaching experience\, having trained with many teachers at schools\,f estivals and workshops in Europe and USA including Somatic Educator Traini ng (SME) and Infant Development Movement Education (IDME) Programme with T he School for Body Mind Centering.\nI trust the body and its animal ways o f being and moving.\nI am a mama and that dance with my son constantly tea ches me about relating and contact as well as keeping me quite busy.\n\n\n Solo\, Shared or Other - Sam Bloomfield\n\nWe will be following group/sol o scores\, fully improvised\, based on inviting dancers to find their own score\, both created in the moment and/or with ‘score cards’.\nWe will experiment with holding a score firmly and lightly to find the balance be tween having one’s own dance\, sharing a dance and dancing someone else ’s dance.\nThis will be a playful and free warm-up leading into a jam\, ideal for all levels\nSam Bloomfield\n\n\nSam is a dance movement psychoth erapist (MA RDMP) with over 25 years’ experience in facilitating worksho ps. Since 2002 he has trained adults at festivals\, colleges and teaching staff in special needs schools. His regular work is as a psychotherapist i n Bristol schools (mainstream and SEN) and adult care provisions. He is al so a full member of the College of Healing and is a body-work teacher with 27 years’ experience in transformational bodywork.\nSam is the author o f a book on poetry “Human Ocean” (2nd edition)\, and an exhibiting art ist (2015) and regular performer in poetry\, dance\, sound and digital med ia. In addition to his distinction in a three year creative arts psychothe rapy MA (2017)\, he has trained extensively in personal development. He is currently teaching workshops in Contact Improvisation\, Whole Heart - Who le Body\, Men - The Lion and Dove\, Body Poetry - words and movement and I gniting Creativity. He is fully CRB checked.\n\nhttp://sambloomfield.org/ CATEGORIES:CI Jam,CI Workshop,UK CI Jam LOCATION:DMAC\, (4th Floor) Hamilton House\, 80 Stokes Croft\, Bristol\, BS 1 3QY\, United Kingdom GEO:51.4629;-2.58991 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=80 Stokes Croft\, Bristol\, BS1 3QY\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=DMAC\, (4th Floor) Ha milton House:geo:51.4629,-2.58991 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20180325T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR