ECITE 2010
in Fiskars, Raasepori, Finland
16-24.8.2010

Reaching out a warm welcome to European Contact Improvisation Teachers’ Exchange 2010 in Fiskars, Finland!

The web pages will open latest on 1.3.2010 and registration for ECITE will start on 15.3.2010. As second generation Finnish CI teachers, we feel we have received a lot of support from the larger circle of teachers in Europe and the world. Our community grew into what it is through dancing and researching together, but as well through going to ECITEs and NIMs (Nordic Improvisation Meeting), and learning there how to share and lab in a constructive environment. So it is high time to step up to the responsibility and give something back. It is an honor to be hosting ECITE, and we are excited to take on the task.

Some seeds: Can we invite the same sense of sharing and listening, that is present in the dance, to be present in this meeting in all our communication and community building? What if we replace ambition with curiosity? What if we practice letting go of our ideas about people and personalities, to see and feel what is really there? We wish to create a space that is both an open platform and a safe, supportive container for meeting, sharing, learning, arguing, play and growth. What kind of ECITE would best support us as teachers, human beings, dancers, artists, activists; as individuals and as a group? What kind of ECITE do you want to have?

CONCEPT

We look for structuring ECITE in a way that would serve the international CI teacher community as well as possible. We wish to create a schedule with possibilities to exchange in differently structured forms. Our intention is to share what we have in the Finnish CI community, and combine this to the experiences we have made in other ECITEs to create a platform to meet, dance, research, exchange.

REGISTRATION

Registration will open online 15.3.2010 (GMT +2). Please note that all participants are asked to fill in the registration form. Participants of ECITE are asked to be experienced teachers of Contact Improvisation. We will also take a limited number of CI practitioners who are just starting to teach the form, to support the development and continuity of CI.

VENUE

the venue will be the same that hosts our CI festival, Skiing on Skin: Kisakeskus, a sport center located in the middle of nature, near Fiskars 1,5 hours away from Helsinki (in the midway between Helsinki and Turku). (So, for curious people, you can see pictures of the place in our festival web site www.contactfestival.fi)

PRICE

the price of ECITE2010 will be approximately 400 €. In case you would like to have an invitation (for searching funding or grants) you can already contact us and we will be happy to send you one! - Children are warmly welcome, for children under 14 there will be a discount, children under 4 are welcome for free. More information about possible childcare will be online in March. Meals, accommodation in rooms with beds, saunas, and all events are included in the price. The price also includes an insurance during ECITE.

PREMEETING

There will be an informal Oldies-event for those who have started their ci-dancing in the glooorius past (80s or earlier). This event will take place 13-15.8.2010. More detailed information will be online soon. And to clarify:the oldies event is not a formal part of ECITE.

CONTACT

We hope you can be patient and wait for the web sites to open. However, if you have urgent questions, information, feedback etc., or if you would like to have an invitation, please contact Ronja Verkasalo.

Looking forward to meeting you in Finland, ECITE 2010 team (Otto Akkanen, Ville Johansson, Ilona Kenova, Mirva Mäkinen, Ulla Mäkinen, Liisa Pentti, Petri Taipale, Ronja Verkasalo)