“ miami fall” workshop series at inkub8

“Pure NrG Creative Writing workshop

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:00:20 -0500

Saturday Oct 29th 1- 4 pm
with Neil de la Flor & special guest.

This multi-dimensional, multi-genre creative writing workshop will build your confidence as a creative writer by encouraging you to tap into your subconscious. This workshop will (help) trigger and transform the pure energy in your mind—the ideas & images that live there—into concrete forms such as short memoirs, stories, and/or poems. We'll unearth the unexpected stories that live inside of us, all of us, just near the surface. We'll generate writing, share the work and engage in lively craft discussions. We'll talk a little about publication and how to keep the pure NrG flowing after the course is over. All you need is a laptop, and/or pen & some paper, a smile and your imagination.

Bio(organism): Neil de la Flor is NOT a magician. He is a teacher, writer, editor, and multidisciplinary artist born and raised in South Florida. His publications include Sinead O'Connor and her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds (Firewheel Editions, 2011), co-authored with Maureen Seaton and winner of the Sentence Book Award; Almost Dorothy (Marsh Hawk Press, 2010), winner of the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize; Facial Geometry (NeoPepper Press, 2006), co-authored with Maureen Seaton and Kristine Snodgrass; and Two Thieves and a Liar (Forthcoming, Jackleg Press, 2012), also co-authored with Maureen Seaton & Kristine Snodgrass.

CATCHING WAVES :::Contact Improvisation

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:00:18 -0500

Friday Nov 11th 6-9 pm
Saturday Nov 12th 1-4 pm
with ISABELLE KIROUAC Contact Improvisation - Dance Workshop

CATCHING WAVES ::: Dancing the body migrations (all levels) 
We will learn to fall and rise with grace, release the unnecessary tensions in our body and move with ease and flow. Finding support from the floor and our partner, we will learn to trust, play off balance, lift, fly, catch the body waves and allow them to migrate. We will dare to dive in the moment, engage with the consequences of our actions and notice the process of holding on and letting go. Through exposing ourselves, witnessing others, receiving and giving feedbacks, we will develop a greater awareness of our own bodies and explore the nature of our relationships with one another. This work is not about teaching a style. Everyone has his own world of possibilities. This is what needs to be revealed.

*Please note the CATCHING WAVES ::: Dancing the body migrations workshop takes place over 2 sessions folks are encouraged to come to both sessions each session COSTS $15

Biography
ISABELLE KIROUAC

Born in Quebec, Isabelle Kirouac is a performance artist primarily trained in Contact Improvisation, release technique, somatic practices, physical theater, butoh, acrobatic stilts and music. Over the years, Isabelle has been presenting her artistic work and teaching internationally at numerous festivals, including the San Francisco International Performing Arts Festival (US), Israeli Contact Improvisation Festival (Israel), Symposium Imagining Bodies (Estonia), Forum Internacional de Las Culturas (Mexico), Festival Internacional de Teatro de Manizales (Colombia), Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Scotland), etc. Isabelle is a member of The Carpetbag Brigade Physical Theater company and work currently as a choreographer and performer with Theatre Junction in Calgary, Canada. She has been performing with Karl Frost/Body Research, Felix Ruckert, Superamas, Flam Chen Pyrotechnic Theater, Nemcatacoa Teatro and collaborating with experimental film artists Daichi Saito and Karl Lemieux (Double Negative Collective). Contact Improvisation - Dance Workshop

CATCHING WAVES ::: Dancing the body migrations (all levels) 
We will learn to fall and rise with grace, release the unnecessary tensions in our body and move with ease and flow. Finding support from the floor and our partner, we will learn to trust, play off balance, lift, fly, catch the body waves and allow them to migrate. We will dare to dive in the moment, engage with the consequences of our actions and notice the process of holding on and letting go. Through exposing ourselves, witnessing others, receiving and giving feedbacks, we will develop a greater awareness of our own bodies and explore the nature of our relationships with one another. This work is not about teaching a style. Everyone has his own world of possibilities. This is what needs to be revealed.

Biography
ISABELLE KIROUAC

Born in Quebec, Isabelle Kirouac is a performance artist primarily trained in Contact Improvisation, release technique, somatic practices, physical theater, butoh, acrobatic stilts and music. Over the years, Isabelle has been presenting her artistic work and teaching internationally at numerous festivals, including the San Francisco International Performing Arts Festival (US), Israeli Contact Improvisation Festival (Israel), Symposium Imagining Bodies (Estonia), Forum Internacional de Las Culturas (Mexico), Festival Internacional de Teatro de Manizales (Colombia), Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Scotland), etc. Isabelle is a member of The Carpetbag Brigade Physical Theater company and work currently as a choreographer and performer with Theatre Junction in Calgary, Canada. She has been performing with Karl Frost/Body Research, Felix Ruckert, Superamas, Flam Chen Pyrotechnic Theater, Nemcatacoa Teatro and collaborating with experimental film artists Daichi Saito and Karl Lemieux (Double Negative Collective).

Artist Website
http://threelittlereddots.org/

Improvisation in Urban Spaces

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:00:59 -0400

Saturday December 12th 1-4 pm
with Bistoury Physical Theatre ALEXEY TARAN & CARLA FORTE

IMPROVISATION IN URBAN SPACES
A workshop designed to focus our study of Improvisation through the Underscore, a long score for jamming/composition/improvisation. The Underscore guides us through a progression of "changing states" of body and mind from solo sensitizing to gravity and support, into group circulation and Improvisation engagements, opening out into whole room compositional awareness and interaction, and back to rest and reflection.
Information on Bistoury
ALEXEY TARAN | Artist Statement
To me, the use of cinematography and performance art reside in their capacity and ability to communicate knowledge and emotions that belong to and live within every human being. Suggested through sound, movement and other visual associations (as if living a dream), I observe them and begin to deconstruct or dispense with any narrative, in a free flow of images that conform and influence my work much more consciously than any other form.

Being trained in the school of ballet offered me the opportunity to break with rigid structures of composition, further approximating the creation of an open workpiece, allowing the spectator the possibility to build their own interpretation and story.
The non-structural content of my work distances itself from traditional lineal narrative; the arguments and ideas are exposed to free interpretation and diverse inquisition, instead of being presented as an inalterable exclusive whole.

Beyond this approach, my work is rooted in the concern for how human beings are influenced by their surrounding environment. Merely walking an avenue creates an infinite structure of sensations that affect us directly, as the different sounds, images, texts and objects that we find around us. Exploring these juxtaposed elements gives the spectator the opportunity to experiment a feeling of need and to find meaning in the work; it guides them to an aesthetic appreciation of the uncertainty and chaos reflected in it.
During my career as director and choreographer, I have found myself in need of resorting to different media such as film, video art, experimental film, choreography and performance art in order to communicate and contribute in a non-literal manner my knowledge, frustrations, emotions and concerns about the epicenter of my work “the Human Being and his Suitcase,” a suitcase that every person carries along, filled with stories, for the rest of their lives.

CARLA FORTE Born in Caracas, Venezuela. Performer, Writer and Director Carla Forte began her career as an interpreter, graduating from the National Experimental University of Arts in Caracas- Venezuela in 2004. Founder, Performer and Co-Director of the company Ere.Bistoury (Physical Theater & Media). Carla was a performer and co- director of video arts like: Obbe, Symbol, Schizobolo and Five Movements presented in important Theaters and Festivals like: Non-Verbal Theatre Festival San Vicente, Croatia (2009). Adrienne Arsht Center, Miami, Florida (2009). Movement Research at the Judson Church NY, US (2008). Gorilla FEST07, Soho Festival, NY (2007). Armando Reverón. Caracas, Venezuela (2007). A Desert for Dancing. Hermosillo, México (2007).
Artist website http://bistoury.blogspot.com/

Technique | Improv Lab

Sun, 7 Aug 2011 13:00:56 -0400

December 17th 1-4 pm
with Heather Maloney

This workshop explores the physicality of falling with gravity through the frame of a contemporary dance technique class, and then continues into an improvisational lab space in the body.

ARTIST BIO:
Heather Maloney is a performer, choreographer and activist originally from Virginia. She is a Miami-based choreographer, dancer and artistic director of Inkub8 an alternative | studio | whitebox | performance | space Wynwood Miami. Her work has been presented at Bates Dance Festival, Florida Dance Festival, New World School of the Arts and in Fundanza Venezula, Performatica, Puebla Mexico, Fusebox, Austin TX. She has been awarded residencies at the Queens Museum of Art, New York (2003); at The Center For New Dance Development in Portland, Maine (2005); Recipient of the Manhattan Community Arts Fund/ New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (2004) NPN Residency through a Community Fund presenter Tigertail Productions (2004) NPN performance residency with Women and their Work Austin Texas (2008). She was awarded the 2008 Miami Dade Choreographer's Fellowship from the Miami Dade Cultural Affairs. Maloney was selected as an Emerging Choreographer for Bates Dance Festival 2008. In addition she was awarded a 2009 Individual Artist Fellowship for Dance from the State of Florida Division of Cultural Affairs. She has taught workshops at New World School of the Arts, Bates College as well as in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela.