"Surviving Dance-Crash Moments" 
Persisting in a direction through friction results in acceleration

A repertoire and bodywork workshop with Ronnie Heller & James Bailey

Accidents are a part of our lives. The outcome of these "out of our control moments" is subject to our instinctive patterns. These acquired and inherited patterns will determine how we react in these "out of our control" moments, in relation to gravity, space and time.
Intentionally entering controlled accidents and gradually letting go of control can allow us to train and re-pattern our instincts, to react faster and with greater skill and therefore to take on greater risks with more security as we fly, fall and crash.
The dancers' foot is skilled and perfected to meet the floor softly and silently, with great intensity and speed. It is my current fascination as choreographer and performer to try to achieve this with the body as a whole while meeting the floor and other bodies.
Modified techniques from Martial Arts, Booth, early Contact Improvisation (fall after Newton), gymnastics, "Primal Practice"' Feldenkreis and improvisation shall be applied.
In the first section of the workshop James will facilitate bodywork and embodiment practices in order to prepare physically and on the psycho-emotional level, for the work we will be doing in crashing and falling.

Please come with long sleeved clothes for protection and extra padding, and bring knee and elbow
pads if you need. No special experience required.

To inscribe please send a mail to bewegungsspielraum@posteo.de!

Location
Theaterlounge im Stoff- und Gerätelager
Revalerstrasse 99
10246 Berlin

Time
10am to 2pm

Prize
40 Euro if payed in advance
50 Euro on the door

Participants in the workshop will also have the chance to attend Ronnies performance on march the 1st in the ACUD theatre for a reduced entrance fee!

About the teachers
Ronnie Heller
Dancer, teacher & choreographer, born I the U.S.A, living and working in Tel Aviv Israel. Ronnie is a B. Dance graduate from the Jerusalem academy of music & dance and a Former member of "Clipa" theater, working as an independent choreographer and freelance dancer, founder and director of "Ronnie Heller Dance-Theater. Ronnie is teaching "body- theater", composition and repertoire of her work in the B. Dance program within the movement department at the Jerusalem
Music and Dance academy in Jerusalem and studying there on scholarship of excellence for her Masters degree in choreography. 

http://ronnieheller.com/works.php

James Bailey
I’m a performance artist, shamanic bodyworker and facilitator, born in the UK, though I have spent most of my adult life in Basel. I have been on stage or in front of the camera for about 20 years, acting in theatre, film, tv, commercials, playing music, dancing, whatever I was interested in. I was temporarily at theatre and music school in London and Brighton, but left to pursue a more independent manner of learning and performance. I trained in sports & clinical massage at Jing
Massage Institute in Brighton and have since been exploring the world of bodywork from many different perspectives. I incorporate shamanic ritual within my work. The concepts I teach within a bodywork context are an attempt to teach that which underlies technique