Name: summer workshop with nina martin
Start: 2025-07-20T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-07-26T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Studio Burdąg

The summer workshop immerses us in dancing that includes focusing on forms that occur in improvisational dance: Solo Body, Contact Improvisation Body, and Ensemble Body. We move comfortably within all three of these forms to embody performance of improvisational dance as an art form. Dance systems: Articulating the Solo Body, ReWire Movement States, and Ensemble Thinking developed with the Lower Left Performance Collective from Martin’s embodied performance research practice prepare us to experience the deep satisfaction of dancing as part of an ensemble that recognizes and supports the dancing of every individual in the group. Morning sessions warm-up in Solo and Contact Body practices and afternoon sessions use Ensemble Thinking as a frame for our open score dancing.
Ensemble Thinking (ET)— A system of collaborative group performance practices. These compositional scores refine the individual’s ability to perceive, initiate, and support collective action. ET’s conceptual nature allows for equality of access regardless of background, aesthetics, or physical capabilities. http://www.ensemblethinking.com/
ReWire: Movement States— Somatic movement system that motivate dance from a kinetic body state and a neurological brain state which opens an improvisational world that bypasses pre-planning of actions into truly spontaneous dancing states where pre-conscious desires arise.
Articulating the Solo Body— A collection of dance practices culled from Martin’s postmodern dance studies (Trisha Brown, Deborah Hay, Mary Overlie, Elaine Summers, Barbara Dilley, Steve Paxton among others) and innovations incorporating ReWire Movement States and that support solo improvisational dance practice.
Nina Martin - Centered in phenomena of perception, composition and spontaneous movement states, Martin’s research springs from 40 years of embodied research and applied dance. Research that clarifies her dance practice through a performance lens incorporating rigorous somatic practices from her embodied performance research practices and developed in collaboration with Lower Left Performance Collective. Martin has taught the dance systems: Ensemble Thinking and ReWire Movement States along with her unique approach to Contact Improvisation in NYC, the US and abroad — including Russia, Poland, Austria, France, Ireland, Finland, Lithuania, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, England, Venezuela, Mexico, and Japan.
Martin identifies as choreographer, dance theorist, performer and master teacher who developed her body of work in New York City in the post-modern dance world of the 1970s. Martin’s body of work evolves from her investigation into performance and studies with artists including Lower Left, Steve Paxton, David Gordon Pick-Up Company, Mary Overlie, Deborah Hay, Barbara Dilley and Simone Forti. Martin was a founding artist of Channel Z with Daniel Lepkoff, Paul Langland, Diane Madden, Stephen Petronio, Randy Warshaw, and Robin Feld. Presently, she is faculty at TCU School for Classical & Contemporary Dance and creates a place for dancing in the Far West Chihuahuan desert in Marfa, Texas. Martin completed her PhD in 2013.
https://www.ninamartin.org/about
https://www.lowerleft.org/
we invite people advanced in (contact) improvisation practice and/or performative activities.
price
3 100 zł (approx. 740 euro) - for residents of poland and eastern/east central europe.
3 600 zł (approx. 860 euro) - for residents of western europe.
the price includes workshop, accommodation and food (3 vegetarian meals a day)
more info:
https://www.sytuacje.com.pl/warsztaty/summer-workshop-with-nina-martin/