The Art of Listening [Moved...by Decoda]

WOOOOOOW!!! simply amazing!
know I understand what we are talking about!
At the beginning I felt very stiff and tensed because I was working with my own teachers ( what a great opportunity) but at the beginning of the day my aim was to be free...
I think this workshop can't be described in words... it simply happened, it changed me!
Thoughts

• simple
• natural
• follow the instinct, the interest (rather than making it happen)
• listening to the body intelligence
• the GOOD NEWS is that we are NOT what we think we are... it is a lot more there...
• To blieve is what matters...

7 hours/day of moving with Kirstie and that amazing group didn't feel like 7 hours . Why? ... maybe because it was just about listening and reacting, following rather than thinking about moving or trying to show my skills...
How important is to LISTEN...in dance and in life, that's what I realised these 2 days.
Kirstie amazed me with her generosity and modesty, but in the same time with her power and energy, she was fantastique!!!
I have also learned some "hands on" exercises that really worked on my body and made a simple but useful introduction to the workshop and leaded directly into it, rather than changing the mood.
It was also a good reminder to move through breath...to listen to the breath, to feel my partner's breath into my hands and body.
She kept saying that is not about what we achieve, what we demonstrate we can do with our bodies...but it's about going really deep and finding the essence of myself, that is a spource that never dries...it's always there!

Kirstie Simson

Tomorrow is the big day!!! Kirstie Simson's workshop and lateron in the evening, her performance (film)

Energy Sculpting [part 1]

Kirstie Simson biograpghy

Kirstie Simson is one of the legends of British Dance and one of the greatest exponents of Contact Improvisation Time Out Magazine, London

Kirstie did a three year dance training at the Laban Center, London. After completing college she became interested in pursuing contact improvisation and the art of improvisation in performance whilst working with the Rosemary Butcher Dance Company in 1979.
Over the course of the next twenty-five years she has worked extensively, performing and teaching throughout England, Europe and the USA. She has collaborated with many dancers and musicians who share a common interest in working with the freedom to explore ever new and exciting ways to go beyond limitation. These performers include Julyen Hamilton, with whom she worked in close partnership for some years, Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith, Simone Forti, Pauline de Groot, Alessandro Certini, Andrew Harwood, Chris Aiken, Katie Duck, Philip Hamilton, Peter Jones, Russell Maliphant and others.
She has been seen at the Dance Umbrella Festival in London, at DTW in New York City and many other performance venues worldwide. Kirstie has been a regular guest teacher at the School for New Dance Development Amsterdam, Dartington College England, the Laban Center London, P.A.R.T.S. School in Brussels, New York University, George Washington University Washington DC, Oberlin College Ohio, and Movement Research NYC. She has also been teaching dance companies all over the world, including Sasha Walz and Guests Berlin, Siobhan Davies Dance London, Felix Ruckert Company Berlin, and DV8 Physical Theater Company. She teaches classes and workshops at many other colleges and centres throughout the world.
Over the past 4 years Kirstie has worked collaboratively with dancer / choreographer Christian Burns who is a classically trained dancer from the US. They have presented their work in Europe and the US. Their research is bringing a synthesis of ballet and modern / postmodern dance through their mutual interest in improvisation, which they are interested in sharing with students from diverse dance backgrounds. Kirstie has just taken a job as an associate professor at the University of Illinois, USA. She will be working there full time from January 2008.

what an amazing person...