TanzLand Festival and P.0.R.C.H. 2010
We are happy to announce 2010's upcoming TanzLand Festival program and the recent developments of P.O.R.C.H. Ponderosa's Ongoing Research and Collaborative Happenings with Kathleen Hermesdorf`s Alternative Conservatory.
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P.O.R.C.H. will be the place to deepen and enrich our work outside - and within - the yearly TanzLand festival activites. It is an invitation for high level dance/physical performance practitioners to enjoy an extended period training and researching here, to create your own work, to get inspiring input from a professional faculty active and succesful in the performance field, and to network with the international dance scene. Kathleen Hermesdorf & Albert Matthias, Nancy Stark Smith & Mike Vargas, Peter Pleyer, Stephanie Maher, Maria Francesca Scaroni, Dag Andersson, Tove Sahlin, Frank Willins, Pipaluk Supernova, Jen Polins, Saliq Savage.
A three-month intensive project inspired from many years of international collaborations and the networking of Ponderosa artists...
P.O.R.C.H. Training Module May 24-June 20
P.O.R.C.H. Performance Module July 5-25
P.O.R.C.H Choreographic Module 3 Aug.15-Sept 12
P.O.R.C.H. offers experience and interaction and training for professional-level engagement.
We highly recommend committing to all three P.O.R.C.H. Modules for an expansive range of body based techniques and compositional forms, to enliven your work as a performer, improviser or teacher.
Prior to the TanzLand Festival, during the first P.O.R.C.H. module, we offer the chance to those of you who can't commit to the full month intensive P.O.R.C.H. training, to get a flavour by participating in one of the week long Guest Workshops.
We start with the 10 day artists exchange, a very informal pre-festival event for artists who know how to focus or relax in a non structured environment. You are welcome to come join us this season. Then we will begin the TanzLand festival proper, June 18, with the annual ponderosa contact jam with special guest Nancy Stark Smith leading the global underscore. Then follows 3 intensive workshop weeks with, in week 1: Nancy Stark Smith & Mike Vargas, Miguel Gutierrez, Kathleen Hermesdorf; in week 2: Bruno Caverna & Marcela Giesche, Pipaluk Supernova & Andreas Bennetzen, Jennifer Monson and in week 3 Jess Curtis, Jonathan Burrows, Keith Hennessy. In addition, Jen Polins and Saliq Savage. The teachers offer an eclectic mix of improvisation, the art of performance making, multi-media and motion techniques.
We are delighted to offer again our retreat & training week as well as another period to research and celebrate Contact Improvisation with ci38.
TanzLand Festival Schedule
May 13-22 10 day artist exchange
June 18-20 contact jam & global underscore
June 21-25 workshop intensives block 1 with Nancy Stark Smith & Mike Vargas, Miguel Gutierrez, Kathleen Hermesdorf
June 27-July 3 ci 38 Satellites´Return
July 5-9 workshop intensives block 2 with Bruno Caverna & Marcela Giesche, Pipaluk Supernova, Jennifer Monson,
July 12-16 retreat & training week (one week, 6 different classes per day)
July 17-18 Weekend workshop contact impro
July 19-23 workshop intensives block 3 with Jess Curtis, Keith Hennessy, Jonathan Burrows
July 23-25 marathon performance weekend & ending festivities
Work-exchange helper: As every year, we are inviting you to come and be part of this year's festival in this beautiful countryside by becoming part of the team. We are NOW taking applications from April to October.
