A workshop in the physics of sensual pleasure in Contact Improvisation. Deepen your sexual dance and it’s connection to your partners’.  Develop tools to allow your sexual body to safely inform all of your dancing. Find the pathways that lead to freer motion. Get out of your head, beyond your genitals, come to your senses.  

 

This class is for men and women.  All participants must be equally willing to work with men and women, within the context of negotiated consensual boundaries. Wear comfortable, loose fitting clothing(i.e.sweats). Some exercises  may be clothing optional. Some movement experience is helpful. This workshop is accessible to people with mobility impairments. Please contact us if you have accessibility concerns.

 

 

 

Jess Curtis

Director/Choreographer (San Francisco/Berlin). Living and  working in both San Francisco and Berlin, Jess Curtis has created a  body of work ranging from the underground extremes of Mission District  warehouses with Contraband and CORE (1985-1998) to the formal refinement and exuberance of European State Theatres  and Circus Tents  with Compagnie Cahin-Caha and Jess Curtis/Gravity (1998-present). Since founding Gravity in 2000, Curtis has created an extensive body of performance works, collaborating with numerous renowned international artists and companies, receiving critical praise and a variety of awards and honors. Throughout his career his research and  practice have included work and play within the Queer, Sex-Positive  communities of San Francisco where he has studied, practiced and  played with such pioneers as Annie Sprinkle, Fakir Musafar, Madame Cleo Dubois, Joseph Kramer, Keith Hennessy and Chester Mainard.

 

 From 1991 to 1998 he was co-director of the legendary 848 Community Space in San Francisco, site of many intercommunity experiments in  Art, Politics, Sexuality, Community and Culture. He also teaches  Dance, Contact Improv and Interdisciplinary Performance throughout the US and Europe and has been a visiting professor at UC Berkeley, and  the University of the Arts in Berlin. He is currently pursuing an PhD  in Performance Studies with a focus on choreographic practice at the University of California at Davis. Contact Improvisation and  Spontaneous Composition are central tools in his performing practice, which he uses as training/tuning techniques for himself and the performers he works with, and in making performances that embrace the risk of making choices in real time.

Further information: www.jesscurtisgravity.org

 

 

Fee: 150 EUR

schwelle7 members 100 EUR

 

registration:

 

 SLEEPING: We can accomodate workshop participants in our Guest apartment or in special sleeping cocoons in the studio. The cost is from 10 EUR a night per person.

 

 

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Jess Curtis hat Werke geschaffen, die sich zwischen dem extremen Untergrund der Lagerhallen im Mission District San Franciscos mit Contaband und CORE (1985-1998) bis zur feierlichen Rafinesse und Überschwänglichkeit europäischer Staatstheater und Zirkuszelte mit der Compagnie Cahin-Caha und Jess Curtis/Gravity (1998-jetzt) bewegen. Seit der Gründung von Gravity im Jahr 2000, hat Curtis ein umfangreiches Werk an Performances geschaffen, in denen er mit zahlreichen renommierten internationalen KünstlerInnen und Compagnien zusammenarbeitet, für die er in den Kritiken gepriesen und eine Vielzahl and Preisen und Ehrungen erhalten hat. Im Laufe seiner Karriere beinhalteten seine Praxis und Forschung Arbeiten und Spiele innerhalb der queeren, sex-positiven Gemeinschaften in San Francisco wo er mit Pionieren wie Annie Sprinkle, Fakir Musafar, Madame Cleo Dubois, Joseph Kramer, Keith Hennessy und Chester Mainard studiert, geübt und gespielt hat.

 

Von 1991 bis 1998 war er Co-Director des legendären 848 Community Space in San Francisco, einem Ort vieler Gemeinschaftsexperimente in Kunst, Politik, Sexualität, Gemeinschaft und Kultur. Er unterrichtet auch Tanz, Contact Improvisation und Interdisziplinäre Performance in den USA und in Europa und war als Gastprofessor an der University of California in Berkley und der Universität der Künste in Berlin. Er verfolgt momentan seine Promotion(PhD) in Performance Studies mit einem Fokus auf Praxis der Choreographie an der University of California in Davis. Contact Improvisation und spontane Komposition sind zentrale Tools in seiner Performancepraxis. Diese Tools nutzt er für sich selbst und die Künstler mit denen er arbeitet und um Performances zu kreieren die das Risiko von Entscheidungen in Echtzeit beinhalten.

 

schwelle7 Mitglieder 100 EUR

 

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 SLEEPING: We can accomodate workshop participants in our Guest apartment or in special sleeping cocoons in the studio. The cost is from 10 EUR a night per person.

 

photos by Lissa Ivy,

The Erotic Body, Deep Touch, Weight and Motion