Easter Jam of Arts 25-26-27-28 March

Hello to everyone!

The Winter Jam of Arts of January was a great experience, full of energy, emotions and enjoy with participants from all around the world,  so we decided to propose a new Jam of Arts on Easter period on 25-28 March!

Rome 25.26.27.28 March 2016

We are very happy to announce you the Easter Jam of Arts in a beautiful farm in north Rome, surrounded by a big park. Event that includes labs of contact, of body improvisation, of impro music, of Watsu, many jams, use of the Turkish bath, Salt cave, use all the day of hot thermal pool, live music and plenty of traditional Italian and vegetarian food!

You are all invited to dance, swim, and improvise! (you can have info about the summer festival at www.jamofarts.com)

The event includes:
– 12 hours of lessons
– More than 24 hours of jam in the dance floor and in the pool
– Live music with some of the best Italian musicians of impro music.
– All day use of thermal pool
– Use of Turkish bath, salt cave (Halotherapy) , relax area.
– Big, well heated apartments
– Traditional Italian and vegetarian food

Here is the program

25-26-27-28 March

Hall 1: the ballroom
Hall 2: the swimming pool with warm thermal water
Note: The thermal pool is next to the dance studio and is about 145 cm deep so is not important if somebody doesn’t know how to swim and everyone is free to decide whether to participate or not to the events in the pool.
Prices: the fee is 195€ and includes all the workshops, all the events, all the meals and sleeping in luxury apartments with other 3-4 persons (see photos).

info: For more information’s and registration, you have to write an email to: veneris.i@romacontact.com

tel: 0039 3287213546

Arrival: From Fiumicino Airport and from the center of Rome departs every 15 minutes a train and takes about 25 minutes to arrive to the farm where will be the event. ognuno è libero di decidere se partecipare oppure no agli eventi nella piscina.

Part of the facilities at our disposal (heated swimming pool with thermal water)

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Apartments

Part of the fance hall

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Some of the inhabitants of the organic farm (there are also sheeps, bunnys, a just born pig and many others)

Ippokratis Veneris born and raised in Knossos on Crete, his childhood was populated by both the direct contact with the sea and from the myths of the place. Playing in the multicolored and multiform palace of Minos –playing up of the labyrinth and growing with the myths of Icarus, Daedalus and those of Theseus, Ariadne and the Minotaur his imagination and life were influenced by all those years of intense experience with the place. The last years lives in Rome Italy.
– In 2011 he collaborated with the UNIVERSITY OF ROME “Roma 3”, department of “Philosophy of Education” giving lectures about “Pedagogy, C.I. and personal researches on teaching”.
– In 2009 and 2010 he received an open scholarship in Brussels (PARTS-ROSAS Dance Company) and in Rome by the region of Lazio to proceed with his research. His original works (“Buongiorno Amore”, “Afroditi”, presented at Olympic theatre and Theatre Greco) combine together elements of theatre and dance.
– Is professor of the theatre school “il Cantiere Teatrale”
– In March of 2014 he was a guest together with Giulio Tremonti (former Italian Minister of Economy), Romano Prodi (the former Italian prime minister and former president of the European community), Ermanno Olmi (film director) in the TV show “the wind whistles” of Gad Lerner for Repubblica television and for the art channel Effe tv.
– Has collaborated -teaching and making shows of improvisation- with the Italian National Organization of Theatre.
– Teaches regularly twice a week Contact Improvisation developinghis own method. – Teaches in different places around Europe.
– Has collaborated with Roberto Castello-Aldes for “Narrate” premium UBU as the best dance theatre production of the year in Italy and many others.
– In 2011 decided to stop making shows and concentrate his energies on the research about the human nature and the wisdom of our bodies.
– Co-founder of CORE an association of choreographers of central Italy to promote the rights of the live performing arts
– Co-founder of RomaContact a collective of dancers who promote and give shows of improvisation and Contact Improvisation.
– Organized the last 8 years many events of art and workshops inviting teachers from all Europe.
– Lives in Rome where graduate at school “l’officina” where study release technique, Dupuy technique, contact improvisation, instant improvisation and composition.
– As a choreographer, dancer and improviser has organized and participated at different events, in the last ten years.
– Has studied with many choreographers and participating at numerous workshops of physical-theatre, contemporary dance, choreographic composition and contact improvisation.

Theme of the lab: Listen and comunicate, give and receive, accept and offer

How can I give, offer my presence to my partner being available and open physically , mentally , energetically to communicate. We will work on how to be present -here and now- and in listening to ourselves and our partners. We will explore, while we dance and improvise, how to accept and how to offer and become our meeting, an open, fluid and communicative dance; become our dance a real meeting and a journey.

Emmanuel Gallot-Lavallée, is a clown with over 25 years theatre experience as an actor, teacher and producer. Emmanuel graduated as an actor in 1978 in the ” Ecole Internationale de theatre Jacques Lecoq” in Paris, and obtained the diploma as theatre teacher in 1982 in the same school.
After having taught in Jaques Lecoq’s School, he taught clown in Dimitri’s School of Verscio in Switzerland.
In 1984 he created the Circo a Vapore Company and from 1984 to 2002 he has been Artistic Director of the International Theatre School, Circo a Vapore, of Rome, where he also has taught the study of theatrical styles (including, tragedy, pantomime, clown, melodrama, medieval and modern bouffon, Shakespearian Theatre, Theatre of the Absurd etc.), Acting, Dramatization and Direction.
In August 2008 he launched “Il circo d’Abruzzo”, a theatre School which is doing continuous research on the linkage between theatre and the new communication techniques and styles, putting emphasis on street performances and on the great magic of the clown.
Emmanuel is teaching in the school ” Scuola Internazionale del Comico – International School of Comic Theatre” in Florence and has directed the company ” I Caballeros” where he was also performing as an actor. He is currently presenting two shows alone: ” The gestural theatre” (a show with pantomime, commedia dell’arte and masks around the gestural theatre and “La via del clown” – emphasizing the link between the clown and the search of spirituality. This show includes the presentations of Tibetan and Zen tales. He has held training courses for professional actors in Europe (Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, etc.) and Lima (Peru).
He has written a book on the pedagogy of the clown, “Clown celeste” published in France (Editions les deux Océans) which will be available in Italian on this website, shortly. www.emmanuelgallot.com

We are very happy to have Emmanuel in the festival. Is considered as one of the best teachers of improvisation. Is full of energy and with big experience and… happens everything in his workshops! Be ready!

Title of the workshop of physical impro: the action in the improvisation

I introduce myself, I am Emmanuel.
I come from far away (you too?), I saw lights on Earth and I get down. Then the engine is merged, wings also, I no longer understood anything and I stayed.
Amazed and stupid in a world that seems to me a big circus.
At 16 I looked at my math teacher and I thought: if one thinks like a boar certainly do not teach math but the art of being a wild boar. It is mathematical.
So I decided: I’ll do the best job in the world: teach! Teaching the art of returning to zero. I read Tagore, Neill, Bettelheim, Steiner, Krishnamurti, Lao-Tzu … then I realized I do not understand anything. It’s hard to stay on the ground, I told my cat, with thunders on the head, not believing the football on TV and even to their own opinions. He shrugged and replied: “the art of clowning is a beautiful journey to simplicity.” “Oh yeah?” I said. Then I lifted the nose and saw the Angel Gabriel, with his battered old bike saying “Life creates itself at every second, but we do not know.” “Gaby Bravo!” I said. We must return to the celestial source, where as tulips bloom jokes. I do not know what these words mean, however: this is the art of the clown.
So this year I decided: it’s time to create the École des clowns, I feel it. The Ecole des clowns or the art of.
The art of what? The art of … But you tell me why you want to know more and everything instead of calmly taste the immensity of not knowing, the fragrance of being … Amazed! Let’s improvise.

Roberto Bellatalla lived in London from 1978 to 2003, double bass player active on the british and european jazz and improvised music scene, has played extensively, toured and recorded with Elton Dean, Nick Evans, Keith Tippett, Louis Moholo, Mark Sanders, Alan Wilkinson, Evan Parker, Paul Dunmall, Paul Rutherford, Tony Marsh, Paul Rogers, Marcio Mattos, Maggie Nichols, Radu Malfatti, Tristan Honsinger, Sean Bergin, Steve Noble, Billy Jenkins and many others: Member of the band “Dreamtime”, from 1983 to 2006 and of “Louis Moholo’s Viva la Black”.
He writes and performs for theatre, poetry and dance and is involved in didactic activities for children, adults and disabled people.
He plays with the trio led by guitarist Mike Cooper, “Truth in the Abstract Blues”, performs solo concerts and with a variety of small acoustic or electro-acoustic ensembles of improvised music

Ivan Macera focuses his career on a personal approach of melodic and natural experimentation of percussion, expressing especially in improvisation, research and exploration of timbre, color; bringing the emotional experience of sound even in teaching as conductor of workshops aimed at developing listening and self-perception, and workshops on the architecture of the events and the construction of sound environments. As percussionist takes part in many projects of total improv and not, collaborating with artists of national and international scene such as: Entropy, a collective of electronic music; with jazz vocalist and improviser Marilena Paradises; with the Japanese singer Michiko Hirayama; with bassist and explorer of sound Roberto Bellatalla, with the trumpeter and composer Bert Ivan, with multistrumental and voice researcher Mauro Tiberi, with Primitive Field; with saxophonist Nicholas Alesini (among others collaborator David Sylvian); with Cristiano Serino Ether Project; in contemporary dance filed had played for the company Egri; Raphael Bianco (choreographer, dancer); Chiara Mogavero (performer, dancer and actress); Benedetta Capanna; Fabio Gemo (anthropologist, documentary filmmaker and actor); etc. He also played for: European Music Festival, the International Poetry Festival of Genoa, May Day Concert in Piazza Maggiore in Bologna, Festival Poiesis, Atina Jazz Festival, concerts at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, Teatro India in Rome, Macro Testaccio, Teatro Valle, Centro Santa Chiara of Trento, Auditorium of the House Quarry Matera, concerts sponsored by the Australian Embassy, ??concerts in churches such as San Giorgio in Velabro in Rome, in the beautiful Evangelical Lutheran Church in Saint Lucia and the Banner many others. In 2005 he won the Premio Paolo Pavanello for song writing and in 2007 the Poiesis Award, sponsored by the Club Tenco in Sanremo. He also realized various recordings.

Theme of the workshop of R.Bellatalla and I.Macera: “who moves whom?”

Deepening the relationship between dance and live music, free improvisation. In this laboratory the goal will be to explore the best possible system of improvisation, the more combinations existong, searching for listening, understanding and complicity between contact dancers and musicians.

Claudio Petrassi is a Watsu operator; He studied clinical psychology and specialized in counseling for childrens and adolescents and the Art-Counseling; held lectures at the School of Counseling “ASPIC”; worked as consult-listening at some schools; he carried out in the context of HIV counseling at the Policlinico Umberto I in Rome; leads groups on parenting, fear of flying and fear of water; designed and carried out paths through Watsu support for children diagnosed with autism and disability in general; gives Watsu monthly offers for the couple in Belgium (Brussels); organizes days of baby Watsu, where the babies play with their parents and we take care of their children both in land and water; leading groups of AI-CHI (Taichi water); coconduce groups of hypnosis in warm water; organizes training courses in the Californian massage; was trained in psycho-body techniques such as the Californian massage and Jin Shin Do.www.counseling-watsu.com