New Dance
Instant composition – Dance – Improvisation
Weekly classes in Bern
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New Dance has been developed in the seventies and is part of Post Modern Dance. The interest was to look at the dancers again more as a unity of body, mind and soul. New Dance has been influenced by different kinds of martial arts and mainly the basic elements of presence, alertness and energy entered into this dance form. Individuality and authenticity are core elements of New Dance as well as improvisation that is considered as art work to be shown on stage.
In our improvisation classes we are working exclusively with the tools of an open improvisation. The goal is to create an „Instant Composition“ without any structural scores or agreements about the content or a theme. We are using a wide range of instruments to teach this: exercises to differentiate the perception of the own body, the space and time, exercises to explore internal movement impulses and to connect the inner and the outer space as well as highly structured compositional tasks in order to recognize the various elements of an “Instant Composition”. Like that an intense training can be created including each’s individuality in combination with all the material that has been transmitted.
The participants learn to balance there perception and there actions - and this may bring them to a state of presence and authenticity that makes the improvisation worth seeing and that has the potential to touch an audience. An improvised performance is something magical, because you can literally feel in real time what’s going on among the performers, you can see the connections and the communication, how cooperation and the courage for radical actions are coming together and how by that unexplainable things may happen - things that will go fare beyond your imagination!
The training in new dance technique is based - as well as in Contact Improvisation - on organic movement principles and aims to differentiate the body awareness, to be more porous and flexible in the muscles and joints, to strengthen the body and to profit from energetic aspects. The focus is on lightness, strength and dynamic as well as on simplicity and the orientation in time and space. The floor work is also an important part of the training.
The group shows its work every now and then in studioperformances. You can come & try a class (25 Frs.), for this contact us, please. You may start the training anytime, but we wish for continuity.
Teachers:
Adrian Russi is a one of the leading CI-teacher in Switzerland and travelling all over Europe to teach and perform Contact and Free Improvisation as a free lance or in dance schools. He studied New Dance at « bewegungs-art » in Freiburg. Since more than 20 years he’s deeply involved in the exploration of the body (martial arts, bodywork and energy work) as well as Contact Improvisation, New Dance and Open Improvisation, that he discovered in 1992 and continued to train intensively since then. Besides the dance he studied Craniosacral Bodywork what has been very important for his understanding of the subtle connections within the body. For him the pleasure to play, deep engagement in the dance, and respect for others are the basis for gaining the most possible in dancing CI.
Manuela Blanchard Russi has taught contact improvisation and new dance for the past 11 years, after having trained intensively and performed pieces in contemporary dance, physical theatre, butoh, clown, GaGa, yoga and Body Mind Centering for the past 25 years. Discovering improvised dance touched a very profound core in her, and led her to meet great teachers and to continue to explore the form with others. Manuela is also a body therapist, certified in WaterShiatsu, WaterDance and Esalen Massage. She developped "Contact improvisation in Water" as an integration of her different passions. She is travelling all though the world to transmit her love for dance inspired by different elements, cultures and surroundings. She likes to support participants to find their own body language and considers humour and imagination as powerfull tools for improvisation.
You can come to try a class for Frs 25.-, please take contact with us first and come preferably in the beginning of each trimesters. Next trimester will start on August 16th. Our class is on Wednesday 18:10-19:50 in Bern in studio Crearte, please contact us if you are interested to try a class. Flyer here.
Regular studioperformances with our students.
Workshops:
Dance improvisation with outdoor performances around September, check our workshop calendar.
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New Dance has been developed in the seventies and is part of Post Modern Dance. The interest was to look at the dancers again more as a unity of body, mind and soul. New Dance has been influenced by different kinds of martial arts and mainly the basic elements of presence, alertness and energy entered into this dance form. Individuality and authenticity are core elements of New Dance as well as improvisation that is considered as art work to be shown on stage.
In our improvisation classes we are working exclusively with the tools of an open improvisation. The goal is to create an „Instant Composition“ without any structural scores or agreements about the content or a theme. We are using a wide range of instruments to teach this: exercises to differentiate the perception of the own body, the space and time, exercises to explore internal movement impulses and to connect the inner and the outer space as well as highly structured compositional tasks in order to recognize the various elements of an “Instant Composition”. Like that an intense training can be created including each’s individuality in combination with all the material that has been transmitted.
The participants learn to balance there perception and there actions - and this may bring them to a state of presence and authenticity that makes the improvisation worth seeing and that has the potential to touch an audience. An improvised performance is something magical, because you can literally feel in real time what’s going on among the performers, you can see the connections and the communication, how cooperation and the courage for radical actions are coming together and how by that unexplainable things may happen - things that will go fare beyond your imagination!
The training in new dance technique is based - as well as in Contact Improvisation - on organic movement principles and aims to differentiate the body awareness, to be more porous and flexible in the muscles and joints, to strengthen the body and to profit from energetic aspects. The focus is on lightness, strength and dynamic as well as on simplicity and the orientation in time and space. The floor work is also an important part of the training.
The group shows its work every now and then in studioperformances. You can come & try a class (25 Frs.), for this contact us, please. You may start the training anytime, but we wish for continuity.
Teachers:
Adrian Russi is a one of the leading CI-teacher in Switzerland and travelling all over Europe to teach and perform Contact and Free Improvisation as a free lance or in dance schools. He studied New Dance at « bewegungs-art » in Freiburg. Since more than 20 years he’s deeply involved in the exploration of the body (martial arts, bodywork and energy work) as well as Contact Improvisation, New Dance and Open Improvisation, that he discovered in 1992 and continued to train intensively since then. Besides the dance he studied Craniosacral Bodywork what has been very important for his understanding of the subtle connections within the body. For him the pleasure to play, deep engagement in the dance, and respect for others are the basis for gaining the most possible in dancing CI.
Manuela Blanchard Russi has taught contact improvisation and new dance for the past 11 years, after having trained intensively and performed pieces in contemporary dance, physical theatre, butoh, clown, GaGa, yoga and Body Mind Centering for the past 25 years. Discovering improvised dance touched a very profound core in her, and led her to meet great teachers and to continue to explore the form with others. Manuela is also a body therapist, certified in WaterShiatsu, WaterDance and Esalen Massage. She developped "Contact improvisation in Water" as an integration of her different passions. She is travelling all though the world to transmit her love for dance inspired by different elements, cultures and surroundings. She likes to support participants to find their own body language and considers humour and imagination as powerfull tools for improvisation.
You can come to try a class for Frs 25.-, please take contact with us first and come preferably in the beginning of each trimesters. Next trimester will start on August 16th. Our class is on Wednesday 18:10-19:50 in Bern in studio Crearte, please contact us if you are interested to try a class. Flyer here.
Regular studioperformances with our students.
Workshops:
Dance improvisation with outdoor performances around September, check our workshop calendar.
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EVENING CLASS : on Wednesday 18:10-19:50
Place: Studio Créarte, Mattenquartier, Mühleplatz 15, 3011 Bern
Price and dates: see flyer
Contact: Manuela, 079 641 91 19, manou.blanchard@bluewin.ch
Place: Studio Créarte, Mattenquartier, Mühleplatz 15, 3011 Bern
Price and dates: see flyer
Contact: Manuela, 079 641 91 19, manou.blanchard@bluewin.ch
