SUMMER CONTACT IMPROVISATION FESTIVAL
AUGUST 6 - 16
Announcing our annual Summer Contact Improvisation Festival featuring 6 days of intensives, classes and jams exploring and training in Contact Improvisation.​​
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Registration options include taking the Intensive Only, Weekend Pass only, or a FULL FESTIVAL PASS with camping options available. This event is limited to 40 participants including campers.
Arrival for the Weekend Pass is Thursday at 4pm.
SCHOLARSHIP | WORK TRADE | PAYMENT PLAN
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We offer 3 full scholarships for Black, Indigenous and People of Color [BIPOC] folks in each session. As well as 3 Work Trade spots in each session. If interested please select 'BIPOC Scholarship' ticket OR 'Work Trade' ticket when registering via the link below. For more information about the work trade exchange, please see Work Exchange.
CLICK HERE to register with a Payment Plan.
REFUND POLICY: Full refunds available up to 10 days prior to the event. Please inform us if you cannot attend an event up to 10 days prior [including Scholars and Work Traders]! Refunds within the 10 days prior to the event may be available on a case-by case basis, please reach out to communications@thefieldcenter.com
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS
Ray Chung
Ray Chung is a performer, teacher, engineer, who has a passion for dancing which he likes to share with other people. His main focus is improvisation and he has worked with Contact Improvisation since 1979 as part of improvisational performance practice and integrates other movement forms into his work, including martial arts, bodywork and Authentic Movement. Ray has worked with the leading proponents of Contact Improvisation including Nancy Stark Smith, Steve Paxton, Nita Little, Lisa Nelson, Peter Bingham, Chris Aiken, Andrew Harwood, and regularly collaborates with dancers, musicians, and other artists. His work has been featured at numerous national and international festivals and venues, and has performed in works directed by Anna Halprin, Judith Kajiwara, and George Coates Performance Works.
Nuria Bowart
After receiving a B.A. in Performance Studies, Nuria Bowart became a Rolfer, and for more than two decades has practiced the weaving of teaching movement, performing, and working one-on-one with clients. She is a contemporary dancer and international performer, a teacher of the Axis Syllabus, and a Capoeira Mestra. Her movement work is embedded in her knowledge of anatomy and basic physical principles that help us to experience grace as we move. Nuria believes that movement has meaning and that the body is a living library.
Sherwood Chen leads workshops and trainings internationally. He has worked as a performer with and / or under the direction of artists including Anna Halprin, Amara Tabor-Smith, Su-Feh Lee, Xavier Le Roy, Min Tanaka, Antonija Livingstone, Grisha Coleman, Taos Bertrand, Sara Shelton Mann, Wanjiru Kamuyu, Yuko Kaseki, inkBoat / KoMurobushi, Jess Curtis, Anne Collod, Michelle Sui, Jérôme Bel, etc. For over twenty-five years he has contributed to Body Weather research initiated by Tanaka and associates, was a member of Tanaka’s company Mai Juku and Body Weather Farm in Japan, and worked with artists from foundational generations in the U.S. and Europe including Oguri and Christine Quoiraud. He has worked dramaturgically and in movement direction with choreographers, artists, researchers and performers including Bettina Blanc-Penther, Sofia Kouloukouri, Mouvements Migrateurs, Gerald Pirner and Saba A. Le Renard, and forthcoming with choreographer Ghyslaine Gau and filmmaker Ana Elena Tejera.