国際コンタクト・インプロビゼーション・フェティバル
International Contact Improvisation Festival

i-Dance Japan 2023

 
 
 

 


[ Schedule ]


 


Morning activities

7:30 - 8:30

Bodywork, yoga, warm up, walking in the forest etc.

Let's try to get up early! You might have good thing. Let's get fresh air and let your cells wake up. Use morning time lovely for meditation, yoga, bodywork, warm up, and walking etc.

Improvisation Performance by Guest Artists[ Dance × Music × Light ]

[ encounter  邂逅 ]

venue:Isa city cultual hall
October 15

All of dancers, musicians and lighting designers improvise to create art work.
Let's enjoy the chemical reaction of bodies and minds.
 
劇場でのパフォーマンス(10月15日)は必見です。
国外、国内各地から集まった豪華アーティストたちによる、即興のパフォーマンス。
ダンス・⾳楽・美術・照明の即興コラボレーションは、まさに今、舞台上で作品を生みだすという先駆的なパフォーマンス。
豪華講師陣とi-Danceオーガナイザーズたち、3人の音楽家、美術家、そして3人の照明家がガップリ組みあいます。
 


Intensive workshop
[The Shimmer / The Edges Of Body In Movement ]  Jeniffer Nugent


 
 
How do we witness each other in motion, what is a warm up, how does movement become the language in which to express ourselves, how do we practice our unfolding ecology and dance for each other? What are we hearing and how do we explain? What does movement do and what can it become? I would like to propose partnering, modes of physical listening, and tuning practices as a way to heighten our responsivity during interactions of touch while creating and navigating ever changing physical landscapes. The work we will do together holds an intention and an invitation to experience conversing intimately with movement, with dance, and with each other.
Biography
 
 
 

【つながり/TUNAGARI/ Connection】Masako Kitaura


 
 
 
My professional background has three aspects: dance improvisation, physical dance theater and kimono. The theme of the workshop is “Connection”: the essence of artistic expression common to all of these. Connection with yourself, connection with others, connection with the earth, connection with all things in creation. In that connection, the generation of creative expression and the moment that pierces the depths of sensibility occur. Then, love and timelessness are drawn from the moment-to-moment, once-in-a-lifetime chance; the flow of time changes due to love, and the space is transformed by involving the body.
We will share and practice improvisation sessions, revealing discoveries that create new things both outside and inside yourself.
 
 
 

[Contact Improvisation workshop] Noam Carmeli
Principles of movement in contact


How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky?
What is movement and how do we sense it in the body?
How can we create movement while wisely using the force of nature?
What can support the flow of movement with our partner?
In this workshop we will look deeply for what are the basic principles in Contact
Improvisation that help us stay in continuous connection with ourselves, the movement
and with our partner during the dance.
We will find ways to share weight while releasing unnecessary effort and tools to enrich
the combination of a strong structure with free movement, a fundamental combination
that exists around us in nature, which may help to support the depth, the joy and the
flow in our common dance.

Single class / by Supporting Artists, CIco


One on One

One on One is a learning time where you can learn what you want to learn and what you want to hear on your own time.


Jam

free time, after dinner etc.

Jam is the best part of contact improvisation

Jam is the time to share the space and dance with other people or alone freely , also playing music for the space.
 

Foods

Healthy foods from local
Local foods supporters are making good meals for you. Actually, i-Dance Japan is famous for good foods. If you are interetes in making meals, please help and exchange with local people.


 Studio performance

 Evening on October 20  

Casual studio performance. Anyone who entry can perfom. 

Short and improvisation for each performance, let's try performing.


 

 Goemon bath

Old Japanese style bath
There are three Goemon baths at the venue.
It is very simple and old style bath, making fire with firewoods.
Just submerge in the hot water thinking about old days.
Please experience to make fire with firewoods.

*The cottages have bath and shower.
*There are hot springs in Isa city. You can go there by car, if you like.