Hello everyone!
After the great success of the winter Jam of Arts, Joining us more than 140 participants (around 50 participants for each one) coming people from countries as Singapore, Taiwan, indonesia, India, Iran, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Mexico, USA and most of European countries, we are very happy to invite you to the new Spring Jam of Arts retreat, hosted in a really unique and amazing medieval village!!
The event includes labs of Contact Improvisation, of Feldenkrais, of Axis Syllabus, of physical improvisation.
As well as many jams, live music and plenty of traditional Italian and vegetarian food!
You are all invited to dance, relax, connect with the nature, meet people from all around the globe and improvise!
The retreat will take place on 21 – 24 of May
includes:
– 15 hours of lessons
– Many jams
– Live music.
– Excursions in the nature.
– Big apartments and dormitory.
– Big dance space
– Traditional Italian and vegetarian food.
The teachers are: (see below curriculum of teachers and musicians)
- Simonetta Alessandri - Contact impro & Feldenkrais
- Jessica Yiskah - Axis Syllabus
- Ippokratis Veneris - Contact Impro
- Ivan Truol - physical theatre improvisation
Musician: Chiara Cortez
IMPORTANT: The lessons are structured to be accessible to all levels: completely beginners and advanced can learn and improve own skills, dance, knowledge, technical and improvisation abilities.
To participate to the festival you don’t need to be dancers or artists since the idea of the Jam of Arts festivals is aimed to people who want to experiment with arts and movement, regardless having or not prior experience. The goal is to explore different skills and capabilities that exist within us, study various disciplines and enjoy!
(SPOKEN LANGUAGE ENGLISH)
some Video and photos of the amazing place that is going to host our retreat!!
Prices and registration informations:
In the last years and in the last period the cost of life has been increased dramatically, even though, we are offering really low prices absorbing us the cost and reducing in this way our capacity to cover the expences.
Why we are doing this?
In these critical moments we believe is important propose something constructive and beautiful for the people that everybody can afford so we offer various options of prices and everyone can choose the fee that wants to pay depending from own availability and own desire to support us!
For this reason this year we are offering 4 different options of price.
The basic fee is 215€
On the registration request you can choose to pay 195€, 215€, 235€, 250€ or whatever you want.
Who can pay more is supporting our effort, supporting the event and people who are in a more difficult situation.
Please feel free to choose without stress the fee that you prefer 😊
In the fees are included all the workshops and jams, all the meals (three meals per day starting from the dinner of 21 till the lunch of 24 of May), single bed.
Note: sheets, towels and blankets are not includ. pillows and mattresses have covers but we suggest you to bring your own or bring a sleeping bag
For more information’s and registration, you have to write an email to: registration@jamofarts.com
Write us your price choice and we will send you the prepayment quote and all the details for the money transfer.
For more direct communications write us also your phone number.
tel: +39 3287213546 (also whatsapp, telegram and viber)
Arrival:
is really very easy arrive to the retreat!
From Rome Fiumicino Airport you have to take a train until Trastevere station and then change and take the train for Capranica (one hour).
Once arrived at the station get out, turn to the left walk for 600 metres and you arrived at the retreat! Thats all!
Travel tickets advice’s:
If airplanes becoming expensive, good alternative ways to come to Rome are: night trains, Flixbus, Blablacar.
NOTE: For the organisation of the festival we will need some helpers who wll have a reduction of the fee. If you want to candidate yourself, please send an email, specifying that you want to join as heloer at: registration@jamofarts.com.
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A few words about the place that hosts us. it's a small medieval village of the end of the 16th century that we're going to have in our disposal in the north of Rome!
It's surrounded by very beautiful green areas and forest. The altitude is 450m so is fresh and ventilated.
Teachers bios and lessons
Simonetta Alessandri is an Italian dance artist, and a somatic educator based in London. She is an internationally recognised teacher that applies the Feldenkrais Method in dance and movement training as well as performance making. She teaches at Trinity Laban, Goldsmiths University and London Contemporary Dances school.
Her work is informed by more than 35 years of dancing, teaching and choreographing. Her choreography has been for dance companies, student pieces, large scale opera, improvised performance, site specific and movement direction for theatre. She taught for more than 20 years in Italy and kept Contact Improvisation alive in Roma for 10 years with her classes and jams.
She was one of the few dance practitioners in Italy who began working with Contact Improvisation in the 90’s.
She has been a guest teacher in Germany, Colombia, UK, Norway, Israel, France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Greece, Austria, Portugal, Poland, Taiwan and India. She obtained the Post Graduated Diploma at London Contemporary Dance School; she is qualified teacher of the Feldenkrais Method, and she holds the Teacher Certificate of the Royal Academy of Dance. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is one of the founders of CI@Goldsmiths.
Title of the workshop of Simonetta Alessandri:
Feldenkrais & Contact Improvisation - "Roots for dance and fly".
I'm interested in sharing my research on the application of the Feldenkrais Method to the practice of Contact Improvisation.
This lesson focuses on the following aspects: the present moment, listening, stability/instability, effectiveness, and freedom of movement, and how these aspects connect with the ability to fly in Contact Improvisation. With the Feldenkrais Method, we direct our attention to internal sensations. By respecting the body's intelligence and opening ourselves with curiosity, we recognize personal habits and clarify possible movement alternatives that lead to greater effectiveness, freedom, and ease that extends to our entire self-perception. Being in the present moment helps us perceive the momentum more clearly as we follow the physical conversation with our partner. Some movement sequences explored in the Feldenkrais Method will help us explore our roots, our support, and our path to flight. The sense of curiosity and ease will nourish every moment of our dance, so much so that we'll forget about "lifting and flying," only to discover ourselves in flight with all the pleasure and surprise this brings to our dance.
The workshop is open to everyone.
If needed, I will offer different movement solutions to accommodate different levels.
Jessica Yiskah
I am Italian, of Sicilian origin. I’m a dancer, performer, teacher, and researcher in the field of contemporary movement and somatic practices. I'm also a practitioner in bio-natural disciplines, including craniosacral biodynamics,
mindfulness, and somatics. I am also trained in yoga and meditation, including Hatha Yoga, Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy, and stress management through the Bohole method.
I have trained and worked in Italy, Germany, France, and Africa. Over time, I have collaborated with Italian contemporary and African dance and theatre companies, participated in social projects for people with disabilities, and performed as a street artist. For over twenty years I have accompanied groups and individuals through artistic, performative, therapeutic, and personal development processes.
For the past 16 years I have been part of the Axis Syllabus community, engaging in ongoing study and practice. I regularly teach Axis Syllabus study groups. Within this field of research I explore the role of AS in supporting ethical and healthy movement in relation to both life and the art of the body, in dialogue with my broader somatic and performative research.
In 2015, I founded Centro Soma in Bologna, a space dedicated to research, reflection, and practice around embodied awareness, health, and life through an integrated approach of somatic, theoretical, and mind-body practices. I recently founded the emerging project Salotto Somatico in Bologna. This initiative aims to unite dance programming and somatic practices through a network of artists and teachers, focusing on the moving body and performative research.
A few words about Axis Syllabus
The Axis Syllabus is a constantly evolving repository and reference system for the study of human movement. It integrates empirical and scientific knowledge from anatomy, biomechanics, physiology, anthropology, neuroscience, and physics, connecting this information with lived experience and practical application. AS is often transmitted through dance, but it is not a dance method or technique: it provides principles and applications for efficient, ethical movement that responds to the specificities of each body.
A fundamental aspect of AS is to encourage informed self-monitoring and the application of theoretical principles to movement, in dialogue with each body’s unique proportions and tone. Information in AS is carefully organized and transmitted with precise terminology.
AS was consolidated in the late 1990s through the work of choreographer, dancer, and pedagogue Frey Faust, together with contributions from an international network of artists, therapists, scientists, and movement practitioners. Over time, it has grown into the Axis Syllabus International Research Network (ASIRN), a global platform for research and movement practice.
Theme of the workshop of Jessica Yiskah:RESONANT BODIES
Exploring Principles for Embodied Movement
We will inhabit the body as a relational, elastic, responsive system, sensitive to internal and external stimuli, where multiple information and possibilities coexist simultaneously. We will explore the properties of fascia, tone, dynamic posture, and the biomechanics of movement, integrating perception and action, structure and function, and intention and context, with the aim of moving both efficiently and with pleasure.
We will dance in solo or in contact with others, moving through somatic exploration, analysis, deep listening, and dynamic interaction. Classes combine moments of theory, practice, reflection, and sharing, with the intention of moving efficiently in relation to context and the unexpected, while staying connected to the joy of movement and the richness of the body in a accessible way.
Ippokratis Veneris has studied Contact impro and/or collaborated with:
Jess Curtis, Ka Rustler, Ray Chung, Esther Gal, Cgallrlie Morrissey, Daniel Leokoff, Siminetta Alessandria, Mirca Makinen, Urs Stauffer, Sabine Parzer, Baris Mihci, Benno Voorham, Thomas Kamp, Simone Forti, Russel Maliphant, Emio Greco, Iwona Olzowska and many others.
Teacher, dancer, choreographer, deepen and studies dance and other arts aince young age .
In his lessons of contact inserts elements from the various disciplines that has studied extensively over the years as: floorwork, release technique, experiential anatomy, applied anatomy, dupuy technique, acrobalance, martial arts, afro dance, ballet, alexander technic, chi kung, dance theatre and much more.
– In the past collaborated with the UNIVERSITY OF ROME “Roma 3”, department of “Philosophy of Education” giving lectures about “Pedagogy, C.I. and personal researches on teaching”.
– for two years he received an open scholarship in Brussels (PARTS-ROSAS Dance Company) and in Rome by the region of Lazio to proceed with his research on dance theater projects. His original works (“Buongiorno Amore”, “Afroditi”, presented at Olympic theatre and Theatre Greco) combine together elements of theatre and dance.
– Was professor in the theatre school “il Cantiere Teatrale”.
– 2018 award: His work as choreography director for the Pina Bausch “The Nelken line in Rome”. An international project of 25 dancers of 11 different countries. Receives the second award of Lazio Film Festival Commission.
– he has been 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 Contact Improvisation in Rome and around europe developing his own method.
– Has collaborated with Roberto Castello-Aldes for “Narrate” premium UBU as the best dance theatre production of the year in Italy and many others.
– 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.
– 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 workshop of Ippokratis Veneris “From the anatomy to the Contact Improvisation”
In this workshop, starting from the study of the body's structure, we will explore how to use it organically.
We will explore together:
- the appropriate use of the skeleton and joints for movement
- How to have a strong body structure (also learning how to avoid the risk of injury) and at the same time agile while dancing contact with our partners
- how to use the flow, gravity, and momentum that arise while improvising to create "liquid," playful, and organic dances.
In this workshop on body awareness, the ultimate goal will be to create duos and trios of
"intuitive and fluid" dances.
Achieving simplicity through deeper knowledge.
The workshop is open to all levels.
Ivan Truol actor, dancer, choreographer, and teacher, trained at the Escuela de Teatro de la Universidad de Chile.
He has worked with, among others, Sosta Palmizi, Corte Sconta, Adriana Borriello, Marco Baliani, Gigi Dall’Aglio, and Giorgio Barberio Corsetti in performances performed in Chile, Brazil, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, England, the United States, and Canada, and in film in Giuseppe Tornatore's film The Legend of 1900 by 1937.
Founder and co-artistic director since 2010 of the Training and Production Center La Scatola dell'Arte and since 1997 of the Atacama Company, funded by the MIC Ministry of Culture, for which he has created numerous choreographies presented at international festivals in Italy, Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Poland.
He has taught at the DAF Dance Arts Faculty, the IALS, the AIAD Academy Teatro Quirino Vittorio Gassman, the Q Academy Teatro Quirinetta, the Cassiopea Academy in Rome, the Academy of Art in Arezzo, and at the Dance High Schools of Teramo, the I.I.S. F. Filelfo in Tolentino (MC), and the Convitto Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele II in Rome,
as well as at the Instituto de Estudios Secundarios de la University of Chile and the University of Corsica Pasquale Paoli. Since 2022, he has been the artistic director of the District Dance Festival in Rome and, since 2023, of the ATP Atacama Training Program, a higher education project.
In 2024, the National Academy of Dance in Rome, an institution of higher culture,
commissioned him to choreograph "Connections" for the School of Contemporary Dance
- First Three-Year Contemporary Course, presented as part of the
Final Performance "Le Monere: The Kingdom of Transformation" at the Teatro
Grande Accademia Nazionale di Danza.
Theme of the workshop of Ivan Truol: “The Practice of Improvisation”
The workshop will focus on improvisation, understood as a process of alchemical integration between movement, feeling, and thought.
We will seek a mental and physical state of availability, openness, and courage, immersing ourselves in the world of the unconscious to perceive states of being that surprise us. It is a work that includes and unites physical and psychic abilities and allows us to produce an artistic image.
A practice of instant composition, where anything can happen and where nothing is predetermined. Listening to ourselves and others, exposing ourselves, allowing our being in all its totality to interact with the outside world, with the other and their proposals, establishing a dialogue.
Seeking to surprise ourselves and to act with our whole being in the most sincere way possible, being aware and putting into practice all our physical experience.
The practice of improvisation allows us to create a playful dimension in which we can interact, giving voice to our own originality and uniqueness.
Chiara Cortez
Teacher, lyricist, vocal improviser, promoter and facilitator of circlesinging and Nonviolent Empathic Communication. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Stanford University in California, during which time she also gained experience as a singer and arranger in the world music a cappella group “Talisman”, a cappella group of world music with whom she has won a CARA award. In Italy, her musical journey began with 10 years’ private study of the violin as an instrument. She then studied jazz singing with Susanna Stivali at Saint Louis College of Music and sang for 11 years with the female vocal ensemble “The Sessions Voices”, with whom she recorded two albums, “Songs of Freedom” (2011) and “Tender You Back”(2017).
As a songwriter in collaboration with Maurizio Filardo, she has written and sang for the soundtracks of various films and TV series (“Beata Ignoranza”, “The Place”, “Non ci resta che il Crimine”, “Domani è Un’Altro Giorno”, “Immaturi”, “I Migliori Giorni”).
She discovered the world ofvcirclesinging and Vocal River (Rhiannon’s forms of collaborative vocal improvisation) and has been studying these disciplines, traveling to train with masters in the field and to research various styles and approaches. Among the trainings she has completed are: Rhiannon’s annual masterclass on vocal improvisation “All The Way In” (2017), Música Do Círculo’s annual training for leaders in São Paulo, Brazil (2022-2023) and she has attended Bobby McFerrin’s Circlesongs School (2016, 2018, 2022).
She is a founding member of the vocal improvisation collective led by Rhiannon, whose name “The Well” was given by Bobby McFerrin, and the Italian group Collettivo CantinCerchio.
She facilitates regular circlesinging gatherings and teaches courses and workshops on circlesinging (circular singing) and vocal improvisation practices.
She was an original faculty member of the French festival Le Cercle Enchanté. She took part in the Vocal River Murmurations project that premiered in Montreal, Canada, in October 2023, under the artistic direction of Rhiannon and Margie Gillis.
She has been studying and practicing Nonviolent Communication since 2017, training with and assisting various trainers, mainly with Yoram Mosenzon’s Connecting2Life school and community, and is constantly looking for ways to combine Empathy with collective music improvisation practices. Chiara is co-founder of the “Circlesinging Roma” initiative, the first open circlesinging community in the Italian capital, active since 2015, which she continues to manage together with co-founding partner Daphne Nisi and colleague Cristina D’Arcangelo.
www.chiaracortez.com
