June 21–29\2008
Orvieto \ Italy
www.contactfestival.it
Registration is still up ... last call for entries!!
Celebrating the Summer Solstice, Zip opens to the Orient ...
Contact, Jams, Tai Chi Chuan, Meditation, Free Climbing and Satellite Events.
The annual Contact Improvisation festival in Italy, Zipfest, is a Satellite Event of CI36, and invites you to join for the Celebration of Contact Improvisation and for the Summer Solstice.
The festival opens its ninth edition with a weekend of International Summer Solstice Jam, starting Saturday June 21st through Sunday June 22nd, in a White Night Jam-contact day ... A 25 Hours of Movement Art and Contact ...
The festival will go on until June 29th: sixteen guest artists from various countries will animate the city from early morning to late at night, taking turns in a dense calendar of jams, performances and concerts, intensive workshops, encounters and laboratories centered around the theme of Contact Improvisation, improvisation dance and the performing arts.
INFO AND CONTACT
PHONE: +39 0763341479
EMAIL: info@contactfestival.it
WEBSITE: www.contactfestival.it
Zipfest is a lively kermis with internationally famous guest artists invited to the Umbrian residence from various countries to collaborate in the creative production of events, promoting the identification of a trans-cultural art. The festival is an event of art and culture speaking the language of today, questioning itself on the processes or artistic interaction, creating contacts and occasions for cooperation among the guest artists, who bare their experience, affinities and cultural and generational differences in Orvieto, to create the festival together.
International scene 2008
Nita Little (www.nitalittle. com), American pioneer of Contact Improvisation, an internationally acclaimed artist, invited to Italy for the first time in April in the residenza dinamica of Palazzo Caravajal, for the project Restless Peace, and once more present in June as part of the Zipfest guest artists. Keith Hennessy, a Canadian performer with countless awards, for the first time in Italy, will present an interesting workshop in which improvisation dance, performance and shamanism will be put in relation to each other. Giorgio Convertito, an eclectic Italian dancer who has been living in Helsinki for six years, and is today an artist on the Finnish scene, Jacky Miredin the virtuoso French performer previously invited to Zipfest07 and the young Italian choreographer Sara Simeoni, currently dancing with Carolyn Carlson. The artistic director of the festival, Rossella Fiumi, takes part with her installation titled I'm All Ears, a forum on the theme of listening and communication in contemporary creativity.Jens Biedermann, a Swiss acrobatic dancer and accordion player, Adalisa Menghini, Italian choreographer who has been living in Berlin for years, Alessia Scala a young Neapolitan dancer, Isabelle Uski, Contact improviser from Grenoble, Gionatan Surrenti Italian dancer, improvisor and pedagogue, previously invited to several Zipfest editions, Yanaël Plumet French performer and traveler currently living in Istanbul, the musician and performer Michele Rabbia virtuoso percussionist invited to the preceding editions of the festival and particularly beloved by the Zip public, Marko Timlin Finnish sound artist proposing new modes in the field of electronic sound, composing and improvising on solar panels and Barnaby O'Rorke Tree, a versatile Scotch performer, improviser-cellist, composer and vocalist.
21-22 June White Night Jam-Contact day
Inauguration- meeting point Residenza dinamica of Palazzo Caravajal, headquarters of the international Summer Solstice Jam, at 9 p.m. on 21 June, throughout the sleepless summer night up to 10 p.m. on 22 June, in the studios-houses- ateliers of artists-cultural- associations- creative- persons-columnis ts-others who work-look for a Contemporary idiom in Orvieto.
24-28 June Performances, concerts, forum
One of the most eagerly awaited events in Zipfest calendar, the improvisation performances: instant compositions, proposed then and here by the guest artists, in a type of performance called Real Time Composition.
Heart-felt curves
It is a great honor to present and pay homage to Luigi Mario, known also as Engaku Taino, a Zen master who has been living in the hinterland of Orvieto for many years. He is a fascinating figure with proficiencies and preparation of alpine skiing and rock climbing, as well as a Tai Chi Chuan guru, but above all a person to meet and know to practice meditation. Luigi Mario has been invited to the festival for two reasons: the first is to lead, aided by assistants, a free climbing session on the rocks of Ferentillo, a splendid zone in Umbria-Valnerina, on June 23rd. It is a unique occasion for those who practice Contact as well as others, because it gives one a chance to find out what it's like trying one's hand at a height of 30 meters, using one's strength, resistance, balance, gravity, weight, feeling of the void, and any number of other emotions to explore. The second reason is purely contemplative: three meetings of Tai Chi Chuan and meditation.
Festival residence and organizing
Caravajal15 residenza dinamica \ Compagnia ALEF
Via Malabranca 15 Orvieto, Italy
tel +39 0763341479
fax +39 0763340669
info@contactfestival.it
Project and artistic direction
Rossella Fiumi
rossella@contactfestival.it
Orvieto \ Italy
www.contactfestival.it
Registration is still up ... last call for entries!!
Celebrating the Summer Solstice, Zip opens to the Orient ...
Contact, Jams, Tai Chi Chuan, Meditation, Free Climbing and Satellite Events.
The annual Contact Improvisation festival in Italy, Zipfest, is a Satellite Event of CI36, and invites you to join for the Celebration of Contact Improvisation and for the Summer Solstice.
The festival opens its ninth edition with a weekend of International Summer Solstice Jam, starting Saturday June 21st through Sunday June 22nd, in a White Night Jam-contact day ... A 25 Hours of Movement Art and Contact ...
The festival will go on until June 29th: sixteen guest artists from various countries will animate the city from early morning to late at night, taking turns in a dense calendar of jams, performances and concerts, intensive workshops, encounters and laboratories centered around the theme of Contact Improvisation, improvisation dance and the performing arts.
INFO AND CONTACT
PHONE: +39 0763341479
EMAIL: info@contactfestival.it
WEBSITE: www.contactfestival.it
Zipfest is a lively kermis with internationally famous guest artists invited to the Umbrian residence from various countries to collaborate in the creative production of events, promoting the identification of a trans-cultural art. The festival is an event of art and culture speaking the language of today, questioning itself on the processes or artistic interaction, creating contacts and occasions for cooperation among the guest artists, who bare their experience, affinities and cultural and generational differences in Orvieto, to create the festival together.
International scene 2008
Nita Little (www.nitalittle. com), American pioneer of Contact Improvisation, an internationally acclaimed artist, invited to Italy for the first time in April in the residenza dinamica of Palazzo Caravajal, for the project Restless Peace, and once more present in June as part of the Zipfest guest artists. Keith Hennessy, a Canadian performer with countless awards, for the first time in Italy, will present an interesting workshop in which improvisation dance, performance and shamanism will be put in relation to each other. Giorgio Convertito, an eclectic Italian dancer who has been living in Helsinki for six years, and is today an artist on the Finnish scene, Jacky Miredin the virtuoso French performer previously invited to Zipfest07 and the young Italian choreographer Sara Simeoni, currently dancing with Carolyn Carlson. The artistic director of the festival, Rossella Fiumi, takes part with her installation titled I'm All Ears, a forum on the theme of listening and communication in contemporary creativity.Jens Biedermann, a Swiss acrobatic dancer and accordion player, Adalisa Menghini, Italian choreographer who has been living in Berlin for years, Alessia Scala a young Neapolitan dancer, Isabelle Uski, Contact improviser from Grenoble, Gionatan Surrenti Italian dancer, improvisor and pedagogue, previously invited to several Zipfest editions, Yanaël Plumet French performer and traveler currently living in Istanbul, the musician and performer Michele Rabbia virtuoso percussionist invited to the preceding editions of the festival and particularly beloved by the Zip public, Marko Timlin Finnish sound artist proposing new modes in the field of electronic sound, composing and improvising on solar panels and Barnaby O'Rorke Tree, a versatile Scotch performer, improviser-cellist, composer and vocalist.
21-22 June White Night Jam-Contact day
Inauguration- meeting point Residenza dinamica of Palazzo Caravajal, headquarters of the international Summer Solstice Jam, at 9 p.m. on 21 June, throughout the sleepless summer night up to 10 p.m. on 22 June, in the studios-houses- ateliers of artists-cultural- associations- creative- persons-columnis ts-others who work-look for a Contemporary idiom in Orvieto.
24-28 June Performances, concerts, forum
One of the most eagerly awaited events in Zipfest calendar, the improvisation performances: instant compositions, proposed then and here by the guest artists, in a type of performance called Real Time Composition.
Heart-felt curves
It is a great honor to present and pay homage to Luigi Mario, known also as Engaku Taino, a Zen master who has been living in the hinterland of Orvieto for many years. He is a fascinating figure with proficiencies and preparation of alpine skiing and rock climbing, as well as a Tai Chi Chuan guru, but above all a person to meet and know to practice meditation. Luigi Mario has been invited to the festival for two reasons: the first is to lead, aided by assistants, a free climbing session on the rocks of Ferentillo, a splendid zone in Umbria-Valnerina, on June 23rd. It is a unique occasion for those who practice Contact as well as others, because it gives one a chance to find out what it's like trying one's hand at a height of 30 meters, using one's strength, resistance, balance, gravity, weight, feeling of the void, and any number of other emotions to explore. The second reason is purely contemplative: three meetings of Tai Chi Chuan and meditation.
Festival residence and organizing
Caravajal15 residenza dinamica \ Compagnia ALEF
Via Malabranca 15 Orvieto, Italy
tel +39 0763341479
fax +39 0763340669
info@contactfestival.it
Project and artistic direction
Rossella Fiumi
rossella@contactfestival.it
