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Nita Little \\ first call

Rossella — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:14:03 GMT

Caravajal15 residenza dinamica
International Projects 2008

Orvieto \ Italy
April 25–May 2 / 2008

Nita Little
Restless Peace
A mind in motion and Contact Improvisation experience
Residential project for experienced movers

The American performer Nita Little will be the special guest of our association, first time in Italy as guest artist, for giving the project “Restless Peace”. The intensive workshop with Nita Little is in the calendar of our Residential Projects 2008, and will be from April 25 to May 2, 2008 in the beautiful Etruscan city of Orvieto, in middle Italy.

After the end of the workshop, on May 3rd and 4th, the association will plan also two days with the International Springfest Jam.

The intensive workshop and the Jam will be held both at the headquarters of the cultural Association Caravajal15 residenza dinamica, in the prestigious sixteenth century rooms of the Palazzo Caravajal-Simoncelli, in Orvieto.

Application for registration in the project with Nita Little is open from January 7th. For information and more details write to: info@contactfestival.it, or telephone to +39 0763.341479.

Nita Little
Restless Peace
The urge to move, to go where we have never been, is the soul of our practice in this workshop.
Developing a "home base", a place of personal and creative safety is as important as the journey; how wonderful to be free when you have a home! We learn, how like nomads, we may carry our home with us, even as we track paths in and out of unfamiliar territory.
We focus on developing the mental, emotional, and physical skills that enable dancers to travel creatively. Utilizing a full dance vocabulary, we integrate gestured movement improvisation with contact improvisation and build the skills to consciously weave these two forms.

We investigate “states” of mind / “states” of body as a means to develop and direct creative work in our improvisations. Developing the ability to describe and craft subtle levels of action and experience, we boost our physical potential while increasing our readability. Moving in solo, duet and group forms, we gain compositional tools for structural orientation; like torches, they light the way.

This workshop is developed for experienced movers who wish to pass beyond the threshold of old patterns. The restless human drive that takes us out of comfort, urges us to meet the unfamiliar, to move into, through and with the unknown, is a dance artist’s call. Here, we harness that drive and discover how, moving at the speed of our restless calling, we can find peace.

This class culminates in a creative work for performance at the workshop and at Zipfest08.

Things we will do:
Go deep into the physical philosophy behind contact improvisation.
Learn underlying CI principles that manifest as pathways of action.
Build the tools for safe physical and creative relationships
Discover different spatial orientations: vertical/hierarchical and horizontal/diffuse.
Learn about our temporal orientation and develop tools that modulate time.
Develop the skills to be able to move freely between states of mind.
Deepen our agreements to open to life, to the dance.
Honor peace.

about Nita Little
www.nitalittle.com
Nita Little has been developing, choreographing, performing and teaching improvisational dance for the past thirty-six years, notably Contact Improvisation, which she helped evolve from its inception with Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith and others.
She collaborated in numerous performing companies introducing Contact Improvisation throughout the United States. She is a master teacher with former students all over the world, who are themselves now master dancers and teachers: Gretchen Spiro, Andrew Harwood, Frey Faust, Scott Wells, Julie Oak, Peter Bingham to name just a few. Through CI she discovered her abiding interest in the evolution of consciousness and the mind body relationship. Since 1981 she has been developing an evolving curriculum called The Mind in Motion, which explores the range of experiential states along the mind-body continuum and reveals principles that define Contact Improvisation as well as other movement forms. This work is informed by her investigation of the mind through work such as hypnotherapy and NeuroLinguistic Programming.

As a performing artist her current work is a mix of both formal and improvisational choreography and scores. While anchored in process, it frequently explores character, story, and concept.

Nita received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in choreography and was on the California Arts Council Touring Program.
The latter award was to her solo dance company, NITA LITTLE DANCE THEATRE, which she began in 1984, continued through 1990, and reinstated as a pickup company in 2000. In 2002 Nita created Playing God, an hour-long dance opera that received funding through the Dance USA /National Endowment for the Arts.

Over the years Nita has been both faculty and guest artist at numerous colleges and universities including New York University, California Institute for the Arts, Texas Christian University, Temple University, Tufts University, Scripps College and UC Santa Barbara.

Nita teaches and performs yearly at national and international dance festivals including ImPulsTanz, Vienna, The Side Step Festival, Helsinki, Kontakt Budapest International Improvisation Festival, the International Contact Festival Freiburg, Germany,the Seattle Festival of Alternative Dance and Improvisation and the West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival, Berkeley California.
She also teaches locally and nationally throughout the year. She lives with her son in Santa Cruz Mountains in California.

As she has pioneered a path in the understanding of the mind/body/spirit relationship, Nita's mission, conscious evolution, has been the backbone of her passion and her practice. Her goal is to see, feel and reveal grace in all its forms and as it exists in the actions of the mind and the body.

Info and reservation
Caravajal15 residenza dinamica
Via Malabranca 15
05018 Orvieto (TR) - Italy
tel +39 0763.341479
fax +39 0763.340669
info@contactfestival.it
www.contactfestival.it

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Simone Forti "Logomotion Writing Workshop" \ project in residence

Rossella — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:33:04 GMT

Caravajal15 residenza dinamica
Orvieto \ Italy
International Projects 2008

Hello!
We are happy to announce that Simone Forti will be again the guest artist of our residence, for giving her intensive residential workshop “Logomotion Writing Workshop”.
The intensive workshop with Simone Forti is in the ambit of our international projects 2008, and will be from March 8 to 15 2008 in the beautiful Etruscan city of Orvieto, in mid Italy.
The workshop is limited to 16 participants.
The intensive workshop will be held at the headquarters of the cultural Association Caravajal15 residenza dinamica, in the prestigious sixteenth century rooms of the Palazzo Caravajal-Simoncelli.
The fee is 400 euros, which includes also hospitality, reception and meals.
Application for registration is open from October 15th.
For information write to: info@contactfestival.it, or telephone to +39 0763.341479.
Info and texts below.

Simone Forti \ Logomotion Writing Workshop
Intensive residential workshop
8-15 March 2008
maximum 16 participants
7-day workshop, plus one day pause
fee 400 euros (including meals and lodging)
pre-registration: 150 euros

Logomotion Writing Workshop
Sometimes our words don't have access to what we know in our bones.
In this workshop we will be improvising moving and speaking, and we will be writing.
While our writing will stimulate our imagination and support our improvisations, our improvisations will enrich our writing with a kinesthetic timing to phrasing and windows on sudden thoughts and memories.
Our activities will include studio sessions of improvisational moving and speaking, spontaneous writing, walks in town, with partners, for conversations about matters large and small, and private times to write and to craft our writings and to read them to each other.
We will borrow from the writing practice of Natalie Goldberg as found in her books “Writing Down the Bones” and “Wild Mind”, discovering the associations that gather spontaneously around a chosen point of departure.
As our movement work will include many activities in partners and in groups, some of our writing will include more than one voice, focusing on the relationships between the thoughts of different people.
A goal will be to write with wild mind and intention, and with awareness of world.

Jennifer Dunning writes in her 1991 New York Times review: “Simone Forti presented her first dance program in 1960 and has since then had a steadily increasing influence on post-modernist choreographers interested in exploring ‘natural’ or non-formalist movement and dance”.

Info and reservation
Caravajal15 residenza dinamica
Via Malabranca 15
05018 Orvieto (TR) - Italy
tel +39 0763341479
fax +39 0763340669
info@contactfestival.it
www.contactfestival.it

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Lone Mountain Ghosts

madamegonzaga — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 05:21:57 GMT

Do you believe in 'em?

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International Contact festival in Italy \ second call

Rossella — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:23:42 GMT

Zipfest07
International scene of improvisation live performing arts

Orvieto - Italy
19-24 June 2007
eighth edition
www.contactfestival .it

International project of Art and Culture on the Poetics of Performance and Improvisation Dance.
The festival will be held in Orvieto in Italy, from 19 to 24 June 2007.

Registration are still going on from March 15th.
Our website has all the information on Zipfest07 calendar.
www.contactfestival .it
Please visit it !!

Guest performers and teachers Zipfest07:
K.J. Holmes (USA),
Oleg Soulimenko (Austria\Russia) ,
Charlie Morrissey (United Kingdom),
Patricia Kuypers (Belgium),
Rossella Fiumi (Italy),
Keith Biesack (USA),
Jacky Miredin (France),
Adrian Russi (Switzerland) ,
Bettina Helmrich (Germany),
Laura Moro (Italy),
Ruby Worth (Scotland),
Manuela Bondavalli (Italy),
Barbara Lucarini (Italy)

Special guest for Music
the group of songs and dances of Salento
Officina Zoè

Focus zoom
Project 2007 also plans for a special appointment addressed to all the participants
registered in the festival, who are invited to present an original performance.
We request the participants who register for the festival to spontaneously
propose their creations.
It is an interesting occasion offered to those who wish to share and highlight
their own performances for an international audience.

See you soon at Zipfest07
...
Zipfest team

Caravajal 15 residenza dinamica
Via Malabranca 15 Orvieto (TR) Italy
tel +39 0763 341479
fax +39 0763 340669
info@contactfestiva l.it
www.contactfestival .it

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Zipfestival's video 2005 on line

Rossella — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:04:51 GMT

Dear Friends
As they say, better late than never!
We have published a few video extracts from Zipfestival 2005 on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/
We shall shortly send you the websites (URL) so you can see and download the video extracts.
Or you can easily find it on the festival website’s page
http://www.contactfestival.it/2007/ITA_2006/zip_video.html
In the meanwhile we are working on the 2006 video and in June 2007 (19-24) we remind you the next festival is just around the corner!
Have fun watching and let us know what you think!
Till then
Zipfest

http://www.contactfestival.it/2007/ITA_2006/zip_video.html

OR check one by one on these links:

Documentario Zip 2005 – track 1
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roqpVM-nKRA

Documentario Zip 2005 – track 2
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05ADwTz58GY

Documentario Zip 2005 – track 3
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EoUY1KECUU

Documentario Zip 2005 – track 4
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FFfvZe9Qkw

Performance Real Time track 1
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T3NWzqGmG4

Performance Real Time track 2
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHlJotx0U0E

Performance Real Time track 3
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QepglIvIEM

Performance Last Minute track 1
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS2TI6x83gk

Performance Last Minute track 2
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5PVVHJh_ao

Performance Solo in Motion
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uGTf0oA8go

Duo Piano concerto Bollani-Salis
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SefO-o4d29k

Trio concerto Salis-Rabbia-Bellatalla
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch9i-Q1Bfz8

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Zipfest07 \ 19-24 June 2007 , Orvieto in Italy \ registration open

Rossella — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:36:43 GMT

Zipfest07
International Improvisation festival live performing arts
www.contactfestival.it

What:
one week with international guest artists and intensive workshops on Contact Improvisation and Improvisation, laboratories around the themes of physicality, jams, performances and concerts.

When:
June 19 - 24 / 2007

Where:
Orvieto – Italy

Whit:
K.J. Holmes, Oleg Soulimenko, Charlie Morrissey, Patricia Kuypers, Rossella Fiumi, Keith Biesack,
Jacky Miredin, Adrian Russi, Bettina Helmrich, Laura Moro, Ruby Worth,
Manuela Bondavalli, Barbara Lucarini and the guest group for music concert Officina Zoè

Cost:
Zipfest all included registration 250 Euros

Contact/registration:
more info details write to info@contactfestival.it or visit www.contactfestival.it

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Any other law dorks?

devnul — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 20:50:42 GMT

present or otherwise accounted for?

CRex

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alumni perks

kalapule — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:54:32 GMT

so just what are the perks of being an alumni??

i don't get preferred parking. i don't have library access, IF i wanted to. i live too far for the koret gym discounts. i donated what i could and got mentioned in that "fancy" book of donors.

only perk is the one i made for myself. i still use my USF id for student discounts at the movies.
so what are the perks??

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USF vs. UCSF

nurselisa — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 20:15:10 GMT

Does anyone else here find that people get the two schools confused a lot?
I had a job interview yesterday, where the person told me the "medical directer of the facility did his OB/GYN rotation at USF."

But USF doesn't have a med school!

Has anyone else run into this problem?

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Almost forgot!

limbo — Mon, 23 May 2005 18:00:54 GMT

Congrats to all recent grads and stuff! To my two good friends Lisa and Pooja and too all the rest, good job and good luck!

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pictures from CS picnic at golden gate park

limbo — Sat, 14 May 2005 02:36:42 GMT

http://www.flickr.com/photos/limbo/sets/334015/

enjoy!

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finding jobs

limbo — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 09:48:12 GMT

I was asked recently if applying for various jobs and sending out resumes is an effective job finding technique. as far as i know, it's much easier to get a job through connections than a random job posting. Although the one position i've ever interviewed for, here in the US, was through an Internet Job Board and it went pretty well (3 interviews before i never heard from them again... :)

it would be interesting to hear about the experiences people here had at looking for jobs, i think this would be especially interesting for tribe members just before graduation.

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St. Patrick's day

limbo — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 06:21:03 GMT

this thursday is a triple threat. regular drinking nite, last day before break and st patrick's day. my friend justabill is organzing leprecon II, a fun barcrawl all around town with people dressed up as leprechauns. i'll be joining with him and his fellow lepreconners around 8pm for some Guinness and craziness. Everyone is, of course, invited to check it out.

http://leprecon.tribe.net

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Introductions

michelle — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:57:55 GMT

Well since Limbo wants to shake things up here - lets introduce ourselves.

I'm Michelle and I did my MBA at USF from 2001-2004. I graduated last May. I was a part time student - holding down a full time job while I was at USF. When I think back to this time last yaer I am not quite sure how I managed to do it.
I have to say I never really participated in USF activities that much though I did sometimes go to the thirsty thursdays that the MBA social group put together.
I really enjoyed my time at USF and just recently got a new job at Genentech - largely because of having the MBA.

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Thursday is beer nite!

limbo — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 02:37:02 GMT

i'm getting a few guys around here to join me for drinks on thursday nite. i'll try to make this a weekly thing too.

right now , i'm thinking Molotov's in the lower haight around 8pm. who's in?

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Howdy!! folks

Uddhav — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 11:03:44 GMT

I am Uddhav Gupta, from Bombay(INDIA). Currently in the second semester of Internet Engineering program at USF.
I did my Bachelor of Engineering Degree ( Electronics and Telecommunications ) in India from University of Mumbai.

I find SF to be a real intresting place to live, not to mention the huge number of hangouts and restaurants. I have been exploring SF in the last 6mths however I bet there is a lot yet to explore.. I love this place.

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Hi Everyone

pgarg — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 19:28:40 GMT

Hi,

I am a graduate student at USF, getting my masters in computer science. Originally from a small town in India, called Chandigarh. Been here for about 6 years, did my undergrad at usf also, and fell in love with a place. This is my last semester here, gotten so used to this protective environment, that I am very scared to get out in the big world.

- Pooja

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Moderator

michelle — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 19:16:23 GMT

I just realised this tribe has no mod. Limbo - you should take it over...

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wake up call

limbo — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:56:16 GMT

so i'm thinking about reviving this tribe, any of y'all still alive

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pics

michelle — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:01:06 GMT

i added a pic to the tribe...

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Any advice for a new grad student.

tamingpandora — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 00:10:06 GMT

I'm about to start the Masters in Teaching and single subject credential program at USF. I was just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for a sucessful time here? I graduated from SFSU, but I think that the atmosphere will be different. I was wondering how I can meet other students and do social things.

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