Force of Nature
Dance Performance Kirstie Simson with special guests.
Michael Schumacher (Ballet Frankfurt)
Dai Jian (Trisha Brown Co.)
Kenzo Kusuda (Emio Greco/PC)
Friday 23rd July: 8pm
The Universal Hall, Findhorn
Poetry In Motion
Dance, improvisation and Listening
A Workshop with Kirstie Simson
24th & 25th July 2010
The Universal Hall, Findhorn
A workshop in Dance-Improvisation, drawing from Kirstie's knowledge of Contact Improvisation, dance techniques, Aikido and her extensive experience of improvisation in performance.
Gender Rhythms
A 5Rhythms® workshop produced by Vital Moves in association with Bodysurf Scotland
4th-6th June 2010
You are invited to dance who you are, as a woman or as a man, in order to shape and shift your inconsistencies, your similarities, your fears, loves and desires.
Secret Garden
with Julie Deal and Deborah Jay-Lewin
5th – 7th March 2010
Invitation to a 5Rythms weekend for women to nurture and celebrate our sacred sexuality. Enter the Secret Garden and explore, through dance and ritual, the richness of being a woman.
Yoga with Diane Long and Sophy Hoare
A yoga workshop in the tradition of Vanda Scaravelli
8th -11th May 2010 (9am – 1pm)
The emphasis is not on achieving postures but using them to undo tension and find integration. The practice is an ongoing exploration of the relationship between the parts of the body and between our movements and the breath, the ground and the space around us. Gradually a new network of muscles is brought into use. Then our movements come from the spine and bring us back to the spine and the whole body pulls together. We train our attention so that we can feel more, impose less, and allow the intelligence of the body to reveal itself.
Medicine Dance
with Jonathan Horan, Gabrielle Roth’s son and closest collaborator
1st – 6th May 2010
A 5Rhythms® workshop for both advanced and beginning students. The 5Rhythms are a contemporary medicine wheel and Medicine Dance is a journey through the primary maps of the wheel nourishing the warrior-healer that is alive in each of us. Dancing for oneself, for each other, for our families, and for our communities is powerful medicine, a way to create a loving ripple effect in this world.
Playful Physics
with Robert Anderson and Karl Jay-Lewin
A workshop for both those new to contact and for more experienced dancers who want to deepen their study of the principles that underlie a contact dance.
New Year’s Event 09/10
Deborah Jay-Lewin, Karl Jay-Lewin & Robert Anderson
29 December – 3rd January
Bodysurf Scotland’s 8th New Year Event. A fantastic opportunity to dance 5Rhythms and Contact Improvisation in the beautiful enriching environment of the Findhorn Foundation community.
Deborah Hay
Solo Performance Commissioning Project 26 Aug – 4 Sept
An event for professional dancers produced by Independent Dance, London, in collaboration with Bodysurf Scotland.
3×3 success
We had a fantastic 9 days of workshops and truly extraordinary performances. When we get a little time we will be posting pictures and reports.
3×3 Dance & Cross Art Collaboration
9 Days of Workshops and Performances 9 – 17 July 2009
• Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion
• Eva Karczag & Chris Crickmay
• Jess Curtis/Gravity
Pioneering dance artists – Studio/Dunes/Theatre
14th July
Jess Curtis/Gravity Eva Karzag & Chris Crickmay Claire Cunningham
Free Performances
Big Fat Party: Wadada (Suns of Arqa) Live Trance World Roots Music
17th July!
Live Music, Dance Improv Performances, DJ Monkey Magic, outside fire, bar
Award Winning International Choreographer and Composer | Fish Pie Supper | Visual Art
10th July!
Choreographer Jonathan Burrows & Composer Matteo Fargion present
the UK premier of CHEAP LECTURE
A half-hour musical lecture about performance
Cycles with Kathy Altman
A 5Rhythms dance intensive 20 – 25 June 2009
SOLD OUT! We are operating a waiting list for this event. Places will be offered down the list to those who can confirm with an immediate payment.
Mary Prestige
Contact Improvisation & Related Dance Work
Mary Prestidge: a hugely influential dancer and teacher of improvisation & experimental dance. Mary’s generous, investigative approach to teaching makes this workshop suitable to all levels of experience.
The Goddess and the Whore
Welcome back to those women that have taken the plunge before. Welcome to those inspired to explore the depths of our sacred and sensual womanhood in this way for the first time
New Year’s Dance Event 2008
This highly popular dance event has been running in Findhorn for six years. Following a one year sabbatical Karl and Deborah are happy to be offering this fantastic opportunity to dance 5Rhythms® and Contact Improvisation in the beautiful enriching environment of the Findhorn Foundation community.
Come and join us for taught sessions in Contact Improvisation and 5Rhythms, unstructured time to jam and dance The Wave®, shared body-work, Hogmanay Party, beautiful winter landscape by the sea, stunning skies and wild geese, meditation sanctuary and hot tub.
Waves: Heaven & Hell
Most of us spend our lives seeking heaven, what we imagine will make us finally feel good forever, and running like hell, from everything that makes us uncomfortable. In Waves: Heaven and Hell, we use our movement practice to find true heaven – being grounded, centered and expanded in each moment life brings. This is the real value of practice, to learn how to be open, available and maybe even playful as we get knocked off kilter or kicked out of our comfort zone. Finding and sustaining our presence, no matter what we feel or what goes on around us, is the dance that will reverberate throughout our lives.
The Goddess and the Whore
Exploring the sacred and sexy through dancing The 5 Rhythms ®
A weekend treat for women with Julie Deal
Newbold House Retreat Centre
When given space to flourish, our spirituality and sexuality enrich the whole of our lives. Too often the expression of these vital aspects of our nature become divorced from each other and compartmentalised to culturally acceptable parts of life. I am inviting you to this weekend to take time out in the company of other women to welcome our natural sensuality and renew our connection to spirit.
Opensource: {Videodance} 2007
An open symposium for artists, academics, curators and producers coming together, to share ideas and work, network and debate, and provide a valuable platform for current issues in the area of screen dance practice to come to the surface.
Body Mind Centering
Body Mind Centering is an approach to somatic education through movement and touch, developed by Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen. It involves the experiential study of dynamic, embodied anatomy and infant developmental movement, using imagery, touch and movement. The uniqueness of the work lies in the experiential embodiment of the material. It is this process of embodiment that makes the work transformative and allows us to deepen our appreciation of how we express who we are, how we perceive the world, others and ourselves.
