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ImproEvents Prague 2012 Festival

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Don’t miss this year’s ImproEvents Prague festival with American dance improviser Daniel Lepkoff and British choreographer and devised theatre maker Wendy Houstoun. Two weeks of intensive workshops, two performances, video presentations, discussions and other dance and theatre treste:
Two intensive workshops
Daniel Lepkoff: May 28 – June 2 2012
Wendy Houstoun: June 4 – June 8 2012
(workshops time schedule:  daily 10am – 5pm with one hour lunch break) Special events:
May 28 / Daniel Lepkoff/ Studio ALTA / 7.30pm
- Video presentation and discussion on American dance improvisation
June 1 / Daniel Lepkoff: Solo / Studio ALTA / 7.30pm
- Improvised solo performance
June 6 / Wendy Houstoun / Studio ALTA / 7.30pm
- 6 June (7:30pm) video presentation and discussion on  Wendy’s previous and present dance and theatre work
June 9 / Wendy Houstoun : 50 ACTS / Ponec Theatre / 8.00pm
- solo performance; more info www.tanecpraha.cz - part of dance festival TANEC PRAHA June 2 / /na:u/: Silence at Station Bezpeří / Studio ALTA /
- International project of impro group /na:u/ connecting dance, music and video
June 3 / Lila Ensemble / Studio ALTA / 7.30 PM
- three dancers and four musicians who use improvisation and honest expression to weave our experimental art

More at: http://www.altart.cz/?lang=en Daniel Lepkoff
Daniel Lepkoff is a dancer, dance maker, improvising performer, teacher, and writer. His work looks at all movement as a finely tuned physical dialogue with the environment and explores the form and composition of this interaction as a language for making dances. He is known for his commitment to composing dance works that bring the process of living movement onto the stage.
He played a central role in the development of Release Technique with Mary Fulkerson and Contact Improvisation with Steve Paxton since the early ’70′s. Paxton is, together with Lisa Nelson, Paul Langland, Saira Blanche Theater in Moscow, one of his long term collaborators. In 1975 he was one of the co-founders of Movement Research in NYC.
He performed in works by Trisha Brown, Mary Overlie, Judy Padow and Nancy Topf. In the 1980‘s he was a member of the New York based improvisational performance ensemble “Channel Z”. In 2002 he was artistic director and co-producer of the festival “Physical Dialogues” in Bratislava.
Numerous articles articulating concepts that are central to his approach to dance making appear in Contact Quarterly, The MR Performance Journal, and Contredanse Publications in Bruxelles.
He has an ongoing interest in sound and video compositions, photography, singing and playing the guitar, mathematics, & house building. Wendy Houstoun
Wendy’s working background is a mixture of movement work and devised theatre and the week will be a mixture of both of these approaches. Over the course of the day there will be a combination of guided movement practise, task based exercises and improvisation as a method of constructing performance. There will be an emphasis on the analysis and discussion of what we are looking at and why we might want it to continue. Wendy tends to work from the individual so the participants strongly affect the nature of the work and the level at which the work develops. A spirit of playfulness and generosity is welcomed.
Wendy Houstoun is a London based artist who has worked with experimental movement and theatre forms since 1980. Her solo works Haunted Daunted and Flaunted, Happy Hour, The 48 Almost Love Lyrics, Desert Island Dances and Keep Dancing have all toured in Europe, Australia and the US and were all made with composer John Avery. Her new solo 50 ACTS is currently on tour.
Collaborative work with companies and individual artists include: Lloyd Newson and DV8 Physical Theatre, Tim Etchells and Forced Entertainment, Gary Stevens, Charlotte Vincent and Vincent Dance Company, film-maker David Hinton, dancer Jonathan Burrows, performer Nigel Charnock, dancer Rachel Krische, performance artist Rose English, Gloria Theatre, Lumiere & Son Theatre, Ludus Dance Company in theatre and site specific pieces, films and installations.
Wendy has recently made pieces for Candoco Dance Company, Yorke Dance Project, VCAM in Melbourne and Antonia Grove and Probe Company. Source: ALTA

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