Rosemary and Vitali are not “teaching the Underscore”. Rather the Underscore is an inspiration for the group interaction within the class and open dancing.

The Underscore is a long score for jamming/composition/contact/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 Contact Improvisation engagements, opening out into whole room compositional awareness and interaction, and back to rest and reflection.

Developed by Nancy Stark Smith the Underscore is a popular prctice among contact dancers all around the world.

Nancy Stark Smith first trained as an athlete and gymnast, leading her to study and perform modern and postmodern dance in the early 1970s, greatly influenced by Judson Dance Theater breakthroughs in NYC in the 1960s. She danced in the first performances of Contact Improvisation with Steve Paxton and others in 1972 and has since been central to its development as dancer, teacher, performer, writer/publisher, and organizer. She travels worldwide teaching and performing Contact and other improvised dance work with many favorite dance partners and performance makers including Karen Nelson, Julyen Hamilton, Andrew Harwood, Peter Bingham, and musician Mike Vargas. In 1975 she co-founded Contact Quarterly dance and improvisation journal, which she continues to co-edit, produce, and publish. Her writings appear in the book Taken By Surprise: A Dance Improvisation Reader, and her first book, Caught Falling, with David Koteen, was released in 2008. She lives in western Massachusetts.

(http://www.earthdance.net/programs/underscore09.htm, 02/10/2010)

Sixth Annual 8x8x8 Dance Showcase at The Starry Plough Pub

NonoDance is performing this Thursday as a part of annual choreographer’s showcase at the non-conventional stage – The Starry Plough Pub in Berkeley. The piece is also quiet unusual and a bit spooky. It is inspired by the ghosts of Surrealism of the XX.

The Obvious of Imagination. Haunted Room.
Conceived and performed by Rosemary Hannon and Vitali Kononov
Music by The Caretaker. Spoken word by Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Antonin Artoud, Man Ray, Max Ernst and Andre Breton.
NonoDance Company is a performance collective dedicated to conceptually, visually, and aurally framed improvisation. Formed by Rosemary Hannon and Vitali Kononov in 2007, Nono Dance investigates the somatic realms and impressionism in dance performance.

Read the article written in East Bay Express

The Starry Plough Pub

3101 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, CA 94705

Thursday, Feb. 4th 2010 8pm

FREE !

Divisadero Dance Research Company will present a new (1 hour 15 minutes) piece. This work is a part of Nita Little’s PhD Portfolio project (intersection of dance and contact improvisation).

Performers:

Nita Little, Rosemary Hannon, Lizz Roman, Laura Stokes, Maica Folch, Kevin O’Connor, Vitali Kononov

Tickets available at ART 101 (Theater Dance Office)

The event is free to the public, although there is limited seating (50 people per show) so you should try to pick up tickets through the Theater and Dance Office at UC Davis (see Soccoro). They will not be available until Monday, Oct 12. If you are coming from out of town, you should call to arrange the tickets (phone number 1-530-752-0888 or write her an email: svfigueroa@ucdavis.edu

Moment’s Notice and NONOdance present:

Anatomy Of Presence

a performance evening of improvisational works

Thursday, October 22. 8:30pm, Sawtooth Building. 8th Street Studio, 2525 Eight St., Berkeley, CA

Benno Voorham (Sweden), Katarina Eriksson (Sweden/USA), Ray Chung (USA), Rosemary Hannon (USA) and Vitali Kononov (Russia/USA)

A crosspolination of contact improvisation, dance and theater, Anatomy of Presence reveals the hidden currents of human attention and it’s manifestation in space and time. At the intersection of funny and serious, deep and shallow, physical and psychic performers locate their presence and share it with the audience.

Part one: Bones. Performed by Ray Chung, Vitali Kononov and Benno Voorham.

Part two: Skin. Performed by Benno Voorham and Katarina Eriksson.

Part three: Blood. Performed by Katarina Eriksson and Rosemary Hannon.

Part four: Muscules. Performed by Rosemary Hannon, Katarina Eriksson, Ray Chung, Vitali Kononov and Benno Voorham.

Part five: Heart. Performed by Benno Voorham.

Sawtooth Building, 8th Street Studio, 2525 8th St., Berkeley, CA 94710

Donation: $8-15

For reservations call 510-703-1085 or email nono at artsomatic.org

YES to dancing

YES to participation

YES to presence

YES to beautiful

YES to authentic

YES to obvious

YES to ordinary

YES to imagination

YES to free associating

YES to imposing

YES to arresting

YES to crafty

YES to experiment

YES to strange / odd

YES to spontaneous

YES to sensorial / sensory

YES to unconscious

YES to ungrounding

YES to off-center

YES to periphery / peripheral

YES to proximity

YES to distance

YES to sequential

YES to successive

YES to fluidity

YES to balancing

YES to not Doing

YES to listening

YES to responding

YES to reacting

YES to re-activating

YES to remarking

YES to reprocessing

YES to recycling

YES to re-patterning

YES to rebirth

YES to magic

YES to tansformation

YES to spectacular

YES to performance

…. or not …..

more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_and_no

NONO to Spectacular, Virtuosity, Demonstrative and performative /effective

NONO to Simulated or Pretended

NONO to Breathtaking and Astonishing /effective

NONO to Glamour and stylish, fancy

NONO to Gimmick, Catch and Trick

NONO to Heroic or magnifical /pompous

NONO to Eccentric and quirky /extravaganza

NONO to Production and Assembly plant

NONO to Colonization of audience

NONO to Imposing

NONO to Preaching

NONO to Political

NONO to Spiritual

NONO to Beautiful

NONO to Participatory

NONO to Dancing

Double “NO” Means “YES“

More about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_and_no

Martin Keogh has taught and performed contact improvisation for over twenty-six years. He is one of the original members of the Motivity Dance Company, which specializes in aerial dancing on low level trapezes. Martin founded The Dancing Ground, an organization that produces conferences on gender, race and mythology in Northern California. He worked as consultant with Touchdown Dance USA, an organization that teaches C.I. to the blind. For his contribution to the development of Contact Improvisation Martin is a Fulbright Senior Specialist and listed in Who’s Who in the World. He has taught in 68 cities in 18 countries on four continents. When not on tour, Martin lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.

More info at: www.martinkeogh.com

The workshop will be held from 12:30 to 7:30pm on Saturday, October 24th, and from 12 to 7pm on Sunday, October 25th, in ‘Studio 12′ located at the following address:

Sawtooth Building,2525 Eight Street (@ Dwight Street)

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